On the night we speak of, Hetty had parted from Thursday Smith at one o'clock and crept into the hallway of the silent, barnlike hotel; but as soon as the man turned away she issued forth again and walked up the empty street like a shadow.

Then she tiptoed across the hallway to the parlor threshold, and there she saw the lady who had been so kind to her in the shop.

The landlady met her in the hallway with a white face.

An instant later and there came a tremendous crash of glassthe French window in the hallway by the soundthen rapid footsteps, still running, along the hall.

"What is it you want me to do?" "I want you to put a cot in the hallway outside the door of the ante-room and sleep there to-night.

A staff officera colonel who spoke good Englishreceived us at the door of the villa and examined our papers in the light which streamed over his shoulder from a fine big hallway behind him.

The entire hallway on two sides of the building was lined with Chinamen!

CHAPTER XXIII THE GOVERNOR SHOWS HIS GRATITUDE I ate my supper in solitary splendor in the old dining-room, with my grandfather's portrait looking down upon me, and Long found me an hour later sitting in the midst of a wreath of smoke just within the hallway out of the river mist.

Then he hobbled across the room, out of the door, and down the hallway towards his study.

Through the racket from the hallway above faintly came the voice of Kalil Majdalain.

"And how did you reach the hallway without being seen?" Her eyes met mine in a rapid flash of understanding, a little nervous laugh drawing the general's attention.

They emerged in a round hallway at the foot of a staircase.

The sisters rose and went into the hallway for an explanation, but all was dark and still, no draperies were stirring, no wind whistled, and they returned to their chairs, talking for a moment over the mysterious sound, then relapsing into their former quiet.

This was a short step-ladder upon which Larkspur and several others were standing, and over the ladder went with a crash, sending the hazers to the floor of the hallway in a heap.

Markham bowed in the general direction of the shadow in the hallway into which Miss Challoner had vanished and then turned back and took up his palette and brushes.

He said he had found the box on a stand in the hallway near Professor Sharp's door, and had used it because it suited his purpose.