Brule again led the way back to the secret door. Silently they entered and silently they proceeded down the dim corridor, taking the opposite direction from that in which they previously traversed it. After a while the Pict stopped and ...
guards from the passage and the stairs and elsewhere, leaving none but those who paced outside the palace. ... the now unguarded corridors, and descended to the vaults of the palace, whence a secret passage communicated with the chapel.
“Did you not know that there was a secret passage from the palace?“ She added instantly— “What is the name of your companion, Monsieur?“ He glanced where she glanced, at the slight figure of the young captain standing by the bronze ...
Suddenly the insane eyes flared hideously: “You were in that secret room, you and this dead fool! Did he talk to you?” Kane shuddered in spite of himself. Was it insanity or did he actually hear the faint rattle of bones, ...
Once two young fellows followed her clear to the door of the hotel, where they met me. They went away right soon after that. ... I never did see where Bonnie Bell's new house was, because she said it was a secret from me.
Author: Emerson Hough
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781716023064
Category: Fiction
Page: 296
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She knew now where the secret entrance to the cavern was located. Threading her way cautiously through the maze of rocks the girl finally reached a slanting shelf beneath which she crept on hands and knees.
I shrugged my shoulders and he slowly backed towards the door. “The young men you bid me watch are very quiet,” I suggested, with a careless wave of my hand towards the room he had mentioned. “Oh, there is no one there yet.
The dwarf went up to the rock, key in hand, and searched about until he had found a secret door. Then he fitted the key into the lock and turned it, then tugged and tugged to open the door. Suddenly it swung open, creaking noisily, ...
He had opened a hidden door in the altar somehow with the jewel—just how, he did not plainly say, and it struck me that he did not clearly understand himself the action of the jewel-key. But the opening of the secret door had had a bad ...
Finding that the novels of Émile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, Hume determined to write a novel of the same kind. The result was The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne.
Author: Fergus Hume
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ISBN: 1715856392
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Page: 274
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Ferguson Wright Hume (1859-1932), known as Fergus Hume, was a prolific English novelist. Shortly after graduation Hume relocated to Melbourne, Australia, where he obtained a job as a barristers' clerk. He began writing plays, but found it impossible to persuade the managers of Melbourne theatres to accept or even to read them. Finding that the novels of Émile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, Hume determined to write a novel of the same kind. The result was The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne. It was self-published in 1886 and became a great success. After the success of his first novel and the publication of another, Professor Brankel's Secret (c. 1886), Hume returned to England in 1888.