 | Wilkie Collins - 1856 - 394 pages
...'five hours, reckoning by suspense — to open that window. I succeeded in doing it silently — in doing it with all the dexterity of a housebreaker...saw the pipe , I knew I was saved. My breath came and went freely for the first time since I had seen the canopy of the bed moving down upon me ! To... | |
 | Wilkie Collins - 1856 - 394 pages
...five hours, reckoning by suspense — to open that window. I succeeded in doing it silently — in doing it with all the dexterity of a housebreaker...saw the pipe , I knew I was saved. My breath came and went freely for the first time since I had seen the canopy of the bed moving down upon me ! To... | |
 | 1852 - 1238 pages
...hourt, reckoning by suspense — to open that window. I succeeded in doing it silently, in doing it wiih all the dexterity of a housebreaker : and then looked...down into the street. To leap the distance beneath uie, would be almost certain destruction ! Next, I looked round at the sides of the house. Down the... | |
 | English fiction - 1896 - 216 pages
...five hours, reckoning by suspense, — to open that window. I succeeded in doing it silently,— in doing it with all the dexterity of a house-breaker,...I saw the pipe, I knew I was saved. My breath came and went freely for the first time since I had seen the canopy of the bed moving down upon me! To some... | |
 | English fiction - 1901 - 206 pages
...window. I succeeded in doing it silently,—in doing it with all the dexterity of a house-breaker,—and then looked down into the street. To leap the distance...I saw the pipe, I knew I was saved. My breath came and went freely for the first time since I had seen the canopy of the bed moving down upon me! To some... | |
 | Short stories, English - 1896 - 224 pages
...window. I succeeded in doing it silently,—in doing it with all the dexterity of a house-breaker,—and then looked down into the street. To leap the distance...I saw the pipe, I knew I was saved. My breath came and went freely for the first time since I had seen the canopy of the bed moving down upon me! To some... | |
 | William Patten - Short stories - 1906 - 450 pages
...— five hours reckoning by suspense — to open that window. I succeeded in doing it silently — in doing it with all the dexterity of a house-breaker...at the sides of the house. Down the left side ran a thick water-pipe — it passed close by the outer edge of the window. The moment I saw the pipe,... | |
 | English fiction - 1907 - 200 pages
...five hours, reckoning by suspense, — to open that window. I succeeded in doing it silently, — in doing it with all the dexterity of a house-breaker,...I saw the pipe, I knew I was saved. My breath came and went freely for the first time since I had seen the canopy of the bed moving down upon me! To some... | |
 | Joseph Lewis French - Detective and mystery stories - 1920 - 278 pages
...— five hours reckoning by suspense — to open that window. I succeeded in doing it silently — in doing it with all the dexterity of a house-breaker...at the sides of the house. Down the left side ran a thick waterpipe — it passed close by the outer edge of the window. The moment I saw the pipe, I... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark, Maxim Lieber - Short stories - 1925 - 1166 pages
...— five hours reckoning by suspense — to open that window. I succeeded in doing it silently — in doing it with all the dexterity of a house-breaker...at the sides of the house. Down the left side ran a thick water-pipe — it passed close by the outer edge of the window. The moment I saw the pipe,... | |
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... safety. They keep vigilant watch in a House of Murder. If any part of the frame cracked, if the hinge creaked, I was a lost man! It must have occupied me at least five minutes, reckoning by time — five hours, reckoning by suspense — to open that... 
