Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 216: what you’re looking at

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GUY HAMMERSLEY. 207 noise in the basement that Guy had failed to hear other sounds. ‘‘Himmel!” cried Max, making for the stairs. ‘* De major must have got out.” ‘‘ What will he say when he finds him locked up in the china closet?” Guy asked himself. He had the key in his pocket, he recollected, with a sense of satisfaction. The liberty to get this would permit him to search for that scrap of paper from Mr. Inwood. It seemed that Max had not been gone half a minute before he was back again, leaping down the Stairs two steps at a time, and almost foaming at the mouth with rage. ‘Did you lock Major Warburton up?” he de- manded of Guy, rushing fiercely up in front of the prisoner. ‘‘Certainly I did,” answered the latterboldly. ‘<I am sure he is not a safe person to be allowed at large.” ‘‘But he wasn’t at large. He was locked up in his Own apartment, and_you must have let him out.” Guy couid see that a good share of the anger mani- fested by the German was due to the fact that he felt that he was himself guilty of gross negligence in hav- ing left his charge alone. We are always more severe on others when we feel that we ourselves have been derelict in duty. ‘‘What would I want to let a crazy man out for?” returned Guy. ‘‘I tell you he was out when I came in, and I was obliged to lure him into that closet for fear he might do some deed of violence. Did you GEomichboo CS (E(0) m