Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 106: what you’re looking at

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100 Roanoke of Roanoke Halt. this infernal cold I cannot find it. *T'was lucky I brought the lantern.” Taking one already alight from beneath his cloak he turned it upon the spot he had previously been trying, and enabled me to perceive distinctly the stone rosette which he grasped and turned, and the narrow en- trance he revealed by opening a heavy door, ° into which he immediately entered. At once I slid noiselessly to the floor, and with some trepidation followed in his foot- steps. Three steps brought me to the foot of a winding staircase which I recklessly com- menced to climb. Up, up, still up he tramped, and still I crept stealthily behind him. At length, when I was breathless and giddy with the winding ascent, a final turn brought my eyes to the level of the top step, and here I paused for a while not daring to go farther. Before me lay a long, straight passage, running the whole length of the house, narrow and absolutely dark, save for the light thrown on the walls by John 0’ Compton’s lantern, which was rapidly dimin- . ? ishing in the distance. I waited until this eo @) comichbooks.com