Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 107: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 101 vanished round the farther corner, and then, with still more care, pushed forward in the darkness, a guiding hand on either wall. When I was about half-way down I heard again the metallic click and clatter which had fallen on my ears the night on which I had first seen my great-grandfather, and I stopped in wonder. Gathering courage from the continued silence I again moved forward until the wall on my right hand ceased, and I halted just in time to avoid running head- long against that at the end. I turned to the right, in which direction the passage now ran, and threaded it until I emerged in @ fair-sized apartment, three-quarters filled with kegs piled up almost to the ceiling, and I understood then what had become of the cargo which I had seen in the course of being landed. At the same moment I heard the faint murmur of voices close at hand. I stayed to listen, but could not catch the words, and suddenly overwhelmed by a panic of con- sternation at my foolhardiness I turned and hurried back along the passage and down . the stairs ;'nor did I recover my equanimity comicbhooks.com