Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 67: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall, 61 with great care Jest I should stumble over some unseen obstacle. Passing the afore- said room, which was empty and neglected, I advanced still further into yet another and larger room at right angles again to the pas- sage, the window of which consequently faced mine. From this chamber I could find no means of exit but that by which I had come, so I was forced to retrace my steps. All the rooms I entered had a dusty ap- pearance and musty odor which did not tempt me to linger in them; the windows were broken and dirty, the hangings tattered and mildewed, and such scanty relics of fur- niture as they contained shattered and worm- eaten ; indeed, this part of the house had < been, as it seemed, long uninhabited. Hav- ing passed by the lobby through which I had come out, I continued straight forward in the darkness until the end wall prevented _my further progress, and then I turned to the left, where I saw in the distance a faint glimmer of light. This proceeded, I found, from a narrow winding staircase, leading upward only, in the opposite or northwestern corner. of the , comichbooks.com