Ayscough hadn't gone away--"
"Look here!" said Purdie, coming to a sudden decision, "I'm going round
there. I want to know what this means--I'm going to know. You ladies had
better go home. If you others like to come as far as the corner of Sussex
Square, come. But I'm going to Levendale's house alone. I'll find
something out."
He said no more until, Zillah and Mrs. Goldmark having gone homeward, and
he and his two companions having reached a side street leading into Sussex
Square, he suddenly paused and demanded their attention!
"I've particular reasons for wanting to go into that house alone," he
said. "There's no danger--trust me. But--if I'm not out again in a quarter
of an hour or so, you can come there and ask for me. My own impression is
that I shall find Levendale there. And--as you're aware, Andie--I know
Levendale." He left them standing in the shadow of a projecting portico
and going up to Levendale's front door, rang the bell. There was no light
in any of the windows; all appeared to be in dead stillness in the house;
somewhere, far off in the interior, he heard the bell tinkle. And
suddenly, as he stood waiting and listening, he heard a voice that sounded
close by him and became aware that there was a small trap or grille in the
door, behind which he made out a face.
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