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The
door
resisted
even
more
than
I
expected
,
but
I
did
not
give
in
.
And
all
the
while
the
clamour
at
the
outer
door
increased
.
Finally
the
connecting
door
gave
,
but
with
such
a
crash
that
I
knew
those
outside
must
have
heard
.
Instantly
the
outside
knocking
became
a
violent
battering
,
while
keys
sounded
ominously
in
the
hall
doors
of
the
rooms
on
both
sides
of
me
.
Rushing
through
the
newly
opened
connexion
,
I
succeeded
in
bolting
the
northerly
hall
door
before
the
lock
could
be
turned
;
but
even
as
I
did
so
I
heard
the
hall
door
of
the
third
room
--
the
one
from
whose
window
I
had
hoped
to
reach
the
roof
below
--
being
tried
with
a
pass-key
.
For
an
instant
I
felt
absolute
despair
,
since
my
trapping
in
a
chamber
with
no
window
egress
seemed
complete
.
A
wave
of
almost
abnormal
horror
swept
over
me
,
and
invested
with
a
terrible
but
unexplainable
singularity
the
flashlight-glimpsed
dust
prints
made
by
the
intruder
who
had
lately
tried
my
door
from
this
room
.
Then
,
with
a
dazed
automatism
which
persisted
despite
hopelessness
,
I
made
for
the
next
connecting
door
and
performed
the
blind
motion
of
pushing
at
it
in
an
effort
to
get
through
and
--
granting
that
fastenings
might
be
as
providentially
intact
as
in
this
second
room
--
bolt
the
hall
door
beyond
before
the
lock
could
be
turned
from
outside
.
Sheer
fortunate
chance
gave
me
my
reprieve
--
for
the
connecting
door
before
me
was
not
only
unlocked
but
actually
ajar
.
In
a
second
I
was
though
,
and
had
my
right
knee
and
shoulder
against
a
hall
door
which
was
visibly
opening
inward
.
My
pressure
took
the
opener
off
guard
,
for
the
thing
shut
as
I
pushed
,
so
that
I
could
slip
the
well-conditioned
bolt
as
I
had
done
with
the
other
door
.
As
I
gained
this
respite
I
heard
the
battering
at
the
two
other
doors
abate
,
while
a
confused
clatter
came
from
the
connecting
door
I
had
shielded
with
the
bedstead
.
Evidently
the
bulk
of
my
assailants
had
entered
the
southerly
room
and
were
massing
in
a
lateral
attack
.
But
at
the
same
moment
a
pass-key
sounded
in
the
next
door
to
the
north
,
and
I
knew
that
a
nearer
peril
was
at
hand
.
The
northward
connecting
door
was
wide
open
,
but
there
was
no
time
to
think
about
checking
the
already
turning
lock
in
the
hall
.
All
I
could
do
was
to
shut
and
bolt
the
open
connecting
door
,
as
well
as
its
mate
on
the
opposite
side
--
pushing
a
bedstead
against
the
one
and
a
bureau
against
the
other
,
and
moving
a
washstand
in
front
of
the
hall
door
.
I
must
,
I
saw
,
trust
to
such
makeshift
barriers
to
shield
me
till
I
could
get
out
the
window
and
on
the
roof
of
the
Paine
Street
block
.
But
even
in
this
acute
moment
my
chief
horror
was
something
apart
from
the
immediate
weakness
of
my
defenses
.
I
was
shuddering
because
not
one
of
my
pursuers
,
despite
some
hideous
panting
,
grunting
,
and
subdued
barkings
at
odd
intervals
,
was
uttering
an
unmuffled
or
intelligible
vocal
sound
.
As
I
moved
the
furniture
and
rushed
toward
the
windows
I
heard
a
frightful
scurrying
along
the
corridor
toward
the
room
north
of
me
,
and
perceived
that
the
southward
battering
had
ceased
.
Plainly
,
most
of
my
opponents
were
about
to
concentrate
against
the
feeble
connecting
door
which
they
knew
must
open
directly
on
me
.
Outside
,
the
moon
played
on
the
ridgepole
of
the
block
below
,
and
I
saw
that
the
jump
would
be
desperately
hazardous
because
of
the
steep
surface
on
which
I
must
land
.
Surveying
the
conditions
,
I
chose
the
more
southerly
of
the
two
windows
as
my
avenue
of
escape
;
planning
to
land
on
the
inner
slope
of
the
roof
and
make
for
the
nearest
sky-light
.
Once
inside
one
of
the
decrepit
brick
structures
I
would
have
to
reckon
with
pursuit
;
but
I
hoped
to
descend
and
dodge
in
and
out
of
yawning
doorways
along
the
shadowed
courtyard
,
eventually
getting
to
Washington
Street
and
slipping
out
of
town
toward
the
south
.
The
clatter
at
the
northerly
connecting
door
was
now
terrific
,
and
I
saw
that
the
weak
panelling
was
beginning
to
splinter
.
Obviously
,
the
besiegers
had
brought
some
ponderous
object
into
play
as
a
battering-ram
.
The
bedstead
,
however
,
still
held
firm
;
so
that
I
had
at
least
a
faint
chance
of
making
good
my
escape
.
As
I
opened
the
window
I
noticed
that
it
was
flanked
by
heavy
velour
draperies
suspended
from
a
pole
by
brass
rings
,
and
also
that
there
was
a
large
projecting
catch
for
the
shutters
on
the
exterior
.
Seeing
a
possible
means
of
avoiding
the
dangerous
jump
,
I
yanked
at
the
hangings
and
brought
them
down
,
pole
and
all
;
then
quickly
hooking
two
of
the
rings
in
the
shutter
catch
and
flinging
the
drapery
outside
.
The
heavy
folds
reached
fully
to
the
abutting
roof
,
and
I
saw
that
the
rings
and
catch
would
be
likely
to
bear
my
weight
.
