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I had turned off from the Edgware Road into a street leading west, the atmosphere of which had appealed to me. It was a place of quiet houses standing1 behind little gardens. They had the usual names printed on the stuccoed gateposts. The fading twilight2 was just sufficient to enable one to read them. There was a Laburnum Villa3, and The Cedars4, and a Cairngorm, rising to the height of three storeys, with a curious little turret5 that branched out at the top, and was crowned with a conical roof, so that it looked as if wearing a witch's hat. Especially when two small windows just below the eaves sprang suddenly into light, and gave one the feeling of a pair of wicked eyes suddenly flashed upon one.
The street curved to the right, ending in an open space through which passed a canal beneath a low arched bridge. There were still the same quiet houses behind their small gardens, and I watched for a while the lamplighter picking out the shape of the canal, that widened just above the bridge into a lake with an island in the middle. After that I must have wandered in a circle, for later on I found myself back in the same spot, though I do not suppose I had passed a dozen people on my way; and then I set to work to find my way back to Paddington.
I thought I had taken the road by which I had come, but the half light must have deceived me. Not that it mattered. They had a lurking6 mystery about them, these silent streets with their suggestion of hushed movement behind drawn8 curtains, of whispered voices behind the flimsy walls. Occasionally there would escape the sound of laughter, suddenly stifled10 as it seemed, and once the sudden cry of a child.
It was in a short street of semi-detached villas
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