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CHAPTER VIII END AND BEGINNING
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"Mrs. Tams!" said Mrs. Maldon, in a low, alarmed, and urgent voice.
The gas was turned down in the bedroom, and Mrs. Maldon, looking from her bed across the chamber1, could only just distinguish the stout2, vague form of the charwoman asleep in an arm-chair. The light from the street lamp was strong enough to throw faint shadows of the window-frames on the blinds. The sleeper3 did not stir.
Mrs. Maldon summoned again, more loudly—
"Mrs. Tams!"
And Mrs. Tams, starting out of another world, replied with deprecation—
Mrs. Maldon said agitatedly—
"I've just heard the front door open. I'm sure whoever it was was trying not to make a noise. There! Can't you hear anything?"
"That I canna'!" said Mrs. Tams.
"No!" Mrs. Maldon protested, as Mrs. Tams approached the gas to raise it. "Don't touch the gas. If anybody's got in let them think we're asleep."
The mystery of the vanished money and the fear of assassins seemed suddenly to oppress the very air of the room. Mrs. Maldon was leaning on one elbow in her bed.
Mrs. Tams said to her in a whisper—
"I mun go see."
"I mun go see," said Mrs. Tams.
She was afraid, but she conceived that she ought to examine the house, and no fear could have stopped her from going forth6 into the zone of danger.
The next moment she gave a short laugh, and said in her ordinary tone—
"Bless us! I shall be forgetting the nose on my face next. It's Miss Rachel coming in, of course."
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