Love at the Loom — page 243: what you’re looking at

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MILDRED UNMASKS. i The two hired ruffians, for they were nothing else, followed Mildred with unconcealed wonder as she led them to the corner of the room, and by the prema on a disguised button, revealed a small entrance to some place beyond. \ | “Tt looks,” said the man called Harry, “as if ae ancestors had need of no little Bi: I wonder what line of business they were in.’ | “Silence!” she said haughtily ; “such comments ae unnecessary. Follow me! this will lead us to a } secret entrance into her apartments.” _ She disappeared through the opening as she nie and they followed her as closely as possible. _ They found themselves on a narrow staircase, which ran down in so steep a descent that it was necessary to exercise no little caution in the utter darkness in order to avoid falling. It was easy to see that it led them to the floor below -—the same that poor Goldie’s rooms were on. At the foot of the staircase a narrow hall ran. Mil-_ 4 ‘dred led her strange companions along this for a few paces, and then stopped and fumbled with the wall un- % til a door noiselessly slid aside. 23 Eomichbooks. co