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Chapter 8 The Adventures of Tommy

Taken a back, though he was by the man's words, Tommy did not hesitate. If audacity had successfully

carried him so far, it was to be hoped it would carry him yet farther. He quietly passed into the

house and mounted the ramshackle staircase. Everything in the house was filthy beyond words.

The grimy paper of a pattern now indistinguishable hung in loose fastunes from the wall,

and every angle was a gray mass of cobweb. Tommy proceeded leisurely. By the time he reached the

bend of the staircase, he had heard the man below disappear into a back room. Clearly, no

suspicion attached to him is yet. To come to the house and ask for Mr. Brown appeared indeed

to be a reasonable and natural proceeding. At the top of the stairs, Tommy halted to consider

his next move. In front of him ran a narrow passage with doors opening on either side of it.

From the one nearest him on the left came a low murmur of voices. It was this room which he had

been directed to enter. But what held his glance fascinated was a small recess immediately on his

right, half concealed by a torn velvet curtain. It was directly opposite the left-handed door,

and owing to its angle, it also commanded a good view of the upper part of the staircase.

As a hiding place for one or at a pinch, two men, it was ideal, being about two feet deep

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