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really shot at them at all." They knelt side by side before the window-sill. The gardens were still faintly visible in the dim moonlight, but all signs of disturbance had passed away. She clung nervously to his arm. "Arnold," she whispered, "tell me, what do you think he has done?" "I don't suppose he has done anything very much," Arnold replied, cheerfully. "What I really think is that he has got mixed up with some of these anarchists, writing for this wretched paper, and they have probably let him in for some of their troubles." They stayed there for a measure of time they were neither of them able to compute. At last, with a little sigh, he rose to his feet. For the first time they began to realize what had happened. "Isaac will not come back," he said. She clung to him hysterically. "Arnold," she cried, "I am nervous. I could not sleep in that room. I never want to see it again as long as I live." For a moment he was perplexed. Then he smiled. "It's rather an awkward situation for us attic dwellers," he remarked. "I'll bring your couch in here, if you like, and you can lie before the window, where it's cool." "You don't mind?" she begged. "I couldn't even think of going to sleep. I should sit up all night, anyhow." "Not a bit," he assured her. "I don't think it would be much use thinking about bed." He made his way back into Isaac's apartments, brought out her couch and arranged it by the window. She lay down with a little sigh of relief. Then he dragged up his own easy chair to her side and held her hand. They heard Big Ben strike two o'clock, and soon afterwards Arnold began to doze. When he awoke, with a sudden start, her hand was still in his. Eastward, over the city, a faint red glow hung in the heavens. The world was still silent, but in the delicate, pearly twilight the trees in the gardens, the bridge, and the buildings in the distance--everything seemed to stand out with a peculiar and unfamiliar distinctness. She, too, was sitting up, and they looked out of the window together. Five o'clock was striking now. "I've been asleep!" Arnold exclaimed. "Something woke me up." She nodded. "There is some one knocking at the door outside," she whispered. "That is what woke you. I heard it several minutes ago." He jumped up at once. "I will go and see what it is," he declared. He opened the door and looked out onto the landing. The knocking was at the door of Isaac's apartment.
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