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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1873 Excerpt: ... 141 CHAPTER IX. THE DOCTOR'S RETURN. The scene in the playground outside, when Hawkins stepped out from the house, was very busy and animated. Under Hampton's judicious generalship, the fireworks had been safely conveyed across the playground to the gate of Lobb's Mead. But here the locked door offered an obstacle to their further progress. "Have you got the key, John?" asked Dixon. "Waters, if I remember, said that it was kept in the Doctor's study along with the others." "It may have been," said Hampton, "but I did not think of it at the time, and it is too late to go after it now. We must hand the fireworks over. We had better divide our forces. One of us should climb over the wall to the other side, another mount on to the top of the wall, and another stay here to hand them up. We shall get them safe over that way." "That will do," said Mertoun. "I will stay here, and pass them up to Dixon, who is already on the top of the wall." "Yes," said Brook. "Evans, Thomas, and the others shall bring them to you, Hampton, one by one in the Hermitage yard, and you can fix them, as they are brought up." "All right," said Hampton. "Let us lose no time about it. Mr. White may break the door down, or force it open in some way. And if he does, or if he contrives to make himself heard in the house, our fun will be stopped, after all." "He can't contrive to break out," said Smith. "The doors are sheeted with iron inside, and the closets are bricked all round. I have heard that they were used as strong rooms, before this house was turned into a school." "And he can't be heard in the house, let him call ever so loud," said Dixon. "I remember being shut up there once, two or three years ago. The key had been left in the lock; and some of the first class pushed me in, and tu...
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