“I shall not mind it, now that you have told me this; it might have disturbed me otherwise,” Earle answered, as he wearily turned to follow his guide.
Taking the elevator, they were borne into the fourth story, and he was shown into a room at the top of the house.
It was a long, rather narrow room, comfortably furnished, and having two doors to it, one leading into the hall, the other into the room adjoining. There was a transom over both doors, and through the one leading into the others of the suite Earle could see a dim light, but all was perfectly quiet within.
He looked to see that the bolt was perfectly fast in its socket, and then, giving his neighbors no further thought, he hastily disrobed, and, wearied out, crept into bed.
CHAPTER XXVIII
EARLE WAYNE’S BOLD VENTURE
He almost instantly fell into a profound and dreamless slumber.
How long he slept thus he could not have told, but he was suddenly awakened during the night by a low, sobbing noise proceeding from the room on his right.
Arousing so suddenly, and being consequently somewhat confused, it seemed to him at first as if some one had called his name.
He sat erect in bed and listened.
All was silence for a few moments, then he heard the tones of a man speaking as if in anger, and the same low sobbing instantly began again, while a sweet voice seemed pleading for something.