Octavus Roy Cohen

Name: Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XIII
Author: Octavus Roy Cohen

Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XIII (1918)

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“Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XIII”, published in 1918, is a work by Octavus Roy Cohen. It explores elements such as Donaldson, Hartigan and burglar.

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XIII (1918)

“ The second come from Hartigan an’ didn’t have no echo.”
“That may be right,” agreed Carroll complacently. “And now, just to make sure—would you recognize the burglar if you saw him, Ethel?”
“Yes, sir; surely, sir.”
Carroll immediately dispatched Hall downstairs with instructions to have Roberts bring Hartigan to the girl’s room. In five minutes Hall was back, and behind him the immense figure of the wounded burglar.
“Is that the man?” queried Carroll.
The girl glanced at him briefly.
“No, sir; certainly not. The man they called Lefty was an undersized runt of a man, not like this one at all!” ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XIII (1918)

“ It was more than an hour later that he came down from upstairs to announce that Ethel would see the detectives, but urging that she be made to talk as little as possible.
“The poor girl has had a terrible time of it,” said the man of medicine. “She has been lying in that cramped position and in constant terror for twelve hours. Be as easy with her as you can.”
They filed quietly up to the third floor again and were admitted to the room by Eunice. Hall, Denson, Rollins, and Harrelson took their places around the walls and Carroll drew a chair up to the bed. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XIII (1918)

“ At first I think it’s Donaldson—he’s the new butler, sir; but then I notice that the man who is walkin’ has got rubber heels on, an’ I know that Donaldson don’t wear them, and neither does Mr. Hamilton.
“Honest! I got cold and hot all over at the same time. I run to the winder an’ looked out to the garden. There was some one creepin’ across t’ward that bush yonder——”
Carroll walked to the window and looked. The bush in question was situated about sixty feet from the house and directly in front of the big double doors opening from the living room onto the first-floor veranda. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XIII (1918)

“ They was raisin’ some sort of hell’—that’s just the word he used, sir, an’ me thinkin’ that he was a respectable man, sir—‘they was raisin’ hell,’ he says, ‘last I saw of ’em. You’ll find the latch on the front door loose. Take it easy, an’, whatever y’ do, don’t get caught.’
“‘I won’t,’ says the other feller. ‘No danger of that. I’ll go right out th’ front like I owned the house.’
“So they talked a little more, an’ then Donaldson says: ‘If you meet anybody there ain’t to be no shootin’, understand? Just beat it back upstairs an’ I’ll take care of you.’
“‘I ain’t no gunman,’ says the burglar. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XIII (1918)

“ With that the man he calls Lefty kinder grins. ‘She’s a nice, commonsense girl,’ he says. ‘I told her I’d kill her if she didn’t do what I wanted, an’ I’ve got her, bound an’ gagged an’ all trussed up nice, lyin’ up in the attic yonder. By the time some one finds her we’ll have made our getaway.’
“Well, sir, I can’t tell you how terrible shocked I was at findin’ out Donaldson’s true nature. That’s the way with men, sir; you don’t know nothin’ about them until you happen to overhear somethin’ like I done with Donaldson. Just think of the risk I’d been runnin’ with him, sir ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XIII (1918)

“ He took out this big revolver an’ pointed it at the bed.
“‘Come out of that!’ he says real terrible an’ gruff. ‘Or, by God,’ he says, just like that, ‘I’ll shoot!’
“There wasn’t nothin’ else for me to do, sir, so I crawled out, an’ when I made as if to scream he tells me if I do he’s going to kill me right away; but if I don’t make no noise no harm will come to me. So I told him I’d do anything if he just wouldn’t kill me, an’ he said that he’d have to bind me and put a piece of cloth in my mouth so I wouldn’t scream, an’ then I’d have to climb up them there steps into the attic. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Six Seconds of Darkness — Chapter XIII (1918)

“ He seemed awful pleased that this man Lefty had tied me up an’ put me in that awful place up yonder, an’ he said he didn’t have nothin’ else to fear because it was Maggie’s night out. Then they started talkin’ about other things. ”

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