“I think I can manage to do it.”
And I did manage. I am six feet two and a half inches high, and I was not a light-weight even in those days. I took a little run and gave that door my shoulder once – twice – and the third time went clean through. It was a trifle unexpected. I had thought it would have offered more resist The consequence was that I found myself a bit mixed up with the splinters. Anyhow, I was in the hall in a brace of shakes. When I got there, the smell or something seemed to hit me in the face. The sounds which I had heard were more audible than ever. They set my nerves all of a twitter, If someone or something were not half mad with pain, or terror, or both, then I was a Dutchman. And quite close at hand.
I rushed to the hall door. The sergeant shouted to me from withou
