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"Why, don't you see? That proves that one of them is at home. If

they were all out, they would have locked the door from the

outside with the key and not with the hook from inside. There, do

you hear how the hook is clanking? To fasten the hook on the

inside they must be at home, don't you see? So there they are

sitting inside and don't open the door!"

"Well! And so they must be!" cried Koch, astonished. "What are

they about in there?" And he began furiously shaking the door.

"Stay!" cried the young man again. "Don't pull at it! There must

be something wrong.... Here, you've been ringing and pulling at

the door and still they don't open! So either they've both

fainted or..."

"What?"

"I tell you what. Let's go fetch the porter, let him wake them

up."

"All right."

Both were going down.

"Stay. You stop here while I run down for the porter."

"What for?"

"Well, you'd better."

"All right."