Platzoff led him through so many
corridors and passages, turning now to the right hand, and now to the
left--he guided him up and down so many flights of stairs, now of stone
and now of wood, that he lost his reckoning entirely and felt as though
he were being conducted through some place far more spacious than Bon
Repos. He counted the number of stairs in each flight that he went up or
down. In two or three cases the numbers tallied, which induced him to
think that Platzoff was conducting him twice over the same ground, in
order perhaps the more effectually to confuse his ideas as to the
position of the place to which he was being led.
After several minutes spent thus in silent perambulation of the old
house, they halted for a moment while Platzoff unlocked a door, after
which they passed forward into a room, in the middle of which Ducie was
left standing while Platzoff relocked the door, and then busied himself
for a minute in trimming the lamp he had brought with him, which had
been his only guide through the dark and silent house, for the servants
had all gone to bed more than an hour ago.
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