He had heard sounds--he acknowledged it.
But what sounds?
Observing the excitement he had caused, and gratified, perhaps, that he had succeeded in driving that faint but unwelcome smile from Mr.Moffat's lips, Arthur hastened to add: "But I did not complete my investigations.

Arrived at the top of the stairs, I heard what drove me from the house at once.

It was my sister's voice--Adelaide's.

She was in the building, and I stood almost on a level with her, with a bottle in my pocket.

It did not take me a minute to clamber through the window.