The Man by Bram Stoker Chapter 5 Page 7

corner where commenced the steps leading downward. As he reached the spot a figure came rushing up the steps. A boy in Eton jacket and wide collar, careless, pale, and agitated. It was Leonard Everard. Harold seized him as he came.

‘Where is Stephen?’ he cried in a quick, low voice.

‘In the vault below there. She dropped her light and then took mine, and she dropped it too. Let me go! Let me go!’ He struggled to get away; but Harold held him tight.

‘Where are the matches?’

‘In my pocket. Let me go! Let me go!’

‘Give me them — this instant!’ He was examining the frightened boy’s waistcoat pockets as he spoke.