But for a moment nothing followed.
"Trouble over there," thought the rosy Dutchman, and waited. The manager
waited too, rubbing his hat and brushing his clothes with the tips of
his kidded fingers.
"They do not wish to see him," slowly concluded the spectator.
"Rap, rap, rap, rap, rap!" quoth the knocker, and M. de la Rue looked up
around at the windows opposite and noticed the handsome young Dutchman
looking at him.
"Dutch!" said the manager softly, between his teeth.
"He is staring at me," said Kristian Koppig to himself;--"but then I am
staring at him, which accounts for it."
A long pause, and then another long rapping.
"They want him to go away," thought Koppig.
"Knock hard!" suggested a street youngster, standing by.
"Rap, rap"--The manager had no sooner recommenced than several neighbors
looked out of doors and windows.
"Very bad," thought our Dutchman; "somebody should make him go off. I
wonder what they will do."
The manager stepped into the street, looked up at the closed window,
returned to the knocker, and stood with it in his hand.
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