Further back, on the south side, there was a stately columned porch, but like everything else it was tangled with creeper and had a desolate, decayed air about it.
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There was a verandah around the southwest corner, which was the part of the house nearest to him, but all the windows around it seemed to be empty and dark. It was brooding and morose, with ranks of chimneys and twisting rivers of leafless creeper down every wall. The house itself was much larger than he had anticipated. "But it depends where it's directed, don't you think?"
He switched off the car's engine and sat there for four or five minutes, listening to the soft rustle of the night. He carried a small canvas bag with Mace gas and anti-dog sprays, a coil of rope around his shoulder, and a long-barreled. He was driving a rented, dark-blue Matador, and he was dressed in a black, polo-neck sweater, black corduroy pants, and a charcoal-gray cap pulled down over his eyes. It was a few minutes after eleven Thursday night when he arrived outside the Semple mansion. The place is enormous, they'll never see me." All I'm going to do is hop over the wall. "Maggie, you're just making things sound awkward. I'm only going to take a quick look around the grounds and maybe a fast check through the windows." Christ, Maggie, I'm not going to burglarize the place. Semples mistakenly took me for a prowler. All I have to say is that I was paying her a visit, and that the. "It won't do that, even if I'm caught red-handed.
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