This bedstead is fairly gnawed!
But I must get to work.
I have locked the door and thrown the key down into the front path.
I don t want to go out, and I don t want to have anybody come in, till
John comes.
I want to astonish him.
I ve got a rope up here that even Jennie did not find. If that woman
does get out, and tries to get away, I can tie her!
But I forgot I could not reach far without anything to stand on!
This bed will not move!
I tried to lift and push it until I was lame, and then I got so angry I
bit off a little piece at one corner but it hurt my teeth.
Then I peeled off all the paper I could reach standing on the floor. It
sticks horribly and the pattern just enjoys it! All those strangled
heads and bulbous eyes and waddling fungus growths just shriek with
derision!
I am getting angry enough to do something desperate. To jump out of the
window would be admirable exercise, but the bars are too strong even to
try.
Besides I wouldn t do it. Of course not. I know well enough that a step
like that is improper and might be misconstrued.
I don t like to look out of the windows even there are so many of those
creeping women, and they creep so fast.
I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?
But I am securely fastened now by my well-hidden rope you don t get me
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