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Quotation from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
“The stair had been carried no higher; to set a stranger mounting it in the darkness was to send him straight to his death”
Kidnapped, Chapter IV (1886 text)
Climbing the tower in the dark at Ebenezer's request, David finds the steps end in empty air and understands that his uncle meant to kill him.
Citation: "The stair had been carried no higher; to set a stranger mounting it in the darkness was to send him straight to his death" — Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, Chapter IV (1886 text). (id kidnapped-q3)
Portrait: RLS Kidnapped 1886 US, Robert Louis Stevenson, Public domain.
