oddly enough, quite the opposite had happened!
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
He thought the stick was his father's and wondered why so interesting a walking stick-or staff; it could hardly be called a cane, he thought, because it was so large and oddly shaped-should be hidden away there.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Glenning glanced up, his heart behaving somewhat oddly, for his position was a trifle nervous, and beheld, around the further bend of the old stairway, where it gave upon the broad landing, a flutter of garments.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey