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"How are we to get the aeroplane out of the shop? You know the door is locked." "Yes, but I know something else, too. I noticed it to-day, and wondered why those men who came after the key didn't take advantage of it." "What is it?" "The bolts in the hinges of the door can be lifted out easily, and we can take the doors off." "But we must get rid of the two soldiers who keep guard at night."
It was dark above the moat; but not so dark as to prevent our seeing a narrow ladder of thin bamboo joints and silken cord hanging by two hooks from the top of the twelve-foot wire fence. There was no sound. "He's out!" screamed Eltham. "Down the steps!" We all ran our best and swiftest. But Eltham outran us. Like a fury he tore at bolts and bars, and like a fury sprang out into the road.
Meantime, Black Ivo's archers advancing, fell into arrow formation and began to ply the Mortain ranks with clouds of shafts and bolts 'neath which divers men and horses fell what time Black Ivo's massed columns moved slowly forward to the attack yet Duke Beltane, sitting among his knights, stirred not, and the army of Mortain abode very silent and still.
He admired the cast-iron beams, as one might call them, and the twin bars of steel coupled together with indestructible bolts. "If you were to give seven rapid turns to that crank," said Spieghalter, pointing out a beam of polished steel, "you would make a steel bar spurt out in thousands of jets, that would get into your legs like needles." "The deuce!" exclaimed Raphael.
In the depths of the courtyard stood the old house, gloomy, always in shadow, stained with age, with here and there a cracked window pane, with heavy doors fastened by heavy bolts, and the path leading up to it overgrown with grass.
The Glass-coach itself is turned adrift, its head towards the City, to wander where it lists, and be found next morning tumbled in a ditch. But Fersen is on the new box, with its brave new hammer-cloths; flourishing his whip; he bolts forward towards Bondy. There a third and final Bodyguard Courier of ours ought surely to be, with post-horses ready ordered.
As Sylvia and Charlotte came to the front door it seemed as if they might fairly walk through it as through a gray shadow; but Sylvia stooped, and her shoulders strained with seemingly incongruous force, as if she were spending it to roll away a shadow. On the flat doorstep lay a large round stone, pushed close against the door. There were no locks and keys in the old Crane place; only bolts.
The warder has to keep the offices in good order, and when he has his key in his pocket, certain that the heavy bolts and locks cannot be forced, he comes and goes about the house.
"From the fort?" "Yes, from the fort. Open, Pierre!" An instant of hesitation. Creak, creak! Bolts were being withdrawn. Next the door swung open, and we dimly saw the bearded, rum-bloated face of Pierre Lagarde. The lieutenant's ruse had thoroughly deceived him, and at sight of us he was struck dumb.
Miss Rebecca had all the slaves clothes made. She seed to that. She go to the city, Augusta, and bring back bolts cloth. One slave sewed for Miss Rebecca and her family. She didn't do all the sewing but she sewed all the time. One woman done all the weavin'. At night after they work in the field Miss Rebecca give em tasks so many bats to card or so much spinnin' to do.
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