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This arrangement was satisfactory, so the younger boy climbed the fence and soon returned with a short chain and padlock. Billy chained Jimmy and Frances together by two round, fat ankles and put the key to the lock in his pocket. "We must decide what crimes they have committed," said Lina.
Strong, in sudden fear, "what is the matter? Is this serious?" "Not at all. But men like your husband are in need of watching. Take good care of him." "Good care of him! Doctor, he will not mind me! I wanted him to stay at home to-night, but he wouldn't." "Then put a chain and padlock on him, and hold him in!" growled the surgeon. He prescribed a medicine and went away assuring Mrs.
Yes, I had, in mockery of our endeavours to purify that unhappy street." "I should have taken it as a little harmless fun," said Raymond. "Depend on it, it was so intended." "What, when Mrs. Tallboys had a padlock and key? I see you are determined to laugh at it all. Most likely they consulted you beforehand." "Cecil, I cannot have you talk such nonsense. Is this all you have to complain of?"
The growing sluggishness of his blood showed itself in chilblains, not only on the feet but the fingers, and his handwriting becomes more and more cramped and confused. Life, vol. ix. pp. 58-9. See Bickerstaff's Comic Opera, The Padlock. They read like chapters from the Arabian Nights.
But he hoisted it on his back and took it no farther than the cottage in which he lived, where it remained locked with a padlock. "Towards Christmas-time, then, the house was ready, but to our surprise he did not move into it. He seemed, indeed, of a sudden, to have lost all liking for it, and whether it was that he had no longer any work upon his hands, he took to following Mrs.
Immediately in front of them, where the wall crossed the roadway, stood a gate having stout iron bars that extended from top to bottom. They found, on coming nearer, that this gate was locked with a great padlock, rusty through lack of use. "Well," said Scraps, "I guess we'll stop here." "It's a good guess," replied Ojo. "Our way is barred by this great wall and gate.
This was done. Cyril touched the padlock. Anthea got the Necessaire. Robert clutched the candle. Jane picked up the tie-clip. 'It's not much, she said. 'I don't believe Ancient Egyptians wore ties. 'Never mind, said Anthea. 'I believe it's luckier not to really choose.
A padlock securely fastened the ends of this longer chain and thus the boys were shackled beyond hope of releasing themselves. "Now, just to make sure, we'll leave Doright on guard and he'll have a gun in his hand. He likes to shoot, too. And he knows how." Never had the voice of the outlaw sounded so coarse and disagreeable as now when hope seemed gone.
A new theory had taken possession of him, and he started at once for the river. At the magazine gate he chatted with the sentry about the mysterious disappearance, and passed on. When he reached the shore half a mile beyond, he was surprised to find that the padlock on the door of the shed had been pried off, and that his boat was missing.
While I'm waitin' I take a chance and work da lock on da basement door, see? It's a padlock and I cop it, see? This mornin' I get a friend to make a key for it, see? and this afternoon I slip it back where it belongs." "Murphy," said Brennan, "you're a wonder. Where's the key?" Murphy reached into his pocket and produced it. Brennan glanced at his watch.
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