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He who in any age filches from time-lock combination light for his kind, must have his Caucasus, whereon, blind scavangers of fate, batten harpy gorge, while not a kindly drop softens Olmypus' cold, drear scowl. No prayer moves those tense lips, but Caucasus groans with the voiceless petition, and Olympus' huge molars chatter with the prophetic beseeching.
And all the sub-guardians stirred and grumbled in their beautiful bright cages like wrathful lions. No such scene had ever been known in that Safe Deposit or any other safe deposit before. The patrol was right. The dial of the time-lock showed that it had been set against every lock, great and small, in the Safe Deposit, until nine a.m. the next day. 'It's all up! the patrol said solemnly.
For it is the heaven-sent sort of work, to those ordained for it, that fills one's hours and leaves one eager for further tasks. It called for all his oldtime ingenuity. His tools, for instance at times their limitations irked him, and he made others more satisfactory to himself; tools adjusted to an insect's frail body, not to a time-lock.
It appeared that he was under obligations to Inspector Winter, and anxious to oblige. The relations between distinguished law-breakers and distinguished detectives are frequently such as can only exist between artists who esteem each other. For the rest, Mr. Galpin had brought a brown bag. 'You see, the time-lock is placed so that began the patrol. 'Shut up! said Mr. Galpin curtly.
It wore all the grim appearance of a strong-box that, once locked, would prove impregnable to everything save acquaintance with the combination and the consent of the time-lock. But give the Lone Wolf twenty minutes alone with it, twenty minutes free from interruption he, the one man living who could seduce a time-lock and leave it apparently inviolate!...
This explained why the door was ajar, but it did not explain the absence of the doorkeeper, who had apparently followed in the footsteps of his chief, Mr. Brown. 'The time-lock! Someone must have set it! cried the patrol to Shawn, and the two hastened to the other end of the main corridor, where the dial of the machine glistened under an electric lamp.
Once the lock was set, Hugo himself could not have entered, not even to save the British Empire from instant destruction, until the time-lock had run its course.
Beverley slid back the sandalwood panel, and opened the steel door behind it, which was manipulated by a miniature time-lock. "Suppose I wear diamonds and emeralds," she thought, "and tell Roger they match better with my dress than the pearls that I'll wear the pearls another time?" But at the best this would only postpone the evil moment.
He hummed an air, and strolled out into the main corridor to stare at the curious dial of the time-lock. 'Why not blow up the clock of the time-lock? ventured the patrol. 'Look here! said Mr. Galpin, 'you ought to know better than that, even if this other gent doesn't. Any violence to the clock automatically jams all the connecting levers. Stop the clock, and it's all up.
"During those few seconds it seemed to be more than I could stand; I felt sure that I couldn't do it that I'd go mad if they tried to force me. The idea was so terrible of not being master over your own legs and arms, to have your flesh and blood and what brains God gave you buried alive in stone walls as though they were in a safe with a time-lock on the door set for eight months ahead.
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