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Lighting a cigarette, he watched them burn until the last glow had gone from the last charred scrap; then he crunched and scattered them with the brass-handled fender brush, and, retracing his steps across the room, flung back a portiere from where it hung before a little alcove, and dropped on his knees in front of a round, squat, barrel-shaped safe one of his own design and planning in the years when he had been with his father.
Jimmie Dale, as he prepared to leave the room, glanced about him from force of habit, and his eyes held for an instant on the portieres behind which, in the little alcove, stood the squat, barrel-shaped safe. Was there anything he would need to-night that leather girdle, for instance, with its circle of pockets containing its compact little burglar's kit? He shook his head impatiently.
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