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The stancheons on the window of the strong room, as they call it, are wasted to pieces, and it is not above twelve feet from the level of the ground without, and the snow lies thick. 'But the darbies, said Hatteraick, looking upon his fetters.
We were picking our way across the floor, endeavoring to avoid the pools of blood, when the rough hands of policemen were laid on our shoulders. "Put out your digets, and on with the darbies," they said, meaning that we should suffer ourselves to be handcuffed, evidently thinking that we were a portion of the gang with whom they had been fighting.
Dan, the coward, threw up his hand the first bluff and was walked off with the darbies on him." "Jim, suppose he should turn informer?"
The stancheons on the window of the strong room, as they call it, are wasted to pieces, and it is not above twelve feet from the level of the ground without, and the snow lies thick. 'But the darbies, said Hatteraick, looking upon his fetters.
"The darbies ain't o' no use, you see, as we ye got you all safe with the ropes. Now, Mister Gascoyne, I'm agoin' to heap one more indignity on ye. I'm sorry to do it, d'ye see; but I'm bound for to obey orders. You'll be so good as to sit down on the bed, for I ain't quite so long as you though I won't say that I'm not about as broad and let me tie this napkin over yer mouth."
And then we began to drink about, and then I betted he would not drink out a quartern of Hollands without drawing breath, and then he tried it, and just then Slounging Jock and Dick Spur'em came in, and we clinked the darbies on him, took him as quiet as a lamb; and now he's had his bit sleep out, and is as fresh as a May gowan, to answer what your honour likes to speir. This narrative, delivered with a wonderful quantity of gesture and grimace, received at the conclusion the thanks and praises which the narrator expected.
On the occasion of my arresting one of the Russian rouble note forgers, a ruffian who would not hesitate to stick at anything, I had provided myself with several sized pairs of handcuffs, and it was not until I had obtained the very much needed assistance that I was able to find the suitable "darbies" for his wrists.
"I do." "Not to-night," exclaimed the man, and he sprung upon the detective, but he might as well have leaped head first at a hornet's nest. The detective was ready for the man, and he brought him to his knees upon the grass, and an instant later the darbies were on him. The man squealed like a pig, but the conviction was forced upon his mind that he had met Vance.
The latter he placed on the table, and, directing Gascoyne to raise his arms which were not secured below the elbows and placed his manacles on the stone, he cut them asunder with a few powerful blows, and removed them. "The darbies ain't o' no use, you see, as we've got you all safe with the ropes. Now, Mister Gascoyne, I'm agoin' to heap one more indignity on ye.
"Those who dealt that blow," said he, "were already well used to this little instrument"; and so saying he produced a pair of "darbies," a kind of handcuff made of a double ring of iron secured by a lock. "I shall soon have the pleasure of presenting them with these bracelets as a New Year's gift." "Then you suspect " "Some folks who came out free in Her Majesty's ships."
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