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Thus, if we examine our stoves, or a doorlock, or long vertical hinge, or even a high tin cup, by holding a delicate magnetic needle in the hand near those objects, we find the earth has, by induction, attracted to the lower end of the stove utensils, etc., the opposite magnetism from its own; and repelled to the upper end of the stove, etc., the same magnetism which exists in our northern hemisphere.
The new-comer mentally digested this unwelcome information. "If we wait till it's dark," said the girl, "we'll have a better chance." "Unless Shaw gets back in the meantime." He was still watching her with that new look in his eyes. Then, briskly, he returned to his interest in the doorlock. "In any case," he casually remarked, "we don't want to be jailed here."
In the chair of State, on this day of petitions, his head and hand busied themselves with a wonderful new doorlock he had devised. "Sire," said the suppliant de Linieres, "in the matter of the grand alliance betwixt my nephew Chevalier de Vaudrey and your ward Princesse de Acquitaine " The monarch nodded absentmindedly. "Oh, yes, yes! Of course.
Disdaining to question Rupert Filgee, as the possible confidant of Uncle Ben, he answered the curious inquiries of the children as to the broken doorlock with the remark that it was a matter that he should have to bring before the Trustees of the Board, and by the time that school was over and the pupils dismissed he had quite resolved upon this formal disposition of it.
Instead of that, he went down the narrow steps, and through the dusty glass examined the doorlock. Fifteen minutes later he went down another flight of basement steps, this time to the cellar of a Sixth Avenue locksmith. "I've got a closet door locked shut on me," he explained. "And I want a key to get it open."
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