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"I guess you wasn't drunk last night after all, John," said he. "You you are sure the kid is is there?" gasped John. "Not so damned sure!" said Bill. But a few minutes later it was taken away in a patrol wagon, and with it the little box with iron hasps. THEY called it the room of the Evil Thought.
They went carefully through each room. There was nothing unusual in any of them; old boxes, pieces of broken furniture, rusty bits of iron strewed the place. One thing took Blanche's fancy. It was in a tiny room opening out of one of the large ones, and was so big that it almost filled it. It was an immense chest, studded with nails, and ornamented with handsome brass hasps.
'Bah, how can they catch me, when I run like a hare? 'Confound the boy, said his mother, who had come in, 'the Swabians will beat him small. 'He can always give them the slip, said Slimak, lit his pipe, and resumed his meditations on hasps and bolts.
"What is it like? How much is there? Good Sebastian, I'll give you water; I'll have you set free if you tell me." "How much? I don't know. But there is much pieces of Spanish gold, silver coins in casks and in little boxes the boxes are bound with iron and have hasps and staples; bars of precious metal and little paper packages of gems, all tied up and hidden in leather bags."
The tempest poured its full strength against the grey-stone house. It shook the windows with its frantic hand, it shrieked and howled and roared amongst the chimney tops and gables, it strained the hasps of the staunch oaken doors, and the old house faced it with a broadening smile, and shone the brighter by contrast as the night grew blacker.
Deerslayer removed them all, loosened the hasps, raised the lid a little to make certain it was loose, and then he drew back from the chest several feet, signing to his friend to follow. "This is a family chist, Judith," he said, "and 'tis like to hold family secrets.
And Betty had no sooner detected the presence on the Gem of stowaways than she had pulled shut the sliding door leading into the trunk cabin, and had slid the hatch cover forward, fastening both with the hasps. "They'll stay there until we get an officer," she explained. "Probably they are tramps!" "Oh, Betty!" It was a startled trio who cried thus.
The sound came from below, and with a muttered ejaculation, full of vexation, the boy darted to the head of the steps, and rushed down in the darkness at a break-neck speed, which ended in a big jump on to the stone-floor, from whence he rushed toward the window which made that noise when any one tried to open it a difficult task with the new hasps to any one who did not understand them.
He gave the ladders a swinging motion as the spider swings herself by her long thread he seized them with a strong and steady hand, but they shook as if they had worn-out hasps. The five long ladders looked like a tremulous reed, as they reached the nest and hung perpendicularly over the rocky wall.
He reached then, fumbling at the hasps of his alligator bag which stood by, opening it out and stooping to insert the package.
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