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With no hesitation he drew his own weapon, rushing the curtains. There was no one secreted about them. Then, with the revolver in one hand, he switched on the lights. The room was empty. But one pair of French windows at the farther end were wide open and it was that which had caused the current of air. He ran over and found the lock had been forced. It was not even an artistic job of jimmying."
Something transpired to make him regret having sent the note and he decided to steal it out of the post office. He was caught before he had succeeded in 'jimmying' the door, so that the letter must have been delivered at the Collins house. I take it, from the threats which Collins made against Whitmore, that he intercepted the note and that a lively scene between him and his wife followed.
"Now let me tell you how they happened to catch him. Maybe you heard he and Dago Frank were in the act of breaking into the Western-Danish Bank. Part of this I'm giving you now came straight from Frank himself. He says that they were in the alley, in the act of jimmying a window, and all at once Kinney straightened up as if something had hit him and let the jimmy fall with a thump to the pavement.
There was such straining and stress of materials that I really began to wonder whether the building itself would stand it. "Scientific jimmying," gasped Garrick, as the door bulged more and more and seemed almost to threaten to topple in at any moment. I looked at the stubby little cylinder with its short stump of a lever.
For a long moment Al Brant sat and stared at Philon in cold silence. Finally, he said, "Do you know what the penalty is for jimmying the Tabulator to influence voting?" "No." "It's life imprisonment!" Brant got up slowly and started across the room to Philon. "I fell for your line once and got burned and here you come again. You must think I'm a born sucker. This time I'm doing the talking.
Late that afternoon, when Dick, just returned from the city, dropped into, as was his before-dinner custom, the office-study which had been set aside for Larry's use, Larry, after an adroit approach to his subject, continued: "And since I've been wished on you as a sort of step-uncle, there's something I'd like to suggest if I don't seem to be fairly jimmying my way into your affairs."
De Peyster had secretly married without his mother's knowledge, and that the young scamp and his wife were secretly living in her house can't you just see the reporters jimmying open every window to get at us!" "Oh!" breathed Mrs. De Peyster faintly. "Really, Jack," protested the girlish voice, "I think it's scandalous of us to be doing this!"
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