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Here it happened, that one poor and miserable wretch was found in the house of a gentleman of great quality, who had put on, amidst that confusion of things, a pair of taffety breeches belonging to his master with a little silver key hanging at the strings thereof. This being perceived by the Pirates they immediately asked him where was the cabinet of the said key?

"Nobody," replied Mrs. Stevens. "It was locked." "Is it customary for you to lock your bed-room door when you go to lunch?" "No; it is quite unusual. But we have a new servant in the house, and, as I had considerable money in the room, I took that precaution. "All the doors were locked. I had the key to one of them. The others were on the inside of the locks.

But I don't think they'll try it till after dark, so you're quite safe. Good-bye, darlings. And she locked her bedroom door and went off with the key in her pocket. The children could not help admiring the dashing and decided way in which she had acted.

All the week the boarding-house mistresses had pounded on the stove-pipe to bring the appeal of "Spartacus to the Romans" down to a key that would not also include all the people in the block. All to no purpose. Spartacus was aroused, and nothing but a glaive or a battle-axe could bring him to silence and submission. The first section now sat smiling grimly. Their revenge was coming.

Really it was a submarine bell which could be used for telegraphing or telephoning both ways through water. The men finished executing the directions of Del Mar and left, carefully concealing the land connections and key of the bell, while we were still at Del Mar's. We had no sooner left, however, than one of the men who had been engaged in installing the submarine bell entered the library.

The pile was covered with a copper jacket whose upper parts supported two Swan lamps. Upon putting on the cover a contact was formed with the electrodes, and it was possible by means of a commutator key with three eccentrics to light or extinguish one of the lamps or both at once. A single element would have sufficed to keep one Swan lamp of feeble resistance lighted for 20 hours.

Wollaston rose and went over to Evelyn and kissed her as she stood up and let the yellow cat leap to the floor. Evelyn looked to Maria more beautiful than she had ever seen her. Maria stood farther back in the shadow. Then she heard the front door opened, and the cat was gently put out. Then she heard the key turn in the lock, and a bolt slide. Maria stood perfectly still.

Be quiet. She's all right. She's in the room where you left her, of course. She couldn't get out, could she? You've got the key. Come in." They entered the house. The dining room was dark and quiet. So was the sitting room. The clock ticked, solemn and slow. Kyan clutched at his companion's arm. "I don't hear her," he whispered. "You don't s'pose she HAS done it? Godfreys mighty!"

And when she kissed him on the forehead, he trembled. "Uncle Silas!" she faltered. Weakly he reached up and put his hands on her shoulders. He whispered in her ear. The tears came and lay wet upon her lashes as she undid the button at his throat. There, on a piece of cotton twine, hung a little key, She took it off, but still his hands held her. "I have saved it for you, my dear," he said.

I could only guess that he had some slight hesitation about using the key he held in his hand. "'Oh them flies, how bad they was, Doctor and Miss, this three or four days: and you, too, sir, you wouldn't guess, none of you! And how they come, too! First we took the room in hand, the shutters was up, and had been, I daresay, years upon years, and not a fly to be seen.