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Updated: May 28, 2025
The Lewisons know how to do things, I'll say that for them, though Hazel Lewison is no choice of mine. My, how black she looked when she saw you dancing with Ken Ford. And so did that little hussy of an Ethel Reese. What a flirt he is!" "I don't think he's a flirt," said Rilla as defiantly as two desperate sniffs would let her.
In his heart Terry admired that red-haired man's nerve. The next time Lewison passed the window, he darted out and swiftly went the rounds of the table, relieving each man of his weapon. He returned to his place. Pat had broken into hearty laughter. "That's it!" cried Lewison, passing the window again. "Laughin' keeps a gent awake. That's the stuff, Red!"
A time of silence came, with only the faint noises of Denver at his rapid work. "Suppose they was to rush the bank, even?" said Lewison on his next trip past the window. "Who's they?" asked Red, and looked steadily into the mouth of Terry's gun. "Why, them that wants my money. Money that I slaved and worked for all my life!
And his voice shook and quaked; it reminded Terry of the whine of a dog half-starved and come upon meat a savage, subdued sound. There was another sound from the street where old Lewison was coming to his senses a gasping, sound, and then a choked cry: "Help!" His senses and his voice seemed to return to him with a rush.
"Unfortunately," he replied, "the key is missing." "Ah!" cried the assistant, Lewison, excitedly, "you are mistaken, sir! Coffers of this description and workmanship are nearly always complicated conjuring tricks; they rarely open by any such rational means as lock and key.
Meyerstein ran one fat finger tenderly across the heavily embossed figures, which, like barnacles, encrusted the sides and lid of the weird curio which we had summoned him to appraise. "What do you think, Lewison?" he added, glancing over his shoulder at the clerk who accompanied him.
Lewison, whose flaxen hair and light blue eyes almost served to mask his Semitic origin, shrugged his shoulders in a fashion incongruous in one of his complexion, though characteristic in one of his name. "It is as you say, Mr. Meyerstein, an example of early Tûlun-Nûr work," he said. "It may be sixteenth century or even earlier.
Certainly old Lewison was guarding his money well. The hopes of Terry disappeared, and as Lewison was now approaching the far end of his beat, Terry glided back into the walk between the buildings and crouched there. He needed time and thought sadly. As far as he could make out, the only two approaches to the bank, front and rear, were thoroughly guarded.
Even Pollard was shaken and looked to Denver. But that worthy, who had returned from the door where he was stationed during the presence of the sheriff, remained in his place smiling down at his hands. He, for one, seemed oddly pleased. In the meantime Sandy was setting forth his second and particularly interesting news item. "You-all know Lewison?" he asked.
"None," replied Smith; "but with my present inadequate knowledge of its history, I do not care to open it." Lewison smiled skeptically. "Probably you know best," he said, bowed to us both, and retired. When the door was closed
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