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Young Hawkins, it seemed, had buttoned the cape of his great coat over his face, as soon as he perceived himself to be observed, and he was furnished with a wrenching-iron for the purpose of breaking the padlocks. The attorney further undertook to prove, by sufficient witnesses, that the field in question was a warren in which hares were regularly fed. Mr.
The strong room of the Karluk was a narrow compartment, heavily partitioned off from the galley and the corridor. There was a lamp there, and Rainey lit it while Lund closed the door behind them. The magazine was an iron chest fastened to the floor and the side of the vessel with two padlocks, opened by different keys. It was quite empty. "Thorough man, Carlsen," said Lund.
M. REGNIER has also invented different kinds of locks and padlocks, which cannot be picked; as well as some curious pistols, &c.
Padlocks as large as horse-shoes, corroded by rust and rendered absolutely impracticable by age, confronted us. "I have not the keys," said old Conrad Schmick sourly. "This door has not been opened in my time. It is no use." "It is no use," repeated his grizzly sons, leaning against the mouldy walls with weary tolerance. "Then how did the woman and her dog get into that part of the castle?"
There was no longer any doubt: the treasure was there no one would have been at such pains to conceal an empty casket. In an instant he had cleared every obstacle away, and he saw successively the lock, placed between two padlocks, and the two handles at each end, all carved as things were carved at that epoch, when art rendered the commonest metals precious.
Cloud, together with their splendid grounds, have been thrown open, and the water-works set to playing in both places. This mark of respect for the Peace movement is commendable in the French; and were I not such a strenuous friend of free speech, this act would cause me to overlook the padlocks that the government put upon our lips in the Congress.
Why do these fat-heads come over here with a silver cigarette case and a society directory and make every rich man in the country fasten a burglar alarm to his checkbook?" Hep's goat at the half by a length. "A few days ago, John, one of these mutts with an Edam title jumped off an ocean liner, and immediately the price of padlocks rose to the highest point ever known on the Stock Exchange.
Equipment up to that time had been a glass cutter and a jimmy for back windows and padlocks." He was humorously drawling his confession. He stopped talking and lighted a cigarette. Impatience that was agony urged Vaniman, but he controlled himself. Wagg did not venture to say anything. His thoughts were keeping him busy; he was mentally galloping, trying to catch up with the new situation.
Shouts of people, just too late, on the other side, begging to be let in, remained unacknowledged, and the enormous padlocks and bolts having been thoroughly fastened, Seoul was severed from the outer world till the following morning.
"Something inside!" exclaimed Ida, as the trio stood for a moment staring at Uncle Roger's box. "Yes," answered her brother. "Didn't you hear it move? You listen; I'll do it again." There was not the slightest doubt that the chest was no longer empty. "But it's locked," said Ida, "and has been ever since the evening when it was first opened; and father has the keys of the two padlocks."
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