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"Or a crooked nail," said Jasper. "Ay, no better picklock in good hands. But there are other things besides locks to think of."
Redoubling, then, the active energy of his thrusts, favoured by the fervid appetency of my motions, the soft oiled wards can no longer stand so effectual a picklock, but yield, and open him an entrance. I was quite sick with delight! stirred beyond bearing with its furious agitations within me, and gorged and crammed, even to a surfeit.
Jimmie Dale drew suddenly back from the door, and, retreating along the wall of the building, crouched down in the darkness beneath the window. What was that? It came again a step, stealthy, cautious, from the areaway and now another step there were two men there. The picklock was back in his pocket, and, in its place, his fingers closed around the stock of his automatic.
A fiddle wrought this, or rather genius, in whose hand a jews-harp is the lyre of Orpheus, a fiddle the harp of David, a chisel a hewer of heroic forms, a brush or a pen the scepter of souls, and, alas! a nail a picklock. Inside every fiddle is a soul, but a coy one. The nine hundred and ninety-nine never win it.
It was clear that whoever had so shaped the nail could not have used such an instrument for the first time, and must be a practised picklock.
And, placing his dark lantern upon a table, he draws forth his picklock and chisels, and commences breaking open the bureau. Right this thievish instinct has not deceived him, he has found all, all. Here is the little box of sparkling diamonds, and here the full purses of money.
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