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Updated: May 21, 2025
Because they murder people so as to rob them, is no reason why they should break everything in the house. Sharp folks don't smash up furniture; they carry pretty picklocks, which work well and make no noise. Idiots! one would say " He stopped with his mouth wide open. "Eh! Not so bungling, after all, perhaps."
The back of the old press, which moved by a secret spring, had been pushed aside, and discovered, built in the wall, a large and deep iron chest, the lid of which, being open, displayed the wondrous mechanism of one of those Florentine locks of the sixteenth century, which, better than any modern invention, set all picklocks at defiance; and, moreover, according to the notions of that age, are supplied with a thick lining of asbestos cloth, suspended by gold wire at a distance from the sides of the chest, for the purpose of rendering incombustible the articles contained in it.
"Follow me close get to the door of the cellar-place eight men within hearing of my whistle recollect the picklocks, the axes. If you hear the whistle, break in; if not, I'm safe, and the first orders to seize the captain in his room stand good." So saying, Favart strode after his guide.
As the venerable pontiff could not pay diem, they called up twenty porters, with baskets, sacks, picklocks, carts, cords, and ladders, and commenced to pick the locks of the wardrobes, coffers, and tabernacles. The holy man cast on them a look which would have destroyed three Christians.
Accordingly, the next morning, having filled a saddle-bag with sundry necessaries, such as files, picklocks, masks to which he added a choice selection of political tracts and newspapers he and Jasper set out on two hired but strong and fleet hackneys to the neighbourhood of Fawley.
"Follow me close get to the door of the cellar-place eight men within hearing of my whistle recollect the picklocks, the axes. If you hear the whistle, break in; if not, I'm safe, and the first orders to seize the captain in his room stand good." So saying, Favart strode after his guide.
When we had crossed the moat, we found a barrier gate locked; this puzzled us. O'Brien pulled out his picklocks to pick it, but without success; here we were fast. "We must undermine the gate, O'Brien; we must pull up the pavement until we can creep under." "Peter, you are a fine fellow; I never thought of that."
A dozen small steel picklocks in graded sizes followed the revolver, and after these a black silk mask and a pocket flashlight the thin, metal insignia case containing the little diamond-shaped, gray-coloured paper seals, never absent from his person since the night he had lost and recovered it again, was already reposing in an inner pocket of his clothes.
As soon as he had properly studied the ground, the others were to go over in force from Paris picklocks and all and away with my uncle's strongbox! This throws a comical sidelight on his own accusation against his relatives, that they had "forgotten natural duty" and disowned him because he was poor.
That collection of little steel picklocks and a jimmy! He would need those. He felt for them in one of the pockets of the leather girdle, transferred them to the pocket of his ragged trousers, and slipped the base-board back into place. And now he stepped to the gas-jet, and turned out the light.
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