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Updated: June 2, 2025
Not a few traders also jewellers, financiers, dealers in pictures, antiques and costly bijouterie, for instance constantly used its facilities for any stock that they did not require immediately to hand. There was only one entrance to the place, an exaggerated keyhole, to carry out the similitude of the safe-door alluded to.
Looking beyond that display, his attention focussed on the interior of an immense safe, to which a dapper French salesman was restoring velvet-lined trays of valuables. Lanyard studied the intricate, ponderous mechanism of the safe-door with a thoughtful gaze not altogether innocent of sardonic bias.
There came a little tap at the unlocked door and in an instant, like the go of a taut bowstring, I was up and had it open. "Here is that book," she said, and we hesitated. "COME IN!" I whispered, trembling from head to foot. "You're just a boy," she said in a low tone. I did not feel a bit like a lover, I felt like a burglar with the safe-door nearly opened.
Rhyming Joe looked up at the ceiling as if in doubt. Finally, he said: "Split the difference and call it even, A hundred and fifty and I'll be leavin'." Sharpman was whirling the knob of his safe back and forth. At last he flung open the safe-door. "I don't care," he said, looking around at his visitor, "whether your story is true or false. We'll call it true if that will please you.
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