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"He is not the man to take a risk, but there are those with him not so careful, and the hand that sent Birdsall's gang in chase of Dean could send them here, with the safe-key. Those few clerks and employés would be no match for them." "By heaven, I believe you're right!" cried Folsom. "Which way are you going now?" "Back to the hotel by way of the depot," was the answer. "Will you go?"
Kneeling beside the dying man the pastor asked him to take his hand as he prayed for his upholding in that solemn hour, but he declined to give it. After the end had come, and they turned down the coverlet, the rigid hands were found holding the safe-key in their death-grip. Heart and hand, to the last, clinging to his possessions, but he could not take them with him.
"Then you ought to compel her to divulge," he urged. "Once we get hold of that key for half-an-hour, we could learn a lot." "A lot that would be useful to you, eh?" remarked the woman, with a meaning smile. "And to you also," he said. "Couldn't we somehow watch and see where he hides the safe-key? He never has it upon him, you say." "It isn't on his bunch."
Whiffler himself, insolent, cowardly, and a humbug, if not a swindler, was enough, Wade thought, to account for any failure. But he did not mention this conviction. At ten next morning, Whiffler handed over the safe-key to Wade, and departed to ruin some other property, if he could get one to ruin. Wade walked with him to the gate. "I'm glad to be out of a sinking ship," said the ex-boss.
We afterwards discovered that several of the finest pieces we had taken had actually been sent to her on approval by Gilling, so, curiously enough, we had touched his property on a second occasion. "It was a difficult affair," Bindo declared. "I had to pretend to make love to Medhurst, or I should never have been able to get a cast of the safe-key.
Pip," said Wemmick, "I should like just to run over with you on my fingers, if you please, the names of the various bridges up as high as Chelsea Reach. Let's see; there's London, one; Southwark, two; Blackfriars, three; Waterloo, four; Westminster, five; Vauxhall, six." He had checked off each bridge in its turn, with the handle of his safe-key on the palm of his hand.
But she did not seem to hear him; so he went and replaced the safe-key in the place from which he had seen her take it. He then led, or rather carried, Mme. Fauvel into the little sitting-room, and placed her in an easy-chair.
The poor deluded man little dreamt that on the occasion when Flockart had taken him down the drive to announce his departure from Glencardine on account of the gossip, and had drawn Sir Henry's attention to his hanging watch-chain, he had succeeded in cleverly obtaining two impressions of the safe-key attached.
Could it be that the assassin was in search of that key and had been unsuccessful? He showed me the artful manner in which it had been concealed. The small hardy fern had been rooted up and stuck back again heedlessly into its pot. Certainly no one would ever have thought to search for a safe-key there.
I admit that my actions have been the reverse of honourable; but well, there were circumstances which compelled me to act as I did." "You got an impression of my father's safe-key, had a duplicate made in Glasgow, as I have found out, and one night opened the safe and copied certain private documents having regard to a proposed loan to the Greek Government.
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