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Updated: May 16, 2025
Letters under the heading, "Where are They," poured in to every paper, with every conceivable kind of explanation, running them to earth in the Monument, the Twopenny Tube, Epping Forest, Westminster Abbey, rolled up in carpets at Shoolbreds, locked up in safes in Chancery Lane. Yes, the papers were very interesting, and Mr. Turnbull unrolled a whole bundle of them for the amusement of Mr.
Then office-furniture appeared in loads, tables, desks, chairs; then mountains of huge volumes; and at last two immense safes, as large as a bachelor's-lodging. Henrietta was seriously alarmed, and knowing beforehand that no one in the house would answer her questions, she turned to M. de Brevan.
"His Excellency," said the inspector, "kept the keys of this room and the others, together with those of the safes, in his own possession night and day. He slept upstairs, and so did the other two gentlemen.
Your purity and innocence has been remarked by all who have met you, and there are none who would dare to intimate but that you would maintain your reputation against any attack, but sometimes we think we should hesitate to leave you all alone, with the light turned down all night and over Sunday, in the company of an eloquent, persuasive, good-looking burglar armed with a jimmy, and we fear that his warm hearted can of powder would strike a responsive chord in your impulsive nature, and that you would yield up the jewels confined to you, and your honor, your reputation, your standing among safes would be forever ruined.
The professional thief is ever on the watch for chances to take unto himself all the money in sight. Pickpockets reap their harvest from money carriers. The burglar may steal or fire may destroy money left in the house. A bank, if not near one then a safe, is the best place for money, though safes have been broken into and robbed.
"There have been safes hidden behind bookcases before," said Spaulding dryly. "And crooks, like all the other pests of the earth, just drift naturally to this coast. If I were you I'd have a detective on hand whenever you wear that bit o' glass not at a friendly affair like the Gwynnes' dinner, of course, but " "Good idea!" exclaimed Ruyler.
Then their wives died 'bout a year from each other. They kep' kind o' friendly to the last, but they couldn't stir their husbands no more'n if they was safes it seems, sometimes, as if husbands and wives was sort o' too near one another, when it comes to movin', to git any kind of a purchase.
The agent bowed deferentially to her and followed her into the telegraph room, clicking her message over the wires as soon as she had written it. When he had finished he wheeled his chair and grinned at her. "See the courthouse and the bank?" She had all that was left of them black, charred ruins with two iron safes, red from their baptism of fire, standing among them.
He rose and went over to the carved mantel, standing so he could look down the long room crowded with luxuries. "But this place isn't the home of an American man and his wife. It's a show place bought with your father's money! And I've failed. I'm not supporting my wife. Good heavens, if I were I'd have to be cracking safes every week-end to do it.
The gentleman in the sandy suit spoke for him, turning to the committee. "Gentlemen, before you stands a respected member of our association. His specialty is breaking open safes, iron strong boxes, and other receptacles for monetary tokens. In his night work he sometimes avails himself of the electric current of the lighting installation for fusing metals.
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