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Hewitt's client produced a screw-driver from a drawer, and in a very few moments the interior of the little padlock lay uncovered. Hewitt examined the lock attentively for some few minutes, trying the key several times against the levers. Then he stood up and said "Mr. Bell, you have made a mistake. This is not your lock at all!" "Not my lock!" exclaimed the broker. "What do you mean?
On reaching it, he soon found an iron cash-box in a cupboard and succeeded in forcing it with a screw-driver. It contained a few papers, among which were one or two relating to the purchase of the quarter-section, and Wandle put these in his pocket. The others he threw into the cupboard Jernyngham's carelessness was well known and then hastily studied a railroad time-table.
A screw-driver and will we need a hammer?" "We'll need a real sharp knife to cut the tobacco," John suggested. "I'll get the things ready," Charley volunteered; and so they planned and waited for the time to come when they could carry out their scheme. The time came on the following Saturday.
She made a careful survey of her room, and she saw that with a screw-driver she could unfasten the hinge of her bedroom door. Herman, however, always kept his tools locked up. She managed, apparently by accident, to break the point off a knife, and when she went up to her room one afternoon to be locked in while Herman went to Gus's saloon, she carried the knife in her stocking.
Now is the time! Now you shall prove the devotion of your faithful Moonshee, who swears by Allah not to touch a grain of gold without your leave, in all those bursting sacks, if Mem Sahib will but lend him ten ticals, only ten ticals, to buy a screw-driver!" "What in the world can you want with a screw-driver, Moonshee?"
A few moments passed, and she added, slowly, "And I will" Bathsheba in after times could never gauge the mood which carried her through the actions following this murmured resolution on this memorable evening of her life. She went to the lumber-closet for a screw-driver.
"Don't 'spect he got him screw-driber in him breeches pocket, does ye? Why don' ye go 'long and git it?" And away went John William and two other boys for the screw-driver. In spite of so many cooks, the broth was not spoiled; and after a reasonable time the beautifully polished instruments were displayed to view on the table in Aunt Judy's cabin. Everybody looked with all their eyes. Even Mr.
He said no more till they were up in the laboratory, where he examined the bureau, frowning heavily the while, and noting how easily, by the insertion of a flat iron tool, the woodwork could be heaved up, so as to allow the locked drawers to be wrenched open; and there were the marks of chisel or screw-driver plainly showing where they had indented the wood.
"I want you to help me pry off the knocker, as I have no screw-driver to remove it. I will pay you well." As he spoke he came nearer to Mark, and the lad noticed that the man's right hand was held behind his back. This struck Mark as rather suspicious. Suddenly he became aware of a peculiar odor in the air a sweet, sickish odor. He started back in alarm, all his former suspicions aroused.
Well, the funeral sermon was very good, but pison long and tiresome; and then the king he shoved in and got off some of his usual rubbage, and at last the job was through, and the undertaker begun to sneak up on the coffin with his screw-driver. I was in a sweat then, and watched him pretty keen.
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