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Updated: June 6, 2025
Steel-bound nature seemed reaching for them wherever in a vacant lot she could get free and send out quickening odors of fresh garden soil. "Almost country," said Walter. An urgent, daring look came into his eyes, under the light-cluster. He stopped, took her arm. There was an edge of spring madness in his voice as he demanded, "Wouldn't you like to run away with me to-night?
Mrs. Hardy shook an impressive forefinger at the boy. 'You will say nothing to anybody of our intentions, Richard. 'No, said Dick simply; but that word given to Mrs. Hardy was a sacred oath, steel-bound and clamped. THE school-ground next morning at nine o'clock showed little of its usual activity.
I was also prepared to lend credence to the story of the stranded hulk, strange as that story might seem, for I actually had personal knowledge of even stranger happenings than that; but it was the existence of the treasure itself those steel-bound chests packed with gold, silver, and gems that I doubted.
When he called me unsexed unsexed unsexed!" and with each repetition of the infamous word, so bitter because vaguely admitted to be true, with her cheeks scarlet and her eyes aflame, and her hands clinched, she flung one of the ivory wreathes on to the pavement and stamped on it with her spurred heel until the carvings were ground into powdered fragments stamped, as though it were a living foe, and her steel-bound foot were treading out all its life with burning hate and pitiless venom.
Yet the first door leading from the vault chamber he found to be steel-bound and securely locked. He surmised, with a gasp of consternation, that the doors above him would be equally well secured. He remembered that Penfield never did things by halves, and he felt that his only escape lay in that upward flight.
But his wandering eye caught sight of a Morocco sheath-knife above them on the wall, and a moment later he had the point of it under the steel-bound lid, and as he pried it flew open with a snap. He waited, listening, and lighting matches, while Frank went through the papers, with nervous and agile fingers, mumbling the inscriptions as she hurriedly read and cast them away from her.
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