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He might deposit the precious stone in any place especially guarded and set apart like a banker's or jeweller's strong-room for the safe custody of valuables of high price. His main personal responsibility in the matter was to be of the passive kind.
Instantly there was a rush to the strong-room. The bird was flown. "Ah!" said Coventry. "I felt there ought to be some one with him, but I didn't like to interfere." George the groom and another were mounted on swift horses, and took the road to Hillsborough. But Cole, with his start of a hundred minutes, was safe in a back slum before they got half way.
Being without specific orders what to do with me, my two sergeant bailiffs thrust me into that little den of a strong-room below stairs where I had once found the master of the house, and one of them mounted guard whilst the other fetched the camp armorer to iron me. The shackles securely on, I was left to content me as I could, with the door ajar and my two jailers hobnobbing before it.
In a few weeks I left off thinking about the hiding-place of all that golden plate; and after a time I used to go into that first cellar for wine with my half-dozen basket in one hand, my cellar candlestick in the other, and never once think about there being a farther cellar; while, though there was the strong-room in my pantry with quite a thousand pounds-worth of silver in it perhaps more I never fancied anybody would come for that.
Low as they were talking, they would have been even more careful had they known that Locke was listening outside and that, even as they turned to leave the strong-room, he had sidled out of the way and was rejoining Eva in the library. Locke had scarcely told Eva what he had heard when she moved over to the safe and would have tried to open it had he not stopped her.
In Dakota a strong-room alleged to be impregnable had been approached underground, tunnelled, mined, and emptied by thieves with imagination. In the North of England a safe, which its inventor had defied the whole universe of crime to open, had been rifled by the aid of so simple a dodge as duplicate keys.
I examined the fastenings of the shutters they were secure as I had left them; I looked into the strong-room not even a rat lay concealed there; I turned the cocks of the gas lights but no gas whistled through the pipes, for the service to the library was separate from that of the rest of the house, and capable of being shut off at pleasure.
For my part I feel it in my heart of hearts; but am impotent to convey it to others; impotent, impotent. Pray think of it for yourselves, men and women, if you have not sworn never to think over a novel. Think of it for your own sakes: Alfred's turn to-day, it may be yours to-morrow. AT two o'clock an attendant stole on tiptoe to the strong-room, unlocked the door, and peeped cautiously in.
There I stood at the bottom of those narrow stone stairs, inside the strong-room, with the door a good foot open, and I didn't know whether it would creak or not. The light was coming nearer and I didn't know! I had to chance it.
Will you take it, or must I take it myself? Mind, if I do, you can go to the devil for your four hundred, ay, and the five hundred to boot. I've stood the limit from you, Marvel, and I'm quite equal to locking you up in our strong-room here till you're ready and eager to give up the box for nothing!" "Come, come, Mr. Bullard," said Marvel, rising, "there's no need for all this this roughness.
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