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"You noticed I got my gas-tank behind a twenty-gallon tank at that. Well, what if I tell yuh that right under this front seat there's a false bottom to the tool-box and under that well, suppose you're settin' on forty pints uh French champagne? More'n all that, this cushion we're settin' on has got a concealed pocket down both sides for hop.
I'd woke up to the fact that I was bein' carried along by the Corrugated as a sort of misfit inner tube stowed in the bottom of the tool-box, and that it was up to me to make good. So the first openin' I has I tackles Mr. Robert on the side. "About that Rowley proposition?" says I. "Oh, yes," says he. "I fear Mr. Briscoe thinks unfavorably of it." "Then he's fruity in the pan," says I.
"We can't go on like this, Cora. That left tire will have to be pumped up." "And you've got good muscles to do it, too, Walter," urged Diddick, smiling mischievously. "We'll all help," volunteered Parks. "Come on!" Diddick, Walter and Parks alighted. Walter stepped to the tool-box to get out the pump and the lifting-jack. As he was about to take them out he started back excitedly.
I expect it was found in the cellar in the tool-box, for Bart allays brought it in tidy-like after he'd done his work in the yard, weather being fine, of course," ended Deborah, sniffing. "Where is this Bart?" "In bed like a decent man if he's to be my husband, which he is," said Miss Junk, tartly. "I told one of them idle bobbies to go and fetch him from Bloomsbury."
Half an hour after I had entered it, and with new hope, I emerged from the bath-room as fresh as a naiad, having first abstracted from the tool-box of the glazier two tiny chisels of different sizes, and a small lump of putty, which I secreted, on my first opportunity, in my favorite hiding-place a hollow in the post of my bedstead an accidental discovery of mine, made during Mrs.
"The Princess has given it over to the hospital, I suppose," said Warren. "No one will stop it now. Wonder who drives it? I'm sorry for anyone who rides with the crazy guy who tried to run it last night. "Here is the chauffeur now," said Ivan, stepping back as a dark, burly man approached the machine and took a package from the tool-box. "He is a new one," said Warren.
Ed was searching in his tool-box, and presently drew out some strong string. "I never go without a bit of cord, a knife and some pins for just such emergencies as these," he said with a laugh. "I never know when I may be shipwrecked on a desert island." Ed skillfully sprung the guard back, and as one of the rivets was torn out, he lashed the protector into place.
'But let me represent to you, returned Lightwood, 'speaking now with professional profundity, and not with individual imbecility, that the offer of such an immense reward is a temptation to forced suspicion, forced construction of circumstances, strained accusation, a whole tool-box of edged tools. 'Well, said Mr Boffin, a little staggered, 'that's the sum we put o' one side for the purpose.
"The same one," answered Walter as he picked the wallet from the road where it had fallen. "See, it has his name on it." "I feel creepy almost as if something supernatural had put it into my tool-box," said Cora in a curiously quiet voice. "More likely some unnatural person did it," spoke Jack quickly. "Yet who in the world would do it? If I had seen "
We replied, as coherently as our fluster of delight would allow us, that nothing would give us greater pleasure; and, flinging down our tools, Courtenay and I hastened to dust down a bench, place a tool-box in such a position that it would serve for a footstool, and in other ways arrange as far as we could to make our visitors comfortable.
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