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As I was studying the same plumber's bills in great detail, checking every item, if only for a few cents, and finding it to be greatly to the firm's interest to do so, this casual way of conducting affairs did not appeal to me.
The entire space within was not more than ten feet wide and eight feet deep. It held a litter of plumber's tools, a few lengths of gas piping, a row of batteries, a blowpipe, a small hand-forge, a couple of porcelain washbowls, a deal table and chair and what seemed to be an electric transformer in a sadly battered case.
"If we had any means of melting the solder, that would be better, of course, but there's no way to heat a tool in this crypt. I take it the men who did this work had a plumber's gasoline torch, or something of that sort. We have practically nothing. As for building a fire in here and heating one of the aeroplane tools, that's out of the question. It would stifle us both. No, we must cut.
"Out here where the full light can fall on it that's right! Now tell me about yourself. How long have you been like this?" The man dragged himself to his feet. "Ever since I lost my job." The question had calmed him. There was a note of hope in it. "What work did you do?" "I'm a plumber's helper." "Work stopped?" "No, a strike I wouldn't quit, and they fired me." "What happened then?"
He'd let it out involuntarily." "The maid can go for a plumber?" "Statia? She's working for Joe Bates. And both the boys in the plumber's shop are in college, anyway." "You might telephone for a plumber from San Francisco?" suggested Anthony, afterthought. "Yes, I could do that." Miss Mix brightened. "No, I can't, either," she lamented.
Doubtless the fellow was some plumber's apprentice who had made good use of an opportunity to study the lay of the land against a contemplated invasion of these holy precincts.
The policeman went to the door, and seeing another just passing beckoned him in, and the two marched him to the station. The plumber was sent for, and was induced to make a charge against Heep and value the stolen goods at ten shillings. Seeing that the police were bound to make a case against him, he seized the plumber's knife and cut his throat, severing the windpipe.
At four o'clock one of us is obliged to be, like Sister Anne, on the housetop; and if company approaches, she must descend and speed to the plumber's for six pennyworth extra of cream.
"It is an ordinary plumber's smoke- rocket, fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?"
"Did you really have the smoke test put through the plumbing as you said you did?" I asked. Mr. Close eagerly produced the bill. Plumber's bills are conclusive evidence. "Did you have the range cleaned and the water-back examined?" demanded Aubrey. Mr. Close swore that he did. Aubrey led him captive around the house and showed him the confusion thereof, Mary grimly following.
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