The Almost Perfect Murder

stuck it diagonally in the lock, then hammered it with a boot so that it crumpled up inside the lock and the head broke off.

\"He won't get a key in there in a hurry,\" she remarked.

By this time the two men had broken into the little room on the shaft. They must have been astonished when they found it empty. But when they saw the wardrobe backed up against the other window on the shaft they knew where we had gone.

\"They're in my room!\" yelled Mr. Punch. \"Come on!\"


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stuck it diagonally in the lock, then hammered it with a boot so that it crumpled up inside the lock and the head broke off.

\"He won't get a key in there in a hurry,\" she remarked.

By this time the two men had broken into the little room on the shaft. They must have been astonished when they found it empty. But when they saw the wardrobe backed up against the other window on the shaft they knew where we had gone.

\"They're in my room!\" yelled Mr. Punch. \"Come on!\"


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