This safe only my father can unlock, or rather, this I
fondly believed until tonight. But how diferent are the facts!
For William walked to it, after listening at the foot of the
stairs, and opened it as if he had done so before quite often.
He then took from it my father's Dispach Case, locked the safe
again, and went back through the dining room.
It is a terrable thing to see a crime thus comitted and to
know not what to do. Had William repaired again to his chamber,
or would he return for the plates, etcetera?
At last I crept upstairs to my father's room, which was
locked. I could not waken him by gently taping, and I feared
that if I made a noise I would warn the lurking Criminal in his
den. I therfore went to my bathroom and filled my bath sponge
with water, and threw it threw the transom in the direction of
my father's bed.
As it happened it struck on his face, and I heard him
getting up and talking dreadfully to himself. Also turning on
the lights. I put my mouth to the keyhole and said:
"Father!"
Had he but been quiet, all would have been well.
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