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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: we've been waiting to get our hooks on it, and we've never had our
eyes off his house for two months. Well, it pays to wait, and it
pays to do things right. It broke our way at last to-night, all
right, all right! To-day's Saturday - and the safety deposit vaults
aren't open on Sunday. Mrs. Hayden-Bond's been away all week
visiting, but she comes back to-morrow, and there's some swell
society fuss fixed for to-morrow night, and she wants her necklace
to make a splurge, so she writes Mr. H-hyphen-B, and out it comes
from the safety deposit vault, and into the library safe. The old
man isn't long on social stunts, and he's got pretty well set in
his habits; one of those must-have-nine-hours'-sleep bugs, and he's
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