Still, I agree with you, it could not have been there last week, or it must have gone when she put her nose into it then.

In point of fact, I have no doubt that it was done last night or the night before.

It could easily have been managed.

Of course, everyone was below, both here and in the yachts lying round us, and a man might very well have come out in a small boat between one and two o'clock in the morning, and done this without being noticed." "He might have done that, sir, but we should have heard the grating down in the forecastle." "I don't know, Hawkins.

A fine steel saw, such as burglars use, will work its way through an iron bar almost noiselessly, and I should say that it would go through copper almost as easily as it would through hard wood.