He rattled the master-key in the keyhole, but with no avail.
"I suppose it acts all right in every other lock ?" he growled.
"Oh, yes, sir.

I've been using it all the evening." "Someone has tampered with the lock from the outside," he said savagely.

"There is nothing for it but to send for the engineer.
Before we're through with this business we'll pull the d--d hotel to pieces.

A nice reputation the place will get if all this door-forcing appears in the papers to-morrow." Certainly the clerk was to be pitied.

Never before had the decorum of the Central Hotel been so outraged.