[Phantom Wires by Arthur Stringer]@TWC D-Link bookPhantom Wires CHAPTER VII 10/13
One glance was enough for them both. Frank refolded them and caught them together with a rubber band.
Then she thrust them into the bosom of her dress.
Both rose to their feet, for both were filled with the selfsame sudden passion to get into the open once more. "That must go back, now!" whispered Frank, for Durkin was stooping down again, over the leather bag that held the napoleons. "Thank heaven," he answered gratefully, "it's not _that_!" "Not _yet_!" she whispered back, bitterly, as she heard the chink and rattle of metal in the darkness.
But some day it might be. Then she heard another sound, which caused her to catch quickly at Durkin's arm.
It was the sound of a key turning in the lock, followed by an impatient little French oath, and the weight of a man's body against the resisting door.
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