The window was snibbed, but that was done after the chap who sent your pal to Kingdom Come had got out." "Do you mean to say that the window was locked from the outside ?" asked Braddock, and then, when Hervey nodded, he exclaimed "Impossible!" "Narry an impossibility, you bet.

The chap who engineered the circus was all-fired smart.

The snib was an old one, and he yanked a piece of string round it, and passed the string through the crack between the upper and lower sash of the window.

When outside he pulled, and the snib slid into place.

But he left the string on the ground outside.