There is a screw-driver belonging to Oaks lying in one of the empty lockersit has his name on the handle; and if we happened to drop it as we came away, I think that in the face of this row it would look uncommonly like his doing.

"I want to make certain that it shall be put down to Oaks," he whispered; "so in case the screw-driver should be overlooked, I'm going to slip this under the door for Grice to find in the morning.

They'd put a note under his door telling him to be in time by the school clock; and besides that, when one of the men went to get him out, he found a screw-driver with Oaks's name on, so it's as clear as day who did it.

"But," he exclaimed, "how about the paper and the screw-driver?" "Pooh!" answered Diggory, "how about that cipher note that said, 'To-night'?" "Of course," added Jack Vance, "they'd evidently arranged it beforehand, and that paper was to say when they were to do the trick.

A screw-driver bearing your name was found in the passage, and this piece of paper, which was pushed under the bedroom door, and which now lies before me, bears a direct reference to the dispute about the school time.

I put up my instrument, but scarcely had the screw-driver touched the new screw than out it flew from its socket, rolled along the floor of the 'walk,' dropped quietly through a crack into the gutter of the house-roof.

"I said unexpected things," said the flâneur reprovingly, "such aswell, such as a screw-driver for eye-glassesmost useful.

But this was not so great a misfortune as at first it might seem, for he had the spare flint locks and the little screw-driver necessary for fixing and unfixing them stowed away in his shot pouch.

Then that fox took a screw-driver out of his bag, and he began to work at the door to force it open, in spite of the lock on it.

The delicate blade of this improvised screw-driver snapped off in an instant, whereupon Jarley tried the scissors, with similar results.

He oughter be'n back in ha'f a' hour, but he come pokin' home 'bout dinner-time wid a screw-driver stidder a monkey wrench.

Mars' Dugal' sont ernudder nigger back wid de screw-driver, en Hannibal did n' git no dinner.

He rang again and bade the servant bring a screw-driver and take down the coat-hooks from the wardrobe; the garments hanging there seemed to be men struggling in the agonies of asphyxia.

I am a handy, interfering sort of man with a screw-driver, and I made all sorts of ingenious adaptations for himran a wire to bring his bells within reach, turned all his electric lights up instead of down, and so on.

" He drew from his pocket a "combination" knife containing, among other implements, a screw-driver, with which he carefully extracted the screws from one of the little brass plates by which the frame had been suspended from the nails.

* FAVOURITE TOOL OF RAILWAY COMPANIES.A Screw-Driver!

And then the probing with wires, the tugs with wrenches, the wrestling with screw-drivers, the many trials,for the most part futile,the subdued language of the bunkers, and at length, when least expected, a start, and the machine goes off as if nothing at all had been the matter.