If you hope to recover your property, better keep a padlock on your lips just now.

The right-hand wrist of one, and the left of another, are almost brought into contact by these, and fastened together, as the figure A in the annexed plate represents, by a little bolt with a small padlock at the end of it.

This done, I gave a parting glance at the dainty effect, dropped the cover, snapped the queer little brass padlock in place, put the key on the table, and covered the trunk so that its embossed figures of birds and flowers should be protected from harm.

"Some one said there was only a staple on the door of the shed, but Noaks said he'd fetch the padlock off his play-box, and so he did.

With a beating heart, he replaced the little tool in its case and pulled the ring of the padlock out of the hasp.

He leaped through the door, glanced up and down the stable streetdeserted at that hour except for a few drowsy attendants lounging in front of their stallsjerked the door shut, hooked the open padlock through the iron fastenings, snapped its jaws together and muttered, as he hurried away: "I guess that guy won't ride the Gold Dust maverick in any two-mile sweepstakes to-day!"

" "Got all you give me checks for,seb'm pieces;" and he pointed to two strange articles of luggage waiting their turn to be lifted up,a long, old-fashioned gray hair trunk, with letters in brass nails upon the lid, and as antiquated a carpet-bag, strapped and padlocked across the mouth, suggestive in size and fashion of the United States mail.

He unlocked the padlock with these words, having handed the lantern to Tom.

"The padlocks for our lips are forging.

But this door was secured on the under side by a rusty padlock of formidable dimensions.