“It’d be selling myself—the way I look at it. When I’m so ready to do what he wants I can’t see why he 201 don’t let me.” She added, tearfully: “Did he tell you about this morning?”
She nodded. “Yes, he told me about that.”
“Well, I would have gone then if—if I’d known how to work the door.”
“Oh, that’s easy enough.”
“Do you know?”
“Why, yes.”
“Will you show me?”
Miss Walbrook rose. “It’s so simple.” She continued, as they went toward the door: “You see, Mr. Allerton’s mother always kept a lot of valuable jewelry in the house, and she was afraid of burglars. She had the most wonderful pearls. I suppose Mr. Allerton has them still, locked away in some bank. Burglars would never come in by the front door, my aunt used to tell her, but—” They reached the door itself. “Now, you see, there’s a common lock, a bolt, and a chain––”
Letty explained that she had discovered them already.
“But, you see these two little brass knobs over here? That’s the trick. You push this one this way, and that one that way, and the door is locked with an extra double lock, which hardly anyone would suspect. See?”