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zzle of how to set it going."
I don't mind owning that as this reflection crossed my mind I replaced Pugh's puzzle on the dressing-table.
The idea did not commend itself to me at all. The box evidently contained some curious mechanism. It might
be more curious than comfortable. Possibly some agreeable little device in clockwork. The tickticktick
suggested clockwork which had been planned to go a certain timeand then--thenfor all I knewignite an
explosiveand--blow up. It would be a charming solution to the puzzle if it were to explode while I stood
therein my nightshirtlooking on. It is true that the box weighed very little. Probablyas I have saidthe
whole affair would not have turned the scale at a couple of ounces. But then its very lightness might have
been part of the ingenious inventor's little game. There are explosives with which one can work a very
satisfactory amount of damage with considerably less than a couple of ounces.
While I was hesitating--I own it [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!--whether I had not better immerse Pugh's puzzle in a can of wateror throw
it out of the windowor call down Bob with a request to at once remove it to his apartmentboth the ticktick
tickand the screeching ceasedand all within the box was still. If ityilai:
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