There he remained till Mr.Cheetham entered the works; then he went to him, and begged him to visit his forge.
Mr.Cheetham came directly, and examined the place carefully.
He negatived, at once, the notion that any Hillsborough hand had been unable to saw through a bar of that moderate thickness.

"No," said he, "they were disturbed, or else some other idea struck them all of a sudden; or else they hadn't given themselves time, and are coming again to-morrow.

I hope they are.

By six o'clock to-night, I'll have a common wooden shutter hung with six good hinges on each side, easy to open at the center; only, across the center, I'll fix a Waterloo cracker inside." "A Waterloo cracker!" "Ay, but such a one as you never saw.

I shall make it myself.