two o'clock in the
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Still , I agree with you , it could not have been there last week , or it must have gone when she put her nose into it then . In point of fact , I have no doubt that it was done last night or the night before . It could easily have been managed . Of course , everyone was below , both here and in the yachts lying round us , and a man might very well have come out in a small boat between one and two o'clock in the morning , and done this without being noticed . '' `` He might have done that , sir , but we should have heard the grating down in the forecastle . '' `` I do n't know , Hawkins . A fine steel saw , such as burglars use , will work its way through an iron bar almost noiselessly , and I should say that it would go through copper almost as easily as it would through hard wood .