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latchkey

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latchkey
A key used to raise and throw back the latch of a door.


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In his testimony before the coroner he explained that having no latchkey and not caring to disturb the sleeping servants, he had, with no clearly defined intention, gone round to the rear of the house.
I let myself in with my latchkey, closed, locked and bolted the door, staggered to the foot of the staircase, and sat down.
But to my intense surprise those people stopped at it and the man in the top hat, producing a latchkey, let his two companions through, followed them, and with a heavy slam cut himself off from my astonished self and the rest of mankind.
 
 
 
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