The String of Pearls (1850), p. 569

one of these files in each hand, and are free from fetters. They will need be mad to do it Such an amount of zeal is not to be found. No, they will step aside and let me pass."
It now became a matter of great importance with him, to get the other two fetters that bound his ankles undone. He felt as if he should go mad, if he did not quickly release himself from them now.

THE MURDERERS IN THE YOUNG LADY'S CHAMBER.{Figure}

Sitting upon the floor of the cell, he set to work; but he found that the file he had been using did not bite very well. The work it had done already had dulled its powers; but the other was fresh and keen, and with it he made great progress.
The left-hand shackle was entirely removed, and now only by his right ankle was he connected with that hundredweight of iron, which held him to the ground.