From the corridor came a metallic bang and the stranger bursts with a corkscrew-shaped drill the cylinder from the lock. Casually, he squeezed down the door handle, and immediately he felt the expected resistance of the steel chain. Grinning, the intruder took note of the additional security, and opened his jacket.
In the living room Elzbieta tears the window open, and stared desperately into the night. Prior to her face hung a plank, besmirched with mortar, and when she strained her eyes, she saw the outlines of other wooden boards. Thank God, the scaffolding was not removed, despite the completed renovation! Within the to the roof reaching structure lead several stairways down to the courtyard and Elzbieta squeezed ruthlessly her left knee between the sacred cacti of her husband. Good, that she wears today a pair of jeans!
Half crouching on the wide flower bench, Ms Oblonsky scrutinizes the dark courtyard, and then an iron fist pressed her poor heart. Exactly at the newly created playground glowed a cigarette, and a man walked slowly past Bachhulkes ground floor apartment. Totally uninhibited, he watched the windows, while his buddy at the stairway pulled out a long side cutter from his leather jacket. Without a thought on any eavesdropper from the neighboring apartments, he took the tool, an ugly noise sounded, and the sharpened steel jaws cut easily through the chain. Her two halves popped against the door, and Elzbieta winced at the ominous sound, like under a whip strike.
"Oh my God," she whispered distraught. If not a miracle happens, she saved nothing, absolutely nothing, from the greedy hands of the mercenary!
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