Word: detaching
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...from the drawers. The desperation with which he did this work and the careful manner in which he prepared everything was made painfully apparent by the condition of the life preserver when found upon the body. It took me nearly half an hour to untie all his bands and detach the life preserver so that I could see whether he had secured any writing or valuables, under the canvas or any part of it. He could not have been longer upon the rock than it would take him to do this work, because he could not maintain his position...