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"I suppose it's natural that, coming back to England, I should begin to unpack a lot of old memories, empty out the box-room, and come across some useless and discarded things. I'll settle down presently; but it's a thoroughly useless business turning over old stock. The wise man pitches it all into the junk-shop, and cuts his losses."

I should like to help Arthur's mother, but," Mrs Asplin leant her head on one side, and put on what her children described as her "Ways and Means" expression. She was saying to herself, "Clear out the box-room over the study.

My dear father was a great traveler, and these are some of the treasures he brought from the East." Maggie had by no means forgotten to bring her two boxes of jewellery to Aylmer House. These lay at the bottom of her little trunk, which was, it is true, stowed away in the box-room.

They rushed down the stairs, scattering a group of small boys who were roasting chestnuts at the gas-jet in the passage, and on through the box-room, but only to find the door on the other side standing wide open, and the gymnasium itself silent and deserted two empty water-cans, lying in a big pool of wet on the cement floor, being the only remaining traces of the recent outrage.

When a house is thoroughly upset, however good its conscience, it breaks into knots and coteries small gatherings in the twilight, box-room committees, and groups in the corridor.

"I laid 'em all there, on the clothes-press, just as they were taken off of him, by Lawyer Eldrick's orders he said they hadn't been examined, and wasn't to be, till you came. Nobody whatever's touched 'em since." Collingwood went upstairs and into the little room a sort of box-room opening out of that in which the old man lay. There were the clothes; he went through the pockets of every garment.

Before leaving for town in the morning, visits had been paid to the box-room to take the rarely-used splendours from their wrappings, and now they lay stretched out in all their glory on the narrow beds, white, blue, and pink, a very wealth of colour and luxury.

Rabbits-Eggs is a little shy of me, somehow. But I swore it was pax between us, and gave him a bob. He stopped at two pubs on the way in, so he'll be howling drunk to-night. Oh, don't begin reading, Beetle; there's a council of war on. What the deuce is the matter with your collar?" "'Chivied Manders minor into the Lower Third box-room.

I have implicit trust and confidence in you let every boarder go down into the box-room and fetch up his playbox, just as it is, and open it here before me."

Two of the company departed forthwith to the larder, and unobserved hid away a few loaves in one of the empty trunks in the box-room. Our plans were ripening wonderfully. But the most difficult business was yet to come. What terms should we require of our prisoners as the price of their release? And on this point, after long discussion, we found we could not agree.