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Publishers should no sooner read the opening pages of An Archer of Charles IX. than they should open their cash-boxes with "How much do you want?" And besides all this, he understood that this journey with Mme. de Bargeton would virtually give her to him; that they should live together.
The direction of the shot, as shown by the post-mortem examination, was not against this theory; but the most unmistakable proof lay in the motive for the deed, which was only too clear. From the various cash-boxes under the charge of the deceased one hundred and twenty marks were missing. Sergeant-major Heppner, in dread of this being discovered, had shot himself.
Hats and garments, cash-boxes and account-books, littered the hallways, and were piled in little heaps at the entrances to the elevators impedimenta that must inevitably be abandoned at the last if life itself were to be saved. And the final tragedy an elevator cage that had jammed in its ways and so hung fixed between two landings.
"Forty-three pounds seven and twopence, nearly fifty pounds, my darlings, in solid coin of the realm, and all of our amassing!" cried Nan three hours later, as the last visitor drove away from the door of Thurston House, and the contents of the cash-boxes were counted over by half a dozen eager workers.
It is a contrivance resembling the cable and car employed by life-saving crews on our coasts to bring shipwrecked sailors ashore under similar conditions; or, to use a comparison that is more familiar, it is a reproduction on a large scale of the traveling cash-boxes on wires used in large department stores.
In Franken, in Schwaben, in the Rhine Countries, a dissolute son would rob his father, as shopmen their masters' tills, and managers their cash-boxes, and hie off to those magnanimous Prussian Officials, who gave away companies like kreutzers, and had a value for young fellows of spirit.
Oliver was never able to see any great sorrow in a monthly deficit when Polly seated herself before her cash-boxes and explained her highly original financial operations.
Publishers should no sooner read the opening pages of An Archer of Charles IX. than they should open their cash-boxes with "How much do you want?" And besides all this, he understood that this journey with Mme. de Bargeton would virtually give her to him; that they should live together.
Large numbers of articles of the above description, such as tea-trays, tea-canisters, cash-boxes, coal-boxes, and similar goods, are japanned at Birmingham, and it is to such that the preceding instructions apply.
He retired, and in half an hour returned with two clerks who bore books, himself a carpet-bag containing in cash-boxes L 850,000, paper and gold, which he deposited on the Admiral's bureau, and, after again protesting before the clerks, went away.
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