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I drove from Bucharest to Sinaia, carrying certain political documents with me in a dispatch-case, which, by mistake, was fastened on behind instead of being laid in the car. On the way the case was unstrapped and stolen. I made every effort to get it back, and eventually recovered it after a search of three weeks, involving much expense.
It was found at last in some peasant's barn, but nothing had apparently been abstracted save the cigarettes that were in it. Nevertheless, after the occupation of Bucharest copies and photographs of all my papers were found in Bratianu's house. After the loss of the dispatch-case I at once tendered my resignation in Vienna, but it was not accepted by the Emperor.
"Why don't you send them to a magazine?" urged Peggy, who slept in Dormitory 4. "Perhaps I may some day but please don't tell anybody a word about it," said Hilary, putting the cherished stories away again inside her dispatch-case. In the ivy room Loveday also wrote and burnt, and wrote and tore up, and wrote again.
He saw teeth gleam in faces burnt almost black. Then he looked up; the sky was blue beyond the brownish film of dust raised by the striking shells. Noel! Noel! Noel!... He dug his fingers deep into the left side of his tunic till he could feel the outline of her photograph between his dispatch-case and his heart.
There were three battered handbags, two rolls of travelling rugs, a stick-case, a dispatch-case, a pair of binoculars, a hat-box, a top-coat, a storm-coat, a portfolio of correspondence materials, a camera, a medicine-case, some of these lacking either strap or handle. The attendants all emitted hearty sighs of relief when these articles had been deposited upon the platform.
Every morning at nine o'clock Robert walked with Christine to the corner of the road, and a jolly, red-faced 'bus, rollicking through the neighbourhood like a slightly intoxicated reveller who has landed by mistake in a gathering of Decayed Gentlefolk, carried her off citywards, and at dusk returned her again, grey and worn, with wisps of tired brown hair hanging about her face and bundles of solemn letters and folded parchment documents bulging from her dispatch-case.
"Another boy," he said. "That all he has?" The searcher raised himself. "Just those, and a photo." "Dispatch-case; pound loose; cigarette-case; wristwatch; photo. Let's see it." The searcher placed the photo in the pool of light. The tiny face of a girl stared up at them, unmoved, from its short hair. "Noel," said the searcher, reading. "H'm! Take care of it. Stick it in his case. Come on!"
Nora had borrowed a knapsack, Kitty preferred a parcel, Verity packed her possessions in a string bag, and Bess carried a neat dispatch-case. "I'd a ripping idea for mine, but it wouldn't work," declared Ingred. "I meant to tie my parcel to a balloon and then just lead it along by a string. But I couldn't get a proper gas balloon for the business, and that's what you ought to have."
The moment was rather awkward, for the Honourable George, to my great embarrassment, pressed upon me his dispatch-case, one that we had carried during all our travels and into which tidily fitted a quart flask. Brandy we usually carried in it. I managed to accept it with a word of thanks, and then amazingly he shook hands twice with me as we said good-night.
Purvis had collected a few things and laid them on a pile of shavings in the middle of the cabin, and the oil-lamp with which he was to ignite the pile was in his hand. On the top of the pile Peter saw a large tin dispatch-case inscribed with his mother's name. 'Hallo! he said quietly; 'I think I 'll take this!
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