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"All night?" asked the awe-stricken Duchess. "All night long," said Uncle Larry, solemnly; "and the next night too. Eliphalet did not get a wink of sleep, neither did his friend. On the second night the house ghost was seen by the officer; on the third night it showed itself again; and the next morning the officer packed his gripsack and took the first train to Boston.
It was hardly prudent, but he had seventy dollars still, and that seemed to him a large sum. He enjoyed the play, and got a sound night's rest after it. The next morning he settled his hotel bill, took his gripsack in his hand, and walked over to his new boarding-house. "Wanted A young man of seventeen or eighteen in an insurance office, No. 169 La Salle Street."
Having barely strength to carry himself along, the additional weight of the grip was sufficient to throw him nearly every time he tripped or stumbled. And when he escaped tripping, branches reached out in the darkness, hooked the grip between his shoulders, and held him back. His mind was made up that if he missed the Athenian it would be the fault of the gripsack.
He was carefully dressed in exquisite taste, though he had come straight from a considerable sea voyage; and he carried something in his hand which in his long European travels, and even longer European visits, he had almost forgotten to call a gripsack. Mr. Cyprian Paynter was an American who lived in Italy.
I mean," he added hastily, "that beyond a mere hint of their value I know nothing whatever about the diamonds which Mr. Wynne had in the gripsack. I gathered, however, that they were worth a large sum of money perhaps, even a million dollars?" "Yah, a million dollars ad leasd," remarked Mr. Schultze grimly. "Thank you," and the detective smiled shrewdly.
Among them was Churchill, such being his nature that he volunteered before he thought of Bondell's gripsack.
The first time this happened, Churchill dived and groped in three feet of water for the gripsack. He lost half an hour in recovering it, and after that it was carried securely lashed to the canoe. As long as the canoe floated it was safe. Antonsen jeered at the grip, and toward morning began to curse it; but Churchill vouchsafed no explanations. Their delays and mischances were endless.
Rodney laughed too, for he saw that the remark was meant to be jocose. He put his gripsack on the floor at his feet, but held the casket in his lap. He did not like to run any risk with that. "Are you a drummer?" asked the stout man, with a glance at the casket. "No, sir." "I thought you might be, and that THAT might contain your samples." "No, sir. That is private property."
"I guess you do," returned the commissioner, and helped himself to port. But when he was gone, I appealed to Nares on the same subject, for I was well aware we carried none of these provisions. "Well," drawled Nares, "there's sixty pounds of niggerhead on the quay, isn't there? and twenty pounds of salts; and I never travel without some pain-killer in my gripsack."
Stray and awful odours, drifting from each side of the trail, told of the horses that had died in the rush for gold. But he did not mind. He was too sleepy. By the time Long Lake was reached, however, he had recovered from his sleepiness; and at Deep Lake he resigned the gripsack to Burns. But thereafter, by the light of the dim stars, he kept his eyes on Burns.
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