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"There's a silly fathead got in what thinks this is a left-luggage office, so far as I can make out a foreigner." "Never mind that now," replied the manager severely, "Mr. Berge's safe: No. 01724." The attendant and Mr. Berge went off together down one of the brilliant colonnaded vistas.
'Well, then, she didn't say nothing, if that warn't it, said the guard, doggedly. 'Did she did she leave any directions about luggage or anything? said Mark. 'Brown portmanty to go in the left-luggage room till called for, said the guard. 'Anything else I can do for you, sir; no? Good mornin', then, and thanky, sir!
What are you about? What are you stumbling on in that fashion for, without your two walking-sticks `Do the next thing, `One step at a time'? Ay, that's it, to be sure. And the next thing's to send to the left-luggage office in London; and the rest's to be left with the Lord."
He was a business man, and there was now something for him to do. After a rapid farewell to the bagman, he found a porter and hustled his box out of the van in the direction of the left-luggage office. Spies, summoned by Dobson's telegram, were, he was convinced, watching his every movement, and he meant to see that they missed nothing.
The announcements placed in German alternatively with English over the booking office, left-luggage office, refreshment buffets, and so forth, the crowned eagle and monogram displayed on the post boxes, caught his eye in quick succession.
"If you was a box," he said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully, "we could put you in the left-luggage office." "But I am not a box," Ideala answered, as if only the most positive denial would prevent mistake on the subject. It was raining hard, and bitterly cold.
Whoever will bring this bag to the clerk at the Left-Luggage Office, Saint Pancras Station, with the contents as he found them, shall receive the above reward.
His friend accordingly did so without delay, but brought back the sorrowful tidings that nothing answering to the bag described was lying at the left-luggage office, or had been seen or heard of by any of the officials. Poor Thomas! He could not help feeling a little disheartened.
I think it must have left a scar on my brain, for I see it now in every detail the little dark compartment; the high counter; the shelves at the back full of parcels, like those of a left-luggage room at a railway station; the heavy, baggy, big-faced man in shirt-sleeves with a long cigar held between his teeth at the corner of his frothy mouth; and then my own hurried breathing; my thin fingers opening the tissue paper and holding out the miniature; the man's coarse hands fumbling it; his casual air as he looked at it and cheapened it, as if it had been a common thing scarcely worthy of consideration.
"We'll stick these things in the left-luggage spot, dine here in the station, and go straight to the concert. There, perhaps, during an interval, we might get in a word with this lady who sports two names. Come on, now."