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"'I am not sorry, said he, 'that I forgot my note-case in the other room, as it has given me an opportunity of taming a raging lion so easily. "'Goon, said Phil, whose language, as well as valor, was fairly exhausted, 'it's well you're a fire-eater, and my father a magistrate, or by my honor, I'd know how to deal with you.
As for the motive of so complicated a crime, it was difficult to admit that it could be robbery alone. "And yet," observed the Judge of Instruction, "we do not know what the note-case carried off by the assassin contained.
This was such a rooted habit in him that I was astonished to see him check the movement suddenly. Then, to my greater amazement, he swore viciously under his breath. I had never heard him do this before; but Bunner had told me that of late he had often shown irritation in this way when they were alone. 'Has he mislaid his note-case? was the question that flashed through my mind.
This is what she left for me;" and plunging his hand into his breast pocket he selected from his note-case a fragrant little billet-doux, formally desiring Dr. Gardner to explain his strange conduct at his leisure that the next opportunity granted him of seeing Evelyn Howard must be of his own seeking. There was a pause after the reading of this aggrieved, dignified little message.
When at last he entered the little salon she called "stuffy" he found her in conference with a blond-bearded gentleman who wore the red ribbon in his lapel, and who, on Ralph's appearance and at a sign, as it appeared, from Mrs. Marvell swept into his note-case some small objects that had lain on the table, and bowed himself out with a "Madame Monsieur" worthy of the highest traditions.
M. Termonde had changed his cab twice, and had alighted from the second vehicle at the Grand Hotel. At noon I was in possession of these particulars, and at two o'clock I ascended the staircase of the Grand Hotel, with a loaded revolver and a note-case containing one hundred banknotes, wherewith to purchase the letters, in my pocket.
If you had been in my place you would have known before I did that Manderson's little pocket-case was there. As soon as I saw it, of course, I remembered his not having had it about him when I asked for money, and his surprising anger. He had made a false step. He had already fastened his note-case up with the rest of what was to figure as my plunder, and placed it in my hands. I opened it.
Murgatroyd had returned in her indignant letter; another roll of notes, of considerable value, in a note-case; a purse containing notes and gold to a large amount all those she laid one by one on a dust-covered table. And finally and as calmly as if she were sorting linen she swept bank-notes, gold, and purse into her steel-chained bag, and tore open the sealed envelope.
"Well," broke in M. de Breulh, "what do you say to ten thousand francs?" "Too much," returned Andre with a deprecatory wave of his hand; "far too much. If I succeed in it, as I hope to do, I will ask six thousand francs for it." "Agreed!" answered De Breulh, taking from his pocket an elegant note-case with his crest and monogram upon it and extracting from it three thousand francs.
A watch and chain the small pocket articles which every man carries keys, a monocle eyeglass, a purse full of gold, loose silver, a note-case containing a considerable sum in bank-notes, some English, some foreign, letters and papers, a pocket diary these were all. Allerdyke took each as Gaffney produced them, and placed each in the bag with no more than a mere glance.
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