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This the Master was due to discover. On a sloppy and drippy and muggy afternoon, late in October, one of those days nobody wants, the Master came home from town; his fall overcoat showing a decided list to starboard in the shape of an egregiously bulged side-pocket. The Mistress and Lad, as ever, came forth to greet the returning man.
Each had a bulky letter in his side-pocket, and the address upon each letter was the same. They talked but little. On the right-hand side of West Street, as you enter the town, and a hundred yards or more from the town gate, there stood at that time a two-storeyed house of more pretensions than its fellows from which it drew back somewhat.
"We must have a fire in the best parlor, my dear," chirped Elizabeth, ecstatically, when Theo's hat and jacket were being carried out of the room. "Don't forget to tell Jane, Priscilla, and " fumbling in her large side-pocket, "here's the key of the preserve-closet. Quince preserve, my dear, and white currant-jelly." Theodora was reminded of Downport that day, in a hundred ways.
He told me last night that everything would be finished this week. He seemed quite satisfied." The Inspector paused to make a note. Then he thrust a hand into the side-pocket of his tunic and produced Hartley Parrish's letter. "This," he said, eyeing the girl as he handed her the letter, "may throw some light on the affair!"
But he said nothing, nor she; he patted her sleeve, she returned the pat, and they crossed the railroad tracks, found a road, clumped toward open country. "Chilly night, but I like this melancholy gray," he said. "Yes." They passed a moaning clump of trees and splashed along the wet road. He tucked her hand into the side-pocket of his overcoat.
"Nay, you shall have them; for when I trust, I trust wholly. Their name is Conynghame." Edward took his letters from out of his side-pocket, and handed one of them to his fellow-traveller. The address was, "To the worthy Mistress Conynghame, of Portlake, near Bolton, county of Lancaster." "It is to that address that I am going myself," said Edward, smiling.
He said it was very good and ate a few mouthfuls of it with difficulty. Then he paid his bill and went out. He walked along quickly through the November twilight, his stout hazel stick striking the ground regularly, the fringe of the buff Mail peeping out of a side-pocket of his tight reefer overcoat. On the lonely road which leads from the Parkgate to Chapelizod he slackened his pace.
Or else Caroline, who arose before Adolphe, may have seen his greatcoat thrown wrong side out across a chair; the edge of a little perfumed paper, just peeping out of the side-pocket, may have attracted her by its whiteness, like a ray of the sun entering a dark room through a crack in the window: or else, while taking Adolphe in her arms and feeling his pocket, she may have caused the note to crackle: or else she may have been informed of the state of things by a foreign odor that she has long noticed upon him, and may have read these lines: "Ungraitfull wun, wot du yu supoz I no About Hipolite.
The papers were in his side-pocket, and he was about to commit them to a steward for transmission to Fortress Monroe, when my name was called from the strand by a young mounted officer, connected with one of the staffs of my division. I thought that he wished to exchange salutations or make some inquiries, and tripped to his side.
He listened, as if to a proposition which had some interest, and replied, but in a voice rather softer than before, 'Aye, but men do not catch old birds with chaff, my master. Where have you got the rhino you are so flush of? 'I will give you earnest directly, and that in banknotes, said I; but thrusting my hand into my side-pocket, I found my pocket-book was gone.
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