bank-note-case

Updated: May 23, 2025

Afterwards a church bell began to clang discordantly, as they all do in Spain. The light was over the dressing-table in the corner, and so shaded that the room was quite dim. Someone had been in my room! I grasped my automatic pistol which I kept under the pillow, and jumping out of bed crossed to the dressing-table where I had put my watch and bank-note-case on taking them from my pocket.

William Le Queux - The Stretton Street Affair