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"Yes," sez the other; "and a bell skirt ruffled almost to the waist, and a Gainsboro hat, and a parasol." "And high-heel shoes and seven-button gloves," sez the other. And I turned my back on them then and there, and don't know what other improvements they did want to add to her most likely a box of French candy, a card-case, some eye-glasses, a yeller-covered novel, and a pug dog. The idee!
She was altogether lovable and quaint. On fine days she would still go forth alone, bearing her mother-of-pearl card-case, and she would leave her card here or there as naturally as a flower drops a petal; for despite her years she had by no means turned traitor to Society. Nor had Society so much as thought of leaving her out.
This Victoire is the first we've caught. I look on it as a good omen." He walked across the room, picked up his cloak, and took a card-case from the inner pocket of it. "If you don't mind, your Grace, I want you to show this permit to my men who are keeping the door, whenever you go out of the house.
She replenished the card-case from the "Miss Adams" box; then, having found a pair of fresh white gloves, she tucked an ivory-topped Malacca walking-stick under her arm and set forth. She went down the stairs, buttoning her gloves and still wearing the frown with which she had put "Alys" finally out of her life.
My companion's eyes followed mine sympathetically. "Poor fellow!" he exclaimed. "I am afraid that he is very ill!" I opened the door and pushed him gently outside. "We will go downstairs and have that talk," I said. We found a quiet corner in the smoking-room, where there was a little recess partitioned off from the rest of the room. My companion drew a small card-case from his pocket.
Not despair, with a look like that on the face of a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. "There is a little blood coming still. Wait till I have stopped it and I'll tell you." He stops it somehow with the aid of a miraculous little morocco affair, scarcely bigger than a card-case. He never leaves home without it.
And stepping past him into the hall, despite a visible gleam of consternation in his eye, I deliberately took out a pencil and card-case, slowly scribbling a few words. My hope was that if Karine was really in the drawing-room she would come forth, and the Gordian knot of the dilemma would be cut.
"Doubtless for purposes of robbery," said the magistrate. "What did he want to steal?" Juve retorted. "As a matter of fact, Mme. de Langrune's diamond rings and watch and purse were all found on her table, in full view of everybody; in the drawers that had been broken open I found other jewels, over twenty pounds in gold and silver, and three bank-notes in a card-case.
I can give you a clear half-hour." Max, by way of reply, selected a card from one of the several divisions of his card-case, and placed it on the table. Cumberly glanced at it and started slightly, turning and surveying his visitor with a new interest. "You are M. Gaston Max!" he said, fixing his gray eyes upon the face of the man before him. "I understood my daughter to say"...
She stood looking after them, and as she looked, the whole woman from head to foot, motionless as she was, seemed to harden. Yet still she looked, until at length, slowly turning, her eyes chanced to fall upon Mrs. Gregory St. Michael's card-case. There it lay, the symbol of Kings Port's capitulation.
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