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Updated: May 25, 2025
He was counting rents in his cashbox in the front parlour, and she had come to him, and was leaning over his shoulder. "Well, lass?" "Have you got twenty-five pounds in that box?" It was obvious that he had. "I shouldna' be surprised," said he. "I wish you'd lend it me." "What for?" "I want to go over to Hanbridge and book my berth, definitely, and I've no loose cash."
And the series was not ended. The idea of giving a gift made him quite nervous. He fumbled in his cashbox for quite a long time, and then he called, nervously: "Helen!" She came out of the kitchen into the front room. "It's thy birthday, lass?" She nodded, smiling. "Well, tak' this." He handed her a ten-pound note. "Oh, thank you, uncle!" she cried, just on the calm side of effusiveness.
'To be plain with you, at the moment you appeared, I was half expecting a different kind of visitor, and I fear you received some of the welcome prepared for him. Overlook it, please, and shake hands; and, to get our business over, he unlocked the cashbox 'here are ten guineas, which I will ask you to accept from me.
There was a cashbox, but the cashbox was apparently wholly inadequate there must have been thousands of dollars in those piles of banknotes that were stacked beside it! There was a large tin box, the cover off, containing some black, pastelike substance the "stuff," presumably, that Gypsy Nan used on her face and hands.
As his private cashbox had been saved, owing to their vigilance and honesty, he promised to distribute its contents among them when he returned.
If this incredible thing were true if Captain Branscome were the criminal the puzzle ceased to be a puzzle; the guinea and the broken cashbox were only too fatally accounted for. Nevertheless, and in spite of the guinea, in spite even of the eyeglass there in my hand, I could not bring myself to believe. What? Captain Branscome, the simple-minded, the heroic?
He counted out the guineas, locked the cashbox again, lit his pipe, and then, seeming to recollect himself, reached down a clean one from a stack above the doorway, and insisted upon my filling and smoking with him. 'Twas a long while since I had tasted the luxury of tobacco.
The safe was not opened, the cashbox was closed, and had three thousand dollars in it. Then robbery was not the motive, and revenge was. Where had the murdered man an enemy except Luigi? There was but that one person in the world with a deep grudge against him. The mysterious girl! The girl was a great trial to Wilson.
I pulled up, on the point of shouting for help, and with that there flashed on me the thought of the Major's guineas in my pocket. If I called for help I called down suspicion on myself, and suspicion enough to damn me. How could I explain my presence in the garden? How could I account for the money straight from the Major's cashbox?"
The concluding phrase seemed meant to convey the idea that here was an open cashbox full of coin at the service of the noble d'Esgrignon family. So strong was the impression that Victurnien, like Sganarelle or Mascarille in the play, like everybody else who feels a twinge of conscience at his finger-tips, made an involuntary gesture.
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