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As his private cashbox had been saved, owing to their vigilance and honesty, he promised to distribute its contents among them when he returned.
Where is YOUR OWN passport? 'I had one all right, you reply cunningly, 'but must have dropped it somewhere on the road as I came along. 'And what about that soldier's coat? asks the Captain with an impolite addition. 'Whence did you get it? And what of the priest's cashbox and copper money? 'About them I know nothing, you reply doggedly.
He had taken what was practically the only money left them in the world about twenty pounds from Dora's cashbox, and some clothes, packing these last in a knapsack which still remained to him from the foreign tramps of years before. The efforts made by Dora, David, and Ancrum, whom David called in to help, to track the fugitive, were quite useless.
Lucien heard a sound as of coins dropping into a cashbox, and the veteran began to make up his books for the day. "I have been waiting here for an hour, sir," Lucien began, looking not a little annoyed. "And 'they' have not come yet!" exclaimed Napoleon's veteran, civilly feigning concern. "I am not surprised at that. It is some time since I have seen 'them' here.
Wilson had his eye on Tom when he hazarded this guess, to see what effect it would produce. He was satisfied with the result, and said to himself, "It was a success he's hit!" "The object of that person in that house was robbery, not murder. It is true that the safe was not open, but there was an ordinary cashbox on the table, with three thousand dollars in it.
I said nothing, for we must have peace in the house; and 100,000 francs for a lady and gentleman to be properly instructed in music and dancing are not too much. Well, you soon become tired of singing, and you take a fancy to study diplomacy with the minister's secretary. You understand, it signifies nothing to me so long as you pay for your lessons out of your own cashbox.
As I was telling you, I doubled, selling tickets and putting the lions through their paces. I'd taken the cashbox with me when I run for cover at the beginning of the trouble, and I'd brought it into the lions' cage with me. "Twomley tried to pacify the gang, but it was no use. They were going to tear the big top down. That's the main tent, little ladies.
I put on my cloak, took some money which was my own out of my cashbox, and at half-past twelve heard the mail- coach approaching. I opened the front door softly it shut with an oiled spring bolt; I went out, stopped the coach, and was presently rolling over the road to the great city. "Oh, that night!
Glass fell on him, murdered him, rifled his pockets, and, finding nothing but having some hint, perhaps pursued his way to the garden here. There in the summer-house he found the Major, who meanwhile had fetched his cashbox from the house and locked the chart up in it. What followed, any one can guess." "Not a bad theory, Jack!" murmured Miss Belcher, still drumming softly on the table.
Tom crept on down, pausing at every step to listen. He found the door standing open, and glanced in. What he saw pleased him beyond measure. His uncle was asleep on the sofa; on a small table at the head of the sofa a lamp was burning low, and by it stood the old man's small cashbox, closed. Near the box was a pile of bank notes and a piece of paper covered with figures in pencil.
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