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When Edmonds came in he turned to the money-lender with anxiety in his face. "Well?" he questioned brusquely. "Market's a little stiffer," said Edmonds. Edmonds sat down and stretched out his hand toward the cigar-box on the table, while Hawtrey waited with very evident impatience. "Still moving up?" he asked. Edmonds nodded. "It's the other folks' last stand," he declared.
But the picture was disappointing a snapshot of a young woman, rather slim, with the face obscured by a tennis racket, obviously thrust into the picture at the psychological moment. Poor spoil this a cigar-box lid and a girl without a face! However, marred as it was, it clearly meant something to the Chief.
It was a sight worth seeing to come upon those little night-clubs of drunken and bewildered moths, hanging on to the sweetness with tragic gluttony, an easy prey for Henry's eager fingers, which, as greedy of them as they of the honey, would seize and thrust them into the lethal chamber, in the form of a cigar-box loosely filled with bruised laurel leaves, which hung by a strap from his shoulder.
"This will be the first meal with which you have provided me," he said, shaking his fist at it, "so at last you are going to accomplish something, you cheap wooden cigar-box of a fiddle! I cannot play you to advantage but I can eat you. That's all you are good for a few dinners and breakfasts!"
It did not take him long to reach the box, for it was only a foot beneath the surface of the ground. It proved to be a cigar-box, for Peter was fond of smoking, though he usually smoked a pipe, as being more economical. Ernest lifted the lid and saw a small roll enclosed in brown wrapping-paper, which, on being removed, revealed twenty five-dollar gold pieces.
Fancy him having that card up his sleeve all the while. Nina's had the bulge on me right straight along." He pushed a cigar-box across the wicker table between them. "No, thanks," said Craven, taking a case from his pocket. "I'll have a cigarette, if you don't mind."
The sugar-bowl and ginger-jar were stuffed copiously with notes of hand signed "Cigar-box," but held a painfully small amount of cash. "Can't I go out and help Polly?" asked Edgar, a little later. "I should never have agreed to stay and dine if I had known that she was the cook." "Go out, by all means; but you need n't be anxious. Ours is a sort of doll-house-keeping.
'Harold! The cold of the dead hand answered him, and Alfred said, 'He's dead.... Then afraid of mistake, he shook the corpse and looked into the glassy eyes and the wide open mouth. 'By Jove! He is dead, there can be no doubt. Heart disease. He must have fallen just as he was opening the cigar-box. He was alive a quarter of an hour ago. Perhaps he's not dead a couple of minutes.
Bang! went a pistol, and another. The dictograph, which had been all sound a moment before, was as mute as a cigar-box. "What's the matter?" I asked Kennedy, as he rushed past me. "They have shot out the lights. My receiving instrument is destroyed. Come on, Jameson; Vincenzo, stay back, if you don't want to appear in this." A short figure rushed by me, faster even than I could go.
But while we knew that she was obliged to fly the British flag also, we were indignant beyond words to see a huge Union Jack floating at the top of the forward flagstaff and beneath it a toy American flag about the size of a cigar-box. Beneath the English flag! I nearly wept with rage. The owner of the line was at hand, and I did not wait to draw up a petition or to consult my fellow-Americans.
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