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Such a speach discouraged me, for I can bear anything except to be laughed at. I therfore said: "William has just taken your Dispach Case out of the safe. I saw him." "William!" "William," I repeated in a tence voice. He was then alarmed and put on his slippers and dressing gown. "You stay here," he observed.
This safe only my father can unlock, or rather, this I fondly believed until tonight. But how diferent are the facts! For William walked to it, after listening at the foot of the stairs, and opened it as if he had done so before quite often. He then took from it my father's Dispach Case, locked the safe again, and went back through the dining room.
Have you or have you not seen my leather Dispach Case?" Alas, my face betrayed me, being one that flushes easily and then turns pale. "I thought so," he said, in an angry voice. "Do you know that you have kept a Board of Directors sitting for three hours, and that Bab, you are hopeless! Where is it?"
When taking my Father's Dispach Case from the safe, it was to keep the real Spies from getting it. He did it every night, and took the important papers out until morning, when he put them back. To-night my father brought in the Emblem and folded it.
Being still not out, and therfore not listened to with much atention, I kept my piece and said nothing. And I saw this. As soon as dinner was over I went into my father's den, where he brings home drawings and estamates, and taking his Leather Dispach case, I locked it in my closet, tying the key around my neck with a blue ribben.
And of course, between your forgetting The Emblem until midnight, when I am in my first sleep, and putting it out at Dawn, I am not getting all the rest I really need." He then took my hand and said: "Bab, you haven't by any chance been in my Dispach Case for anything, have you?" "Why? Is something missing?" I said in I startled tone. "No. But sometimes I think however, never mind about that.
I then sugested that we work together, as I felt sure William was after my father's blue prints and so on, which were in the Dispach Case in the safe at night. He said he was not a Spy-catcher, but if I caught William at any nonsense I might let him know, and if he put a padlock on the outside of his door and mother saw it and raised a fuss, I could stand up for him. I agreed to do so.
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