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The testimony of the French guard, of the booking-clerk at Monaco, and of the staff of the Hôtel de Paris, established the existence of my Fascinating Friend, which was at first called in question; but no trace could be found of him. With him had disappeared his victim's dispatch-box, in which were stored the proceeds of several days of successful gambling.
"SIR CHARLES VANDRIFT Herewith I return your dispatch-box, intact, with the papers untouched. As you will readily observe, it has not even been opened. "You will ask me the reason for this strange conduct. Let me be serious for once, and tell you truthfully.
Cowper tottered at a black dispatch-box. "There, there!" he said; "I tell you I shall starve if I don't have it. Ask him ask him " He was clutching me like a drowning man. Castro raised the inevitable arm towards heaven, letting his round black cloak fall into folds like those of an umbrella.
Cowper gathered that he might take his japanned dispatch-box; he seized the brass handles and rushed towards the side, but at the last moment he had the good impulse to return to me, holding out his hand, and spluttering distractedly, "God bless you, God bless you." After a time he remembered that I had rescued his wife and child, and he asked God to bless me for that too.
We followed you to Lake George for I had 'forced a card, after my habitual plan, by inducing you to invite us, with the fixed intention of playing a particular trick upon you. It formed no part of our original game to steal your dispatch-box; that I consider a simple and elementary trick unworthy the skill of a practised operator.
It was half-full of things, old books, letters, bundles of papers held together with rubber bands, canvas bags all grouped and piled in the most orderly way about a large tin dispatch-box. This box drew the young man's gaze like a sudden shout; he was hardly on his feet before he had sprung forward and jerked it out.
Taken singly, the three documents were misleading; taken altogether, they formed a masterpiece of autobiography. The self-revelation was lucid and complete; it gave you Tyson the man of no class, Tyson the bundle of paradoxes, British and Bohemian, cosmopolitan and barbarian; the brute with the immortal human soul struggling perpetually to be. He put the diary into his dispatch-box.
But first and once more my letters!" Her tone was a little peremptory, and Roger's face clouded. "I found two of them last night, by the merest chance in an old dispatch-box I took to America. They were posted to you on the way here." "Good! But there were three." "I know so you said. I could only find two." "Was the particular letter I mentioned one of them?" He answered unwillingly. "No.
In days gone by each Secretary of State received on his appointment a silver inkstand, which he could hand down as a keepsake to his children. Mr. Gladstone, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, abolished this little perquisite, and the only token of office which an outgoing Minister can now take with him is his dispatch-box.
"It is a list of factories throughout the United States supplying munitions of war to the Allies. You may find it useful." "Thanks." Von Fincke read the paper with minute care before placing it inside his dispatch-box. "A concerted movement has been commenced by us to secure a majority control of many of these plants."
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