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But, although he still felt towards her the same antagonism she had at first provoked, he was conscious that she was beginning to exercise a strange fascination over him. Dismissing her at last with an effort, he finished his work and then rose, and unlocking a closet, took out a small dispatch-box, to which he intended to intrust a few more important orders and memoranda.
"No, I haven't got any documents or papers. What do you mean?" "Well, I'm afraid it will be the duty of Sub-inspector Dane to search your apartment, Mr. Froelich, and I want to save you from having anything broken open if it can be avoided." "There is nothing to break open. I don't lock anything up except cigars and things of that kind, and as to my dispatch-box, there's not much there either.
By day, if he goes out, it is in my charge." "Fetch it now," Bernadine directed. "I will prove my words." She did not hesitate for a moment. She disappeared into the inner room and came back after only a few moments' absence, carrying a black leather dispatch-box. "You have the key?" he asked. "Yes," she answered, looking at him and trembling; "but I dare not oh, I dare not open it!"
"Yes, completely, and also given some compensation for your loss of time." "And how much am I to pay in return, you say?" "Thirty thousand roubles, to be divided among ourselves, the Governor-General's staff, and the Governor-General's secretary." "But how is even that to be managed, for all my effects, including my dispatch-box, will have been sealed up and taken away for examination?"
They went in to breakfast, which was served in a room with bay windows opening on to the terrace overlooking the lake. Exactly opposite Stafford's chair was the little opening on the other side from which he and the girl from Heron Hall had gazed at the villa. He looked at it and grew silent. A large dispatch-box stood beside Sir Stephen's plate. He did not open it, but sent it to his room.
In like manner, when I found you had behaved, for once, like a gentleman, contrary to my expectation, I declined to go on with the trick I then meditated. Which does not mean to say I may not hereafter play you some other. That will depend upon your future good behaviour. "Why, then, did I get White Heather to purloin your dispatch-box, with intent to return it? Out of pure lightness of heart?
The doctor told her that the old gentleman had apparently been seized by a stroke, but that he was very slowly recovering. Sylvia, however, pointed out that his dispatch-box had been broken open and rifled. What had been taken she had no idea.
At the junction I fetched the sleepy-looking porter to see to her luggage, and then left her. My rug I left in the station-master's office, and with the dispatch-box in my hand I climbed the steps from the station, and turned into the long straight road which led to Braster.
Only when he had done that did he proceed to business. Planting himself before his dispatch-box, he rubbed his hands with a satisfaction worthy of an incorruptible rural magistrate when adjourning for luncheon; after which he extracted from the receptacle a bundle of papers.
Meanwhile, let us consider the Bulgarian intentions as revealed by the captured dispatch-box of the General commanding the 3d Bulgarian Division, which contained documents likely to become historic. On the 28th of June the Bulgarian Divisional Commanders received orders from the Commander-in-Chief to undertake a general attack upon the Allies on the 2d of July.
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