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Updated: May 23, 2025
I heard her tell her maid to enter the carriage behind. The door was closed and the guard touched off his hat. A minute later and we were off. I was alone with the adventuress. I had no doubt but that she had chosen my carriage with intent. I placed my dispatch-box on the rack above my head, and opened out a newspaper, which I had no intention of reading.
The skipper carried the dispatch-box, and in his pockets he had John Darling's neat little pistols, each good for two shots the latest thing in pistols at that time. They went straight to Cornelius Lynch's cabin, where the leading grumblers were assembled.
Also, to while away the hours, he made new and more detailed lists of the souls which he had bought, perused a work by the Duchesse de la Valliere , rummaged in his portmanteau, looked through various articles and papers which he discovered in his dispatch-box, and found every one of these occupations tedious.
It was quite possible that the dispatch-box had been purloined by some one else during her absence from the house, as the presence of the mulatto servant in his room would have been less suspicious than hers. There was really little evidence to connect Miss Faulkner with the actual outrage, rather might not the real spy have taken advantage of her visit here, to throw suspicion upon her?
They drove away together while the secretary was at his labour of sorting the heap of autobiographical scraps in a worn dispatch-box, pen and pencil jottings tossed to swell the mess when they had relieved an angry reminiscence. He noticed, heedlessly at the moment, feminine handwriting on some few clear sheets among them. Next day he was alone in the library.
He held them in his hand, and ticked them off one by one mechanically. "This is the key of the cupboard where I keep my cigars and liqueurs; this is the key of my dispatch-box. I don't think I've got anything else locked up." "Have you no safe, no desk or other receptacle where you keep your papers, Mr. Froelich documents of any kind?" "Papers documents?" ejaculated Bobby.
Captain Wragge's eyes dwelt on the little bag as the eyes of lovers dwell on their mistresses. "Happy bag!" he murmured, as she put it back in her bosom. He rose; dived into a corner of the room; produced his neat dispatch-box; and solemnly unlocked it on the table between Magdalen and himself.
But if you're Sir Charles Vandrift," he went on, examining his books, "how does it come you've registered as Mr. Peter Porter?" Charles grew red with embarrassment. The difficulty deepened. The dispatch-box, always covered with a leather case, bore on its inner lid the name "Sir Charles Vandrift, K.C.M.G.," distinctly painted in the orthodox white letters.
Not even necessaries had he been allowed to bring away with him, nor his dispatch-box which contained all his booty.
He had a hunted look on his face. Monica saw it and it sobered her. They got up in front, and I sat in the body of the car. "Hang on to that!" said Francis, handing me over a leather case. I recognized it at a glance. It was Clubfoot's dispatch-box. Francis was thorough in everything. Once more we dashed out along the desolate country roads. We saw hardly a soul.
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