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They had given her good presents Millie some silver brushes, Henry some books, Philip a fan, and Katherine a most beautiful dressing-bag. Maggie had never had such things before. But she could have wished for something from her own people. She had written to Uncle Mathew but had not heard from him.
She sat stiffly in her seat, one gloved hand on her knee, the other clasped tightly round the handle of a crocodile dressing-bag.
In place of the usual bunk or berth built against the wall stood a small folding camp bedstead, and upon a rude deal table that held a tin wash-basin and pail lay two ivory-handled brushes, combs, and other elegant toilet articles, evidently the contents of the major's dressing-bag.
Having recognized with relief a pile of luggage going aboard luggage which I had carefully pasted with red, white, and blue labels crossed by the letters "U.S.A.T.S." and Buford I dismissed the negro, grasped the dressing-bag with fervor, and mounted the gangway. To me the occasion was momentous.
There was not much to pack, only one roomy American trunk a trunk which held everything a Gladstone bag for things that might possibly be wanted in a hurry, and a handsome dressing-bag, Maulevrier's last birthday gift to his sister. Mary had received no gifts from her lover, save the plain gold engagement ring, and a few new books sent straight from the publishers.
What did you leave behind?" Diana laughed. "What a practical man you are! Fancy thinking of such things as a forgotten coat and a dressing-bag when we've just escaped with our lives!" "Well, you may as well have them," he returned gruffly. "Wait here." And he disappeared into the darkness, returning presently with the various odds and ends which she had left in the carriage.
"What clothes am I to take?" she asked her mother, in a tone which she mentally denominated "quiet and cold," though possibly some people might have called it "sullen." "Your clothes are already packed, dear," replied Mrs. Graham; "you have only to pack your dressing-bag, to be all ready for the start to-morrow.
"Shall I have the mugger skinned and get a dressing-bag made out of his hide for you?" he said, smiling. "That'd be a nice souvenir of the brute." She shuddered. "I don't want to remember him," she cried, turning to glance at the crocodile. "Horrid beast! I can't bear the sight of him."
Where are they?" exclaimed the colonel; and Miller went to the rear of the hall, returning the next moment with a fair-sized, brown-paper parcel in his hand. It obviously contained the crocodile-hide dressing-bag, which had been Bridget's birthday present; the handle, indeed, projected for convenience of transport.
Willie Prime was red and yellow. "Blue? Oh: you mean his cheeks?" "Yes. But he's a handsome gentleman all the same; and you should have seen his luggage! Such a dressing-bag cost fifty pounds, I daresay." "Oh, dear, me," said Agatha, "Yes, Nettie, I shall go the day after to-morrow." "Mr. Merceron asked to be introduced to me," said Nettie proudly.
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