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Sylvia and I were young, and we outlived it. But still kept ringing in my ears that despairing half-whisper: "It is for the best." Petulantly I threw away my cigar and went up to my room. I walked over to the dressing-case and turned up the gas. The shadow displeased me and I lighted the opposite jet. Then I stood squarely before the mirror and looked critically at the reflection.
"Oh, Ralph!" said Aurelia, pointing to the jewels on her neck and arms; "before we go I want you to take back these. I don't like keeping them myself; I am afraid of them." And she began to take them off and lay them on the table. "Nonsense, my pet; keep them yourself, and lock them up in your dressing-case." And Ralph held them towards her.
One morning he descended the stairs, a sort of dressing-case in hand, and yelled to an urchin at the door: "Here, you son of a sea-calf, take this down to the waterside for me!" "Will he understand you?" I said. "Bound to," Mr. Crabapple replied; "never talk to them any other way, anyhow. 'Tis their business to understand. Ta, ta deuce of a hurry." "Where are you going, may I ask?"
Then he started his engine and almost immediately afterwards she came. She was wearing a white silk motor-coat and a thick veil. Behind her came a bewildered French maid, carrying wraps, and a man-servant with a heavy dressing-case. In silence these things were stowed away. She took her place in the car. Lane struck a match and stepped on to the lawn. "Don't be frightened," he said. "Here goes!"
When he thought that they were piled high enough he sat down on them, but finding them still unsatisfactory, jumped up and arranged them once more. "Nicola Dimitvitch, would you be so good as to take master's dressing-case with you?" said Papa's valet, suddenly standing up in the carriage, "It won't take up much room."
In handling the lid of the dressing-case, on the inner side I felt something at a certain place which induced me to examine the whole structure of the lid very carefully. The result was the discovery of a private repository concealed in the space between the outer wood and the lining. In that repository I found the bottle which I now produce."
"Marie," she said, "you were attending upon the Countess Radantz to-night?" "Yes, my lady." "At what time did she leave?" "At about, eleven, my lady." "Alone?" "Yes, my lady." Lady Carey looked steadily at the girl. "Did she take anything with her?" The girl hesitated. Lady Carey frowned. "It must be the truth, remember, Marie." "Certainly, my lady! She took her small dressing-case."
The next morning she was missing, but when she had gone was as dark as where. The discovery, later in the day, that certain effects, such as her mother's dressing-case and a few personal necessities of daily use, were gone too, seemed to dispose effectually of the theory of suicide; though what remained, a lover, companion of her flight, being wanting?
When the secretary of the Austrian Ambassador came publicly, by arrangement, to ask permission of the Queen to take the model of the dressing-case in question, the very woman to whom I have alluded was in attendance at Her Majesty's toilet.
'Not I; the poor rogues were not worth wasting good powder on, and a good English drubbing was a much newer and more effective experiment. I was thenceforth known by the name of Grandfather of Clubs, and Brown always manoeuvred me into sleeping across the entrance of the tent. I do believe we should have left him entombed in the desert sands, if John's dressing-case had been lost!
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