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Two-eighteen turned reluctantly from the mirror and picked up a jewelled gold-mesh bag that lay on the bed. From it she extracted a coin and held it out to Julia. It was a generous coin. Julia looked at it. Her smouldering wrath burst into flame. "Keep it!" she said savagely, and was out of the room and down the hall. Sadie Corn, at her desk, looked up quickly as Julia turned the corner.
Her fear and excitement made me think that perhaps I was on the track of new developments, and lest she should carry out her threat of ringing the bell, I plunged at once into the subject. "Mrs. Purvis, have you lost a gold-mesh bag?" I said bluntly. "No, I haven't," she snapped, "and if I had, I should take means to recover it, and not wait for a detective to come and ask me about it."
For these Maxim's was the clearing-house for news of friends and battles. Where once were the supper-girls and the ladies of the gold-mesh vanity-bags now were only men in red and blue uniforms, men in khaki, men in bandages. Among them were English lords and French princes with titles that dated from Agincourt to Waterloo, where their ancestors had met as enemies.
He was desperately self-conscious, and his collar felt two sizes too small, but he managed to get into his voice a tone that was sufficiently matter-of-fact to blunt the edge of the man's rather roguish smile. "Let me see your latest gold-mesh bags," he said as ordinary, everyday people ask to see collar studs. "Marty!" whispered Joan. "What are you going to do?"
Her hair was several shades off a legal yellow and she was dressed! She would have made handsome loot, believe me aigrette, bracelets, rings, dog collar, gold-mesh bag, vanity case Oh, you could see at a glance that she was one of them Broadway social favourites you read about. And both grouchy, like I said.
I flung the question at him, suddenly, hoping to catch him unawares. But he only looked at me with the blank expression of one who hears a name for the first time. "No," he answered, "I never heard of her. Who is she?" "Well, when I was hunting through that gold-mesh bag, I discovered a lady's visiting card with that name on it.
And surely a gold-mesh bag, with its thousands of links would be a fine trap to catch some threads of evidence, however minute they might be. Furthermore I decided to probe further into that yellow rose business.
In this furious onslaught he was stopped by the simple contact on his forehead of a diminutive metal circle, a kind of frozen thimble that was resting on his skin. He looked... It was a little revolver, a deadly toy of shining nickel. It had appeared in Freya's hand, drawn secretly from her clothes, or perhaps from that gold-mesh bag whose contents seemed inexhaustible.
Cunningham if she had recently lost a gold-mesh bag, containing her gloves and handkerchief. Then Parmalee and I agreed to keep the matter a secret until we should get a reply to this, for we concluded there was no use in stirring up public curiosity on the matter until we knew ourselves that we were on the right trail.
An hour she stood there, a solitary figure at the rail, holding to her large black hat, her skirts whipped to her body and snapping forward in the breeze. The sun struck off points from the water, animating it with a jewel-dance. It found out in a flash the diamond-and-sapphire top to her gold-mesh hand-bag, hoppity-skippiting from facet to facet. "My boy my little boy!"
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