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Updated: June 14, 2025
Every package was removed; every tin-case and brown-paper parcel; the oilcloth cover was lifted; I saw with distinct vision that not an umbrella, cloak, cane, hat-box or band-box remained. And my portmanteau, with my few clothes and little pocket-book enclasping the remnant of my fifteen pounds, where were they? I ask this question now, but I could not ask it then.
It made conspicuous two packages that flanked it one small and square; the other large, and as round as a hat-box. Each was wrapped in white paper and tied with red string. "Birthday presents!" cried Jane, the moment she spied them; and sprang forward. "Oh, I wonder what they are! What do you guess, Gwendolyn?" Gwendolyn followed slowly, blinking against the light.
The carriage swayed from side to side; I sat with my arms tightly clasped round the hat-box, and felt as if I were flying straight down on to the church-tower. It was delightful, but I noticed that Jack did not speak till we reached the foot of the hill. Then he said, "Well, that's a blessing! I never thought we should get safe to the bottom." "Then why did you drive so fast?" I inquired.
He seemed quite content with this solution of the mystery, and began to talk of his luggage, which lay upon the platform a pile so immense that John looked at it in some alarm, knowing that the carriage could never take it all. 'Eight trunks, two portmanteaus, and a hat-box! he said, aloud, counting the pieces.
"Well, it's a relief," one of the ladies exclaimed, "not to be travelling with half a dozen trunks and a hat-box! Oh, yes, I realize what I'm doing.
'Yes, I would say, 'everything in the van! The labels would be duly affixed. 'Oh, I would cry, seizing the hat-box quickly, 'I forgot. You cannot think how much I enjoyed these manoeuvres.
While she was paying the taxi, the door opened and a manservant, English, with sparse grey hair and a pleasant wooden face, came out and took her bag and hat-box. "I daresay you'll be wanting to go straight to your room, miss?" he suggested. "Yes, thank you." She found herself in a large, irregular entrance hall with a sweep of stairs facing her.
It has had many tenants, and is sun-tanned, rain-soiled, scarred and dented by collision with trucks and what not other accessories to the moving scenes through which it has been bandied. And there, indeed, is the tragedy that I shall unfold. For many years this hat-box had been my travelling companion, and was, but a few days since, a dear record of all the big and little journeys I had made.
In front of him were two steamer trunks, a hold-all, hat-box, a case of guns, golf clubs, and some smaller packages, all fastened up and labelled "Vine, New York." He moved toward the bell, meaning to ring for a porter, but was interrupted by a knock at the door. "Come in!" he called out, and Virginia entered. He looked at her in cold surprise.
"By gum, mister!" said he, "that's heavy!" It, in fact, weighed nearly two stone. "Yes," said Denry, "it's full of sovereigns, of course." And everybody laughed. At Crewe, where they had to change, and again at Knype and at Bursley, he produced astonishment in porters by concealing the effort with which he handed them the hat-box, as though its weight was ten ounces.
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