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At the railway station she found her maid waiting for her, surrounded by luggage. "Have you got your ticket?" "Yes, my lady." "I have changed my mind, and will not go to Paris just now. Ask a porter to put those trunks in the left-luggage office, and bring me the keys and the receipt."
I got a friend of mine, the guard of one of the trains, to inquire at the left-luggage office at Saint Pancras; and I put an advertisement for a week together into the London papers, offering five pounds reward to any one as'd bring the bag just as it was when it was lost; but it were all of no use, and I didn't expect as it would be, as it were taken up to London so long ago.
It's all explained now what's become of the bag and the bracelet, but we're further off from getting them than ever. I don't know; p'raps it's lying at the left-luggage office in London. I'll send up and see. But I mustn't say anything about it at present to Jane. But, suppose it shouldn't be there what then? Why, we've lost all clue to it; we're quite in the dark. Stop, stop, Thomas Bradly!
"I did nothing of the kind. Just you wait here till I see the inspector. A bonny watch YOU keep on a gentleman's things." But Dickson did not interview the railway authorities. Instead he hurried to the left-luggage office. "I deposited a small box here a short time ago. I mind the number. Is it here still?" The attendant glanced at the shelf. "A wee deal box with iron bands.
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