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Updated: June 3, 2025
I had turned it on in more than one place: and a sudden, brilliant illumination showed me a tall Commissary of Police, with two little gendarmes looking over his shoulder. I threw a glance at Maxine, who was still veiled, and was relieved to see that she had found some means of putting the letter-case out of sight.
Hollis's effects at Scarnham, yesterday morning, after the finding of his body, we found in his letter-case a cheque for ten thousand pounds " Starmidge stopped suddenly. Mrs. Lester had started, and her pale face had grown paler. Her eyes dilated as she looked at the two men. "A cheque!" she exclaimed. "For ten thousand pounds. On him? And whose cheque?"
The papers which were contained in the letter-case, and which he was taking with him to the Conciergerie, he considered were necessary to the success of his plans, otherwise he never would have kept them, and they were the only proofs that could be brought up against him.
He had stuck rather too close, elbow to elbow; but I had no fear for the letter-case, as he was on the wrong side to play any conjurer's tricks with that. The last I saw of the fellow, he was walking toward a cab, and looking uneasily over his shoulder at his two late travelling companions, who were getting into another vehicle near by.
I hurried downstairs with my bag and rejoined him in the library. He handed me a stout leather letter-case, about eight inches by six, fastened with a strap with a lock on it. I could just squeeze it into my side-pocket. Then I went to get the car from the garage behind the house. 'As I was bringing it round to the front a disconcerting thought struck me.
"I know practically nothing," I confessed; "still, I do understand. I was only teasing you. Forgive me. I oughtn't to have done it, even for a minute. Here is the letter-case which the Foreign which was given to me to bring to you." "Wait!" she exclaimed, still in the half whisper from which she had never departed. "Wait! It will he better to lock the door."
I cannot recollect precisely the terms of the two papers. I remember that the kingly laconic style of one of them, and the expression of having no further occasion for my service, made me smile. The other was an order to give up the papers in my office, all which might have been contained in a letter-case of a moderate size. I gave the duke the Seals and some papers which I could readily come at.
He also replaced all the other papers, put the letter-case in a stout envelope and handed it to the superintendent. "Seal it up and put it away in your safe till the inquest tomorrow," he said. "What shall I do?
He read the note through many times before he hid it away in his letter-case and went down the stairs. Meanwhile Stella Ballantyne waited below. She heard Mr. Hazlewood in the hall greeting the Pettifers with the false joviality which sat so ill upon him; she imagined the shy nods and glances which told them that the trap was properly set. Mr. Hazlewood led them into the room.
Dockwrath took a small letter-case out of his breast coat pocket. By this time Mr. Mason's curiosity had been roused, and he began to think it possible that his visitor had discovered information which might be of importance to him. "Are you going to show me any document?" said he. "That's as may be," said the attorney. "I don't know as yet whether you care to see it.
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