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She did a very plucky thing the following night by going into the dead man's room and removing the knife in order to prevent the police finding it, for by that time she was aware that the knife formed an important piece of evidence in the case against her lover. It was the knife she threw into the sea, but she kept the match-box, which she recognised as Penreath's.
Inside the paper wrapper there was a match-box, and inside the match-box there was a china doll no bigger than your finger. It had blue eyes and black hair and no clothes on. Aunt Charlotte held it in her hand and smiled at it. "That's Aunt Charlotte's little baby," she said. "I'm going to be married and I shan't want it any more. "There take it, and cover it up, quick!"
Another new invention of that epoch was the lucifer match-box, which superseded the large tin tinder-box with its flint and steel.
Larsen wanted to light a fresh cigar, and offered one to each of his friends: then it was found they had no matches, and one of them, who had been drinking a little and felt jovial, turned to the dark stranger and asked him for a light, and the man, without speaking, handed out a little silver match-box. It was just then that the conductor came along, and Larsen saw his ticket.
He drew a long breath and began a leisurely search through his pockets for his match-box, gazing about him as he did so, as though looking for some one to whom he could speak his feelings. He lifted his eyes to the stern, smooth-shaven face of the bronze statue above him that seemed to be watching Stuart's departing figure.
The poor crippled child who has been maimed by a falling rock, and the white-faced match-box maker who works eighteen hours out of the twenty-four to keep body and soul together have surely some sort of a claim upon God apart from being miserable sinners who must account themselves fortunate to be forgiven for Christ's sake. Faugh! it is all so unreal and so stupid.
It was evident that it would be useless to put on any other flies, for the two I had left were a good deal bedraggled, and not nearly so attractive as those I had used. Just before leaving the house that morning, Peter's son had given me a wooden match-box filled with worms for bait, which, although I did not expect to need, I put in my pocket.
Suppose we'd found the door was kept open with a wedge of paper addressed in a certain handwriting to a certain name eh? and suppose the sack had the initials on it of the same fellow that the paper and match-box belonged to eh? That would make a pretty hot case for our side, wouldn't it?" "My word, youngster; you're a sharp one. But I suppose it's all make- up!"
After showing these things to his companions he placed them carefully in an empty match-box, which he put in his pocket. "Somebody has bumped against this gas globe pretty hard," said Colwyn. "The glass is broken and the incandescent burner smashed."
His hand was in his pocket, in search of his dead-latch key, when he suddenly retreated from the door, muttering to himself "I'm not going to stand a curtain lecture! There now! I'll wait until she's asleep." Saying which, he drew a cigar and match-box from his pocket, and lighting the former, placed it between his lips, and moved leisurely down the street.
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