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Updated: June 10, 2025
He wrote his speech on a scrap of wrapping-paper, carefully fitting word to word, changing and correcting it in minutest detail as best he could until it was finished.
These he had wrapped with his parcel. His reason for having things done up in stout paper, and not packed as for travelling, was that the paper could be easily burned afterward, whereas a trunk, boxes, or gripsacks would be more difficult to put out of sight. Everything he bought that day, therefore, was put into wrapping-paper.
"Tell him you found it on your desk, and destroy this letter." The enclosure was a crudely printed note on a piece of soiled wrapping-paper: Bince laid Murray's letter face down upon the balance of the open mail, and sat for a long time looking at the ominous words of the enclosure. At first he was inclined to be frightened, but finally a crooked smile twisted his lips.
After that there was always "just one more, please!" and by that time the base burner was warming up and you were on the floor in the middle of the discarded wrapping-paper, uncovering each wonderous package down to the very last the very, very last in the very toe of the stocking the big round one that you were sure was a real league ball but proved to be nothing but an orange! ...
His clothes he hung carefully away, changing the suit he had on for an older one. From his bureau he selected a couple of changes of underclothing, a couple of cotton shirts, and half a dozen pairs of socks. To these he added as many handkerchiefs, a comb, and a tooth-brush. When he had bound the bundle in stout wrapping-paper he contemplated it with satisfaction.
"He will be sending me chocolates next," thought Varney, not a little puzzled. He turned the pages curiously. Soon, observing a bit of brown wrapping-paper sticking out between the leaves, he opened the magazine at that point and found himself looking at a picture; and he sat still and stared at it for a long time.
What met her eyes were a number of sheets of brown wrapping-paper. She drew one partly out. It was apparently smeared with dark paint. Hastily pulling the paper from the bag, she beheld a sketch of Beacon Island. She hurried over to the bed, and with eager hands drew sheet after sheet from the bag and spread them out.
"Sure you won't let me have that horn tied up in nice wrapping-paper in case you decide to take it?"
This was a hard puzzle, but Jan soon found a way out. "We must write a note and pin it up where she would be sure to find it," he said. "The very thing," said Marie. They found a bit of charcoal and a piece of wrapping-paper, and Jan was all ready to write when a new difficulty presented itself. "What shall I say?" he said to Marie. "We don't know where we are going!"
It was evidently a scrap torn from a sheet of wrapping-paper, and bore these figures in pencil: 9.25 6.25 3.00 While he was reading these figures Paul heard a reporter say, loudly, "Now that I have written the paper, who will take it?" Another answered, "I will." "Who are you?" inquired the first voice. "Hawkshaw, the detective."
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