Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1867-01-25
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o. she answered hanging her head,
don know, III write and tell MANN
how kind you have been, and, and-but
must go, Mr.. Wilcox
4 don't like your going alone repeat
ed
%. know the way perfectly she said
in the SAME tlurried manner, perfectly
thank you. And it is close at hand. G0ot
byn
She jumped lightly out of tse carriage
and the train started ON again at the same
instant. We were busy enough, as yo,
may suppose In five minutes more we
should he i'll Enston- square. and there was
nearly fifteen minutes work still 20 be done,
Spite of the en- oymrnt lie had afforded me.
| mentally anathenlatizel Mr.. Huntingdon
and his departure from ordinary rules, and
thrnstng Miss Clifton forcibly out of my
thoughts, set to work with will, gath
cred up the registered letters for London,
tied them into bundle with the paper
bill, and then turned to the corner Of the
counter for the despatch box.
You have guessed already my cursed
misfortune. The Prcmier's despatch h-box
was not there. For the first minute or SO
| WAS in nowise alarmed, and merely look
ed round upon the floor, under the bags,
into the boxes, into any place into which
it could have fallen or been dcposited.-
We reached Euston- square while was
still searching. and losing more and more
of my composnre every instant. Tom
Morvillc joined me in my quest, and felt
every bag which had been made UP and
sealed The box was no small article
which could 70 into little compass; it was
certainly twelve inches long, and more
than that in Sirth But it turned up no.
where. ] never felt nearer faintins than
at that moment.
Gould Miss Clifton have carried it off ??
suggested Tom Morville.
No said, Indignantly but thoughtful
", she could not have carried off such
bulky thing as that, without our seeing it,
1t would not go into one of oJr pockets,
Tom, and she wore tight fitting jacket
that would not conceal anything
No. she cannot have it, assentcd Tom,
then it must be somewhere about We
searched again and again, turning over
everything in the van,but without success.
The Prcalicr's despatch box was gone
and all we coulu do at first was to stand
and stare at one another. Our trance of
blank dismay was of short duration, for
the van was assailed by the postmen from
st. Martin le Grand, who were waiting
for our charge. In Il stupor of bcwilder-
ed Up tie mails then once more we con-
fronted one another with pale faces, fright
cned out of our senses. All the scrapes
we had ever been i'll (and we had had
our usual share of errors and bln"harsa
~ S,ttri
with this. My eye fell upon Mr.. Hunt
ingdons order lying among some scraps
of waste paper on the floor, and picked
it up, and put it carefully, with its official
envelope, into my pocket.
we can't stay here said Tom. The
porters were looking in inquisitively: we
were seldom SO long i'll quitting our empty
van.
No Ircplied. a sudden glcam of sense
darting across the blank bewildernlcnt of
my brain; no. we must go to head-guro-
ters at once. and make a clean breast of
it. This Is no private buinesS, Tom
We made one more inctiectnral search
and then we hailed a cab aud drove as hard
as we could to the General Post Office
The secretary OF the Post otlce was not
there, OF course. bnt we obtained the ad-
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