I refused to allow Elmer to look into it.
"I determined that I would ship the box at once to some fictitious personage, and then take the next ship back to England.
"I hastily wrote a card, which I tacked on the box, consigning it to Miss Genevieve Pringle, Newark, N.J.The name was the first invention that came into my head.

Newark I had heard of.

I knew vaguely that it was west of New York, but whether it was twenty miles west or two thousand miles, I did not stop to think.

I am ignorant of American geography.
"But no sooner had the box been taken away than I began to be uneasy.
I was more frightened with it gone than I had been with it present.

I imagined it being dropped and broken, and revealing everything.