[Tracy Park by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookTracy Park CHAPTER VIII 5/20
She will come back to-morrow.' He seemed quite content with this solution of the mystery, and began to talk of his luggage, which lay upon the platform--a pile so immense that John looked at it in some alarm, knowing that the carriage could never take it all. 'Eight trunks, two portmanteaus, and a hat-box!' he said, aloud, counting the pieces. 'Yes, and a nice sum those rascally agents in New York made me pay for having them come with me,' Arthur rejoined.
'They weighed them all, and charged me a little fortune.
I might as well have sent them by express; but I wanted them with me, and here they are.
What will you do with them? This is hers,' and he designated a black trunk or box, longer and larger than two ordinary trunks ought to be. 'I can take one of them with the box and portmanteau, and the expressman will take the rest.
He is here.
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