Perhaps I ought not to; but this isn't a case to fiddle-faddle over.

Will you stand by and watch me ?" The contents of the trunk only thickened the fog.

Here again the clothes were minus the labels.

All the linen was new and stamped with the mark of Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., British merchants with branches all over the East.

At the bottom of the trunk was a large manila envelope, unmarked.