[In Luck at Last by Walter Besant]@TWC D-Link bookIn Luck at Last CHAPTER IV 29/36
Half an hour afterward she woke him up again. "Joe," she said, "I've made up my mind.
You sha'n't say that I refused to do for you what any other girl in the world would have done." As a tempter it will be seen that Joe was unsurpassed. It was now a week since he had received, carefully wrapped in wool, and deposited in a wooden box dispatched by post, a key, newly made. It was, also, very nearly a week since he had used that key.
It was used during Mr.Emblem's hour for tea, while James waited and watched outside in an agony of terror.
But Joe did not find what he wanted. There were in the safe one or two ledgers, a banker's book, a check-book, and a small quantity of money.
But there were not any records at all of monies invested.
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