Please put twenty notes of a thousand francs each into this
envelope, seal it with your own seal and hand it to Mme.
Such an
envelope as this could retain the inflating fluid for any length of time.
"Your native shrewdness, my dear Watson, that innate cunning which is the delight of your friends, would surely prevent you from inclosing cipher and message in the same
envelope. Should it miscarry, you are undone.
It was the
envelope of the fatal letter which Mademoiselle Violet had written him to Queenstown.
Moody mentioned the name and directed the
envelope. Felix, happening to look round at Lady Lydiard and the steward while they were both engaged in writing, returned suddenly to the table as if he had been struck by a new idea.
"No," replied Ginger, who had opened the
envelope, "it is the rates and taxes, L 3 19 11 3/4 ."
There was no manuscript in that thin
envelope, therefore it was an acceptance.
"At the same time," Sir Edward remarked, "it might have been as well to have fastened the flap of the
envelope."
Fentolin slit the
envelope and withdrew the single sheet of paper which it contained.
A little after, he got to his feet very sore and shaken, the poorer by a purse which contained exactly one penny postage- stamp, by a cambric handkerchief, and by the all-important
envelope.
Gordon Jones, who had been talking to the bishop, leaned towards him and pointed to the
envelope.
His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the
envelope which he still held in his trembling hand, 'K.
