He said he was in a great hurry to get ashore, because he'd a friend awaiting him at the Station Hotel.

So he got a boat, and his things and mine were put into it, and we left the steamer, and were rowed to the landing-stage, just opposite." "And you, of course, carried your jewel-case--or what you believed to be your jewel-case--the duplicate chest which you subsequently carried to Edinburgh ?" "Yes, of course--I had it in my hand when Lisette left, and, I never left hold of it until I got into the hotel." "Do you remember if Mr.James Allerdyke carried anything in his hand ?" "Yes, he carried a hand-bag.

He had that bag in his hand when I met him on deck; he kept it on his knee in the boat, and in the cab in which we drove to the hotel from the landing-stage; I saw him carrying it upstairs after we got to the hotel.

What is more, I saw him bring it into the coffee-room later on, and place it on the table at which he had some supper.

I saw it again in his room when I went in there to look at the plans of the Norwegian estate which he had told me about.