"Carried five hundred pounds away with him.

Go on, then." "Now," continued Chisholm, evidently very well satisfied with himself for the way he was marshalling his facts, "we--that is, to put it plainly, I myself--have been making more searching inquiries about Cornhill and Coldstream.

There's two of the men at Cornhill station will swear that when Phillips got out of the train there, that evening of the murder, he was carrying a little handbag such as the bank cashier remembers--a small, new, brown leather bag.

They're certain of it--the ticket-collector remembers him putting it under his arm while he searched his pocket for his ticket.

And what's more, the landlord of the inn across the bridge there at Coldstream he remembers the bag, clearly enough, and that Phillips never had his hand off it while he was in his house.