"That's good. And at
least every one of them is _here_. No chance of slipping away now. Now
for it."
He turned back to the table with something of suppressed eagerness in his
movements, and a low murmur of excitement went up round the crowded
courtroom. Rapidly he tore off the wrappings from the long, snake-like
bundle, and held one of the objects up to view.
"Allow me to draw your attention to this," he said, in a loud, clear
voice, every note of which carried to the back of the long room. "This,
as you possibly know, sir, is a piece of electric tubing made for the
express purpose of conveying safely delicate electric wirings that are
used for installations, so that they may not be damaged in transit from
the factory to--the agent who sells them. You would like to see the
wirings, I know--" For answer he whipped open the joints of one of the
tubes, set it upon end, and--from inside the narrow casing came a perfect
shower of golden sovereigns clattering to the floor and across the table
in front of the astonished clerk's eyes.
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