Then he took out a well-worn pocketbook and from its depths abstracted a soiled card which, leaning forward, he placed carefully upon the table before Patsy.

Here is a little earnest of what is to come," he went on, drawing out his pocketbook and passing a folded note over towards his visitor, "and remember, Mr. Phipps has offered five hundred pounds for the discovery of the person who is responsible for his nephew's disappearance.

Inspector Chippenfield opened the capacious pocketbook which he had placed before him on the desk when the butler had entered in response to his summons, and he took from it a photograph which he handed to the man he was interrogating.

"You are charged with entering the adjoining room, and stealing a pocketbook from the boy who sleeps there.

I particularly recollected having volunteered a translation or imitation of a pretty song in Ruy Blas; and as the fit was upon me, I produced my pocketbook, to commit to paper a version of it which I had mentally devised.

Kenelm brought out his pocketbook, and carefully pulled a dollar bill from the four which it contained.

Fearful of the result, he went to his own room, first, and left the precious pocketbook, and then descended to the hall.

"I picked up the pocketbook which I had shaken out of his clothes in that first struggle.

" From her childish treasures she hunted out a little red pocketbook and in this she put her pennies, one at a time.

"Can you identify that pocketbook?"

"Before you get out," he said, "hand that lady her pocketbook.

[Lays his pocketbook on the table.

He cursed his stupidity in not throwing away the worthless pocketbook, but this he had neglected to do, and, of course, it was very significant evidence against him.

It is doubtless for our good in the long run that we lose our pocketbooks, and break our arms, and catch a fever, and have our brothers defraud a bank, and our houses burn down, and people steal our umbrellas, and borrow our books and never return them.

" "Do you miss your pocketbook, madam?" asked the gentleman, turning to the lady who had been robbed.

He fingered his pocketbook lovingly, glad that, for the first time in some months, he actually wanted something that money could buy.

Suddenly hearing hurried footsteps following him, he turned about and faced a lad who thrust the pocketbook into the owner's hand and disappeared before the Englishman could get a coin from his pocket to reward the boy for his honesty.

" "Did you find a pocketbook, Ben?

" I pulled out my pocketbook and paid the bill.

However, if you will be so gracious as to suggest that your valet de chambre return my pocketbook and passports..." "I have them here."

"I dropped a pocketbook containing government bonds and some other securities, with between fifty and sixty thousand dollars," responded Peter Drummond, carelessly; "but no matter, if any man will return a few autograph letters from foreign potentates that happened to be in it,of no value to anybody but the owner,he can keep the money.

And, after all, it's a wicked city to be carrying a fat pocketbook around in, as I've often observed.

Migwan returned to the kitchen and got her mother's pocketbook.

" "A lady is in more danger than a gentleman," observed the business man, "as she cannot so well hide away her pocketbook.