A little black calculating machine stood upon the table at one side of him, an open attache-case was on his other hand.

'And I'll bet ten to one it was something to do with the attache-case!

But when he turned round he was holding a black leather attache-case.

She's mislaid an attache-case and can't remember where she had it last.'

I remembered the earlier letters in the attache-case.

He passed to a small attache-case.

'It was the attache-case all right!

She says of the attache-case "That's mine.

Unfortunately, too, it carried on my baggage and a small attache-case in which I had some papers and my ticket.

Japp said suddenly: 'But the attache-case?

Ibrahim now packed his belongings in his box and his imitation-leather attache-case.

For the same reason, when she sets out the following day to get rid of the golf clubs, she continues to use the attache-case as a - what is it - kippered herring?'

She hurried up the stairs again back to the office-dumped her attache-case on the table and opened it-hastily snatched up some paper from the pile beside her typewriter-and threw it into the case.