It is true that the safe was not open, but there was an ordinary cashbox on the table, with three thousand dollars in it.
Actually, it was easy once he had hurdled the ticket-seller with his forged note and the five-dollar bill from the cashbox in his father's desk.
Jimmy had the contents of his father's cashbox pinned to the inside of his shirt, and a five-dollar bill folded in a snap-top purse with some change in his shirt pocket.
Jimmy Holden had with him only his clothing and what was left of the wad of paper money from his father's cashbox still pinned to the inside of his shirt.
If this incredible thing were true--if Captain Branscome were the criminal--the puzzle ceased to be a puzzle; the guinea and the broken cashbox were only too fatally accounted for.
For instance, I don't see why the Major should want to go to the house and bring back his cashbox to the garden.
There in the summer-house he found the Major, who meanwhile had fetched his cashbox from the house and locked the chart up in it.
Surely the simple thing was to take the paper, or whatever it was, straight to the house, lock it up, and leave the cashbox in its usual place?
Since I do my accounts there it is convenient to have my cashbox at hand.
He keeps his accounts and his cashbox in the bungalow, it is true, but he is much more interested in the ancient histories of India and Asia than in Friar's Court.
