The Key of the Chest (1945)
The Key of the Chest
“There were documents, including the ship’s log, but as most of them were in Swedish their examination did not take very long. It was, however, quite clear that she was a Swedish vessel of some 800 gross tons, bound from a port in Finland to the Clyde with a cargo of wood pulp and timber. Entries in the log no doubt fully described the weather and how the vessel had fared in the storm. There seemed to be nothing of an unusual nature – and, anyhow, the documents would, of course, have to be studi...ed in the proper quarter, as they would provide the basis for all considerations and claims, human and financial. The policeman’s wife had put a fire in the parlour and now the Fiscal was carefully drying some of the documents. The doctor was examining the chest. Remarkably little sea-water had seeped through. ‘A very neat job,’ he murmured, fingering some fine oilskin lining. But the way the inner wood-work tightly overlapped when the box was closed, so that even the keyhole, small as it was, did not go right through, held his attention.The policeman, who was assisting the Fiscal, glanced at the doctor, for they had already decided that the box had definitely no appearance of having been tampered with.MoreLess
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