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The ship’s pursers used Gladstone bags like this one, recovered in 1987, to transport valuables.

They chose the Gladstone bag, and the final signifier of the medical profession was in place.

The steward allowed the Gladstone bag to fall from his hand, and stood regarding the detective in amazement.

Yet the sight of these same streets was like wine in the veins to a man who drove through them in a hansom piled with Gladstone bags and P. and O. trunks.

A second yellow carpet was unrolled to cover the flight of steps on the left of the porch, more eunuchs went by, more Gladstone bags were carried past me.