nine in the
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There was no trace of the box to be found in that city . I went round to every hotel and travelling office , but could hear nothing of it . Parties had gone to Venice , and Florence , and Bologna , and any of them might have taken the box . No one , however , remembered it ; and I returned back to Como , and thence to Bellaggio , reaching the latter place at nine in the evening , disappointed , weary , and cross . `` Has Monsieur found the accursed trunk ? '' said the Bellaggio Boots , meeting me on the quay . `` In the name of the -- , no .