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"If this briefcase is so important, shouldn't we be trying to dig ourselves out?"
"When I was younger, I too confounded the important with the urgent. This war shall not end in a fortnight, boy, and we are trapped in here anyways. But once you are rescued, I will need you to take this briefcase and deliver it to certain persons, and guard its contents with your life - even destroy it before it falls into wrong hands. But above all, I must implore you to keep our conversation in absolute secrecy. Are you up to the task?"
"Why, to even ask such a thing, Sir! I am an officer in Her Majesty's Imperial Navy. But above that, you have my word as a gentleman."
"Very well, Lieutenant. Well, we are not going anywhere in a while, so we might as well make ourselves comfortable."
Within a few minutes, the Man In The Suit was propped up in a comfortable seated position, and a loose board made a makeshift table on which rested the gas lamp and two glasses, and a bottle of middle-class brandy. The Lieutenant was able to dig it out, as well as a few cigars, from under the counter.
"Do you think the owner will mind?"
"He abandoned these resources in a time of war. With the authority of the Crown, we have decided to avail ourselves of them."
With this, the two men had regained their spirits a bit. The briefcase was unlocked and put precariously to the side. The lieutenant could not help but glance at it askance every so often.
"I am sure you have questions, Lieutenant."
"I am used to being kept in the dark at the Admiralty. But I can't in all honesty say I am not curious."
"Well, we have time, Mister Gladstone. I will tell you... <span class="mu-i">everything</span>"
