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"Hm!... So the only evidence for the defence is that they were beating one another and laughing. That constitutes a strong presumption, but... How do you explain the facts yourself?" "How do I explain them? What is there to explain? It's clear. At any rate, the direction in which explanation is to be sought is clear, and the jewel-case points to it. The real murderer dropped those ear-rings.
I told him that I was about to take up my residence with the Gironacs, gave him their address, and then we parted. That evening I opened the jewel-case and found it well stocked. The value of its contents I could not possibly be acquainted with, but that so many diamonds and other stones were of value I knew well.
I don't know how she has got money. I suppose in the old way." "Poor soul!" said the Squire. "To tell you the truth, Norrie, I can't bear to look at that jewel-case of hers. I believe, upon my word, that it is nearly empty. She is very generous, is your mother. She's a very fine woman, and I am desperate proud of her.
I threw my shawl over the jewel-case with a rapid movement. "The special-talk business not yet over?" he asked with a sneer in his tone. "Yes, we've quite finished," said Amulya apologetically. "It was nothing much." "No, Amulya," I said, "we have not quite finished." "So exit Sandip for the second time, I suppose?" said Sandip. "If you please." "And as to Sandip's re-entry." "Not today.
Mrs Mellish, in her nightgown, came running into the room. "Oh, Auntie! Are you ill? Are you on fire?" she cried. The stout lady, strengthless and breathless, was lying in a chair, the jewel-case clasped laxly with one arm. "A robber has been here," she gasped. "A robber, with black on his face, and a chloroformed handkerchief." "Oh, Auntie! Auntie! Never!" "Where is your husband?
I know, from the description, that it is the missing jewel-case, and I have arrested him on the charge of robbery and attempted murder. How you seem to know him I don't understand " Celia stood as if turned to stone for a moment or two; her eyes wandering from the faces of the two men to the jewel-case; then she broke out, "Sydney, why don't you explain?
On the morning after that night of the fog, she had returned to her bungalow before breakfast, and had reappeared later at Rest Haven with a mysterious bundle. When they had both retired to Leslie's room she revealed its contents, a piece of burlap, an exact duplicate of the one which contained the Dragon's Secret, and an antimony jewel-case.
As she sat down in her corner facing the engine, with the jewel-case on the seat next to her, she felt an obscure irritation. A man in search of adventure does not usually take two people one of them an old woman in a black wig with him when he sets out on his travels. A trio banishes romance. And how can a woman be thrilled by a family party?
"It is the key to my jewel-case." "Will you let me see it?" "No." "It is not the key to a jewel-case." "It does not concern you what it is." "It is the key to the storeroom door." "You are stronger than I am. You look the brute. You can knock me away and get it." I knew then, of course, that it was the storeroom key. But I could not take it by force.
She sent me her jewel-case, with all her diamonds and nearly all her money, all the scandalous books she possessed, and all her letters, telling me that if she did not die I was to return her the whole, but that all belonged to me if, as she thought, she should succumb to the disease.
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