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Her turn was long in coming; and as she laid her bundle on the counter, she saw suddenly that her needle had 'jumped, and that half an inch or so of band required re-sewing. As she looked, the foreman's knife slipped under the place, and in a moment half the band had been ripped. 'That's no good, he said. 'You are getting botchier all the time. 'Give it to me, Rose pleaded.
Then the bed was pulled to pieces, and the mattresses were closely scrutinized, to detect any sign of a recent ripping and re-sewing of any part of the seams through which the stolen jewels might have been pushed in among the stuffing, but evidently the mattresses had not been tampered with. Then the two officers of the law stopped and looked at each other.
'I do hope you will wear them, Dick, the mother said with something like a sob in her voice; but the tenderness came not from the approaching departure, but from her fear that the thick woollen drawers on which she was re-sewing all the buttons, should be neglected, after Dick's usual fashion. 'Mr. Caldigate I hope you will see that he wears them.
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