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Though I would say that or anything to save Nigel. But I didn't discover that this little revolver of mine had ever been fired until yesterday, when I happened to go to my secrétaire for a letter which I had locked away in that particular drawer. Then I took it up and chanced to examine it I don't know why.
He raised his eyes in some little amazement at the sally of his dependant, and then he quietly resumed his occupation. "If thou knowest the man, it is enough." "Eccellenza, yes. And what is your pleasure with this accursed Jacopo?" The Duke of Sant' Agata seemed to recollect himself. He replaced the papers which had been deranged, and he closed the secretaire.
"From the top drawer of the secrétaire in the little boudoir at Withersby Hall," she said calmly, "where it has always lain. You will find a shot missing. Everything the same, Mr. Coroner; everything the same!" "It belongs to some member of your household, Miss Brellier?" She took a step backward and drew a sharp breath. Then her eyes were fixed upon Merriton's face. "It belongs to me," she said.
Assuredly it gave the opportunity to commit a theft. Something was stolen from the secretaire. A bold rascal, to force a drawer whilst another man was in the room! Did he fear the consequences if he were caught? I think not. He succeeded in his object, and went off, but before he reached the gates he saw Miss Layton, whom he did not know, talking to the baronet.
He took a pencil, drew a writing-pad toward him and began to scribble a few characters. But he next stammered: "Why, no, it's not worth while. The Prefect will be reading my letter.... What on earth's the matter with me. I don't like this at all!" Suddenly he rose to his feet and called out: "Monsieur le Secrétaire, we've got ... we've got to ... It's for to-night. Nothing can prevent "
"That resemblance can not be coincidence!" he thought. "Oh, errors of the past, you come home in our old age when the limbs are faltering and life is failing!" Going to the secrétaire, he took out a box that had not been opened in years, and, with trembling fingers, turned over many papers. He shivered, and, thinking it was cold, stirred the fire.
At the same time she saw, to her great joy, that M. de Chateauneuf had caused her foster-father to enter the barge with them. "If the Queen of Scotland were close at hand, the game would be won," said Bellievre. "Ah! Milord Treasurer and M. le Secretaire are far too cunning to have let her be within reach," said Chateauneuf. "Could we but have bound the Queen to anything," added Bellievre.
But his confidential friend and attendant, Monsieur Fiche proved that the ring had been presented to the said Madame de Belladonna two days before the Marquis's death, as were the bank-notes, jewels, Neapolitan and French bonds, &c., found in his lordship's secretaire and claimed by his heirs from that injured woman. Full of Business and Pleasure
"The secretaire is the same. You see, here is the drawer which was broken open. It bears the marks of the implement used to force the lock. I think I sat in this chair, or one like it. It was placed here. My face was turned towards the fire, yet in my dream I was looking through the centre window. The Japanese sword rested here. I showed you where Alan's body was found."
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