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And it seems that Mr. Tom told Miss Dane all about 'em, and gave her the secret of opening that cupboard. From this statement Watson went on to work upon Jane's love of discovering a mystery and her insatiable curiosity; and at last led her to thoroughly search Agatha's room for any papers bearing on the subject. Quite by accident she came upon the secret drawer in the dressing-case.
'Oh! papa, said she, with a newly-learnt little laugh, 'I could not help it; Louise could not find room for them in my dressing-case. They were not, however, lost upon the whole of the family.
"I haven't got a dressing-case," said Aurelia, pouting; "and my hat-box won't lock. I don't like having them. I wish you would keep them yourself." "Bother!" said Ralph; "and father has gone to bed. He can't put them back into his safe, and he keeps the key himself. Where is the bag they go in?"
Now, I wish you would baste some fresh ruching on my traveling dress, then you may hem the new vail that you will find upon my dressing-case," and having given these directions, Mrs. Montague hurried from the room to find her nephew.
He groped blindly along the wall and found the switch, flooding the hall with light, and as he did so he heard a little sound close to him on the stairs and a smothered cry. He wheeled round sharply, and came face to face with his wife. She was at the foot of the stairs, dressed for travelling, and she clutched a small dressing-case in one shaking hand.
At the moment when the old man, who chanced to have his pass-key in his pocket, opened the door and climbed with a stealthy step up the stairway to go into his wife's room, Eugenie had brought the beautiful dressing-case from the oak cabinet and placed it on her mother's bed.
He fumbled about in his little dressing-case until he came to a small box containing several white pills. He gripped them in his hand and looked around, listening. No, it was fancy! There was still no sound in the building. When at last he went back to bed, however, the little box was tightly clenched in his hands. In the morning he went through his usual programme.
Grandet held his knife over the dressing-case and hesitated as he looked at his daughter. "Are you capable of doing it, Eugenie?" he said. "Yes, yes!" said the mother. "She'll do it if she says so!" cried Nanon. "Be reasonable, monsieur, for once in your life." The old man looked at the gold and then at his daughter alternately for an instant. Madame Grandet fainted.
"There are several rooms exactly in the locality you asked for," he remarked, "which are simply being held over. If you would prefer 317, you can have it, and I will give 217 to our other client." "Thank you," I answered, "I should prefer 317 if you can manage it." He scribbled the number upon a ticket and handed it to the porter, who stood behind with my dressing-case.
She thanked him, put the box in her dressing-case and the diamond on her finger, and displayed it in the best company. When she was asked where she got the ring and the bog, "M. de Parabere gave them to me," she said; and he, who happened to be present, added, "Yes, I gave them to her; can one do less when one has for a wife a lady of quality who loves none but her husband?"
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