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"My uncle offered to do the fair thing out of his own pocket, but, as I've said, the Stevenses wouldn't touch his money; and there the case has stood ever since. "The most valuable of the jewels are in the vaults of the Central Safe Deposit Company in this city. Some of the smaller pieces are in Mrs. Pond's possession.
Colonel Richmond was commanded to restore the jewels to Millie Stevens. This point was made so exceedingly clear, and his promise was demanded in such stringent terms that Nick was no longer able to doubt that the interests of the Stevenses were being very carefully attended to by these "spook-compellers."
The falsehood was registered against him beyond recall, though, of course, without startling the doubts or suspicions of his companion. "Alfred Stevens; there are many Stevenses: I have known several and sundry. There is a worthy family of that name by the waters of the Dan." "You will find them, I suspect, from Dan to Beersheba," responded the youth with a resumption of his former levity.
If we give up the jewels, the colonel will give us their value. By jingo, he'll have to. "Well, what's that but the theft of a million from him?" Nick was compelled to confess that it was just that, and nothing else. "And who'll reap the proceeds?" continued Pond. "Why, the Stevenses, of course. Nobody else gets anything out of it.
How dreadful it must be to have to keep house, cook the meals and try to go to school! The Stevenses seemed to be very poor in everything except music. She wondered how they lived. Perhaps the two men played in orchestras. Still she had never heard anything about them in school, where news circulated so quickly.
"Right around back of the hotel. Just follow that drive." "Thanks," said the other crisply. "I'll see you this evening," and he stalked away leaving Billy gasping for breath at the suddenness of Sam. After all, though, he was glad to be rid of Mr. Turner. He knew the Stevenses himself, and it had slowly dawned on him that by having his own horse saddled he could beat Princeman over there.
The Stevenses had gone to live in a remote part of England Yorkshire, I believe and it thus fell out, that, till his cousin Lucy arrived at her new home, he had not seen her for more than ten years.
When the Stevenses arrived on the grounds, wagons and carts, coaches and old family chaises, people on horseback and on foot, in multitudes, with provision wagons, tents, mattresses, household implements and cooking utensils, were seen hurrying from every direction toward the central point.
It might be that the whole plot was directed to that end, and that the transfer of the jewels to the Stevenses was only to be an incidental result of the plot. Yet so long as Miss Stevens' unusual conduct remained unexplained, it would not do to go upon this theory.
On the contrary, we knew positively that she had made a much later will in favor of Millie Stevens. But the document couldn't be found, and so the old one was submitted for probate. "The colonel expected a contest, but the Stevenses did not make a murmur. It must have been a tremendous disappointment to them, but they bore it with perfect good nature.
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