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Updated: May 24, 2025
The thought of the Faberge cigarette case, and the Louis XVI snuff box, and the Queen Anne toy-porringer which he had inherited all these years, made even life seem cheap, for life would be intolerable without them, and he sprang out of bed, groped for his slippers, since until he had made a plan it was wiser not to shew a light, and shuffled noiselessly towards the door.
Nothing must be moved," and he hastily replaced the toy-porringer on the exact circle of pressed velvet where it had stood before. "Yes, sir," said Foljambe, but in another moment she returned. "She would be very much obliged if you would come at once," she said. "There's been a robbery in the house." "Well, tell her there's been one in mine," said Georgie irritably.
Gone was the Louis XVI snuff-box, gone was the miniature of Karl Huth, gone the piece of Bow China, and gone the Faberge cigarette case. Only the Queen Anne toy-porringer was there, and in the absence of the others, it looked to him, as no doubt it had looked to the burglar, indescribably insignificant. Georgie gave a little low wailing cry, but did not tear his hair for obvious reasons.
At that supreme moment the telephone bell sounded. "See what it is," he said to Foljambe, and put the Queen Anne toy-porringer in his pocket. She came hurrying back. "Mrs Lucas wants you to come around at once," she said. "I can't," said Georgie. "I must stop here and send for the police.
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