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Updated: May 1, 2025
Hamilton Burton paused with his fingers on the knob of a wall-safe from which he had meant to take a package that he had placed there as a gift in celebration of her home-coming. It had pleased him, as he was shown that rope of splendidly matched pearls in the establishment of the continent's premier jeweller, that he was able to buy such gifts.
And the bath of the previous morning would be his last. Mere water could not stay the corruption of death. He would have to shave, however a last vanity, for the hair did continue to grow for a time on dead men's faces. He brought a copy of his will from the wall-safe to his desk and read it carefully.
Whether or not the Swedish girl, Olga Cedarstrom, had carried the valuables away with her, Janice felt all the time that she had only herself to blame because of the loss. And she realized that the loss of the packet of letters had saddened daddy dreadfully. "If I had not been careless! If I had put the box back into the wall-safe before I went to bed!
I was able to help in saving a quantity of extremely important papers relating to his business, and, while repairs were being made, allowed him to lock them in an old wall-safe in one of my rooms which the fire had scarcely damaged. The acquaintance thus begun has lasted many years, and has become a rather close friendship.
For while she was rummaging in the wall-safe, the night before, suddenly the fire had gone down, and the room had sunk to freezing point. Delia, brought up in warm climates, had jumped shivering into bed, and there, heaped round with the contents of the cupboard, had examined a few more cases, till sleep and cold overpowered her. In the grey morning light she opened some of the cases again.
To the keenest human ears the thief's soft progress across the wide living room to the wall-safe would have been all but inaudible.
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