"There is something in here.

Perhaps I had better not open it." "There is nothing that I know of," she answered.

"Some of the housemaids may have used it to put something by for the time and forgotten it.

Open it by all means!" I pulled open the drawer; as I did so, both Miss Trelawny and I started back in amazement.
There before our eyes lay a number of ancient Egyptian lamps, of various sizes and of strangely varied shapes.
We leaned over them and looked closely.

My own heart was beating like a trip-hammer; and I could see by the heaving of Margaret's bosom that she was strangely excited.
Whilst we looked, afraid to touch and almost afraid to think, there was a ring at the front door; immediately afterwards Mr.Corbeck, followed by Sergeant Daw, came into the hall.