Garnett's," said Mr.Camperdown.

"I don't know that I have any to send back," she answered; and then she escaped before Mr.Camperdown was able to arrange any further attack.

"I can manage with her better by letter than I can personally," he said to John Eustace.
Lawyers such as Mr.Camperdown are slow, and it was three or four months after that when he wrote a letter in his own name to Lady Eustace, explaining to her, still courteously, that it was his business to see that the property of the Eustace family was placed in fit hands, and that a certain valuable necklace of diamonds, which was an heirloom of the family, and which was undeniably the property of the heir, was believed to be in her custody.

As such property was peculiarly subject to risks, would she have the kindness to make arrangements for handing over the necklace to the custody of the Messrs.

Garnett?
To this letter Lizzie made no answer whatever, nor did she to a second note, calling attention to the first.