20/34 But he ordered it to be made; and then it came,--after he was--dead." "He knew their value, then ?" "Oh, dear, yes. Though he never named any sum. He told me, however, that they were very--very valuable." Lord Fawn did not immediately recognise the falseness of every word that the woman said to him, because he was slow and could not think and hear at the same time. But he was at once involved in a painful maze of doubt and almost of dismay. |