[The Avalanche by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Avalanche CHAPTER IX 2/10
It occurred to him that she had watched him open and close the safe several times but she certainly never had written the combination down, and it had taken him a long while to commit it to memory himself. He had glanced over the contents of the box before he locked it in.
The jewels were all there, the string of pearls that he had given her on their marriage day, a few wedding presents, and several rings and trinkets he had bought for her since.
The value was perhaps twenty thousand dollars, for he had told her that she must wait several years before he could give her the jewels of a great lady.
When she was thirty, and really needed them to make up for fading charms--it had been one of their pleasant little jokes. As Ruyler set the combination he sighed and wondered whether their days of joking were over.
Their life had suddenly shot out of focus and it would require all his ingenuity and patience, aided by friendly circumstance, to swing it into line again.
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