I am one of those people who, from having knocked about the world a lot, engaging in a multifarious variety of occupations, have picked up a queer scrap-heap of knowledge, and I will lay you any odds you like that I am absolutely correct in affirming that the box which I just now handed to Maggie, the chambermaid, was newly made by a Russian cabinet-maker within the last four weeks!" "For a purpose ?" suggested Allerdyke.
"Just so--for a purpose," assented Fullaway.

"That purpose being, of course, its substitution for the real original article.

You did not handle the box which is now upstairs--it is carefully weighted, though it is empty.

I believe--nay, I am sure, it contains a sheet of lead under its delicate lining of satin.

That, of course, was to deceive Mademoiselle.