But I could not part with a line I had received from you.

I inclosed the letters in a little coffer, which I deposited in a secret drawer of that cabinet, as in a place of perfect safety.

The coffer and its contents mysteriously disappeared.

How it was purloined I cannot inform you." "Do your suspicions alight on no one ?" she inquired.
"They have fallen on several; but I have no certainty that I have been right in any instance," he replied.

"That I have some spy near me, I am well aware; and if I detect him, he shall pay for his perfidy with his life." "Hist!" cried Lady Exeter.