Pulling herself together she returned to her room.
Although she had driven the man away, she locked the door, and when she had lighted the lamp sat down to recover her calm.

There was no use in wakening Mrs.Farnam, and by and by she began to look about.

The papers in the writing-table had been thrown upon the floor; her trunk was empty and the clothes it had held were scattered.

The man had obviously been searching for something, and this was curious, because one would not expect to find jewelry in a writing-table, and a bureau with three or four drawers had not been opened.

Then she noticed her father's letters lying in a bundle on the table, and put them back in the trunk from which she had recently taken them.