CHAPTER XXVII.
THE POOR DOVES.
The next morning early Primrose opened her trunk, and unlocking a certain little morocco case, which contained her mother's letter about her lost brother, one or two trinkets which had belonged to that same mother, and Mr.Danesfield's envelope, she took the latter out of the case, and slipped it into her pocket.

After breakfast she went round to see Miss Egerton.
"An old friend," she said, "in the village where we lived--I would rather not say his name--gave me this.

I believe it contains money.

I have a kind of idea that it contains three bank notes for L5 each.

I have never opened it, and I never wish to.