But they were not there now.

Sarah, who knew where she kept them, had put them away, of course, and she gave them no more thought until three days later, when she received an invitation to a lunch party at Brier Hill.
'I shall wear my dark blue satin and diamonds,' she said to her maid, who was dressing her hair, but the diamonds, when looked for, were not in their usual place.
Sarah had not put them away, nor in fact had she seen them at all, for they were not upon the bureau when she went to arrange her mistress' room the morning after the party.

The diamonds were gone, nor could any amount of searching bring them to light.

And they looked everywhere, in every box and drawer and corner, and Mrs.Tracy grew cold and sick and faint, and finally broke down in a fit of crying, as she explained to her husband that her beautiful diamonds were stolen.

She called it that, now, and the whole household was roused and questioned as to when and where each had last seen the missing jewels.