Was it in the Tramp House ?' That started her at once, and she began to rave of the Tramp House, and the rat-hole, and the table, and Peterkin, who dealt the blow.

The bruise on her head had not proved so serious as was at first feared, and with her tangled hair falling over her face Harold had not noticed it.
But he looked at it now and questioned her of it, and asking if Peterkin had struck her there.
'No,' she said, and began the senseless babbling of rat-holes, and table-legs and bags, and diamonds until Harold became alarmed and went for his grandmother.
There was nothing to be learned from Jerrie in her present condition, and so Harold started for the Tramp House to see what that would tell him.

The table was still upon the floor, with the three legs piled upon it, while the fourth one was missing.

But Harold found it at last; for, remembering what Jerrie had said of the rat-hole, he investigated that spot, and from its enlarged appearance drew his own conclusion.

Jerrie had found the diamonds there; he had no doubt of it, and he told Tom Tracy so; for, as if there was a fascination about the place for him, Tom appeared in the door-way just as Harold was leaving it.