But she would break it now.
Surely she might do that, if Arthur was never to see it; and after a moment's hesitancy, she opened it, and read, first, wild, crazy sentences, full of love and tenderness for the little Gretchen to whom they were addressed, and whom the writer sometimes spoke to as living, and again as dead.

There was the expression of a strong desire to see her, a wish for her to come where her husband was waiting for her, and her diamonds too.

Here Jerrie started with an exclamation of surprise, and involuntarily read aloud: 'The most exquisite diamonds you ever saw, and I long to see them on you.

They are safe, too--safe from her--Mrs.Frank Tracy--who had the boldness to flaunt them in my face at a party the other night.

How she came by them I can't guess; but I know how she lost them, I found them on her dressing-table, where she left them when she went to breakfast, and took possession at once.