That was no theft, for they are mine, or rather yours, and are waiting for you in my private drawer, where no one has ever looked, except a young girl called Jerrie, who interests me greatly, she is so much like what you must have been when a child.

There has been some trouble about the diamonds--I hardly know what, my head is in such a buzzing most of the time that everything goes from me but you.
Oh, if I had remembered you years ago as I do now--' Jerrie could read no further, for the letter dropped from her hands, as she cried joyfully: 'I knew he had them.

I was sure of it, though I did not know where they were.' Then very briefly she explained to Frank that on the morning when the diamonds were missed, Arthur was so excited because Harold had been in a way accused, and had rambled off into German, and said many things which made her know that he had taken them himself and secreted them.
'You remember my sickness,' she said, and how strangely I talked of going to prison as an accessory or a substitute?
Well, it was for your brother I was ready to go; and when he told me, as he did one day, that he knew nothing of the diamonds, I was never more astonished in my life; but afterward, as I grew older, I came to believe that he had forgotten them, as he did other things, and that some time he would remember and make restitution, I am glad we know where they are, but we cannot get them until he returns.

When do you think that will be ?' Frank did not know.

It would depend, he said, upon whether he was in San Francisco when Tom's telegram was received.