That the parcel must have been lying quietly in the drawer since her master's death, was certain.

The key of the drawer had remained in her own possession.

When the search after the codicil took place, this drawer was opened--as a matter of form more than anything else--and Mrs.Tynn herself had lifted out the stack of shirts.

She had assured those who were searching that there was no need to do so, for the drawer had been locked up at the time the codicil was made, and the deed could not have been put into it.

They accepted her assurance, and did not look between the shirts.