"Say, kid, is this yours ?" she added, turning to Lenora.
Lenora shook her head.

She, too, examined it a little wonderingly.
"It wasn't there a short time ago.

I brought a duster and went over the sideboard myself." Quest grunted.
"H'm! No one else has been in the room, and it hasn't been empty for more than ten minutes," he remarked.

"Well, let's see what's inside, any way." "Just be careful, Mr.Quest," Laura advised.

"I don't get that box at all." Quest pushed it with his forefinger.
"No bomb inside, any way," he remarked.