4/96 Her other clothes--I mean those she wore on arriving--lay in disorder on the bed and chairs. I should say that they had been tossed about by a careless if not hasty hand, while the trunk----" "Well ?" "Stood open on the floor." "Stood open ?" "Yes, I went through it, of course." "And found nothing ?" "Nothing to help us to-day. Some clothing--some little trifles (bought in Paris, by the way) and one little book." "A name in it ?" "Yes--_Angeline_; and one line of writing from some poem, I judge. I put it back where I found it. |