Nothing, positively nothing, but what you would be likely to find in any young girl's traveling-bag.

There's but one conclusion to be drawn." "And what is that ?" "That all these things, such as they were, had been pushed hastily about after being emptied out on the table.

That was not the young girl's work." "Madame Duclos'!" "You've hit it.

She was in search of some one thing she wanted, and she took the quickest way of finding it.

And----" "Yes, Gryce ?" "She was in a desperate hurry, or she wouldn't have left the trunk open or all those dainty things lying about.