She pulled up the tablecloth and searched through the drawer.

It contained card-counters, sockets for candles, a few scraps of wood detached from the furniture, two or three lustres belonging to the chandelier and a few photographs, among which she found only one of Chevalier, the earliest, showing him standing against a cloudy background.
She searched for the other two in a little piece of Boule furniture which adorned the space between the windows, and on which were some Chinese lamps.

Here slumbered lamp-globes of ground glass, lamp-shades, cut-glass goblets ornamented with gilt bronze, a match-stand in painted porcelain flanked by a child sleeping against a drum beside a dog, books whose bindings were detached, tattered musical scores, a couple of broken fans, a flute, and a small heap of carte-de-visite portraits.
There she discovered a second Chevalier, the Don Caesar de Bazan.

The third was not there.

She asked herself in vain where it could have been hidden away.