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The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers

CHAPTER X
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"Her room is next to mine, and she walks up and down, and up and down, in the night.
I hear her when I am in bed.

Last night I heard her so late, so late that I had been to sleep and had waked up again.

Do you know," and she crept close up to me with wide, awe-struck eyes, "I am going away to-morrow, and I don't like to say anything to any one but you; but I think Evelyn knows something." "Miss Derrick!" I said, beginning to suspect that she possibly knew a good deal more than any of us, and then suddenly remembering that she had been on the point of telling me something and had been interrupted.
I was getting quite confused.

She certainly would not have wished to confide in me if my new suspicion were correct.

Considering there was a mystery, it was curious how every one seemed to know something very particular about it.
"Yes," replied Aurelia, nodding once or twice.


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