[The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Mary Cholmondeley]@TWC D-Link bookThe Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers CHAPTER X 14/18
"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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