"In the mean time, you know, you must not talk of it to any one." "Do you suspect any one in particular ?" she asked, very earnestly, coming a step nearer.
I hardly knew what to say.

Carr, I need hardly mention, I had never suspected for a moment; but Charles--Marston had evidently believed what Charles had said, but I am by nature more cautious and less credulous than Marston.

Besides, I had not forgiven Charles yet for trying to incriminate Carr.

Not knowing what to say, I shrugged my shoulders and smiled.
"You do suspect some one, then ?" "My dear young lady," I replied, "when jewels are stolen, one naturally suspects some one has taken them." "So I should imagine.

Whom do you naturally suspect ?" I could not tell her that I more than suspected Charles.
"I know nothing for certain," I said.
"But you have a suspicion ?" "I have a suspicion." She went to the door to see if it were shut, and then came back and said, in a whisper: "So have I." "Perhaps we suspect the same person ?" I said.
She did not answer, but fixed her dark eyes keenly on mine.