She was asking me about it." "It is since then," continued Evelyn.

"I went up to her room before dinner to ask her for a fan that I had lent her.

She was packing some of her things, and the floor was strewn with packing-paper and parcels.

She gave me my fan, and was going on putting her things together, talking all the time, when she asked me to hand her a glove-box on the dressing-table.

As I did so my eye fell on a piece of paper lying together with others, and I instantly recognized it as the same that had been wrapped round the diamond crescent when Colonel Middleton first showed us the jewels.