[The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Mary Cholmondeley]@TWC D-Link book
The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers

CHAPTER II
6/14

"How fortunate I told you about them.

Some are of considerable value, and--and I don't know where to put them that they will be absolutely safe.

I never carried about jewels with me before, and I am nervous about _losing_ them, you understand." And he nodded significantly at me.

"Now where would you advise me to keep them ?" "On you," I said, significantly.
"But where ?" He was simpler than even I could have believed.
"My dear boy," I said, hardly able to refrain from laughing, "do as I do; put them in a bag with a string to it.

Put the string round your neck, and wear that bag under your clothes night and day." "At night as well ?" he asked, anxiously.
"Of course.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books