She found nothing of the sort, however.

There were picture postcards, a few photographs, and a good many restaurant bills, but they were all from places in Germany and Austria.

At the bottom of the second trunk, however, she found something which he had evidently considered it worth while to preserve carefully.
It was a thick sheet of official-looking paper, bearing at the top an embossed crown, and covered with German writing.

It was numbered at the top "seventeen," and it was evidently an odd sheet of some document.

She folded it carefully up, and took it back with her to her own room.