Of course, you intended throwing them in the lake, when you went down with the jewel-case; but you dropped the keys and didn't find them; there is always a little hitch like that--_it's the hitch in the rope_.

I know you took the jewel-case the morning you went down to bathe, because I traced your footprints into the middle of the wood, where you need not have gone, if you had been going merely for a bath.

I knew I should find the jewel-case just where you stopped; but I didn't want to discover it.

I was waiting for _you_ to go for it, which you would have done presently.

Unfortunately for him, another man was in the wood that morning and saw you; and _he_ went for the jewel-case.