Her own study was not exempt from the prying eyes of the detectives.

This room, sacred to her, which Roland himself never entered without permission was ransacked, and forever desecrated in her eyes.

This official meddling with her books and her papers could never be forgotten.

The pleasant place was made an abomination to her.
The bank was reopened the next morning at the accustomed hour, for a very short investigation by Mr.Clifford and the experienced advisers summoned from London to assist him proved that the revenues of the firm were almost as good as ever.

The panic had been caused by the vague rumor afloat of some mysterious complicity in crime between the absent partner and the clerk who had committed suicide.