This brought up Dard and Jacintha, in time to see Rose pour ten shining gold pieces out of the purse into her pink-white palm, while her face flushed and her eyes glittered with excitement.

Jacintha gave a scream of joy; "Our luck is turned," she cried, superstitiously.

Meanwhile, Josephine had found a slip of paper close to the purse.

She opened it with nimble fingers; it contained one line in a hand like that of a copying clerk: FROM A FRIEND: IN PART PAYMENT OF A GREAT DEBT.
Keen, piquant curiosity now took the place of surprise.

Who could it be?
The baroness's suspicion fell at once on Dr.Aubertin.But Rose maintained he had not ten gold pieces in the world.