A jingle of keys followed.
"That's all," Helene Vauquier said.

She might have just turned out the pocket of an old dress.
There was the sound of something heavy and inert falling with a dull crash upon the floor.

A woman laughed, and again it was Helene Vauquier.
"Which is the key of the safe ?" asked Adele.
And Helene Vauquier replied:-- "That one." Celia heard some one drop heavily into a chair.

It was Wethermill, and he buried his face in his hands.

Helene went over to him and laid her hand upon his shoulder and shook him.
"Do you go and get her jewels out of the safe," she said, and she spoke with a rough friendliness.
"You promised you would blindfold the girl," he cried hoarsely.
Helene Vauquier laughed.
"Did I ?" she said.