Will--" she hesitated, then burst out, "will you do something for me ?" "If I can," I smiled.
"How long do you expect to stay over there ?" "Oh, that I can't say." "A month?
a week ?" "Probably a week." "Then you can do what I want.

Miss--" "Saunders," I put in.
"There is something in that house which belongs to me." I started; this was hardly what I expected her to say.
"Something of great importance to me; something which I must have and have very soon.

I don't want to go there for it myself.

I hid it in a very safe place one day when my future looked doubtful, and I didn't know where I might be going or what might happen to me.

Mrs.Packard would think it strange if she saw where, and might make it very uncomfortable for me.