It walked slowly across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side.
That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not think that any burglar could have done.
"And now I have a very strange experience to tell you.

I had, as you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a great coil at the bottom of my trunk.

One evening, after the child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things.
There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones empty and open, the lower one locked.

I had filled the first two with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer.

It struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it.