Nina hesitated for a moment, and then he repeated his demand in a sterner voice.

"Nina, give me the jeweller's docket." Then she put her hand in her pocket and gave it him.

She was very averse to doing so, but she was more averse to refusing him aught that he asked of her.
"I have got something to tell you, Anton," she said, as soon as he had put the jeweller's paper into his purse.
"Well--what is it ?" "I have seen every paper and every morsel of everything that is in father's desk, and there is no sign of the deed you want." "And how did you see them ?" "He showed them to me." "You told him, then, what I had said to you ?" "No; I told him nothing about it.

He gave me the key, and desired me to fetch him all the papers.

He wanted to find a letter which uncle Karil wrote him ever so long ago.