Was it possible that she should have this document in her keeping ?--that was the thought that filled his mind.

He had bribed Lotta Luxa, and Lotta had sworn by her Christian gods that the deed was in Nina's hands.

If the thing was false, why should they all conspire to tell the same falsehood?
And yet he knew that they were false in their natures.

Their manner, the words of each of them, betrayed something of falsehood to his well-tuned ear, to his acute eye, to his sharp senses.

But with Nina--from Nina herself--everything that came from her spoke of truth.