"Not deserve them, when you've saved me--I don't yet understand how--from a horror worse than death--oh, but a thousand times worse, for I wanted to die.

I meant to die.

If they had found it, I shouldn't have lived to see to-morrow morning.

Tell me--how did you work such a miracle?
How did you get this necklace, that meant so much to me (and to one I love), and how did you hide the--other thing ?" "I don't know anything about this necklace," I answered, stupidly, "I didn't bring it." "You--_didn't bring it_ ?" "No.

At least, that red leather thing isn't the case I carried.