[The Powers and Maxine by Charles Norris Williamson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Powers and Maxine CHAPTER VI 9/55
It never left my pocket.
I thought of it and guarded it every moment.
Could those diamonds have been inside it? Could the Foreign Secretary had given me the necklace, _instead_ of what you expected ?" "No, no," she answered with desperate impatience.
"He knew that the only thing which could save me was the document I'd sent him.
I wired that I must have it back again immediately, for my own sake--for his--for the sake of England.
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