[The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy]@TWC D-Link bookThe Old Man in the Corner CHAPTER XV 3/8
My lady had already gone to bed, and I had put out the electric light, as I was going, too.
There was only one candle left in the room, close to the bed. "'Miss Crawford took all the jewels off, and asked Lady Donaldson for the key of the safe, so that she might put them away.
My lady gave her the key and said to me, "You can go to bed, Tremlett, you must be dead tired." I was glad to go, for I could hardly stand up--I was so tired.
I said "Good night!" to my lady and also to Miss Crawford, who was busy putting the jewels away.
As I was going out of the room I heard Lady Donaldson saying: "Have you managed it, my dear ?" Miss Crawford said: "I have put everything away very nicely."' "In answer to Sir James Fenwick, Tremlett said that Lady Donaldson always carried the key of her jewel safe on a ribbon round her neck, and had done so the whole day preceding her death. "'On the night of the 24th,' she continued, 'Lady Donaldson still seemed rather tired, and went up to her room directly after dinner, and while the family were still sitting in the dining-room.
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