[Finished by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookFinished CHAPTER VIII 10/38
I unlocked the door and, entering, threw open a shutter. There sat the dead man as I had left him, only his head had fallen over a little.
She gazed at him, trembling, then advanced and kissed his cold forehead, muttering, "Good-bye, father.
Oh! good-bye, father." A thought struck me, and I asked-- "Is there any place here where your father locked up things? As I have shown you, you are his heiress, and if so it might be as well in this house that you should possess yourself of his property." "There is a safe in the corner," she answered, "of which he always kept the key in his trouser pocket." "Then with your leave I will open it in your presence." Going to the dead man I searched his pocket and found in it a bunch of keys.
These I withdrew and went to the safe over which a skin rug was thrown.
I unlocked it easily enough.
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