But the steps went on, and I rushed out and downstairs, and left the locket where it was.

I was so scared I didn't know what I was doing." "Gracie found her hat in the garden this morning," gasped Ulyth.

"She wondered how it got there." "But what made you run away ?" asked Mrs.Arnold, returning to the main question.

"Did you think you were suspected ?" "Not till this afternoon.

Then the servants were all talking in the kitchen about how one of the young ladies was supposed to have taken what they called a 'pendon' or something, and Cook looked straight at me and says: 'If anything's missing, it's not one of the young ladies that's got it, I'll be bound.' And I turned red and run out of the kitchen.