I think Mrs.LaGrange got possession of them in some way.

She has no means of her own to hire that scoundrel, yet the darkey heard her promise to pay him liberally, and you see her very first attempt to pay him was by the sale of some of those jewels.

I'll acknowledge I'm not prepared to say how or when she secured them." "Could she open the safe ?" "That I cannot say.

Mainwaring told me, some months ego, that he found her one day attempting to open it, and he immediately changed the combination.

Whether she had discovered the new combination, I am unable to say; but she is a deep woman, and usually finds some way of accomplishing her designs." "Brown, the coachman, seems to have no place in this theory of yours." "Well, of course we none of us thought of him in connection with this affair until since his sudden disappearance yesterday, but I am inclined to think that he is to be regarded in the light of an accessory after the fact.