On the 24th Sir Florian and his young bride had undoubtedly been in
London. Mr. Camperdown anathematised the carelessness of everybody
connected with Messrs. Garnett's establishment. "Those sort of people have
no more idea of accuracy than--than--;" than he had had of heirlooms, his
conscience whispered to him, filling up the blank.
Nevertheless he thought he could prove that the necklace was first put
into Lizzie's hands in London. The middle-aged and very discreet man at
Messrs. Garnett's, who had given up the jewel-case to Sir Florian, was
sure that he had known Sir Florian to be a married man when he did so. The
lady's maid who had been in Scotland with Lady Eustace, and who was now
living in Turin, having married a courier, had given evidence before an
Italian man of law, stating that she had never seen the necklace till she
came to London. There were, moreover, the probabilities of the case. Was
it likely that Sir Florian should take such a thing down in his pocket to
Scotland? And there was the statement as first made by Lady Eustace
herself to her cousin Frank, repeated by him to John Eustace, and not to
be denied by any one.
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