She has taken to hunting, and
rides about the country like a madwoman."
"A great many ladies hunt," said Lucy.
"And she's got hold of this Lord George, and of that horrid American woman
that nobody knows anything about. They've got the diamonds between them, I
don't doubt. I'll bet you sixpence that the police find out all about it,
and that there is some terrible scandal. The diamonds were no more hers
than they were mine, and she'll be made to pay for them."
The necklace, then meanwhile, was still locked up in Lizzie's desk--with a
patent Bramah key--in Mrs. Carbuncle's house, and was a terrible trouble
to our unhappy friend.
CHAPTER XLVII
MATCHING PRIORY
Before the end of January everybody in London had heard of the great
robbery at Carlisle; and most people had heard also that there was
something very peculiar in the matter--something more than a robbery.
Various rumours were afloat. It had become widely known that the diamonds
were to be the subject of litigation between the young widow and the
trustees of the Eustace estate; and it was known also that Lord Fawn had
engaged himself to marry the widow, and had then retreated from his
engagement simply on account of this litigation.
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