"The diamonds not in the box!" he said--pushing his head a little more
forward in his eagerness, and sitting with the extended fingers of his two
hands touching each other.
"Barrington Erle says that Major Mackintosh is almost sure the diamonds
were not there." Major Mackintosh was an officer very high in the police
force, whom everybody trusted implicitly, and as to whom the outward world
believed that he could discover the perpetrators of any iniquity, if he
would only take the trouble to look into it. Such was the pressing nature
of his duties that he found himself compelled in one way or another to
give up about sixteen hours a day to them; but the outer world accused him
of idleness. There was nothing he couldn't find out--only he would not
give himself the trouble to find out all the things that happened. Two or
three newspapers had already been very hard upon him in regard to the
Eustace diamonds. Such a mystery as that, they said, he ought to have
unravelled long ago. That he had not unravelled it yet was quite certain.
"The diamonds not in the box!" said the duke.
"Then she must have known it," said Madame Goesler.
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