Go there till all this
passes by." Whereupon she promised him that, as soon as she was well
enough, she would at once go to Scotland.
In the mean time, the Eustace diamonds were locked up in a small safe
fixed into the wall at the back of a small cellar beneath the
establishment of Messrs. Harter & Benjamin, in Minto Lane, in the City.
Messrs. Harter & Benjamin always kept a second place of business. Their
great shop was at the West End; but they had accommodation in the City.
The chronicler states this at once, as he scorns to keep from his reader
any secret that is known to himself.
CHAPTER LIII
LIZZIE'S SICK-ROOM
When the Hertford Street robbery was three days old, and was still the
talk of all the town, Lizzie Eustace was really ill. She had promised to
go down to Scotland in compliance with the advice given to her by her
cousin Frank, and at the moment of promising would have been willing
enough to be transported at once to Portray, had that been possible--so as
to be beyond the visits of policemen and the authority of lawyers and
magistrates; but as the hours passed over her head, and as her presence of
mind returned to her, she remembered that even at Portray she would not be
out of danger, and that she could do nothing in furtherance of her plans
if once immured there.
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