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am not at all surprised that he should stay away." Lizzie's condition did
not admit of much argument on her side, and she only showed her opposition
to Mrs. Carbuncle by being cross and querulous.
Frank Greystock came to her with great constancy almost every day, and
from him she did hear about the robbery all that he knew or heard. When
three days had passed, when six days, and even when ten days were gone,
nobody had been as yet arrested. The police, according to Frank, were much
on the alert, but were very secret. They either would not or could not
tell anything. To him the two robberies, that at Carlisle and the last
affair in Hertford Street, were of course distinct. There were those who
believed that the Hertford Street thieves and the Carlisle thieves were
not only the same, but that they had been in quest of the same plunder,
and had at last succeeded. But Frank was not one of these. He never for a
moment doubted that the diamonds had been taken at Carlisle, and explained
the second robbery by the supposition that Patience Crabstick had been
emboldened by success. The iron box had no doubt been taken by her
assistance, and her familiarity with the thieves, then established, had
led to the second robbery.
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