"
"I have had all my diamonds stolen, if you mean that. Perhaps it was wrong
to have diamonds."
"But to come to my question--I suppose we may take it for granted that the
diamonds were in your desk when the thieves made their entrance into this
house, and broke the desk open, and stole the money out of it?" Lizzie
breathed so hardly, that she was quite unable to speak. The man's voice
was very gentle and very kind--but then how could she admit that one fact?
All depended on that one fact. "The woman Crabstick," said the major, "has
confessed, and will state on her oath that she saw the necklace in your
hands in Hertford Street, and that she saw it placed in the desk. She then
gave information of this to Benjamin--as she had before given information
as to your journey up from Scotland--and she was introduced to the two men
whom she let into the house. One of them, indeed, who will also give
evidence for us, she had before met at Carlisle. She then was present when
the necklace was taken out of the desk. The man who opened the desk and
took it out, who also cut the door at Carlisle, will give evidence to the
same effect.
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