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But if she did know, she very well ht’ve written it down

“What do you mean?” he asked carefully

Hyacinth picked up the diary, which had been sitting on a nearby end table “Your grand excitee with an elegant little booker to a sentence in the e as she said, “Diamanti Diarin “Do you knohat that means?”

He shook his head “I’m afraid not”

“Diamonds, Gareth It means diamonds”

He found hih he couldn’t possibly understand the words “I beg your pardon?”

“Your grandrandfather about them”

His lips parted “What are you saying?”

“Her grandmother caht with her a set of jewels Rings, I think And a bracelet And Isabella never told anyone”

“What did she do with them?”

“She hid the off the sofa now “She hid therandfather didn’t much like London, so there would be less chance he’d discover them here”

Finally, soan to seep into hiet too excited by as probably going to turn out to be a wild-goose chase But her fervor was infectious, and before he realized it, he was leaning forward, his heart beginning to beat just a little bit faster “What are you saying?” he asked

“I’ she’d uttered five times already, in every possible permutation, “that those jewels are probably still there Oh!” She stopped short, her eyessuddenness “Unless you already know about them Does your father already have them in his possession?”

“No,” Gareth said thoughtfully “I don’t think so At least, not that I’ve ever been told”

“You see? We can—”