Augusta Huiell Seaman

“ I moaned at the awful thought. “Mother was around so much and got me so confused this morning that I clean forgot it!”
“Then it isn’t safe to hide it in there without!” declared Connie. “Miss Carstair would certainly see it. And we can’t borrow her sewing-things without arousing suspicions and causing questions. We’ve just got to think of something else!”
But before we could, we heard her coming down the hall with Connie's bath arrangements and knew that the opportunity was past.
“There’s no use! You’ll have to carry them around with you to-day!” groaned Connie. ”

“ For there, on the white satin, sparkled the most wonderful pair of emerald ear-rings,—each a big, beautiful stone set around with lovely diamonds,—a pair of bracelets set with emeralds all around, two immense emeralds set in rings, and a necklace of the same stones most beautifully matched and finished with a diamond clasp. ”

“ We can put the case in there and then you can get a needle and thread and sew up the hole. No one will ever think of it in the world, for the spring is too heavy for Miss Carstair to lift and she never touches it. So how about that, Miss Elspeth Curtis?”
I had to admit that it was a clever idea,—and just like Connie to think of it,—but still I was firm on the subject of not getting the case till morning, so Connie was finally compelled to give up her scheme about that and let me go to sleep. But she declared she would wake me up at daylight—and she did! ”