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Title: The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers

Author: Mary Cholmondeley

Release Date: August 10, 2006 [EBook #19020]

Language: English

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THE DANVERS JEWELS

AND

SIR CHARLES DANVERS

by

Mary Cholmondeley

NEW YORK

HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE

1890

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TO MY SISTER

"DI"

I AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATE THE STORY
WHICH SHE HELPED ME
TO WRITE

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CONTENTS.

THE DANVERS JEWELS 9

THE SEQUEL.

SIR CHARLES DANVERS 93

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THE DANVERS JEWELS.

CHAPTER I.

I was on the point of leaving India and returning to England when he
sent for me. At least, to be accurate--and I am always accurate--I was
not quite on the point, but nearly, for I was going to start by the mail
on the following day. I had been up to Government House to take my leave
a few days before, but Sir John had been too ill to see me, or at least
he had said he was. And now he was much worse--dying, it seemed, from
all accounts; and he had sent down a native servant in the noon-day heat
with a note, written in his shaking old hand, begging me to come up as
soon as it became cooler. He said he had a commission which he was
anxious I should do for him in England.

Of course I went. It was not very convenient, because I had to borrow
one of our fellows' traps, as I had sold my own, and none of them had
the confidence in my driving which I had myself. I w