dyship came in and
found me with it.'

"Now you may be sure, sir, as Jane had no easy work to get them words
out, and, I suppose, Lady Morville thought as she was making up a lie;
so she says very gravely, `I don't at all understand you, Jane: how can
Georgina have brought the bracelet to you? She was searching for the
pair last night herself, and knows that they were missing from my jewel-
case. And how can she have said that some lady must have dropped this
bracelet, when she must know it perfectly well to be my own? Besides,
it is only a few minutes ago that she told me she believed I should find
it in this room somewhere, only she didn't like to say why.'

"Jane saw it all now--they had laid a cruel trap for her, and she was
caught in it. At first she had no answer but tears, and then she
declared that she had told the simple truth, and nothing but the truth.
`It may be so, Jane,' said her mistress; `of course what you say is
possible, but, I fear, not very probable.'

"She rung the bell, and Georgina answered it with a smirk on her face.
`Just call Hollands, and come in here with him,' said her ladyship. The
butler soon came in; and Jane says, if ever the devil looked through any
man's eyes, she believes he did through his, as he glared at her with a
look of triumph, his mistress's back being turned towards him. Lady
Morville then asked them if Jane's story was true, and if Georgina had
shown her the bracelet. John Hollands lifts up his hands and eyes, and
cries out, `Was there ever such hypocrisy and deceit!' As for Georgina,
she pretends to get into a passion, and declares as it was all a make-up
thing to rob her and the butler of their characters. And then she says,
`Why, my lady, I've missed things myself, and I've had my suspicions;
but I've not liked to say anything. There's a silver pencil-case, which
my dear mother gave me, and it's got my initials on it: it's gone from
my room, and I can't hear anything about it.' Jane at once pulls the
pencil-case out of her pocket, and lays it on the table. `I see how it
is,' she says; `you two are determined to ruin me; but the Lord above,
he knows I'm innocent.--Your ladyship, Georgina made me a present of
that pencil-case a short time ago. I didn't want to take it; but she
wouldn't be refused, and said I must keep it as a token of good-will
from her.'--`Well, did I ever hear such assurance!' cried Georgina. `I
wonder what she'll say next? But one thin