No, this could have been no wedding gift intended for her, or the initials would have been different.
She replaced the note, also the bottles, and then turned her attention to other things, but becoming more and more convinced of Brownie’s dishonesty.
She opened the bureau drawers, and was surprised to find several other articles marked with the same initials.
Two or three sets of undergarments, trimmed with costly laces and embroideries, a couple of handkerchiefs, which made her eyes water to look at them, an emerald ring and a pearl pin.
She found Brownie’s jewel-box, containing only a few plain articles of jewelry, and one or two sets of jet, which she had purchased since her aunt’s death, and the cuff button, the mate of which was in Adrian Dredmond’s possession.
But the jeweled cross and hair ornament were not to be found there.
“I wonder where she keeps them?” Miss Coolidge soliloquized, as, after examining all the drawers, she turned her gaze about the room.
Her eye fell upon a large writing-desk, which stood upon a table at the further side of the room.
She went over to it, and tried to raise the lid.
It was locked, and the key removed.