She sat there looking utterly helpless and wretched for a few moments.
Then her eyes began to blaze and her lips to twitch spasmodically.
"He has done this!" she cried, starting to her feet once more. "That was why he was absent so long from the ball-room to-night."
Seizing the papers she had removed from the box, she hastily replaced them, also the cushion, restoring the jewels to their places, after which she shut and locked the casket, taking care to remove the key from its lock.
This done, she hurried from the room, looking more like a beautiful fiend than a woman.
CHAPTER XVII.
"WOULD YOU DARE BE FALSE TO ME, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS?"
With her exquisite robe trailing unheeded after her, Anna Goddard swept swiftly down the hall and rapped imperatively upon the door of her husband's room.
There was no answer from within.