Brewster. "Jimmie declared that if we were found together I
might be compromised. He couldn't explain his presence without
exposing father - we both thought you a forger, father," she
interpolated, as McIntyre took her hand and pressed it
understandingly. "So he insisted that I should treat him like an
ordinary burglar - we had both forgotten Barbara's silly wager in
our horror about father. Jimmie didn't dare take the securities
and father's confession with him for fear he'd be searched at the
police station, and the scandal would have come out then."
"True," agreed McIntyre. "Go on, Helen."
"So Jimmie thrust the securities and father's confession into an
envelope and sealed it with red wax, using Barbara's seal,"
explained Helen. "He hadn't time to write an address or message
on it, but he told me to return the envelope to him later in the
day or give it to Philip Rochester and ask his aid. I brought it
here on Wednesday morning and with Harry's permission put the
envelope in the safe."
"I tried to get it from there," volunteered Sylvester, "for I
overheard Turnbull's plan, before I left by the reception room
window.
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