The prince again went to his
bureau, glanced into it, fingered his papers, closed the
bureau again, and sat down at the table to write to the governor.
"That brooch isn't anywhere on the
bureau. You've taken it out or something, Anne."
He put the key of the cabinet back in the basket, and crossed the room to the
bureau, with the basket in one hand and the letter in the other.
Seeing her husband, she dropped her hands into the drawer of the
bureau as though looking for something, and only looked round at him when he had come quite up to her.
It was found near the
bureau, and just to the left of it, as marked upon that chart.
After locking up the
bureau again, he walked to the window and gazed out as impassibly as he had done at the beginning of the interview, while Raffles took a small allowance from the flask, screwed it up, and deposited it in his side-pocket, with provoking slowness, making a grimace at his stepson's back.
"'Oh, any old key will fit that
bureau. When I was a youngster I have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.'
I caught up the candle, opened the unlocked
bureau, and then the empty case which I found in the very front.
Pollyanna, smiling bravely now, flew about, hanging the dresses in the closet, stacking the books on the table, and putting away the undergarments in the
bureau drawers.
[Returns to
bureau, takes out book and examines it page by page, smiles and gives a sigh of relief.] I knew it!
From his trousers pockets he took a fistful of crumpled bank notes and a good deal of silver coin, which he piled on the
bureau indiscriminately with keys, knife, handkerchief, and whatever else happened to be in his pockets.
She was sweet to me as the bunch of white flowers that, in their frail Venetian vase, stand so daintily on my old
bureau as I write, doing their best to sweeten my thoughts.
