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The woman Fournereau crossed the room quickly to a small rosewood bureau, and took therefrom a little cardboard box about a couple of inches square, such as is often used for containing cheap jewellery.
"I have something here," she said, addressing the man before her, "which was lying on the floor. You alone know its secret -- a secret which I, too, have lately discovered."