I knew that they were
kept in this drawer, for I had been present in the room when they
were brought in after the wedding. I had also been short-sighted
enough to conclude that if they were gone it was he who had taken
them. They were gone, and that was why I flew immediately from the
house to the old place in Waverley Avenue. I was concerned for Mr.
Jeffrey! I feared to find him there, demented or dead"
"But you had no key."
"No. Mr. Jeffrey had taken one of them and my sister the other.
But the lack of a key or even of a light - for the missing candles
were not taken by me* - could not keep me at home after
I was once convinced that he had gone to this dreadful house. If I
could not get in I could at least hammer at the door or rouse the
neighbors. Something must be done. I did not think what; I merely
flew."
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*We afterwards found that these candles were never delivered at the
house at all; that they had been placed in the wrong basket and left
in a neighboring kitchen.
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"Did you know that the house had two keys?"
"Not then."
"But your sister did?"
"Probably."
"And finding the only key, as you supposed, gone, you flew to the
Moore house?"
"Immediately.
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