Shortly after this Jack and Percival, while in Riverton one day,
came across Gabrielle, the former nurse maid for Mrs. Van der Donk,
and Percival, recognizing her said shortly:
"How do you do? Will you tell me how you happened to put that watch
in my friend's pocket the night of the fire at your employer's house?"
"What you say?" asked the girl in the high key customary with her.
"I do not know you, I have not meet you before."
"But you know me," said Jack. "You remember the watch with the
diamonds on the case that your friend gave you? You were talking
about it on the banks of the kill one afternoon and said you had
lost it. You did not lose it, did you? Didn't you put it in my
pocket?"
"Who are you?" asked the girl, making a move to pass the boys.
"I brought the baby down from the room in the extension, and you
took him from me and thanked me very much. You remember this?
You said you would lose your place if the baby had been burned."
"Ah, then you are the young gentleman so brave who save the babee
from being burn? Ah, yes, that was very brave. The ladee give you
the reward, yes? That was very good."
"Yes, but what about the watch? You need not be afraid. The
owner has been found.
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