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For some little time she refused to believe it , and a horrible suspicion of foul play had crossed her mind . But the proofs stared her in the face , and she remembered that Fan had kept that acquaintance she had formed with someone out of doors a secret . On returning to the house in the evening , she was told that shortly after she had gone out for the day a letter was brought addressed to Fan , and , when questioned , she had refused to tell Rosie who it was from . At one o'clock Rosie had gone up with her dinner , and , missing her , had searched for her in all the rooms , and was then amazed to find that most of the girl 's clothes had also disappeared . But she did not know that anything else had been taken . Miss Starbrow missed some jewels she had put on her dressing-table , and on a further search it was discovered that other valuables , and one of her best travelling bags , were also gone . The astonishment and indignation displayed by the maid , who exclaimed that she had always considered Fan a sly little hypocrite , helped perhaps to convince her mistress that the girl had taken advantage of her absence to make her escape from the house .