The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 241: what you’re looking at

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214 REYNOLDS’ WORKS -Reéntering the mansion, they hastened to the library to inform Mr. Slater of all that they had just seen, and he was as much struck as themselves by the importance of the inci- dent. That the vase contained the golden temptation for which the crime had been perpetrated there could be scarcely any doubt, and that the guilty valet was now disinterring his treasure in order that he might convey it to his own room and consign it to his trunk in readiness for his departure on the following morning, was equally clear. The web of circumstantial evidence was visibly and rapidly closing in around the murderer. ECORNICOOKS (E(0)