Chapter XVI—All Sorts of Bruises

S. K. suggested the trap and I think he did not really believe that my bracelet was ever stolen, but thought that I imagined it was, because I was at that time half sick from nervous upset, which was not extraordinary, considering everything. “Put a mouse-trap in the box,” he suggested, “and then, when you hear it shoot, you can get up and chase Madam Jumel’s ghost with a hair brush or a shoe tree.” I said he was a silly thing and ignored the chase suggestion. But, on the way home I stopped at a small grocery and b…