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CHAPTER X. page 23

In the same year, the croupier at the Countess of
Buckinghamshire's one night announced the unaccountable
disappearance of the cash-box of the Faro bank. All eyes were
turned towards her Ladyship. Mrs Concannon said she once lost a
gold snuff-box from the table, while she went to speak to Lord
C--. Another lady said she lost her purse there last winter.
And a story was told that a certain lady had taken, _BY
MISTAKE_, a cloak which did not belong to her, at a rout
given by the Countess of ----.
Unfortunately a discovery of the cloak was made, and when the servant
knocked at the door to demand it, some very valuable lace which it was
trimmed with had been taken off. Some surmised that the lady who stole
the cloak might also have stolen the Faro bank cash-box.

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