It
may help them."
"You must not tell the police!" Madalena said, "I have warned you all,
that if you talked too much about me and my crystal, the police might
hear and take notice. There are such stupid laws in England. I may be
doing something against them. If you or Lord Annesley-Seton speak of me
to the police I will go away, and you will never hear more of my
visions--as you call them--in future. Unless you promise that you will
let the police find the thieves in their own way, without dragging me in,
I shall be so unnerved that my eyes will be darkened."
"Oh, I promise, if you feel so strongly about it," said Constance. "I
didn't realize that it might do you harm to be mentioned to the police."
She wished very much to have Madalena go on looking in the crystal. She
had been excited, carried out of herself for a few minutes, but she had
not heard what she had come to hear--why she had been spared the loss of
her personal treasures.
The desired promise hurriedly made, the Countess gave her attention once
more to the crystal. For a time she could see nothing. The mysterious
current had been severed by the diversion, and had slowly to be rewoven
by the seeress's will.
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