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"What are they going to do with the big ruby in his turban?" asked Lena

"Oh, that is one of the chief things that I came to tell you about You,

my dear Mrs Percival, have especial reason to be interested in this"

He turned, bri with information, to Lena, "The captain of police

took it to Brand's--the jeweler, you know--to be appraised Now isn't

this the crown of the whole story? Brand tells hihed with abandon, and laughed again

"And what aboutto her feet

"I have not the slightest doubt that they are paste, too Everything he

touched was fraud"

"I'lad of it!" cried Dick, with a new access of

my wife jewels! Why, Lena, you couldn't

wear his stuff anyway, after all this fracas It will do to triry face, tapped the floor nervously with her gaudy

small slipper, and made no reply to her husband's hilarity

Even to her sloorking h

price for so of a favor was

indeed a bond

She wondered what Mr Early thought of her; what Dick would say if he

ever discovered