Excerpt from The Sport of Chance, Vol. 3 of 3
As soon as the last guest, save Dr. Steele, had taken his departure, the latter accompanied Sir John into the studio. Opening a cabinet, the latter took from it a small locket with a monogram on its front, curiously worked in pearls.
'This, Lady Ramsay and I found in the small tin box I told you of; the jewels and the papers are in the strong-room of my bank, but I kept this locket out for reasons you will afterwards easily understand. Can you make out the monogram formed by these pearls?'
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