The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English

shaking hands. The two stones lay as I had placed them. No! I nearly dropped it back again. It was the stone in the case that had the loop with the three sham sapphires! Carwitchet picked the other up hastily. "So you say this is rubbish?" he asked, his eyes sparkling wickedly, and an attempt at mortification in his tone. "Utter rubbish!" I pronounced, with truth and decision, snapping up the case and pocketing it. "Lady Carwitchet must have known it." "Ah, well, it's disappointing, isn't it? Good-by, we shall not meet again." I shook hands with him most cordially. "Good-by, Lord Carwitchet. _So_ glad to have met you and your mother. It has been a source of the _greatest_ pleasure, I assure you." I have never seen the Carwitchets since. The bishop drove over next day in rather better spirits. Miss Panton had refused the chaplain. "It doesn't matter, my lord," I said to him heartily. "We've all been under some strange misconception. The stone in your possession is the veritable one. I could swear to that anywhere. The sapphire Lady Carwitchet wears is only an excellent imitation, and--I have seen it with my own eyes--is the one bearing Bogaerts's mark, the Greek Beta." THE LOCK AND KEY LIBRARY CLASSIC MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE STORIES OF ALL NATIONS TEN VOLUMES NORTH EUROPE MEDITERRANEAN GERMAN CLASSIC FRENCH MODERN FRENCH FRENCH NOVELS OLD TIME ENGLISH MODERN ENGLISH AMERICAN REAL LIFE