He puffed his cigar silently while he revolved the startling accusation in his mind.
"Both you and Patsy are staunch friends," he observed, after a while, "and I have noticed that your intuition as regards character is seldom at fault.

But I advise you, in this instance, not to be hasty, for--" "I know; you are going to refer to those pearls." "Naturally.

If I don't, Le Drieux will, as you have yourself prophesied.
Pearls--especially such pearls as these--are rare and easy to recognize.
The world does not contain many black-pearls, for instance, such as that you are wearing.

An expert--a man with a photograph that strongly resembles young Jones--is tracing some stolen pearls of great value--a collection, I think you said.

We find Jones, a man seemingly unknown here, giving away a number of wonderful pearls that are worthy a place in any collection.