The result was the discovery of three more beads, one entire bugle and the crushed remains of another, which had apparently been trodden on.

All of these, including the fragments of the bugle that had been crushed, Thorndyke placed carefully on the paper, which he laid on the dressing-table the more conveniently to examine our find.
"I am sorry," said he, "that there are no more fragments of the watch-glass, or whatever it was.

The broken pieces were evidently picked up, with the exception of the one that I trod on, which was an isolated fragment that had been overlooked.

As to the beads, judging by their number and the position in which we found some of them--that crushed bugle, for instance--they must have been dropped during Jeffrey's tenancy and probably quite recently." "What sort of garment do you suppose they came from ?" I asked.
"They may have been part of a beaded veil or the trimming of a dress, but the grouping rather suggests to me a tag of bead fringe.

The colour is rather unusual." "I thought they looked like black beads." "So they do by this light, but I think that by daylight we shall find them to be a dark, reddish-brown.