WE ACCEPT A REFUGEE I looked again at the thing with a fresh curiosity, yet with no direct thought of any connection.

The undisguised terror manifest in her face, however, caused me to realize the sudden suspicion which this discovery had aroused.
"That means nothing," I insisted, taking the pin back into my own possession.

"It is probably the emblem of some secret order, and there may be thousands of them scattered about.

Anyhow this one never belonged to Joe Kirby.

He could never have been here.