He lifted the tray.

A lovely face in miniature, with dark hair and blue eyes, lay looking earnestly upward.

At the lid of this coffin those eyes had looked for so many years! The picture was set all round with pearls in an oval ring.

How Robert knew them to be pearls he could not tell, for he did not know that he had ever seen any pearls before, but he knew they were pearls, and that pearls had something to do with the New Jerusalem.

But the sadness of it all at length overpowered him, and he burst out crying.