Of course the direction on the packet and the inscribed slip of paper were in feigned handwriting, so he could gather nothing from that.

Still, he did not think that Mrs.Jasher had sent the emerald.

She was desperately hard up, and if she had become possessed of the gem by murder--presuming her to have been the woman who talked to Bolton through the window--she assuredly would have sold it to supply her own needs.

Certainly, if guilty, she would still possess the other emerald, of equal value; but undoubtedly, had she risked her neck to gain a fortune, she would have kept the entire plunder which was likely to cost her so dear.

No; whomsoever it was who had repented at the eleventh hour, Mrs.Jasher was not the person.
Perhaps Widow Anne was the woman who had talked through the window, and who had restored the emerald.