the bogus for the real ones, for these are certainly paste."

Mr. Cutler's counsel here stated that his client had an important
statement to make, whereupon that gentleman related that Mr. Arnold, the
Chicago expert to whom the real crescents had been submitted, had made a
private mark upon the setting, with a steel-pointed instrument, and if
such a mark could be discovered upon Mrs. Vanderheck's ornaments they
were doubtless real.

He produced the card which Mr. Arnold had given him, and the crescents
were carefully examined, but no mark of any kind could be found upon
them, and the general conclusion was that they were but a skillful
imitation of genuine diamonds, and that Mrs. Vanderheck had only been
another victim of the clever adventuress, whose identity was still as
much of a mystery as ever.

Mr. Palmer and Ray now began to feel quite uncomfortable regarding the
cross which Mr. Rider had also taken in charge. They consulted a few
moments with Mrs. Vanderheck's counsel, and then the cross was quietly
submitted to Mr. Palmer's examination.

He at once said it did not belong to him, although it was very like the
one that had been stolen, for he also was in the habit of putting a
private mark upon his most expensive jewelry; and he further remarked
that he very much regretted that Mrs. Vanderheck should have been
subjected to so much unpleasantness in connection with the unfounded
suspicion.

The case was then dismissed without further discussion, and the lady
behaved in the most generous and amiable manner toward both Mr. Cutler