Excuse me if I talk along different lines, but I have had a good deal of experience in tracing out just such things as this, and I have always found it safest to be sure of my facts before deducing theories.

It is not all clear to me that Kitty's woman dropped the links.

And even if she did, the fact is no proof that the woman is your wife." "But the links are mine.

There is no question of it--my initials and arms are cut into them." The impatience was gone and a certain curiosity was manifesting itself.
"Quite true, and yet you once thought the links were stolen.

So let us presume for the present that they were stolen and that this woman either bought them, or was given them, or found them." Felix began pacing the floor, a gleam of hope illumining the dark corners of his heart.