He examined the servants, heard the story, and reported that it must have been an inside job--that there was no possibility of anything else.

But there was nothing to implicate any one of the servants, and there seemed no hope of getting the necklace back.

Two or three days later the husband turned up at the agency's office in New York, and after beating about the bush for a while, remarked: "I want to tell you something.

You have got this job wrong.

There's one fact your man didn't understand.