I'll find out where Ruyler got it, and try--" "Do you suppose I'd come out with a duplicate?
You should have thought of it years ago.

You always promised to take me to India." "It should be on you!" He gazed at her adoringly.

Her hair was dressed in a high and stately fashion to-night.

She wore a gown of gold brocade and a necklace and little tiara of emeralds and diamonds; she was looking very handsome and very regal.

Thornton was a thin, dark, nervous wisp of a man, who had borne his share of the burdens laid upon his city in the cataclysm of 1906, but if his wife had demanded an enormous historic ruby he would have done his best to gratify her.