Run and fetch the case, Marian.

There are some of its contents which Gilbert ought to see before he leaves England--papers which I intended to show him when I first told him your mother's story." Marian left them, and came back in a few minutes carrying an old-fashioned ebony jewel-case, inlaid with brass.

She unlocked it with a little key hanging to her watch-chain, and exhibited its contents to Gilbert Fenton.

There were some curious old rings, of no great value; a seal-ring with a crest cut on a bloodstone--a crest of that common kind of device which does not imply noble or ancient lineage on the part of the bearer thereof; a necklace and earrings of amethyst; a gold bracelet with a miniature of a young man, whose handsome face had a hard disagreeable expression; a locket containing grey hair, and having a date and the initials "M.G." engraved on the massive plain gold case.
These were all the trinkets.

In a secret drawer there was a certificate of marriage between Percival Nowell, bachelor, gentleman, and Lucy Geoffry, spinster, at St.Pancras Church, London.