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Look, Captain Harren, can you see them ?" "I see some marks--some squares." "You can't see anything written on that pane--as though cut by a diamond ?" "Nothing distinct." "But you see _her_ ?" "Perfectly." "In minute detail ?" "Yes." The Tracer thought a moment: "Does she wear a ring ?" "Yes; can't you see ?" "Draw it for me." They seated themselves side by side, and Harren drew a rough sketch of the ring which he insisted was so plainly visible on her hand: [Illustration: Ring with an X] "Oh," observed the Tracer, "she wears the Seal of Solomon on her ring." Harren looked up at him.

"That symbol has haunted me persistently for three years," he said.

"I have found it everywhere--on articles that I buy, on house furniture, on the belts of dead ladrones, on the hilts of creeses, on the funnels of steamers, on the headstalls of horses.

If they put a laundry mark on my linen it's certain to be this! If I buy a box of matches the sign is on it.