It was said they belonged to Marie Antoinette.

Papa always believed they were looted at the sack of the Tuileries in the Revolution." Nora sat stupefied.

How strange that a girl like Connie should possess such things!--and others, nothing! "Are they worth a great deal of money ?" "Oh, yes, thousands," said Connie, still looking at herself, in mingled vanity and discomfort.

"That's why I oughtn't to wear them.

But I shall wear them!" She straightened her tall figure imperiously.