It was a skeleton so old that the bones had turned to a dull grey.

Yet so far as regards its limbs, it was almost complete.

Quest glanced towards the hands.
"Little fingers both missing," he muttered.

"That's the skeleton all right, Lenora." "Remember the message!" she exclaimed.

"'Where the skeleton is, the necklace may be also.'" Quest nodded shortly.
"We'll search." They turned over everything in the place fruitlessly.