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The Poor Plutocrats

CHAPTER X
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There could be no doubt whatever now as to who the sender was.
Then, very cautiously, she broke the seals and opened with a beating heart the lid of the box.

Inside was a little morocco casket.
With a tremulous hand she opened it, and found inside it a pair of earrings and a brooch.

Both earrings and brooch were of oxydized silver, dark blue in colour passing insensibly into black.

The pendants of the earrings were in the shape of little fishes hanging upon little hooks and with mobile little scales, which at the slightest movement made them seem alive.

Each of them had a pair of very tiny but very brilliant diamond eyes.


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