"Do you remember the cigar case presented to me by the Turkish Ambassador for discovering the missing favorite of the Grand Vizier in the fifth chorus girl at the Hilarity Theatre?
It was that one.

I mean the cigar case.

It was incrusted with diamonds." "And the largest one had been supplanted by paste," I said.
"Ah," he said, with a reflective smile, "you know that ?" "You told me yourself.

I remember considering it a proof of your extraordinary perception.

But, by Jove, you don't mean to say you have lost it ?" He was silent for a moment.