But she was silent, her eyes downcast.
“Won’t you answer me?” he pleaded.
“I won’t again tell you what you already know,” she answered, a little petulantly.
“But I don’t know about this ring, really,” Grey urged. “Tell me about it. What has it got to do with the stolen Crown Prince?”
Minna looked up, regarding him searchingly.
“Where did you get it?” she asked.
“I found it,” he answered, quite truthfully.
“In a jewel casket, within a great iron chest, inside an ordinary travelling box?” she cross-questioned.
The significance of the description was not lost on her hearer.
“No,” he returned, frankly, “not in anything at all. On the floor of my room.”