“Yes.”
“Then they must be the same.”
“The same? What do you mean?”
“They robbed me of the bracelet.”
“Robbed you!” cried Jack and Pepper in chorus.
“Yes.”
“But you said you had lost the bracelet—that it fell in the lake,” said the young major.
“Humph, I thought so.”
“Thought what?”
“You’re the Bone and Blood Club, ain’t you?”