“Yes! yes! yes!” Marie clapped her hands. “But there is more than one word in that tail, Alan. Oh—perhaps it indicates the hiding-place?”
“I’m sure it does,” cried Fuller, taking out a pencil. “Marie, read out the stones in order, beginning at the top, and I’ll set them down.”
Almost too excited to speak, the girl did so with sparkling eyes, and the result when finished was as follows, with the three lines and the triangle of rubies, indicated plainly:
Sapphire, Turquoise, Pearl, Emerald, Turquoise, Emerald, Ruby,
Sapphire, Pearl, Opal, Onyx, Lapis lazuli.
Ruby, Emerald, Diamond.
Alan rapidly set down in order the first letter of each stone, and Marie, looking over his shoulder saw that they read thus:—
“ST PETER’S POOL
RED”