"Yes. Wait here a minute and I will show you something which I have carefully preserved from that day to this."
CHAPTER XXXVI. "WHO WAS JED?"
Mrs. Avery went up stairs to her own room, but reappeared in five minutes. She had in her hand an old-fashioned gold locket.
"This," she said, "was attached to the neck of the boy when he came into our hands."
"Have you opened it?" asked the detective eagerly. "Is there a picture inside?"
"There are two miniatures—one on each side."
She opened the locket, and it proved to be as she said.
One of these was a miniature of a young and handsome man, apparently thirty years of age, the other of a young lady with a very sweet and attractive face, probably five years younger.