'Now, my dear, I advise you to be more careful of your jewels, or you may lose far more precious ones than this brooch.'
As he made this remark he nodded to Julia, though Mrs. Ellis well understood what her husband meant.
'Now, my little girl, you may go and join the children, while I tell mamma how I came by the brooch.'
CHAPTER V.
A FRIEND IN NEED.
Julia was very glad indeed to see the brooch again, and glad also to receive a dismissal, as she longed to tell her sister the good news.
'And now, my dear,' said Mr. Ellis, when they were alone, 'I suppose you want to learn the particulars respecting the lost and found.'
'Indeed I do, Arthur,' replied his wife; 'it seems a marvellous thing to me how the brooch should have come into your possession, or indeed how it was found at all.'
'Well, it all came about without any magic, as you shall hear,' said her husband. 'You remember the young lady, Miss Vernon, who was staying a short time in the winter with our friends the Maitlands, and whom we were invited to meet?'