"Annie O'Neil had the duplicate pin. She opened that box while Mrs. Stevens was calling to her daughter, as she testified, and put the duplicate into it. Then she wrapped it up just as before."
"So I won't have to give up the jewels," said Mrs. Pond.
"I am afraid you will," said Nick; "the queerest part of the story is to come.
"Chick has found a later will by Miss Lavina Richmond. It is undoubtedly genuine.
"And where do you suppose it was found? The strangest of all places—in Horace Richmond's room."
"She died there," responded the colonel. "She must have hidden the will during her last illness."
"It is strange to think of Horace Richmond struggling with that parrot, and putting up his elaborate schemes, while the document which would have given him all he wanted was hidden in his own room."
Horace Richmond's face at that moment was an amusing spectacle.
So was Mrs. Pond's.
"Never mind, daughter," said the colonel. "It is better so. I will make good the loss to you."