“Mr. Folliard,” said his lawyer, “you have had in your possession very valuable family jewels.”

“I had.”

“Whose property were they?”

“Why, mine, I should think.”

“Could you identify them?”

“Certainly I could.”

“Are these the jewels in question?”

The old man put on his spectacles, and examined them closely.

“They are; I know every one of them.”

“They were stolen from you?”