One Topaz--200 carats---- 5,000
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$100,000

The ten jewels are all perfect specimens of their kind. The first four
are cut exactly alike; the pear shaped pearls are similar in size and
shape, as are also the egg pearls. The Canary diamond is oblong, and the
Topaz unexcelled.

The lot are contained in a red Russia leather case, four by six inches
in size lined with black satin. Each jewel fits in a special depression
and is held in place by a gold wire clasp.

The case has the name "MITCHEL" in gold letters across the band which
straps around it.]

Whilst meditating, the detective's eye roamed about the room, and
finally rested upon a shining object which lay on the floor near the
trunk. A ray of light from the front window just reached it and made it
glitter. Mr. Barnes looked at it for some moments mechanically, stooping
presently to pick it up, with little thought of what he did. He had
scarcely examined it, however, before a gleam of triumph glistened in
his eye. He held in his hand a button, which was a cut cameo upon which
was carved the profile head of a woman, beneath which appeared the name
"Juliet."

CHAPTER IV.

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

Mr. Barnes, after discovering the cameo button, immediately left the
apartment. With little loss of time he reached the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
He found Wilson sitting in the lobby, and learned from him that Mr.
Mitchel had not yet come down-stairs. He made his subordinate happy, by
complimenting him upon his work, and exonerating him from blame because
of his having lost his man for a few hours the day before. With the
button in his pocket, Mr. Barnes found it easy to be good-natured. If
the truth were known, he was chuckling to himself. The thought which
proved such a fund of merriment was the idea that his man up-stairs had
proven himself just as human as ordinary criminals, since he had left
behind him the very tell-tale mark which he had boasted would not be
found after he had committed his crime. Externally, however, there was
no sign to show that Mr. Barnes was in any way excited. He calmly asked
at the desk for Mr. Mitchel, and sent up his card just as any ordinary
visitor might have done. In a few moments the hall-boy returned with the
curt message, "Come up."

Mr. Barnes was shown up one flight of stairs into a suite of two rooms
and a bath, overlooking Twenty-third Street.