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Ch. 10: Nun's Ruby

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The Case of the Nun's Ruby
this was not an episode of mystery in the
vein of Le Queux or Edgar Wallace. I have griev­ously misled you, although the story contains a
nun and also a ruby, both of high degree.
While I was still busy measuring up the copper roofs of the religious house near Cracow, I used to meet some­times the Abbess of the nunnery, a most stately lady of gentle grace. I had learned that she came of a very noble Polish family, but of course she had dropped her title upon being received into the religious life and no one was allowed to refer in her presence to her rank.
This lady took quite an interest in my doings about the place, and she used to ask me many questions about my own people. Where did they live? What did they do? Was I happy? Did I see sometimes a puzzled flicker in her eyes as she surveyed me, scion of a race so strangely different, surely, in its life and aspirations from her own? However, when I told her that my mother traded in pearls and precious stones she remembered a ruby of her own to which she attributed considerable value. She had
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