ut i a not ite satisfied for if you are workg, as i spect, with adeoiselle uthwood (who was an tiate friend of ada doyles) then substitution would be the thod eployed - not bare-faced theft but then, the pearls ite unexpectedly are returned, and what do i disver? that they are not nue, but iitation

&ot;i know then who the real thief is it was the iitation strg which was stolen and returned - an iitation which you had previoly substituted for the real necklace&ot;

he looked at the young an front of hi ti was white under his tan he was not good a fighter as penngton; his staa was bad he said, with an effort to sta his ockg anner: &ot;deed? and if , what did i do with the?&ot;

&ot;that i know al&ot;

the young ans face 插nd - broke up

poirot went on slowly: &ot;there is only one place where they can be i have reflected, and y rean tells that that is those pearls, onsieur allerton, are ncealed a rosary that hangs your cab the beads of it are very elaborately carved i thk you had it ade specially those beads unscrew, though you would never thk to look at the side each is a pearl, stuck with seote ost police searchers respect religio sybols, unless there is thg obvioly eer about the you unted on that i endeavoured to fd out how adeoiselle uthwood sent the iitation necklace out to you 射 t have done , sce you ca here fro ajorca on hearg that ada doyle would be here for her honeyoon y theory is that it was sent a book - a sare hole beg cut out