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Show 169 myself. Actually, the diamond is also a part of the crest on one side and the "W" on the other. "Where did you lose it?" "A miserable mimist stole it from me in the Billingsgate Fish Market." "Yes, and it has taken us a miserable year to track you down!" Without further questions, the man left the room and within moments a younger man, in his thirties, stepped into the room. Elise gasped and without a forethought, the name "Prentiss" escaped her lips. The young man threw his arms around Elise and drew her close. "My sister." When Elise felt the choked emotions of her brother bursting to break free, she responded in kind. "I thought you were dead," she said to Prentiss. "And I thought the same about you," he answered. Prentiss "explained to Elise that when she left home, he had been told that she was going away for a visit with some relatives. "Actually, I was getting married--to someone mother and father didn't approve of." "You were marrying out of our class?" "He had no money and no station." "So you married for love!" "I thought so...but I soon learned that he did not marry for love and when I was totally cut off without a shilling, he turned to a life of crime--he died in the |
