He held toward Nadara in his open palm a little worn bag of the skins
of small rodents, sewn together with bits of gut. At sight of it both
the girl and Waldo Emerson exclaimed in astonishment.
Nadara took the bag wonderingly in her hands and dumped the contents
into her palm. Waldo pressed forward.
"Did you know to whom those belonged?" he asked Burlinghame.
"To Eugenie Marie Celeste de la Valois, Countess of Crecy," replied the
captain.
"They belonged to Nadara's mother," returned Waldo. "Her foster parents
were present at her birth and took these jewels from the poor woman's
body after she had passed away. She was washed ashore in a boat in
which there was only a dead man beside herself--Nadara was born that
night."
And so, when the clergyman had performed the marriage ceremony he
entered upon the certificate in the space provided there for the name
of the woman: Nadara de la Valois.
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all visitors because of the beauty of its architecture and the fame
that attaches to the historic and aristocratic name of its owner,
which, as it happens, is not Smith-Jones at all.
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