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Lord Culvers did not offer any opposition to Mr. Redway's suggestion. Off and on the girls lost a good many articles of jewellery in the course of a year, and an advertisement more or less, for one of their brooches, would not be likely to attract much attention among their friends. So, on the day after Clive's consultation with his father, the following advertisement appeared in the leading London and provincial journals:
"Five hundred pounds reward will be paid for information that will lead to the recovery of a diamond brooch, missing from a lady's jewel-case. It is formed as a hawk with outstretched wings, holding in its beak a spray of emeralds. The eyes are composed of two large rubies.