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To say that Joe Musgrave was annoyed at the loss of his snuff-box is to put the case too mildly. Not that it was of much use to him, save that it had on the face of it a faithful likeness of Pamela Dacre, but he felt, illogically enough, that her fortunes were in some way bound up within the confines of that artistic piece of work. Nor did he believe that an ordinary pickpocket had taken advantage of the disturbance in the paddock at Sandown Park to relieve him of an article like that.
The more he thought it over, the more convinced he was that the whole thing was a clever "plant" on Beaucaire's part to regain possession of the box. Why, he did not know, but there must have been some powerful reason for Beaucaire's action.