She stood staring at him during a moment's silence; then
she let a sharp exclamation escape her lips, and in the same instant her
colour came back--heightened from surprise and indignation.
"Impossible!" she said. "I can't believe it; There may be marks inside our
rings--that's likely enough. But how could those marks correspond with the
marks in his rings?"
"I tell you it is so!" answered Ayscough. "I've seen the marks in both--
with my own eyes. It occurred to one of our bosses this evening to have
all the rings carefully examined by an expert--he got a man from one of
the jeweller's shops in Edgware Road. This chap very soon pointed out that
inside the two rings which young Lauriston says are his, and come to him
from his mother, are certain private marks--jewellers' marks, this man
called 'em--which are absolutely identical with similar marks which are
inside some of the rings in the tray which was found on this table. That's
a fact!--I tell you I've seen 'em--all! And--you see the significance of
it! Of course, our people are now dead certain that young Lauriston's
story is false, and that he grabbed those two rings out of that tray.
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