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Rh Delroy sprang to his feet with a sudden start.

“Fishing?” he cried. “No! I’d forgotten. He was guarding my wife’s necklace.”

He threw open the door and ran out on the pier, the others following. At the extreme end a rope was dangling in the water. He reached over and pulled it up. The wire cage was flapping open. The necklace had disappeared.