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A beautiful actress became the possessor of an expensive pearl necklace. To mislead any housebreaker who might be inclined to carry her property away she made it a practice to leave the necklaee lying carelessly upon her dressing-table beside a sheet of paper on which she had written: "These are imitation pearls. I keep my real pearls in a safety vault." One night when she arrived ' home she discovered that her pearls were gone, and, in place of the note she had left beside them, she found this:"l'm just a substitute. The burglar who is regularly assigned to this' districg; is in prison." v
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3190, 3 February 1928, Page 4
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106THE SUBSTITUTE Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3190, 3 February 1928, Page 4
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