Really short story, a pleasant little mystery with a cute solution and a sweet little back story for the girl that's the main suspect. I downloaded "The House in the Mist" from Project Gutenberg, and this story was one of three included in the text. ( )

While at the Evergreens' ball, a Senator's wife loses her ruby. Evidence all seems to point to one person but the police have one hour to find the ruby, and without any scandal attached to the event.
A pleasing little mystery, first published in 1905 ( )

An inoffensive but not particuarly interesting mystery. A priceless ruby goes missing and the detective completely fails to find it. Eh.