The Things She Owned by Arguile Katherine Tamiko

Author:Arguile, Katherine Tamiko [Tamiko, Arguile, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781925972610
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

A Necklace with

Gold Heart Padlock

The chain is made up of links so fine and delicate it appears smooth and seamless. It is slender and of dusky gold. On it is suspended a padlock in the shape of a heart, made of a paler gold than the chain. Of low carat, it is hard enough not to scratch easily, and the jeweller’s tiny markings on its back, more than thirty years old, can still be seen: the initials WJS in a small rectangle, the maker’s mark; below it a hallmark, with the 375 declaring it to be a gold of nine carats. Beside these are two symbols proclaiming the assay, miniscule and now somewhat too worn to be decipherable, even under a magnifying glass. The heart is roughly one-and-a-half centimetres wide by two centimetres high, with a thickness of a half-centimetre. Four make-believe screw heads are etched onto its face. The lock opens and closes on its tiny hinge without the aid of a key, although the keyhole in its front looks so real that one wonders if there was once a key; a key that might have kept the heart safely locked up.

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