`` The truth is , you look so strikingly like someone I used to know that I feel sure you must be related to her . I do not think I have any relatives of your name . Have you any of mine ? '' Bertha flushed , hesitated for an instant , then said frankly , `` No , I do not think so . But I may as well tell you that Price is not my real name and I do not know what it is , although I think it begins with S. I believe that my parents died when I was about three years old , and I was then taken to an orphan asylum . The next year I was taken from there and adopted by Mrs. Price . She was very kind to me and treated me as her own daughter . I had a happy home with her , although we were poor . Mrs. Price wished me to bear her name , and I did so . She never told me my true surname , perhaps she did not know it . She died when I was sixteen , and since then I have been quite alone in the world . That is all I know about myself . '' Max Seeley was plainly excited . `` Why do you think your real name begins with S ? '' he asked . `` I have a watch which belonged to my mother , with the monogram ` B.S. ' on the case . It was left with the matron of the asylum and she gave it to Mrs. Price for me . Here it is . '' Max Seeley almost snatched the old-fashioned little silver watch , from her hand and opened the case . An exclamation escaped him as he pointed to some scratches on the inner side .
They looked XXXXX the initials M.A.S. `` Let me tell my story now , '' he said .
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