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' ——————— mniß ■. „, \ .■■■... fHE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES. VOL-. XIV. A LOST DIAMOND. “And it was the most beautiful stone that I ever saw in a finger ring’. None of those paltry things V oii can’t wear till candle light on account of the yellow there is in their.. So white, so clear, so brils liant, pellucid as a water drop and sparkling as n star! It was all but big enough, too, to have a name of its own, like those that the royal diamonds have—“ Star of the Four Points of the Compass,’ 'Light of the World to Come,” ‘Glory of the Middle of the Earth,’ ‘Mother of tlie Moon.’ “Why under the sun,” cried Mis. Torrance, the pretty creature in a bewitching gown, pouring coffee for her hus band, the little butler having been dismissed by Mr. Torrance—in fear of the wiath to come, perhaps —-“shouldn’t our diamonds have names as well as those of kings mid queens and—” “Yours ought to have one/’ said her husband, quietly. “It would be suitable to call now; it’s in the vocative yon know.” “Well, I must say I don’t believe any man was ever so undisturbed .by the loss of such a thing as that. Archibald, that stone was worTlTa thousand dollars.” * A **•** i y “Reauy I ought to be aware of the fact, dear, if anybody is. Y'ou have offered to sell it and procure that sum for my necessities evety time. I have been hard up since ":e married. And if I have Mildred arrested for its theft, as you sug gest, it will cost another ihonasnd Exjfore we are done with it. Fgf die would certainty be proved in nocent, and then a libel suit would be the the next in order.” “But, Aichy, Mildred can’t be proved innocent.' How can sko bp, when I know she took it? And theie was no mrc else to take it.” And Mrs. Torrance paused with snspcndqc.up, her great wonder ing eyes, searching space for a re ply. “If ever anything lay in a straight line, it is the evidence against that girl,” she continued. “The other day when the ring fell on the floor she was in the room, and she asked me what a stone like that was worth, and then gave such a sigh that I said, ‘J suppose you think it’s wrong for mo to wear a thousand dollars on my finger?’ And she said, ‘I wasn’t thinking of the ling; 1 was only thinking that a thousand dollars can do a great deal of good—in looking pretty on my hand.” Indeed it does look beautifully there,’ said she—she’s very particular about the adverbs; I wish she was about her catechism —‘but a good deed done by a httud is its most beautiful jewel to my thinking.’ Just hear that! (Io her mistress! Are you through? Why, I’ve only just begun.” “She is quite a missionary," said Mr. Torrance picking up his news paper. “And the worst of it is, xhp is right.’’ “Now, Archibald, don’t for mer cy’s sake, go to reading!” Baid his wife.” “Ido think the morning news might wait for once. It’s nothing but dynamiters blowing up the British empire, and Arabs making mummies of the British pXny—all abstractions; but my ring is something positive, tangible, hole at hand." ‘‘l wish it were!” said Mr. Tor rance. “And then 1 could be al lowed—” But as he glanced at the lovely creature opposite, with her reproachful brown eyes in which stood two tears as big as the diamond she had lost, her color going and coming with her breath as you might say, and the rose colored ribbons of her morning cap all a-flutter with her earnestness, he folded his paper, and said, “Well my dear?” “Well, my dear!’ mimicked Mrs Torrance, in derision. “I should say its, any thing but well when U man heays of a servant insulting—- actually insulting—his wife, and Bays she’s in the right.” “Now, Janet, I will submit if to your own judgement, if that’s a fair interpretation.” “You needn’t do anything of the BOi t. It isn’t .fair to suppose I have any judgment, if what 1 say concerning Mildred—perfectly rid iculous cognomen. Whoever heard of Mildred for a servant’s name?” “Why not Mildred?’’ Wliy not Gwendoline, then, or, Fredegonde, or Thusnelda? How would it seem to be telling Gladys to brush the dust off my shoes? And Mildred is just as bad. If I had my way all the cooks should be Noras, and all the second girls should be Ellens, and if they came from England, then they should be Elizas and Mary Anns, and it wouldn’t sound as if yon were ta king a liberty with your superiors when your own name is just plain Jane. I ought to have been Ros amond myself, you know,” said Mrs. Torrance, absently, twirling the grounds in her’cup,” or Kath erine, or Eloise, or something.— But I’m &ure I have trouble enough with these people without being troubled with their names, And I don’t believe her name is Mildred, anyway. I believe it’s just plain Martha, and she took the Mildred. If sho took my diamond, she wouldn’t stop at taking 4 name.— Or maybe it was just Milly—” And here Mrs. Torrance paused, not for breath, but in amazement to see her husband’s eyes twinkle, and he himself lie back in his chair, gs he pushed hjs plate away, with a laugh he ppuld repress no lon ger. “If she took your diamond. — Well, my darling, lam glad you liavc arrived at the diamond once more. 1 began tp think it had been lost again. But don’t toll mu about the inconsequence of a wo man’s mind. Its workings are la byrinthine, but the thought always coinei at the place it went in. Now, let us be ou£iii£§s )ike, if we can. Janet. What makes you think that this pretty Mildred of ours took the Jip.mond?” “Pretty Mildred! Weii, perhaps because she is pretty,” said Mrs- Torrance, looking like a satirical sparrow/, “Not at all impossfi/e* said her husband, gravely. “You don’t mean to imply that I would denounce a person as a thief because yo*t s#jd she was pretty?” cried Mrs. Torrance, injf rjsjng to her feet. I’ve as good a mind to the table as ever I had to eat. 1 would, if the buck wheat cakes had come up.” “My dear child!” * “Vou. treat me exactly as if I were a child,” crie4 the outraged wife. “What do I care whether jny maid is pretty or not? Being pretty, apparently, doesn't keep hei hands from picking ami stealing. I know she stole my diamond just as well as if I had seen her do it!" “But what would she do with it!” “AVhat a question? As if that sort of person didn't kqow where to dispose of things easily and take care of the proceeds! I won der if Patricia is never going to send those cakes up--” “How in the world did our cook come to be called Patricia?” “I called her so myself when she came. Iler own name was Han nah, :i combination of soun is I utterly detest, and wasn’t going to have ringing in my ears all the time. And she is so tall and erect she justifies Patricia. Don’t think so?" “All right,” said Mr. Torrance, thinking it best to make no refer* ence to the Noras of a few minutes since. “But we were speaking of Mildred.’’ “I did think very well of Mil dred, I will confess before this." said Mrs. Torrance, with iudicial calmness. .‘Sue is educating her sister, who has a voire—such g. : voice! —for a churcji sing**’, when she will have a sal-.iry that will be wealth to them, and give some les sons beside. And she was wrapped up in her, And I took an interest in them myself, and gave her a silk dre-s to make over, and got a new clonk that I really didn’t need, so as to give her my old one (and 1 _ Georgia, September,, IRBS . * Ba s she had the good taste to take off isomc of the trimming), an d lot. of my old mus | c . And out of her own wages Mildred has to hire a room and a piano and pay for her lessons: somebody gives her Jier Loaitl till she can pay the debt, and it takes every cent Mildred earns; and you see it is quite natural that she should look a I tout her to find vhi ie she can turn a penny—” “Ab honest penny,” said Mr- Toi ratice. "A girl whois doing that for another is not one that wouk be likely to turn any other sort ofpennv.” Hotv you do love to interrupt me, M’. Torrance! It really seems as if yea couldn’t bear the sound of my voice! I was going on to say, before you took the words out of my Month, that recently this sister of hers lias been advised to take lessons of another master, who asks all creation, but is really worth it. And he says he can make hei voice a fortune to her.— And they have been dreadfully cast down because they couldn't do ii. And now you see wnere the diamond comes in. If she can get foi that stone any thing near its value, her sister Mabel can take her lessons. And her voice is de licious— just perfectly delicious!” exclaimed Mrs. Torrance, forgets ting the diamond again. “Mildred had her come here and sing to me. And 1 can’t describe to you. I never heard a lark or a nighten gale, but a bobolink isn’t a whistle to it, A l]ntej a trumppt—well it was sweet and satisfying and pene trating as theiodor of some flower, and yet soft ns the velvet side of the petal of thp fiower. Angers would sing so, maybe, if there are any. And I was just carried away. I forgot all abput her sister’s being my maid. I cried and I laughed, and I felt as if I had found her.— 4 nt ’ fl!??’ ’ solemnly tell you. Archy dear —she bent across the pretty china service, transfixing him with her radiant eyes—“l look ed at my ring, and I turned it and turned it, and I said to myself I have had the good of it ever since Grandfather De Peyser gave it to jpe, and everybody knew I had it, andjny position was pretty wpl| established, diamond rings or not, and when you were able to afford a real grown up butler, you would probably gpt me plenty; and if 1 sold it now, and gave this poor dear girl the money to secure a career, what a blessing it would be to iiei, and what a joy I ; would be giving to the world in her. , too; for of course she wouldn’t be i confined to a ch.irch choir in that < and if she yere, iu what a heavenly fashion could those tones of hers i swim out over 'a piayerfnl audis i epee, apd just take the prayer qq their silvery and lead it 1 up, up; and anybody who is the < means of producing more of them < and so brings do wn the prim a don- : no in the market, is a pqbljc bene factor, to be sure, anyway; and I < was just on the point of saying that : I would speak to you, and jf you ] approved, as f knew you would, I < could have a thousand dollars, or thereabouts for them to-day, when 1 Mrs. Veasey happened, in, and so, ; as I didn't want Mrs. Veasey to ' know anything about h\ and be I taking the wind all out of my sails, 1 I just told Mabel to coma again ' to-day and I would have something further to say to her! And so I f shall!" cried Mrs. Torrance, taking > breath with renewed vigor. I shall . have to tell her that her sister has ( been arrested for a thief, and she ' may go sing to her in prison.” ( “Out robbery is a very harsh ] term, Janet darling, when careless 1 ness may be the whole thing.’’ 1 “There it is again. My careless- . boss, not their dishonesty. AV hen ' I Wont eo the washstand I turned [ the ring on inv finger again, and 1 there was the stone gone,” “And how many ti?ces have I | told you that the crcless habit of 1 washing your hands in your rings ■ wears off in fin? tesmal fractions of 1 the gold till the stones a ;, e loosened ( in the Getting, and drop out with*! out your being aware of it.” < ou are always so wi.-e after the act ! How do you know I wasn’t going to take my rings off* You are so ready to find mo fault! But I thought at first the stone must have washed*ont— “So it seems yon did y< nr hands with the ring on?” Miid the turning worm. “Yes, I did. There! And J sent for tnc plumber immediately, fo*r 1 knew if it had washed ont, it must have caught in the first trap and he took up the pipe, but it wasn’t there. /Ynd he said if ho made a real job of it, and down to the main something, he might rind it there; but I thought that would cost more than the diamond itself n ■“Wise woman," groaned Mr. Torrance. “And so, yo sec, I didn’t accuse Mildred in the first place. I' searched, and took every precau tion. I didn t think of such a thing till I saw her stand there turning o more colors than the lady in the lobster—” “Yon don’t say that you really have accused her?” “Well, what if I have? I must lose my diamond that my dear grandfather gave me when I was married, and that I treasured so, and endure it all in silence for fear some little hussy’s feelings will be hurt! My feelings are of no con sequence at all! It isn’t to be reckoned to my account that I was ready to give her the and I loye fliamonda, I don’t think there’s anything so beautiful in the whole world.” “But, Janet, you arc always go positive, 5 ’ “How can yon say so? What am I ever positive about? You would not have me distrust the evidence of my senses? And if I ever saw guilt on any face— “ There is m/tbiug more fallible than the evidence of your senses?” “I beg your pardon. I can see as far, and can hear as quickly, and taste a§ fieenfy as any one alive. And for you to try t"> run down my eyes now—perhaps they are not so bright as they have been— but I never thought— to hear yoq twitting me of growing old—in this way. all of a sudden,’’ (trying hard to swallow her sobs) —“bes cause —you’re interested—in—my servant “For iicavcn 2 s sake, Janet think what you're saying!” “I do think what lam saying,” she cried then, in a fury. “A n d f whatever the evidence of my senses may be, I havp every evi dence that you care nothing at all for my fpelings* ;pid can see me robbed without lifting your voice, and-—and—oh, a husband t-Q Igyp l|i. wife, and protect liej-j and take her part.” And l’e re j^ rg Janet r«^ e hurriedly and pushed (>ver her chair; an | was running from the youm, But Mr. Torrance was not to be outdone by any such sleight of foot and hud caught her in his arms be* tore she reached the door. “And do you think,” he exclaimed, “that I don’t love you, you abominable little mass of contradictions? Do you suppose that 1 won’t protect you with my life itself? Do you fancy for a moment that I won't take your part, when you decide what your part is?" “Let me go! Ix-t me go, sir?” she exclaimed. “Or else at any rate, let me find my handkerchief. And she struggled for her hanker chief. that the kisses her husband gave her might not be too salt, and pulling it from her pocket, some thing in a great arc and stream of lustre whirled out with the violen* tly wrenched hankerchief, sailed through the air like nothing so much as a flying rainbow, and fell at her feet. It was the lost diamond. Mrs. Torrance stopped in the midst of her tears, blushing dis heveled, as pretty a sight as a rose bush in a shower, and held back herskirts with both hands while she looked at the great shining eye there liefore her on the carpet. “The hor rid thing!” she said. “The horrid unwinking, accusing thing! It is calling me all sorts of names. I shall never want to see it again. Only think if I had denounced f l I had on this very gown when J Mre. Veasey was In. Hx»w stu pid of me. Now, 81l take this ‘ | dowe to a diaifond broker’s to-day, I ftnd, Mikl red’s Mabel shall have * l‘Ci • thousand dollars’ worth of lessors. I dare say she’ll sing at our parties by-and by. She’ll be j our particniar prima donua.- I And by that time I shall have im t proved Mildred into a companion, j Oh, I should think yon would de spise such a ridiculous, wicked I littlo wife as I am!" she cried turn ing to her husband. “You ought Ito have married a saint. What a good man yon are, Aichy!” “My dear,” said Mr. Archy, “life with any other woman who didn't arrange these little circuses for my morning entertainment would be too stale, flat, aud unprof itable to dud u re. I should run away from the saint, and take to the flying trapeze and won.' r —liar- • per's Bazaar. X- AN IRISHMAN’S : LOVjS-MA4<(s|Cr, ( I The Rehson Mrs- Maguire Wantcj ' Ret Donovan Fumsh£d.. f * Chicago Ledger. You say this man has ugwi ’ ,Jk- 1 ing love to your daughter, Jiri.- ‘ Maguire?” “I doj soi.” “And that he has ag gtnxl A asked hcrla marry him?” Jo, ; “On what do you base your cm jecture?” “Is your honor spakit ’ tc n. , S('l “Yes; on what do you ton id your surmise?” “She’s an honest gerrel, yer hon or, if I do say it mcself that’s her mither,” “Yes—but why do you conclude that he Las been making love to her?” “Sure, an’ didn’t she till me so bersilf, yer honor?” “What she told yofi is .not evi dence to the court, Yon must tell only what yon know to be so of your own personal knowledge. Did you hear him make love to her?” “No sor.” “Did you see him?” “An fhat‘s that, yer honor?” “Did yon see him kiss hey?-’ “Devil flip wanst, yer honor.— Let me see the loikes av that, and sorry the bhone he’d have in his body, barin’ the wans that, broke, sor.” v.Did yo sec him embrace her?” “An’ fhat‘s that sor?” “Did he ever hug her in your presence?” (‘Mary Ann?” “Yes.” “Himsilf, sor?” ‘A QS, Did he ever hug her to your kgowedge?” “To me face SQi’f 5 “Yes: in your r ,2 ’ - presence? “In , ..ie own shanty, are ye man in’, sor?” “Certainly—to be sure. There or anywhere else when you were by.” “Mesilf, sor?” “Yes. Has he ever hugged her before your eyes?” “Whin I was lookin’, sor?” “To be sure, woman. Answer promptly, and don’t take up the time of the court. Has this man ever hugged your daughter when yon were present?” “An’ wide awake, sor?” “Certainly, ma’am.” “Don’t you see for yourself, sor, that his head an’t broke at all, at all?” “Yes; but answer the question.” “Is the hair av him missin’ sor?” “Did he hug your daughter?” “Mary Ann, sor?” “Certainly. Did he hug her?” “Himself, sor?” I said so. Why don't you answer?” “I did, sor.” “No you didn’t, and 1 want you to know without any more beating around the bush about it. Did he hug her?" “An’ where- was 1, sor?” “That's what I want to know. — Did you sec him?” “Did I say so?” • “Can’t you answer a question?” “An' why not?" “Then why don’t yoti do it?” “When, yer honor?” | “Now—this minute. Did this Iman ever bug your daughter with your ’ “Do ye rfoc the marks av me finger nails upon him, sor.” “Can’t you say yes or no?” “Why shouldn't I, sor?” "Then in heaven's name why don't you do it?” “Fhat, sor?,' “Did you ever see him hug her?” “Mary Ann?” “Didn’t I say so?” “Sure, an' I don no, sor.” “Did yon over see him hug Marv Ann?” “Pat Donovan, sir?” “Yes; did you ever se Pat Dono van hug Mary Ann?” “An shat would 1 be doin’, sir?” “Did you ever see him hug her?” ’* “Av coorse not, sor” “Then why didn’t you say so long ago, and save all this non* “I did, sor. Ye said ycrsclf, sor, ye wouldn’t see so much as the mark av a finger upon him, an’ I tould ye wid me own tongue that n i “Well, never mind that now— How do you know he made love to her then?”’ “Don't you see for yerself, yer honor, that, the besht pairt av her re missin’, sor? ’ I “Well but what ’has that to do “Tfiat's.the wairk av Fat Dono |l van,’ yer honor. It was at Kirbey's wrfkp sor, as he’ll till ye himsilf, if iie’s the gentleman his faither was was before him. 1 won‘t sav, sor, but shat the craythcr got into his head, yer honor, for sure he vas full av the same to the very eyes av him, sor, an’ by that same token ye‘ll know sor, that Mary Ann spiled her tathe by the loikes av a chair leg that was flyin’ about in the hands av Pat Doonovan, sor, whin sheintcred Hie roenn, an’ there ye have it, yar honor, as plain as the bile on the ind av me nose how it was sor. An’ now, yer honor, if he didn‘t loike the gerrel, an’ in tend to marry her, why did he be have loike a swateheart at all in toirely, sor, by putting the weight of his fisht upon her, yer honor? Y r is, sor; it‘s braohe av promise, as yer honor well knows, sor, an’ Mary Ann, the poor, swate gerrel, will die wid a broken hairt, sor, anliss yer honor—the kind soul that ye are — takes pity on the colleen, an’ makes the bla’gard aither mar ry her, or rcsthore the lathe at his own ixpinse, sor.” Our I readers can hardly fail nave their atention called this week to the latest combination of improvements in that most useful of all domestic implements, the “sewing machine.” xAs we understand it, a machine for family use should meet first of all these requirements: It should be simple in its mechanism; it should run easily; it should do a wide range of work: it should be light, handsome, durable, and as cheap as is consistent with excellence throrgh out. These conditions the “Light-Run ning New Home” certainly meets. It has also several very important and useful attachments and “no tions” of its own, which go far to make good its claims to popular favor. The “New Home” specially rec ommends itself to purchasers on account of its superior mechanical construction, ease of management and reasonaLle price. Over half a million have been sold in the last three years, all of which are giving universal satisfaction. ‘ This unri valed machine is manufactured bv the NEW HOME SEWING MA CHINE CO., Orange, Mass., and 30 Union Square, New York. Wagner, the murderer, the first man hanged in the Ohio peniten tiary, left a touching temperance sermon behind. The leaves in his Bible were turned at every place where drunkeness was referred to. It had been the root of all evil to him, and he seemed to hunt up all the passages on it. A hungry man doesn't throw Bread out of the window because it isn’t pie. A dollar decreases in size in the same ratio that a man’s heart gets bigger. • IS fisJ 11011 1W f BEST TONIC. ? 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