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FOURTH PAGE
THE SUNNY SOUTH
JANUARY 12, 1907.
X5he Mairoda Ruby
armies should lie made. Nothing shows,' . . m A 1 | Surprise forced my secret from me. I bat
; the certainty of General Grant's mUitary j 011^11 111 ttlC Al CO VC ! ^ «“
1 do not think to hold it there. f did not
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ARSHALh THIRD stretch-| Now 1 will read you one or tw
ed out a slim hand across ! extract.-. Kioto!
.... Third pointed
the chessboard. ' „ .. „ ,
i gat e an order
"You will forgive tue re-. The small Jap. soft-footed, laid
maining seated. Lady Bor- 1 volumes on the table at his elbow. The
i„ii i i Vigilant picked up the first,
rodaile. I am. as you see, , . ,,,, . . 1
l ' I Ins is an exhaustive work on fire-
an invalid. j worship. Toward the end we find this:
Daily Borrodaile. a pret-| " 'Notice must also be made of the
ty. well-dressed woman of G-aewaks, an ail 1 1insL extinct tri'be ol
. ... ! northern Siam, who in long past ages
of five and thirty, took the* , . , . . . ,
i worshiped not tire, but a gigantic red
proffered hand and ills- [ jewel, probably a ruby or great size and
erectly veiled the aston- I value, which was supposed to have bur-
islunent she could not help j * e< l in its heart liquid tire from the sun,
feeling that this man of: so tradition runs: and though it
had heard such wonderful
I here
should be helpless and a cripple.
"You got my note asking for an ap
pointment?" she asked. | know your
time is valuable, but the fact is. my
jewels, about thirty thousand pounds’
worth, have been stolen, and Sir Dramas
Ramon, whom I think you know, advised
me to come straight to you and waste no
time. - ’
The Vigilant sat upright.
"Thirty thousand pounds! That's a very j
large sum. When did you first miss!
them? Perhaps you had better tell me
the story in your own way," he added, j
hastily.
“My husband and I live at T> ineroft. a)
few miles from Hertford." began Dady
Borrodaile. "Tt is a two-story house, 1
standing in about four acres of ground, j
The mail! road passes tile drive .gates in |
front. At Hie back and sides of the gar-j
den are grazing grounds and farm land. I
tt e live very quietly when we are there, I
and only keep five indoor servants, all of |
whom ha,vo been with us for at least*
seven or eight years. My jewels are kept
in a ease—a red morocco box. with trays
and compartments. The ease measures,
roughly, twenty inches long hy half as . ,
much across and *n depth. This case is i :,, _ 1 Gnental can wait
always looked, and I myself keep the
key on a gold chain round my neck—here
it is. The case stands on my dressing
table to the right of the window. T
sketch a little, by the way—and have
brought you a drawing of the house. I
thought it might be of use. There, you
ree those 'two windows marked with a
cross, those are iu my room.
”Tn the country I wear litrle or no
.Jewelry. The last occasion on which T
used that, in the ease was at a hall in
town over a month ago. T replaced them
mvF..]f the next day and locked the ease.
•Since then T never touched it tili yester
day morning, when T thought I would
tsikn out a tiara which needed resetting.
I tried the key. which would not turn.
•ml becoming alarmed, T got my husband
to force open the lid. Not only were the
| plans more than tins, that he and Mr
| Lincoln were able to count definitely
liort upon defeat and destruction of Dee's
army, which must bring with it t lie de-
to tile bookshelves, and feat or surrender of Johnston's army,
i a low voice. j Foreseeing these great events, which
* virtually close the war, it became neces
sary to invent some method by which the
j rebel armies might be disbanded safely.
I and yet with such hold over them by
tile government as should affix a penalty
to farther resistance. The result of the,
president's deliberations with General
I Grant was the offer to Dee of discharge
on parole for liis whole army. General
I Sherman has offered the same terms to
| Johnston, and it is scarcely to be doubled
i that he will accept them.
"By many, these terms were thought to
be too lenient; but they serin to me to
be greatly wise, and lo effect all that is
desirable. He could not hold the wjiole
southern armies as actual prisoners in
camps. This would have been cruel and
useless. It is not light, on the other
hand, to suffer these soldiers to disband
without any restraint upon them. Both
evils were avoided by the conditions
adopted. The actual condition of these
men is prisoners of war on parole not
to serve against their country till regu
larly exchanged. Of course, they will not
be exchanged, and they are therefore
bound, under penalty of death, to refrain
Continued front First Page.
anisli-
was stolen, many centuries ago.
till exists a temple and a sect of
priests of ibis peculiar worship at a.
little-known place far up hi the hills call
ed Aleyroil. or by other Maim.'
"Do you know who wrote those words?
Mr. Kndover, your host at the hall that
night on which you wore the stone, and
one of the greatest living authorities on
Siam and ils folklore and religions. He
lias spent, first and last, nearly ten years
of his life there. When you mentioned
his name just now 1 recalled the fact,
and with it another that in an account in
The Morning Dost it mentioned that
there were several princelings from north
ern Siam present
'The case now becomes obvious: one of I 1,0,11 hostilities aigainSi the government.
those bejeweled princes from tin* north
saw your ruhv and recognized it.”
J.idv Borrodaile started.
"You’re right, quite right. One of them
—I shouldn’t know his name or he able
to pronounce if if I did—asked to be in
troduced lo mo, and through his inter
preter asked me all sorts of questions
about Knglish <onntr\ life, and how we
spent our time.”
“Quite so. lie found out what be
wanted, and waited bis chance as only
lally. despairing
ot getting a glimpse of your jewel ease,
ho or one of bis dependents arranged
with the cyclist, who was also a Siamese,
‘At the same time, they are assured of
safety—the government has hound itself,
by accepting their paroles as prisoners
of war. to treat them as rightful bellige
rents. 'fbe terms of tlieir surrender re
lieve them, if they observe them, from
the penalties of treason. This. too. is
right and necessary, for no one wishes
to persecute the southern people.
“Finally, they are prisoners of war. and
of course alien enemies by the terms
they have themselves areepted*, and they
have for the present no rights of ••itizeri-
ship. These they ran acquire only by
taking an oath of allegiance and fidelity
to the government of the union, and
Ids manner and appearance— that is, if
lie returned at all—but the one I saw was
not a cheerful one. even after be had ap
proached his daughter’s bedside and
found her greatly improved. She n»*iced
this and scrutinized him strangely, fie
dropped his eyes and turned to leave the j . ls
room, but was stopped by lier loving i
cry: he came back and leaned over her.:
*‘\\hat is it. father? You are fatigued.!
worried -*’ j
”X<>, no, quite well.” he hastily assured!
her. “But you! are you as well as you
seem?’* •
“Indeed, yes. 1 am gaining every day.
See! see! I shall soon he able to sit up.
Yesterday 1 read a few words.”
lie started, with a side glance at me
with It took in a table' near by on which
;t little book was lying.
“Oh. a. book?”
”Yes, and—and Arthur’s letters.”
'I’ite father flushed, lifted himself, pat
ted her arm tenderly and hastened into
another room.
Miss Grey’s eyes followed him longing
ly. and I heat d her give utterance to a.
soft sigh. A few hours before, this would
have conveyed to my suspicious mind
deep and mysterious meanings; but T
was seeing everything now in a different
light, and I found myself no longer in
clined either to exaggerate or to misin
terpret these little marks of filial solic i
tude. Trying to rejoice over the present
plantation of intense anger
weapon back on the table,
taking the precaution of covering i
I think he uttered an oath, but there
was nc» fear in it. not a particle.
.My disappointment was so great, my
humiliation so unbounded, that, forget
ting myself in my dismay. 1 staggered
back and let the tray with all its con-
1 ip from my hands. The crash
that followed stopped Mr. Grey in the
j a l of rising. But it did something more.
It awoke a cry from the adjoining room
| which I shall never forget. While we
! ‘bifth started and turned to see from
I whom i his grievous sound had sprung, a
I man 1 nine stumbling toward us. with his
} hands before his eyes and this name wild
! on his lips:
“Grizel! Grizel!”
.Mrs. Fairbrother’s name! and the man
ind laid the j r j s ^ t ] ft j s interview without precaution
wifftout even j j assure you _ an( j w } )e n I leave this hotel
it will 1)0 as a free man.
With one of r.is rapid changes, won
derful and inexplicable to rnc a! t-.ie
moment, lie turned toward me with 4
bow, saying courteously enough.
"We will excuse the young lady.
Next moment the barrel o a pistol
gleamed In bis liana.
The moment was critical. Md Lt p J
stoo.i directly in the line of file,’and the
audacious men who thus held him at lb-
mercy was scarcely a foot Irom the u"°'
leading into the hall. Marking the des
peration of liis look and the steadiur m?
of his linger on the trigger. I expected to
see Air. Grey recoil and the mar. escape.
But AD. Grey held his own. though he
made, no move, and did not venture to
speak. Nerved lu his coni
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XXI J. mone ( i up all my own. This
(JF1LT j not escape, nor m ist Mr. G
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i -i • i 11 i v or * od ; o j n vsol f. Such a in on cis wot
lover of tin* woman certainly; that was one. ,eu to m>sen. ^
| due one whose good name I *i«id s
deeply if secretly insulted. 1 had but to
scream, to call out for the inspector, hut
a remembrance of the necessity we weic
now under of preserving our secret, ot
pa pci
| to he
kind ;
. It is
borne in
us by the passion of his |
for that little scene of the accident, ( . , , . , .
, , , » , ■ , i it, ,. abandoning, bv formal and solemn oath,
which enabled them io duplicate the ,, ,, .
caso ” * ! all allegiance to any other government.
“But why—why not have broken it
open?"
“If only that one stone had been taken
they would Invariably narrow the field
of inquiry; by taking all. not only did
they make it seem a commonplace rob
bery, but having* found that you rarely
opened your jew>l case, they gained days,
and but for your wanting a. jewel reset
would have gained weeks in which to get
their Mairoda, stone safely away.
power or ruler. When they do that,
they are restored to the rights of citizen
ship. Those who refuse have no rights
to claim the privileges of citizenship.
”Jt is clear, therefore, that the terms
proposed by General Grant cover the
whole ground, and settle at once the
status of the rebel soldiers, and point out! thin
how they may regain, with safety to the
condition of my mind, T was searching
In the hidden depths of my nature for the
patience of which I stood in such need,
when every thought and feeling were
again thrown Into confusion by the re
ceipt of another communication from thej Mr. Gi
inspector, in which he stated thal some-j **Tak
“Grizel! Grizel!”
But how here? and why stfc-h fury in
Mr. Grey’s face and such amazement in
that of the Inspector?
This question was not to be answered
offhand. Mr. Grey, advancing, laid a
tinsei* on the man s shoulder. “Gome."
said he. * w * will have our conversation
in another room.”
The man. who, in dress and appear-
receipts ;
is that you are not
uriosity. but that you
• your strong, natura
ine will do what -on
ea.1 man.
will briii" it : ;ih \.
• it. \\
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!• Urtt'*re \ > >S. Rricitfupm •
a nee looked oddly out of place in those
gorgeous rooms, shook off the stupor
into which lie had fallen and started to
follow the Englishman. A waiter crossed
their track with the soup for our table.
• motioned him aside,
that 1 ark.” said lie- “I have
keeping from Mr. Grey the act that lu*
had been under s". rveiilance. was eyen
at tliai moment surrounded hy the police,
deterred me. and I threw myself toward
the bell instead, .vying our that I would’
raise the house if be moved, and laid
my finger on the button.
The pistol swerved my way. The tare
above it smiled. 1 watched that smile.
Before it broadened to its full extent 1
! pressed the button.
! Fairbrother stared, dropped his i-isioi,
| and burst forth with these two words:
i “Brave girl!”
! The tone 1 can never convey,
j Then he made for the door.
I As he laid his band on the knob, he
best seller; 2u0 per c«*it
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thing had occurred to bring the an-; some busine-s to transact with this geil-
thorities round to my way of thinking tlemau before 1 sat. I’ll ring when 1
and that the test with the stiletto was to j want you.”
be made at once. j Then they entered where T was. As.
Could the irony of fate go further! l j ilie door closed I caught sight of the in*] ca ** Gf * ^ a1 *-
dropped the letter half read, querying inspector's face turned earnestly toward; "I have been
it were my duty to let the inspector I nie. In his eyes X read my duty, and j iliis!
know of the flaw i had discovered in my girded up my heart, as it were, to meet—j But he never had: when ue opened tac
own theory, before I proceeded with the I what? Jn that moment it was impossible J door, he found himself face to face wit i
attempt I had suggested when I believed' to tel1 - ! the inspector,
in its complete soundness. T had not
settled the question when I took the let-j
ter up again. Rereading its opening sei
tence. I was caught by the word “sonn
It was a very indefinite one. \»
MARRY
money for particulars. Salad Club Oar i. 585 lakonsha a-
rtory FREE TO AT.I
married. Snt rely new nine
common welfare, the rights and privi-
. , , leges of American citizens. Therefore, we
I ho . y.-h,s;. entering the hospital enip-j tllinp thepe Vnns ,
omprehensive. ”
ty handed and helpless, would naturally
ho beyond suspicion. Meanwliile. t lie du
plicate having been made, the real thief,
farseeing and
ind *
jewels net there, but the ease, wliieli vwm the prime mover, waited his chant,
Identical with mine outside, was not my*| effected the substitution—it would take a.
case at all; yet on the outside it had m> j moment or two at most, when his plans |
monogram, and was exactly the same;
even down to a deep scratch in the left-
hand corner.”
it, and put it
jewels in town
were complet
"But what shall J do? AVhar can f do?’ -
asked Daily Borrodaile.
"The one tiling you must not do, if
A'ou value your life, and 1 speak in all
seriousness, is to attempt to recover that
stone. D is undoubtedly possible to do
so. though difficult. It is probably by
now well on the way to Siam. Should
- "jyou send any one in (pursuit they would | Kt a j es ( ] r
' ‘ inevitably lose their life before they so 1
much as got a glimpse of the stone,
and you. as the instigator of the pursuit,
would probably share his fate. Take my
advice, go away somewhere, take your
dogs and your servants wit], you. and
leave the house unguarded. If you do.
you will got yi4r other jewel
eok. Alind you. these men
have not stolen anything for its intrinsic
value. They have merely, in their idea,
rescued a precious and sacred relic from
the hands of an infidel and an unbe
liever."
Ten dux - later i'ae Vigilant received a
note from Dady Borrodaile.
"A'ou were right. X returned to Dun
croft, yesterday. The case has been re
turned intact, with a duplicate key in
gold. 1 found i: in the lock. The ruby
' Have you it with
"Yes."
Third just gla.ncei
down on the lablo.
"Did you replace
or when you got home? ’
''Not lili 1 got home. 1 only used
portion of them—those X carried in
rate cases ill Illy dressing bag. I re
turned on the 28th. the day after the ball,
and locked them up some time that even
ing."
"That loaves a period of thirty-two
days in which ll»e robbery might have
been effected.” He placed liie case be
fore him, and examined it carefully with .
a glass. “This was made in Paris. J see, ,
and for such an expensive article it is
easy to see that it hits been made in a
hurry. The, lining is every roughly fin
ished, and some of i he leather work is
bad. Tt has been made quite recently,
too. The signs of wear on the outside
and on the edges are purely artificial,
yet well enough done to deceive a causal
observer. The monogram die was, of
course. cut from a tracing of your
own—all of which means that the rob
bery had been planned and settled on
least five, days before it was carried
.Hit. probably longer. AV nerc was the a(Jmiration of vour skm .-
hall lo which you went on the last oc-
casion of wearing your jewels?”
•At Mrs. Endover’s in Carlton house j Best by Test-
terrace. 'I :-u* Combination Oil Curt*
Marshall Third’s pupils contracted to; and ’rumor has its imitato
a pinpoint, as they always did when he:n tln-m. Write today to th
was thinking hard and quickly.
“Among your jewels, if my niemor
serves me vright. there was a ruby]
known as the Mairoda ruby—a stone j
with a strange history?”
l.ady Borrodaile -nodded.
’Yes. that «s so, though how you!
knew T—the fa t is. very few people;
know oi its existence It iias a tragic , .
*tory connected with it. and my husband |
has asked mo not to speak of it to my
friends—not to ta.lk about it at all, tn ;
fact- and f hardly ever wear it.”
Marshall Third moved a chessman I
thoughtfully across the board in a long!
diagonal.
ing it mentioned in
ime of your marriage.
You wore it at Mrs.
CAPTURE OF THE MAPLE LEAF.
The Richmond Examiner gave the fol
lowing account of the capture of the Ma
ple Leaf by the confederates:
’ We published yesterday, from The
Washington Chronicle of Saturday, the
northern account of the capture, off
Cape Henry on the IOth instant, of the
steamer Maple Leaf, by ninety confed
erate officers, who having been refused
exchange, were being sent from Fortress
Monme to Fort LTela.\v;u*e. The Chronicle
the officers overpowered the
Punrd. twelve in number, whose muskets
were without bayonets and unloaded, and
having secured the officers and crew of
11 jo Leaf ran her to a point near Cape
Charles, where, all hut twenty-six landed
i do. and made off. No reason is given for
bark the remaining on board of the twenty-
six. The Chronicle further states that
immediately on the departure of the
southern officers the captain of the boat
put hack to Fortress Monroe and inform
ed General Dix of the affair, and that
he immediately sent out a detachment
of cavalry in pursuit of the fugitives.
“We received from ?. friend on Satur
day night, too late for publication, a
southern and entirely trustworthy ver
sion of this bold and* gallant coup, which
give below. Tt will be seen that the
was capable of covering a large field. It!
must cover a large field, or it could not j
have produced such a change in the
minds of these men. conservative from !
principle and in this instance from dis- j
The next enlightened me. With a
total ignorance of my presence. due
probably to his great excitement, Mr.
j Grey turned on his companion the mo*
j ment lie had closed the door and, seiz-
i ing him by the collar, cried:
j “Fairbrother. you villain, why have you
j (ailed on your wife like this? Are you
! murderer as well as thief?”
Fairbrother! this man? Then who was
he who was being nursed back into life on
worse straits th
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word something and quit turthor think- ; Anything seemed i)t>ssii)le in that mo-
ins. 1 was weary of it. The inspector J ment.
was now taking the initiative, and I was
satisfied to Tie his simple instrument and
no more. Arrived at this conclusion, how-
is a hotel bid (for sure). A waiter is
getting ready to bring them (or it) up
stairs with the coffee. Presently he will
knock, and I shall cry. ‘Entrez’ (with my
very best accent, you may be certain).
MOEriilNt y: ,
anJ p.iv us when cured- Cedarcrolt. Sanitariuiri
Lebanon. Department P. Tennessee.
ever, X read tlie rest of the letter. The
test was to go on, but under different
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and ho will lay his tray upon the tafile. ( ni i le 1 : ree < 'on'..; ins hniirii ".
if there are two paper packets besides
, I the halfmoon breads—good! I am an cni-
Meanwlnle, dropping .us hand from the p^ror. If one, and that no post letter, it
others throat as suddenly as he had ( is thumbs down and the lions for your
seized it. Mr. Grey caugiu up tlie stiletto poor friend. A very pretty little drama.
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I remember i
liie papers at the tin
twelve years ago. Y
Kndover's thal night
The question was
Dady Borrodaile 1
f i laed.
"Yes, as a matter of fact, X did. It's—j
well. It. went so well with my dross, l :
thought It a pity not to. ]'vu only worn ■
it half a dozen times siina i nine into j
my possession "
The Vigilant's eyes gl-amci
"You will no: wear it again," lie i
snapped "Your other jewels, yes; tiiel
Marioda ruby. no. Then days ago there!
was a small paragraph in the papers |
giving an account of a motor ae -Ident at j
the gates of your country house?"
"Yes, that is so. My husband was
driving. \Ye had just passed tile lodge—!
there is a sharp, a dangerously sharp j
turn, coming out of the drive on to the ;
main road. Luckily we always make a
rule of going slow there. Just as we got !
on to the road a eyclist earning in the
opposite direction ibrshod in:o us before!
we could stop. We took him straight )
to the house, of course, and had him
taken up to bed. We were afraid of in>- battle-stained banner over the mangled
ierna.l injuries, for. barring a scratch or j and prostrate bodies of our fellow-men.
I'hey tell not of the ensanguined track
S gone, but in its place were three | first'use made of His Hberty bv the van-
magnit.ee, lt „nset diamonds. X send you | ko<% skippnr was vir) la,e his parole,
one as a token oi mv thanks and my , , , ... ,
1 Our correspondent writing under date of
June 13 says:
" 'While at City Point, yesterday, X
learned from an entirely trustworthy
source, that about one hundred of our
officers, who have recently been a cumu
lating al Old Doinl. were put on !«>ard a
steamer two or three days ago, to be
sent to Fort Delaware. After they had
left Fortress Monroe a short time, they
lose upon the guard, overpowered it with
out loss of life on either side, and took
possession of the steamer. Their first
design was to run for Nassau, hut they
found there was not coal enough to carry
them further than Charleston. They
made the captain and pilot beach the
steamer at Gape Charles, first putting
them upon a parole that they would go
on to l heir regular place of destination,
without communicating to any person
what had happened. Some seventy offi-
eif s landed, and about thirty remained on
board the steamer, alleging that tlie na
ture of their parole would not allow
I hem to escape. The captain and pilot
again gladdens our heaits | t | lf ,„ st(>or | ou tlieir way to Fort Dela
ware. but at the approach of night.
! turned round and steamed for Old Doint,
and there told what had happened. Noth-
i he esn anerl oi t i -
LEAVES FROM AN OLD SCRAP
BOOK.
Continued from Second Page.
conditions. It was no longer to lie made
at my own discretion and in the up
stairs room; it was to be made at lunch
eon hour anil in Mr. Grey’s- private din
ing room, where, if by any chance Mr.
Grey found himself outraged by the plac- j
ing of this notorious weapon beside iiis ,
plate, the blame could be laid on the 1
waiter, who, mistaking his directions, had j
plated it on Mr. Grey's table when it j
was meant for Inspector Daizell's. who j
was lunching in the adjoining room. Iti
was I. however, who was to do the plac- I
ing. With what precautions and under I
-what circumstances will presently ap- 1
pear.
Fortunately, the hour set was very!
near. Otherwise I do not know bow l!
could have endured tlie continued strain I
of gazing on my patient's sweet fa e.
looking up at me from her pillow, with !
a siiadow over its hJ-a.oty which had not'
been there before her father's return. [
And that father! I could hear him j
pacing the library floor with a restless- !
ness that struck me as being strangely I
akin to my own inward anguish of im
patience and doubt. AVhat was he dread- j
ing? What was it T had seen darkening j y'F ' *---
liis face and disturbing liis manner, when j f>nislieG Mr.
from time to time he pushed open the j P ossess * on .
communicating door and east an anxious j
glance our way. only to withdraw again
without uttering a word. Did he real
ize that a crisis was approaching, that
from the table where he had flung it,
crying: "Do you recognize this?"
Ah, then i saw guilt!
In a silence worse than any cry. this
so-called husband of the murdered wom
an. the man on whom no suspicion bail
fallen, the man whom all had thought
a thousand miles away at the time ot
the deed, stared at the weapon thrust
tinder his eyes, while over iiis face pass
ed all those expressions of fear, abhor
rence and detected guilt which, fool that)
1 was. I had expected to see reflected
is it not? My pen hysterically splutters
at it.
"Do you think it is beautiful to die in
(picturesque si.v round trigs? AVBtii y our
taste, your decadent taste, for the an
cient and peculiar, the answer is obvious.
Starvation in the Latin quarter!—within
the sound of the fiddles and laughter of
tlie 'Folies Berg ere ’ Voluptuous! you
cry. Perhaps you arc right. But the ex
perience is hazardous.
"Meanwhile my friend the waiter is
mounting the staircase. Yes, sir, ac
tually mounting. Don you not bear him
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, , __ across tlie footlights? Ho rattles eon- 1
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Grey s equable countenance. j the weight of those two missives that j
The surprise and wonder of it held | makes him unsteady ?
me chained to the spot. I was in at "Ha! he knocks,
state of stupefaction, so that I scarcely " ‘Come in!'
"He enters. No word.
" 'Thank you.’
"Bilenfily tin' piJD the
table and retires. Shall
noted the broken fragments at my feet.
But the intruder noticed them. Wrench
ing his gaze from the siiletto which Mr.
Grey continued to hold out. lie pointed
look up?
Would you like to know soon what i.
to the broken cup and saucer, mutter-iare lying beside tlie crescent breadlets? !
ing': 'Well, I will satisfy- your impatience. I j
“That is what startled me into this j will raise an eye."
betrayal—'the noise of breaking china. 1 i He looked up—and turned suddenly
can not bear it since—*’ j white and haggard. The moment al'te
He stopped, bit his lip and looked j asain to his writing,
around him with an air of sudden j without
bravado. ; Thee nr<>
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Mr. Ramsdell’s alcove
Grey witli admirable self
r see that explanations from myself
| are not. in order,” was the grim retort,
1 launched with the bitterest sarcasm,
j Then a-: tlie full weight of his position
i crushed in on him, liis face assumed an
first
He poured out a cup with only one I
unsteady jerk, which sent a tiny splash |
upon tlie white-metal tray, sugared. !
S. i Tt TIG ll it
the
stirred, and sipped it
"Delicious! They hav
strength.”
He drank the coffee in tinv sips
“Good-by! Shull 1 tell vo
doubled tlie
i lie
danger menaced him, and from Me? No. i . . . . , .. ..
not the latter for his glance never aspect 8tartlln * 10 niy unaccustomed I amount? No: why put you to the trouble
. . ; eyes, and, thrusting: Ins hand into his:°£ forgetting: tho silly numbers. Beside
strayed to me. hut rested solely on Ins | pocket llo drew forth a small box which I, T have not looked yet. There is stfii
sympathy, so well a; tiicir command, to
lighten the burden of our overwhelming
sorrow.
"And now that the marshaling of rival
hosts and the thunder of battle no lon
ger disturb the land—now that tlie
swords ore being 'beaten into plow
shares and spears into printing hooks'—
now that peace dove-eyed and ■white-
winged peai
with her merciful visitation—shall the
sharers of our joys and our sorrows, our
hopes and our despair, be less loved t'han
before?
"Shall we not rather seek, as did thej
courtly knights of chivalry, for fresh I
opportunities to manifest our appreciation
of their sublimely illustrated virtues?!
Shall we no; delight to give renewed evi- j
den e of our continued loyalty and de- !
votion to our matchless countrywomen? 1
[Shall we not delight to pay gntTelnl I
tribute to the exalted worth and re- cure
splendent beauty that are theirs? Shall
daughter. 1 was, therefore, not eon-j [ le j,] ar
nected with the disturbance in his “The
thoughts. As far as that was concerned ; simply.
il In Mr. Grey's hands
Great Mogul," he
i half
a cup of coffee in tlie pot.
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two and a. cut knee, there was little to
see. and my husband drove straight ott 1
to Hertford for a doctor.
"The poor fellow seemed in consider-
able pain, and the doctor could not ms- !
cover the seat of the Injury. Il e re- ,
ruained there in bed for a couple of days |
and then, at his own request, he was!
moved into hospital. He left, a s a mat
ter of fact, four days ago. ’
“The papers spoke of the cyclist as a!
student at Markham's Hill college," said
tlie Vigilant. "which is, as you may,
know, a civil service college where they :
train, among others, the sous of Indian. \
.Siamese and other potentates. This par- ]
titular young man was a Siamese, ac- j
cording to their account.”
"So he tola idy husband.”
"That letter that he wrote to liisj
friend contained an exact description ot
tlie outside of your jewel case. I have j
no doubt that lie succeeded in getting a j
tracing, which was also sent in the let- '
t-r I
Now to go back to the Mairoda stone.
As far back as its history can be traced,
il lias been tlie cause ot' countless mur
ders. It first comes to light in the hands
of a Chinese mandarin. Ho was stran
gled, a nd yeai s after tlie stone appears
in Russia in tlie dagger hilt of a certain
Duke Vlodmir. who also died a violent
death, and so on through a period of
four hundred years—roughly, until your
husband's grandfather won it at the gam
ing tables at Crocki'ord's. Shortly after
wards an attempt was made to assassi
nate him, it was unsuccessful, and since
that time ils history lias been unevent-
CuL
ni the military chieftain. They do not
remind us of conflagrated homesteads, of
outraged virtue, of the tears of bereaved
widowhood or the melancholy wail of
hapless orphanage. They are of the
beautiful creations of an Almighty and
Ibenelicent hand; the products of our
gardens, fields and woods, emblematic of
grace and purity, fit coronets to adorn
the brow of innocence and beauty, lor
they are as fresh as the breeze that!
plays upon our mountain summits, pure 1
as the dewdrop that sparkles in the first
ray of the morning sun, and chaste as j
the sigli oi first lov« iu a guileless maid
en's lu:R«*'
"The women of tiie south! Ten thou
sand times ten thousand blessings were I
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resisting hands, carried it into tne par
lor and left it there with the door shut
securely.
When tiie priest arrived he began pre
paring tlie oil. Seeing this. Mr. Gnynan
tottered from tlie room, returning with
| tlie service in ids trembling hands,
j Directly the ceremony began. In fai-
I timing v oice Mary repeated the Ccnh-
j leor.
j After tin; prayer, the anointing began.
"By this holy anointing and of His
; own most tender, may the Lord forgive
tiiee whatever thou hast committed bv
| thy sight—”
The priest made tlie sign of tlie cross.
Beneath liis gentle touch the eyes of
our dear one opened and turned towards
the ta'nh as though in search of some
thing.
They rested on the crucifix.
"He did not mean to put it with the
presents, but ii was cruel! cruei!”
A look of a.bject terror settled on her
face.
For a moment site vibrated like a
TKEIR RADICAL ACTION.
(From Puck.)
daily invoked in their behalf by the gal-[ v 1 i '' lin '>een rudely tuned and
1 r t , ltl . . lM 1 then —we know by tho dew that moistened
lam men who fought theii battles and K. hju tl ' ie litt]e baby held snug-
today they live in the aftections 01 the: 1 y j n 0 pj Timothy's arms was mother-
survivors of our heroic and migijty strug- j less.
gle. and their deeds shall emblazon and |
adorn with more than heraldic glory the j
brightest pages of candid and impartial,
histoiv. ! "Papa." pleadingly said the clergy-
LEE'S ARMY IN 1865. ! li '. llt ' s . vo " r
.. , , ; sermon for children tomorrow will he
The N' W Luk Army and Nuv\ Jour- kincl () - s i, crt niHy Smith and Johnny
nal (»f April 29. 1865. contained the lol- j jonks and Chuck Purity and some of
lowing “Status of la’e's Army” .it that the other fellows have been to see me
time: [ about it. and if the sermon is a long
"To the Editor ,,f Tlie Army and Navy . <me Billy Smith is going to lick me, if
it's very long Lilly Smith and Johnny
Jonks will lick mp. if it is awful long
.1 could proceed fearlessly: T had him not
'him to dread, only tlie event. That X
did dread, as any one must who saw
Aliss Grey’s face during these painful
moments and heard that restless tramp
in the room 'beyond.
At last the hour struck, the hour at
which Air. Grey always descended to
lunch. He was punctuality itself, ami
under ordinary circumstances l could de
pend upon liis leaving bis room within
five minutes of the stroke of I. But
would he be as prompt today? Was he
in the mood for luncheon? Would lie
go downstairs at all? Yes. lor the
tramp, tramp stopped. X heard him ap
his daughter's door for a last
look in, and managed to escape just in
time in procure wliat 1 wanted and
reach tlie room below before lie came.
My opportunity was short, but X had
time, to see two things: first, that the
location of his seal had been changed
so that his back was to the door lead
ing into tiie adjoining room; secondly,
•that this door was ajar. Tlie usual
waiter was in tlie room and showed no
surprise at my appearance, 1 having been
I: was tlie first time I had heard this
diamond so 'named.
Without a word that gentleman open
ed the box. took one look at the. coh-
tents. assumed a satisfied air, and care
fully deposited the recovered gem in liis
own pocket. As his eyes returned to the
man before him. all the passion of the
latter burst forth.
"It was not for that T killed
her!" cried lie. "I: was because she
defied me and flaunted her dis
obedience in my very face. 1 would do
it again, yet—"
Here his voice broke and il was in a
different tone and with a total change of
manner lie added: “You stan.i appalled 1
at in* depravity. A'ou have not lived
my life." Then quickly and with a
touch of sullenness: "A'ou suspected me
because of tlie stiletto. It was a mis
take. nising that stiletto. Otherwise, the
plan was good. I qo'ubt if you know now
how I found my way into the alcove,
possibly Under your very eyes; certainly,
under tiie eyes of many who knew me.”
"1 do not. It is enough that you en
tered it: that you confess your guilt.”
Here Mr. Grev stretched his hand to-
careful to have it understood that here-1 w;ml the e i e otrie button.
Journal.
"Sir: The. last great work
nr dead
Billy and Johnny and Chuck will lick me
president was, in connection with thel aa j p- j( j s atl y longer (hail that tlie rest
lieutenant general, to plan the terms of tlie boys will pile on, and all of ’em
upon which the surrender of the rebel J lick me.”
after Aliss Grey's appetite was to be en
couraged by having her soup served from
her .father's table by her father's own
hands, and that 1 should be there to re
ceive it. i
“Mr. Grey is coining." said 1. ap
proaching the waiter and handing him
tlie stilietto loosely wrapped in tissue
paper. "Will you lie kind enough to
place this at liis plate, just as it 1s? A
man gave it to me for Air. Grey; said
we were to place it there.”
The waiter, suspecting nothing, did as
lie was bidden, and I had hardly time
to catch up tlie tray laden with dishes,
which 1 saw awaiting me on a side ta
ble. when Mr. Grey came in and was
ushered to his seal. •
The soup was not there, but I ad
vanced with my tray and stood waiting",
not too near, lest the violent beating of
my heart should betray me. As I did
so the waiter disappeared and the door
•behind us opened. Though Air. Grey's
hail fallen on tiie package, and I Saw
him stari. T darted one glance at the
room thus disclosed and saw that it held
two tables. At one the inspector and
some one f did not know sat eating; at
the other a man alone, whose buck was
to us all, and who seemingly was en
tirely disconnected w-ith tiie interests of
this tragic moment. All this 1 saw in
an instant—the next my eyes were fixed
on Air. Grey's face.
He had reached out liis hand to the
package and ids features showed an emo
tion | har.lly understood.
"What's this?" he murmured, feeling
it with wonder. 1 should almost si,y an-j
grr. Suddenly he pulled off the wrapper, i
and my heart stood still in expectancy.
If he quailed—and how could lie help do
ing so if guilty—what a doubt would be
removed from my own breast, what an
impediment from police action! But he
did not quail; lie simply uttered an ex-
"No, it is not enough.” The tone was
tierce, authoritative. "Do not ring the
bell, not yel. i have a fancy to tall you
how I managed that little affair."
Glancing about, lie caught up from a
near-by table a. small brass tray.
Emptying it of its contents, lie turned
on us with drawn-down features arid an
obsequious air so opposed to his natural
manner that it was as if another man
stood before ns.
"OPardon my black tie." he mattered,
holding out the tray toward Air. Grey.
Wellgood!
The room turned with me. It was lie,
then, the great financier, the multimil
lionaire. tlie husband of tlie magnificent
Grizei, who* had entered Air. Ramsdell's
house as a waiter!
Mr. Grey did not show surprise, but
lie made a gesture, when instantly the
tray was thrown aside and the man re
sumed liis ordinary aspect.
"I see you understand me." he cried.
"T who have played host at many n bail,
passed myself off that night as one of
the waiters. 1 came and went and no
one noticed me. tt is such a natural
sight to see a waiter passing ices that
my going in and out of tlie alcove did
not attract tlie least attention, i never
look at waiters when i attend halls. 1
never look higher than their trays. No
one looked at me higher than my tray.
X held the stiletto under the tray, and
when 1 struck her she threw up her
hands and they hit the tray and the cups
fell. I have never been able to bear the
sound of breaking cluna since. I loved
her—”
A gasp and lie recovered himself.
"That is neither here nor there,” lie
muttered. "A'ou summoned me under
threat to piesenl myself at your door
today, f have done so. I meant to re
store your daimond. simply. It lias become
worthless to me. But fate exacted more.
A LOA/E SOMG OF THE STATES.
Oh. won't you some and stay with All!.
And bear me no XId., will?
X ve lots of shares of copper ORE.,
And riches jo your fill.
Am. lovely MISS., just marry me!
LA.! how pleased 1 would me!
1 d be so GA. I'd never need
To visit an AID.
I’d CONN, new ways of pleasing you-
To know you’re ever by
Would make me feel as A LA mode
As Kaiser Bill, R. I.
Then let me ask your PA ’S consent
As soon as you sec fit.
And all our married life. O. love
Be sure you shall bo 1. t.
YENN. you'll have at any time,
And lest my love you doubt.
A\ e II dine each day at a hotel
And put our WASH, all out.
— Baltimore American, i
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arc some men on the isthmus. I think, I the presidential method of questioning
T.'? W \ “? ar this ex P>Tssion in their who remarked thal the head oi a
dreams. To the problem of yams he who would g,, so thoroughly int<
problems of yam- might rift an; otln-
subject to tlie bottom. So all govern
ment employees please make a note.
turned with tlie sameconcbiitr.itioii that be ;
would to making peace between Rmssia
and Japan, or the taxation of great for
tunes. And yams are really a great
roblem. Even as by dint of oatmeal tiiel
Scotch cultivated literature, so by dint of! PEERAGE STAGE NAMES.
ams our isthmian labor builds tracks 1 (From The London Globe.)
and dumps tiie. oars and digs locomotives! liie peerage has its troubles, like nl of
out of the mud. It is the rice of tlie Jap- , us. A writer in a paper written by Alar
™ ai _ C f n S .° rlent ' the black bread of his ' choness for marc-lionesses is rather
plaintive in the current number. "I
Russia, the potato of his Ireland
When one of the negroes that gathered
around the president complained that he
could not get good yams from tlie com
missary, the man from Cook's (one of
them representing the commissary) ex
plained that when they were bad tlie pur
chaser need not take them. The negro
insisted that tlie clerk or tiie commis
sary who threw them at him gave him
no option.
"We will go to the commissary and see
tiie yams.'- said the president.
Those in stock had some spots, but
hope," she says, "that every one ni:h
influence will do all she can to en
courage the present tendeuey of young
women on the lyric stage to use their
own names, instead of borrowing artifi
rial ones from the peerage. One young
person too,, a fancy to tlie name of m>
tides girl and wore it with her tights
for a scison or two. to the mingled
oi.iu.-en.cnt and annoyance of the fam
ily. ' There is certainly some foundation
"Why not?" the president pursued.
“T would not stoop to do such a tiling,
was the florid and dignified ultimatum.
Everybody laughed except the presi
! anamle from the stage. It was a cu
rious custom, this, of borrowing names
when opened the meat was good. The | for tide complaint, it is never pleasant
Jamaisan clerk insisted that vans found . . i- , t
bad might be returned. |' <,,,e * "'orn by other peo-
“Have you ever tried to return the bad j ph ’’ Pspecially wlth t!le Publicity insep-
ones?” the president asked the negro.
"No, sir," was the answer.
j lor theatrical purposes, ahd it is perhaps
j as well that it is dying out. There was
j seldom any reason for it. Of course if
, . - ; a man wihsed to play Romeo and his
l? nt ' ?. 11S f °ohsh response did not finish I name was prosaic or repulsive, we can
the subject for him. He went into it ; understand his wishing to call himself
again the next day at the commissary at! "Percy Alontgomery" or "Frank de
Colon. Now he had the complaint that | Yere.” But for the ordinary person
the yams were insufficient in quantity . there is no such need. One of our
and the commissary charged a higher j humorists, who in his youth spent some
price than the l hinese dealers. There ; time o.i the provincial stage, has put it
were many explanations, and still he _ on record that he adopted what he con-
stuck to his point that what lie wanted ! sidered a suitable stage name, and liked
to know was wh) the l nited States: it until he came across a man of that
■could >*ot sell vams as cheap as the Phi- name who had adopted his (the humor-
nese dealers. There were observers of I ist’s) name for stage purposes.