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Show Iff Jewel Mysteries From a Dealer's Notebook The tgHllB I 'ii'm I ffi r ,Q noL 1;,,ow ,f there be any drug 'i 2: Hi I" l,lt) Pharmacopoeia, or any clcurly 'vnSI dollncd medical treatment, which may I J i ji.'3 ever hope lo grapple effectively with 1 1 J 'la Uio strange disease of Jewel hunger, hut ir there bo not. I have much pleasure , ,i,4 Jit in recommending this most singular 111 t ' -''' 'wi lo 1,10 notice of a xlslng generation of r t ifli physicians. That It is a branch of that ' mystoy of mysteries, la novrosc. I have ','frJfi no manner of doubt, for I have seen it i In all Its forms a malignant growth ii. ;ffl which makes night of the lives It plays l ', . .88 upon: and flourishes to exceeding jiroilt 1 ! 1 ' 1 down In the vory heart of tragedies. Kor .',' Uic matter of that, the flunkies, who l .Xti study in tho kitchen as the great mns-'i mns-'i nZfii. tor has told us the characters of their ;i "Jiff governing acquaintances Iti tho boudoir i .,'!' above over a quart pot and the Police . ' .Ifci I Xowa. get no little Insight Into tho de-' de-' :jtjn'' j 1 vclonnio'nt of the social disaster which I 1 j treads ofton upon the heels of Jewel-1 Jewel-1 , II hunger, as thoy read thoso extravagantly ! ri fl 'if oinato reports of robbery and of mystery ' I .', ' In which a highly moral people revels. i L .;.' '"j 1'horfu arc but cleaners In the tleld to 1,1 them tho innor life must remain hidden. , I Ko physician hoping to cope with the nf-1 nf-1 1, Jf fiction should turn clihcr to gossips or H," ;S t-o slanderers for his diagnosis. Let him "iA Ml down into tho caves of the trade, vj, . j jflve his ear to tho truer naratlvo which I i! if f the jewel dealer alone can write for him, lljl -, and he may hope for material and for '," !i iniccoas. And If ho be wise, he will study '.fc'ii l fcolh tho comedy and the tragedy which ; MLi uch an investigation will bring before ') If!. .'(j lvlm, and will by this means alone set nffijf'll Himself up as a specialist, if It is to such a ono that 1 would rec-; rec-; h!j :f o.Mmend perusal of tho following case ! ijjir if hlch I record here as one of tho moan-;'P'j moan-;'P'j )1 nBS, cupidity and stupid cunning; 1 ; ' rtiubt if there be any phlisophy of mcdl-' mcdl-' i'l li r-no which could make pretenso of solvit solv-it liiL'l Jng it. There were but two principal If actors mentioned In the argument, and. il jft ' i indeed, it might fairly becalled a one-' one-' ,),) j part play. Tho chief person concerned. T b;' '1 Iford T-Iornlnghani. r had known for ' "i "i many years. Ho was a man of whom a I..1I J biographer wrote "Hint his long and un-"L un-"L jj blemished career was a credit to his eotin-t eotin-t ! try." and to whom a book on tho Dcca-1 Dcca-1 Hi'l .fa loguc was inscribed as to ono sans pcur vjHtr ot sans reprocho. Vet they told you in , fK the smoking rooms that he had starved Vfl H his fir I wife, and left his only son as ! 'si!'. ill the partner of a horse-coper in Mel-? Mel-? la lmurne. on tho princely allowance of J21S0 J ap'C pr annum. His wealth, said common I j la report, was anything from 50,000 to .i ,! 100.000 per annum; and hi his second ,r" ,'u'lf childhood, for he was a septuagenarian i when this comedy was played, ho was 'I ''iw' 'a suckled on the nourishing' food of cx-' cx-' ,ft : plrlng leases and forfeited improvements j i Lliifl until he scorned to exudo sovereigns from t Ui'!m every poto in his enormous body, r .cl '.'S -V meaner man never lived. AH shn-I" shn-I" ;M id ilh-.s b converge were based tipon ids ex-. ex-. ii 9 ploits. "As mean as old llarningham" 1 " v iy was a phrase you heard every day at the i M "Bachelor.-." In the countless old stories ; 'v ii' H Mi'sy put upon him. telling how, at a ten-Jjl' ten-Jjl' B nts lunch in Bedfordshire, he had cried. ' , MM "Here's another quart of cider, and hang I 'hu'M the expense!" how he had been seen in ,;b', J'arrlngdon market buying his own fish; ' 'tfl H how he haggled with cabmen innum.er-(dH'!l innum.er-(dH'!l '!8 able: how he had been .stricken with a jitv.jli fl malignant fever on the day he gave away , ' rit ;9 a sovereign for a shilling the.ro was but ) , ' ,n the echo of the general sentiment. The ; ''.'; J society prints were hillarious at the mere ' ". ip'H mention of his name. I recollect well his ' ' angvr when a wag said In one of them. ' .r'V m "'l 'a rumored that Lord TTarningham is 1 shortly about to give simethlng away." j i ,;jii. ' Ho was in my office next day a week , I'fiJ-.'Mj rarely passed but what 1 saw him and ' mI" ("ill he laid tho Journal upon my table, beat-i beat-i ',lvlir 'M Jl lI,,f with a. stick, and pointing at 1 if'fffi It with his ampin linger as though his !B very toucli would wither the writer. i ;Uii r 'fl "I'lease to read that." he wild with ' "forced calm but considerable emphasis. ,.J ,Ai H "and tell me If the scoundrel doesn't ,(Li i1 'U deserve to be hanged He dares to men- ! ' "on my name. dyc see! To mention me. i'k fR i I H,1C speak about my concerns. Ha! but J 1 ' rul wish I had him under my stick!" M. I.Lm'SS "Of course you don't know who wrote ' lUI'i iB "How should T know?" he gabbled lest- ' rSifl "!-)o s e' round to the taverns swlll-? swlll-? uW IM mK gln-and-watcr with such putter birds? , iiyP'tJH Do f hohnoh with all the half-starved limners In Fleet street? Tshaw. you talk llk-o a fool!" I suffered his temper, for he was worth a couple of thousand a year to me. Presently Pres-ently lie became calmer, and the humor of the thing dawned upon his dull mind. "Ha!" he said, snuffling ferociously from tho groat diamond-studded box ho always curried, "I shouldn't wonder If that's Master Bertie Watts you know my nephew, eh? he owes you something, eh? well, that's like him. and his scoundrelly scoun-drelly Impudence the vagabond!" "Did not I read somewhere that he was going to be married?" 1 remarked at hazard; haz-ard; but the notion tickled, him immensely, immense-ly, and he rolled about in his chair, shaking shak-ing the snuff from his box over his fur coat, and oven upon my papers. ' "Yes, you road It." he gasped at last, "a fine tale too. Why. what's he got? four hundred a year in Whitehall, and what he can draw out of me not much. Jlr. Sutton not much." I had no doubt of that, but I kept my faco while ho went on to mutter and to chortle; and I showed him a bracelet of rubbles, which he desired Instantly to purchase. I had put a price of -1-0 pounds i upon It, meaning lo accept :t00. so that we haggled for two hours by the clock and hail then done business. He took tho rubles away with him, while I caused the further sum to be set against him in tho ledger, where already there wero so nianv unpaid Items undor the name. Ho owed mo S000 pounds at the least, but I could not press the account or I should have, lost him; and while I was often sore troubled for lack of the money. I knew that 1 should get It at his death, and so aided his jewel-hunger. This was prodigious. pro-digious. All the gems thau 1 sold watches, necklaces, tiaras, brooches and breastpins, were convoyod at once to tho great safe in his bedroom and there immured. im-mured. No one ever saw them hut himself. him-self. His wives, both of whom wero dead, had scarce enjoyed the possession of a barmaid's jowelry. Tho passion of tho collector, of the hungerer after stones, alone consumed him. Of all his mcan-ncas, mcan-ncas, this was tho most contemptible this hiding of fair treasure from the light It lived upon this gross hoarding of beautiful things for ono man's selfish enjoyment. en-joyment. When he left Bond street that day, crying cry-ing at my door. "So I'm going "to give something away, am T? but T ain't. Sutton. Sut-ton. J ain't" and walking off as though he had found satisfaction In the negative thus conveyed to me, I picked up the paper, pa-per, and read again that young Bortlc Watts was at last engaged to the Hon. Eva Benley. and that the wedding was to he celebrated in a month's time. Every one in town said that old rfariiiingham would do something for Walls when the time for the marriage aelually camo. and it was gossip In the clubs that her people had given their consent for they were historically poor only upon tho sincere assurance from their daughter's fiance that his uncle really was vory fond of him, and would present him with a handsome hand-some check on the wedding day. But here was the announcement of tho wedding, wed-ding, and the curmudgeon had Just said being readier In speech with me. perhaps, per-haps, than with any one of Ids few acquaintances ac-quaintances that he did not mean to give tho young people a halfpenny. It did occur lo mo thai possibly ho might have bought Iho ruby bracelet for tho exceedingly exceed-ingly pretty girl to whom his nephew was' engaged; but in this I was mistaken, as you shall presently bee; and tho interest inter-est of the whole problem deepened when 1 learned later on In the smoking room of my club that the marriage was likely to be postponed, and something of scandal scan-dal to ensue. Bertie Walls, they said, was going about like a ravenous beast, seeking what financier he could devour. His opinion of his uncle was expressed In phrases of which the chief ornament was appalling curses and maledictions. lie declared he would have the whip-hand of him yet. would make him pay handsomely for all the trouble ho had put people to In short, behaved like a man who was absurdly In love, regardless of that financial finan-cial prudence which Is so dear to the sight of parents and of guardians. Evon he, however, could not foresee the strange thing about to happen to him. or the very curious opportunity which was shortly to be his A week passed. Thcro was no tlell-nlte tlell-nlte announcement of any postponement of the arrangements noted by the Jlydo Park Gazette, nor lld such pari of society so-ciety as Is represented by the tongtic-steru tongtic-steru hear that Bortlo had pcraimded his uncle. The thing was a kind of deadlock dead-lock in its financial aspect until at last the young lady's father, Lord Varnley, had consented to let tho wedding be. anfl to trust Haminghain's better senso when the time of the accompllHhment "Of course 1 can do less," he replied garrulously. "1 can give him nothing at all, d'ye sec? Not a brass half-penny. Look at the ass. maudllng about tho llrst pretty face he sees over a dinner tablo when ho might marry money twenty twen-ty times for the asking of It. Did I make such a fool of myself when I was his age'.'" I assured him thai hu did nothing of tlx; sort. "Then what's he want to do it for? Thinks he's going lo get something ouL of me, perhaps out of me, but he Isn't not sixpence; not If they hadn't enough to gel to the station with. TIa. hal I'm not such a spendthrift as I look." IIi talked In this strain for some while, and then fell to haggling over a gift. He told me that the custom of giving wedding presents was the Insane fashion of an Insane age. Unit he consented to follow it only In view of the funs that society would make If ills card did not Ho on Lord Varnlcy's table when tho other presents were nhown In this bargaining bar-gaining he displayed a meanness which was triumphant i-vcn for" him. I must have shown him quite a hundred rings, pins and watches, of all values, from iluv to ."00, before ho could In any way mako up his mind, and he did not cease to rebuke re-buke mo for that which he called my preposterously oxtra vagant insinuation. "Fifty sovereigns! a hundied sovereigns"' , he kept exclaiming. "Why. man alivo, do you think I'm made of money? Show mo something ohcap, something that 5 will buy. d'ye see? Any bft of stuff's good enough for a jackanapes like thai." ' Bui not for your card on Lord Varn-loy's Varn-loy's table." "Why. what do you mean?" "People who arc charitable, you know, might say that il was a curiously insuf-Helent insuf-Helent present " "D'ye tnlnk they'd say that?" "1 am sure they would " "AVlml should I be here for If 1 hadn't?" lie laid upon my table a green velvet case, of Ihc exact size, color and shape of that which had contained the links, but when I opened It I gave a start, and put It down quickly. The case held a crescent of pearls, turquoises and diamonds, which answered exactly lo Iho description of the one .stolen from Lord Varnley' houso on the day of his daughter's wedding. "There's somr- nilstako here, ' said U came. I saw Watts one day driving with Ills llanccc near the Achilles statue, and thought that he looked glum enough; but ho came to me on the following morning for a diamond aigrette, and although he couldn't pay for It 1 let him have it. "It'll be all right In a month, Sutton." said he; "you know the old chap's hard enough, but he can't let mo marry on nothing a year, can he now?" I said that the thing was possible, and for his own sake ventured to hint that It was even probable, an opinion which he took in no good part, sucking his stick silently for awhile, and then laughing with a poor, little chuckle that seemed lo come from the very top of his head. "Well," he exclaimed at last, "it's devilish devil-ish rough on a fellow to have a relation of that sort, isn't it? a positive disgrace to tho family. I wonder what the old blackguard Is going lo give me for a wedding present. Did he ask you to show him any American tickers, by the way? I shouldn't wonder If he presented me with a brass clock, and F.va with a guinea set In jet he's mean enough." "lie bought a ruby bracelet here some days ago," 1 remarked, as In parenthesis. parenthe-sis. "Did he now?" he exclaimed in a tone of pleasure. "I wonder if it's' for tho girlie! But, of course, it couldn't be. He'd die to give away anything that once went Into his old safe. Look here, Sutton, couldn't you charge him an extra hundred, hun-dred, and go halves? 1 feel like something some-thing desperate." I told him that that was Impossible, and he went tway with the aigrette In his pocket, and a very thoughtful expression ex-pression upon his fact. Before he did so, however, he had uttered the pious wish that his uncle might die of some tormenting visitation, and that he might be alivo to dance on the day of the funeral. fu-neral. J must say that I sympathized with him. for he was a good-looking and kindly-hearted young fellow, who for many years, had been led to believe that Ids relations would do something for him, and who was about to be grievously disappointed. dis-appointed. Nor could I forget that ho was engaged to one of the prettiest girls in town, and for her sake enjoyed a kind of rellecled sympathy which was sincere enough on the part of every man who knew him. Tho date of the wedding was now fixed, being the :21st of January, to bo well ahead of Lent. I saw Watts very frequently during the following ten days, he coming with expectant persistency to ask me if his uncle had yet bought him anything, and remaining disappointed disappoint-ed almost to the very eve of his marriage. mar-riage. In fact, the wedding was to take place on the Wednesday, and It was only on the previous Monday that Lord llarningham llarn-ingham ascended my slairs puffing and blowing, and in a shocking temper, to make his purchase of a. present- "Sutton." he said, "this Is the greatest great-est tomfoolery on earth that young rascal fs going to get married after all, Und I suppose I'll have to glvo him something." "Yon can scarce do less." I said with a smile. "Pshaw1 so am I; that comes of being thought a rich man when you're as poor as a parson. I'm nutle a poor man, ou know. Sutton." I listened, to him patiently, ard In tho end persuaded him to buy Watts an exquisite ex-quisite scl of jeweled links. These had a fine diamond in each of them, but their grcatcsl ornament was the superb enameling, enam-eling, worthy of Jean Toutin or Pctllol. with which all the gold was covered. I asked 150 for these lvmarkabl" ornaments; orna-ments; and the old man. struck, like the artist he was, with Iho perfection of tho workmanship, tlxed his greedy eyes upon them, and was persuaded. Ue protested thai they were too good, far loo good, for such a worthless Ingrate as his nephew, and I hat ho ought lo keep them Ir. his own collection: but at last he ordered me to send them, with his card to Lord Varnlev's town house, and went away chafing at Ills own generosity, and, as he avowed, at his stupidity. 1 saw no more of him for a week. The wedding had been celebrated, and Master Bertfe "Watts had conveyed away quietly to Folkestone, as pretty an English Eng-lish girl as ever nourished in the glare of the west. Lord and Lady Varnley shut tip their house during the week after the marriage, having sent tho very numerous numer-ous wedding presents to their bankers' and. society would have forgotten tho whole business if it had not paused to discuss the important question Mow wei-a the young couple to exist In the future on the paltry income of four or five hundred hun-dred pounds a year? One-half of the world may not know- how the other hnlf lives, but that is not for laclo of effort on its part lo find out. It was a matter of club-room news that old Lord llarningham llar-ningham had not relented and, beyond what his nephew called "those two-penny-half-penny slecvo links." had not given him a penny. How then, said this same charitable world, will these silly children keep up their position In town when they return from the second-rate hotel they are now staying in at Folkestone? Curiously enough. I was able myself to answer that question in three days' time though at the moment. I was Ignorant Ig-norant as any of them. The matter came about this way. On tho. very morning thai Lord Varnley went to Paris, It was known through the dally papers that there had boon a robbery at his house In Cork street, of a green velvet case, containing a crescent of pearls, turquoises, and diamonds. dia-monds. This was a present from one of the embassies to his daughter, and must, said the reports, have been abstracted from the house during the press and the confusion of the reception. Later in tho afternoon I received an advice from Scotland Scot-land Yard cautioning mo against the purchase pur-chase of such a gem, and Inviting Immediate Imme-diate communication if It were offorcd to me. The theft of wedding presents is so common that T gave little heed to tho matter; and was already incrsed In other business when Lord llarningham was announced, an-nounced, lies seemed rather fidgety In his manner, T thought, nnd hummed and hawed considerably before he would explain ex-plain his mission. "It's about those links I gave my nephew," he said at last, "they're fai too good for him, Sutton and they're too pretty. I never saw better work In my life, and must have been a fool when I let them go out of my possession d'ye sec?" "Well, but you can't got them back now?""r remarked, with a smile. He took snuff vigorously at my reply, and then said: "Man. you're wrong. I've got them In my pocket." I must have expressed my astonishment in my look, for he went on quickly: "Yea, hero, in the green case as you sold them. Do I surprise you, eh 7 Well. I'm going to glvu Master Bcrtlo a bit of a check, and to keep IIioeo things: but one of the stones Is off color I noticed It at tho wedding and I musl have a new one In. d'ye sec?" "I thought that you hud already handed hand-ed them uvcr.' 1 interrupted, quitu disregarding dis-regarding his last request. "So 1 did. so I did: hut a man can ta!;c his own back again, can't ho? Well, when 1 saw Ihuui at tho house, I concluded con-cluded it was ridiculous to glvo a boy like that audi trousnros, and eo--" "You spoke to him?" "Horn that Is. of course, man. Pshaw? You're too inquisitive for a Jeweler; you ought to have been a lady's maid." "Have jou brought them wllh .you now?" "you've evidently left the links at home,' with which remark 1 put the Jewels under his very nose for him to sec. Tie looked at them for a moment, the whole of his lla,bby face wrinkling and reddening; then he seemed almost to choke, nnd the veins In his forehead swelled until they were as blue threads upon an ashen and colorless color-less countenance. "Good God?" he ejaculated, "I've tnken the wrong case." "your nephew gave It you. no doubt, but he must have forgotten It, for he's advertised the loss of this crescent at Scotland Yard and there arc detectives now trying to find it. I am cautioned not to purchase it." 1 said wllh a laugh. The effect of these words upon him was so curious that for sorno momenta I thought he had spasm of the- hcarL Starting up In the chair, with wild eyes, and hands clutching at the arms to rest upon them, he made scvcrul attempts lo speak, bul not a word oamo from h hi lip.-j. I endeavored to help him with his dlf'fieultv. but It was to little purpose. "It seems to me, Lord llarningham, i suggested, "that you have only to write a 'line of explanation to your nephew and there's an end of the matter." "You think so?" he cried eagerly. "Why not.'1 s.-ild l, "since ho returned tho Jewels to you 7" , . "But he didn't." he Interrupted, cringing cring-ing in the chair at his confession of a lie; "ho didn't; and he'd prosecute me: he hates mo. and this is his opportunity, (I've sec?1 "Do vo'u mean to say." I exclaimed, beginning be-ginning lo understand the situation, that you took tho case without his pcrmls- S'"'rof:1 ves," ho mumbled, "they were so beautiful, such work! You know what work they were. I naw them at the wedding, wed-ding, and was sure that I should not have parted with thorn. I meant to send him a chock against them and when no one T nni n'lini T HinuchL was tllC case Into my pocket, hut It was the wrong ono. God help me, Sutton, what shall I dNow it seemed to me that this was one of the most delightful comedies I had over assisted at. Technically. Lord llarningham was a thief, and undoubtedly undoubt-edly Bertie Watts could hnvo prosecuted him had ho chosen, though the probability proba-bility of his gelling a conviction wa:i small. But it wa.s very evident lo me that hero was tho boy's opportunity, and that In the Interest of his pretty .wife I should mako tho best of It- With this Intent, I played my llrst card with necessary neces-sary boldness. , 'Vndaubtedly tho case Is very serious for you." said 1. apparently with sympathy, sym-pathy, "and it Is made Iho more serious from the strange relations existing between be-tween vnur nephew and yourself. You know the law. I doubt not. ns well as T do, and that once a prosecution has boon Initiated at Scotland Yard It Is impossible impossi-ble to withdraw without a trial. Mr. Walts might got into serious trouble for compounding a felony: and 1 might Buffer with him as oun in tho conspiracy. But I tell you what. I will do: I'll write to him tonight and sound him. Meanwhile, Mean-while, let me advise you to keen out of the way for I can't dlsgulso the fact that you might be arrested." He cave a great scream at this, and the perspiration rolled from him, falling fall-ing in great drops upon tho carpet. "Oh. Lord!" lie kont muttering; "oh. that T should have been such a consummate fool1 Oh, heaven help mc' To think of It and what It will cost. I could cry, Sutton cry like a child." T calmed him down with difficulty, and led him down the back stairs to a cnb with a positive assurance thai T would not communicate with Scotland Yard. Thon l wrote to Folkestone a loiter, the precise contents of which arc immaterial, but tho response to "which was In the form of a telegram as follows: "Am Inexpressibly shocked and pained, hut the law must take its course.". 1 put this into my pocket without any delay and went over to Hnrnlngham's house in Park Lane. lie had beeiv up nil night, they told me. and the doctor had Just loft him: but 1 found him suffering only from an eneiwating fear, and white as the cloth on the breakfast table before him. "Well." he said, "what is it. what does ho say? Will ho prosecute mc?" T handed him the telegram for answer, nnd I thought he would have swooned. He did not know that T had in my pocket another letter from his nephew. In which Master Bertie informed me that I was the "best chap in the world." and I saw-no saw-no reason lo mention this. Indeed, I listened list-ened with Infinite gravity when the old . man told mc that he was irretrievably ruined, and that his name -would stand In all tho cluba as that of a common thief. Jewel-hunger plainly accounted for everything every-thing he had done; but It wa.s not my end to console him. and T said in a severe and sufficiently melancholy voice: "Lord llarningham. there is only ono thing to do, and for your sake I will mako myself a criminal participator In the conspiracy. con-spiracy. You must go to Folkstone -with mo this afternoon, and take your check book with you." Tho gionn nu RiLVf.flK uf have moved a man of Mifz standing in his eyes. when I left hm eo tim put it into mine. Yet 1 hM1 (. o clock we wero la " Jj! shubby socond-mtrj i l( Cock and Lobster." n"1 JV and bridegroom, m". they said, wore out 0i U frfd w-enl to look for thim 2 them coming from U,o W a. couple as you could tt a pretty. browu-hmrc4 Wft trusses tossed over her, tu wind that swept in rJ P.n close under tho' an" ffi M at that stage, fearing W, scorned engaged In tho l lo cover her entirely arms. And In this nun r?f! to his aw. for U,o b?c the channel at the ha FjL banishing all loHorcrs ? 5 n love; and the lampa f JS.f low in the guests as t illuminate the roses un a bride. . 'J fi When Master Borllo . sedate as a Mclliodla? commanding a soloinn la jW to perfection - f M "Uncle," ho said, "t i 'iUtt believed It ot you. Wi ous a matter to mentlo n to tho hotel." 0 M Wo returned In nii- ' 1 wore In the hall the Jffl for his bill, and sneafiBCP boisterous tone, crled,-i'5fiiE "We're golnc to ciiaiB uncle, and will bcgln-lBr!, best hotel In the placiS1 is moped to death horafc going to pay or oiiriK'Ii' doesn't matter, does it w The old man concern his mouth wldo open .w?? 'What's that?" he mJST5 you going to do?" BuBfi him to be silent, and InSPifat sitting down to a suruB?!?' ho did not touch, by xM0TL snloon of the biggest "fo During the meal theiVie seemed able to do anyoHTjf " at her husband. inadaSu Watts and 1 talked ftK tta the old man. nnd it watir-H In the private room imf bogau. mfc i There is no need to'cwfc?$ lasted until midnight, Xfcfti nephew of Lord WurwrnLrn, hundred pounds in his lowanco or five lumdrBTi! the moment of asscnlhSl lions until wo entorKb morning the old mnh'Kiik lips, but ho klK.sed thcKil of the hotel, and color' oy-at oy-at the warmth of her utrf, , wo were alone In the ciM H great sigh of relief andX""1 "Sutton, thank God tBfllt "N'early over, my lor&hjft cmphnsis. miif "What do you nicanSffLj you think Hint any anmfni of It? Why. man, A1 1 ruined myself for?" Mfi. 'To keep your ncplijK Jfc gested pleasantly. Mi'Cs "And who elso know"r.t he's scttlod with?" lnaPS "Why." said I, quite" X, I, perhaps." 'mA He looked at me asrl(-& wna all-consuming and'XliTl but I met him with &Li continued. -JbTp. "It seems to mo tliatJZl Stevenson calls 'a goodB getting.' Do you knoiflWp8 ham, that if you pftlil.JitT! say S0Q0 on account,jMj ft would be quite obllvio&u of last night." )K ,f The shot struck homgjf . 1.1, tor of my target. He some while, and spoUc'Bl??1 Scvenoaks and CharlngjM-was CharlngjM-was more forcible thafl ho exclaimed suudonl a. of nothing In partlcu y blazes with all Jewels W sldod. and came wltlr"- R rooms, where he wrot IP and signed it with con ii The Ink was hardly j fore he dropped heavif and lay prone In a flti; l-i The shock of partli money had been too n is now In Madeira seo w (Next week: "Tre Crock." j td ' IS |