Show I Gets H His is Pearls Then Pearls Almost Then Is Menaced With Exposure From the deep recess of the hooded chair I watched saunter slowly slowly slowly slow slow- ly down to tc the water The man in tho motorboat rose to his feet It was Jo Bach Now just what does docs this mean I asked myself r I guess I would better find out And I pulled a steamer rug lip Up to my neck and prayed that I would not suffocate Hurry you ou fool tool growled Hamilton Hamil Hamil- ton He stood with one foot on the motorboat and and snapped the ashes from his cigar posing as if he had stopped casually to Inquire about the engine trouble I cant can't stand here foreVer he went on in the superior imperative tone he always uses to those whom he lie regards a as his inferiors Speak man Have you got them Sure I have was Bachs Bach's I I I reply I noticed that he omitted the usual sir and I thought must be awfully irritated by the mans man's Impudence Hand them over over quick ordered Nothing doing replied Bach with insolent composure Not without I get another ten thousand dc dollars lIars The devil Ive I've paid you ou once for tor this job i You have But Ive I've decided Ill I'll take another check That plot of II yours yours- held up a forbidding palm Damn you he exclaimed Then he controlled his Ills temper and spoke calmly Just so Then you ou ought to know mow its it's dangerous business for me rae meo meto raeto to o make a check on my New York funds funds funds-at at present presen Cash will do all right Bach re re- re plied Since you haven't got the sum In your pants Ill I'll come around for or It It-at It at dusk dusk tomorrow No cash cash cash- no pearls You understand And no bride With Ith which insolence he I pushed off oft his boat and jumped in A genuine German Invective floated I after atter him Then sauntered back ack to the house Bachs Bach's s craft was I lost ost In the line of craft off ort shore I slipped out of ot my stuffy beach chair onto the cool sand where the wind could blow over me and me-and and restore my I reason To neither of ot those two men was my life worth a penny I rejoiced rejoiced re- re to find that I hadn't been discovered discovered dis- dis covered by them Much relieved to tobe tobe tobe be alone with the sea and the stars I thought over what I had heard Bach could sell those stones for tor many times ten thousand dollars I thought And I I I. cant can't understand why he doesn't go off ott with them and do it It No o trouble at all for him to get g-et away for tor for nobody on that tug had the he least Idea what was In the tube tube tube- nor that It had been looted But Dut of ot course the papers next morn- morn ning had corking stories og the U-boat U Which the divers had discovered at af atthe atthe the city's front door and pathetic accounts accounts accounts ac ac- ac- ac counts of ot the woman divers diver's death The U-boat U would be raised and exhibited exhibited ex ex- etc etc That the craft crat still held a magnificent cent treasure of ot diamonds diamonds diamonds dia dia- monds nobody suspected The he few who knew kne the fact were not betraying betraying betraying betray betray- ing It All day small craft made excursiOns excursions to the point where the U-boat U was supposed to be But nut even though divers should Investigate Its Interior they weren't likely to meddle with the torpedo shells Immediately Nevertheless I saw Hamilton teis walk the beach for tor half halt the day lIe He had reason to worry Tiny couldn't help him get up the stones Why doesn't go down himself himself him hm- self I r wondered Surely the man who Invented that remarkable diving dress ought to have sufficient faith In n it to put it on on Dr Bride Receives Her Pearls a Pinch of Worthless V Dust The hous house was filled with movement movement move move- ment meat and gaiety From my point of view that of an unseen little mouse mouse the bustle made a bitter contrast to the stillness of ot the preceding day when the pale Queen of ot Smiles had slept t so q quietly in the grand p parlor par par- f lor br Chris had returned from her trip to the Lorimer home in the West She was excited volcanic as any girl would be I suppose It if her fiance were about to present her with a rope of historic pearls I Dinner was as to be an elegant and formal affair and I T was heart broken I because I was still doomed to play the shy little mouse After all I had heard about the pearls and after all I had endured on ac account account account ac- ac count o. o oJ them I was simply wild to see them taken out of ot their wrap wrap- pings It seemed to me that some marvelous marvelous' softness ought to come over them once they returned to the hands of their rightful owner as teis claimed t t. t be It certainly w would uld have given me vast pleasure sure to see the glorious globules find a fitting resting place on white shoulders What she would do with them when the donor turned out to be a a. foreign spy plotting revolution was an excitement excitement excite excite- ment for the future She ought aught to sell them I thought and devote the money to rebuilding a devastated vIIla vil village vII vII- la lage e In France Thus I meditated in the quiet of my myown myown myown own room while the dinner progressed gift to Miss 1 Lorimer might arrive at the last moment moment so so had explained to Mother 1 And it did From the balcony of or my room I saw sawa a messenger carry a long thin parcel to the French window of the dining room and then go away carrying a along along along long flat parcel parcel I bills I fancied And so the so-the the pearls were at last i in Hamilton hands J Since I couldn't see him clasp them about Cl CI rys' rys neck I ran lightly down the tho stars and out on the lawn on my way to my favorite nook on the sands But as I hurried past the open dinIng din din- Ing lug room windows the talking at the use table was suddenly hushed I paused In the outer darkness held by the scene within I 0 Dr was standing by Chrys Chrys' chair all smiles if not for happiness at least for his own suc success ess Chrys was holding a a. slender white roll between tho the tips of her pret pretty y forefingers Open it please yourself please yourself she said smiling back baek at the elegant and distinguished gentleman who leaned over her Nobody spoke as performed I this ceremony I Then in an instant each person in inthe inthe the room was on his feet teet Voices mingled in a hubbub And I went straight to the window and gazed on the strange scene which was vas staged around that dinner table was suspending before beton the astonished eyes of his to bride a string of ot mottled brown beads dull beads dull dark beads which looked like dried and broken peas Chrys shrieked and covered her eyes with her hands Daddy Lorimer stepped forward touched the stones stones pInched pinched one of them them and and blew away some dark powder powder powder pow pow- der from his fingers Jim lighted a cigarette and motioned motioned mo mo- to Bob and the two withdrew silently from the room Himmel exclaimed Dr Mr Ir Lorimer They have ha-e been destroyed de de- de- de by by acids Miss Lorimer Lorimer-a. a thousand apologies Madame J 1 re received received received re- re them theta by by special messenger messenger as 1 you have seen I h had d not the time timeto to examine them them alone They were magnificent absolutely perfect when perfect when I r saw them last last last-In in Vienna five years ago I have been tricked Mr Lori Lori- mer My ly dear be assured you shall not lose a wedding gift gUt which you will value I go go-at go at once once once- to get it iU Then rushed out and I I turned and went vent back to my room thinking So that's why Jo Bach didn't run runaway runaway runaway I away with those pearls He had opened them himself and found that thai I Ithe the chemicals in the U-boat U had ruined them Poor Chrys Chrys' Poor Mary lary Continued tomorrow |