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Show CllPPriO ClllsmtP! k Fun for All the Children VUlCljJ LJ. O Edited by DOROTHY EDMONDS THE JEWEL CHEST -j 3l See if you can spell from the letters on this chest, the names of eight kinds of Jewels. You can use each letter as often as you need to. THE JEWELER OF MONTROSE There was once an old man who collected jewels, rare jewels with a story attached to them. He lived alone In a small dark room. He used to say he liked it dark for It showed the jewels off to better advantage. ad-vantage. Their light would sparkle " more. Here he would always take a new purchase and handle It tenderly, ten-derly, planning Its setting, remembering remem-bering Its story. On a snowy night In December the old man climbed the rickety old stairs In great excitement. ex-citement. That day he had made a rare purchase Indeed. The great yellow diamond that for years had been the charm of the royal Rudolphs Ru-dolphs had been sold at auction. The old jeweler had hurried to the scene to be the first and last to bid. And when he finally had the A Jewel In his possession he tucked It Into his Inside coat pocket, keeping keep-ing his hand over It all the way home so fearful was he that he might lose it. When he reached his room he took the bag which held the precious pre-cious jewel from his pocket and sat down under his lamp to gaze upon It. Yes, he could feel It there In the bag. Before looking at It he heated himself some warm soup and warmed his hands by the coal t and look at it again. Perhaps this time it would gleam. But no, It was only a common stone as he had guessed. The old man could have wept with anxiety and disappointment. dis-appointment. He had paid a fortune for-tune for it. Should be tell the police? po-lice? No, better go straight to the castle. When he wearily climbed the hill to the castle grounds they had been closed by the great iron gate for the night He pulled the bell and the guard came haughtily. "What do you want, old man?" "I must see the Rudolphs at once," he said. "You must let me in, it is about the magic Jewel. 1 have been robbed. Let me in." The guard let him pass In upon mention of the jewel and luck would have It that the youngest Rudolph was standing in the doorway door-way looking at the stars as the old man approached the stairs. "Here, here, my man, how did you get In, and what do you want?" "Oh, sir, it's about the magic jewel. I purchased it today at the auction. I found It nothing but a common stone." The old man was amazed to hear the young Rudolph laugh loud and long. "Ridiculous, my man. Yon will find the Jewel exactly as yon purchased pur-chased It Here, show It to me. Here by the light." (Continued Next Week.) fire that was in the room. Then he sat down. "Ah, at last, I have this magic jewel, this precious Jewel, this " He leaped to his feet. The thing he took from the bag was a common stone. The old man nervously dumped the bag, looked In all his pockets, searched every crack and crevice in the room but the jewel was not there. It was a trick. He had been swindled. swin-dled. He had been robbed. What should he do? Hastily he put on his old shabby shab-by coat He would go to the police po-lice He would have those Rudolphs arrested if they were royalty. Something Some-thing made him take out the stone |