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Show FOUND THfc MISSING BROOCH Loser ot Jewel Went to Work In Her Own Way, ana It Turned Out Splendidly. Detective work, following faint cluea, dark hints and the like, ia not the only method by which robberies may be solved. The wife of a prominent promi-nent officer in the marine coips, who resides in Baltimore and has a country coun-try place in Virginia. Is authority for the statement, and offers the following follow-ing little story in proof of her contention. con-tention. It seems that while she was at her Virginia place, she one day missed from her jewel box a valuable diamond dia-mond brooch. She had the servants search high and low for the trinket, but It could not be found. All of her servants except one had been with her for years, and were absolutely trusted by her. The one exception, a mulatto girl, persistently urged upon her mistress the possibility of the brooch being at her Baltimore town house. " 'Tain't eround heah, Mis' Alice" (not the real name of the mistress, of course). "I know dat it ain't eround heah," persisted the girl. Whatever suspicions the mistress may have had she kept to herself. After a while she returned to Baltimore, Balti-more, bringing her servants with her. "Is you found it, Mis' Alice?" asked the mulatto girl, after a search of .he hodse had been concluded. Her mistress shook her head. "No," said she, " I have not found it, Mary, but," lowering her voice and speaking impressively, "I have no cause to worry." "Ain't you?" Inquired the girl. "No," continued her mistress. "You see, I went to a fortune teller today. She told me that whoever had the diamond dia-mond would die shortly, and that the brooch would be found among their effects. I only have to wait for their death to know who took my brooch." "Mah gracious!" breathed the mulatto mu-latto girl. "Did dat voodqo woman say dat?" "She did," replied her mistress, solemnly. sol-emnly. The mulatto girl precipitantly departed, de-parted, and, strangely enough, her mistress found the missing brooch that very night pinned to one of her gowns. |