Show the oal opal ring for grace the story dy by DOUGLAS DUUGLAS W WHEN sammy left bis his home homp town in america to go far for across cross the sen sea lo 10 the exhibition at I 1 wembley I 1 embley he certainly bad had not ex el pecked to bj bi in n the famous scot I 1 land A D d yard however lower cr sammy was merely in the and found of fice of that institution in quest of his raincoat lie ile iad had left it oo 00 the bus after a day at wembley he lie had bad not upped so many careless people existed la in the whole world and took up Vs tl place pa on the fringe of the crowd waiting there at the various mn ln dows to claim lost property at least the tile procedure 0 f claim ing lost raincoats have bale seemed tedious to sammy had he not caught sight of her she was standing Bt andin just behind him nod ind weba been A too fragile port part of tha pushing brou d sammy edged aside and manig d to place IllIn himself self v it a 0 lind of buffer she haid up at film ond and smiled her tier thanks but it find been a and satisfactory y thanks that went moal most completely to sammal head and during that time while were armus nearer lite lie leers off era in charge of ta au windows sammy had bad plenty of time to note oil all the lovely lock things la in connection ath with her in place he felt reasonably bare sure that hat she he was an american there was that front irant interest I 1 in a everything lighting h her er eye eyes ill III ter hand she carried lie letter that Scot scotlund lind curd hoj bad sent her ellif bellil ll lif her flint ber opal bracelet haj beet foint finally sammy saw her draw forth banknotes to pay the charge of kit three on the pound on the value of her bracelet and matched watched her sign the papers pope rs that the officer placed before her sammy glowered at that officer imply simply because be was fortunate enough to take in at tit one glance the name come and address she was wits waltin writing 9 after that elic site turned looked into e ees es again with a sa aft sweet farewell a and id edged her way out of the lite crowd sammy was also quick enough to see that he oie till biad forgotten her umbrella a and nd brilliant enough to take it swiftly from the counter as if it were his own it was still warn warm from the grasp of her hand hani it was his turn now at atthe arthe win dow and he lie toli told the tale tole of his loss a brown raincoat left on a bus and all the line time he was won on diering if tie lie could pos possibly catch nl ul her tier or whether the vast lon lou don streets would have swallowed her tier jp ip anyway he bad had her tier ad dress sammy could afford to wiil wall tie lie most certainly would re turn tile lie umbrella in person pemon rather than permit tier to eland stand in that crowd again in to scotland lard ard office and get it back through its proper channel in this tit Is pa rd c a lar case sammy felt himself it end and not scotland yard to be the proper channel but uben ben he went out to the ad dress 15 norland square next day to return that umbrella the atea fates had hod dialed him false ilisa 1198 weller left yesterday 1 lie was formed informed she anent ent to scotland to tall 1111 tills morning for amer im yes she left an address m she fald said the she had lost an ombre la sammy sommy failed to hear anything an thing for A moment so black had the day frown grown but tut he rallied e d a and A d k knew a ew that ronie some way lie would manage to eee see that she cot got her umbrella in S pocket on his way home was a most lovely opal ring sammy had great hopes and out in her tier garden when late september was hurling all so sorts arts 0 of f wonderful rid erful tawny touny colors about the landscape grace IN eller sighed into the huge bunch of chrysanthemums she had cut tiana 11 ins can ca A go very ranch askew the informed the lie flowers but bu of course they dada didn I 1 know any thing about a gee ore looking young mal who had blood stood beslee beside grace in the office of scotland yard and looked ay into her bet eyel eye gettleman to see yei ml bulas came swiftly froni from old part ot ta 11 1 house shall I 1 just show him out there he says its about aa an umbrella 11 grace blu blushed hed and hid bid her face we quickly from nanny when their lands finally did meet me et it lt seemed as if it they never cou could id draw then them depart II 11 1 brought your umbrella bald sammy S ammy I 1 oh aid grace 1 I 1 thank yon you elie she dropped the dark lashes and added 1 I 1 left iton it on 00 purpose blurted sammy the then ie ile caughel laug lau hel then and told tier nil all the things tie he lad bad been thinking buring tt rini the pus past weeks and showed shored her tho tile doely opal ring and bat V tits for to ou aben you eay say lle ile 0 right ailt word he said graces e ees es bad had already said the magic word copyright |