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THE SCRANTON THTB ETC? E-SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15. 1898. '
ALF
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MEN'S FINE SI TITS
Which we sold for &I8, $20 and
we are how closing out for
nn
SALE
VE
HUNDRED
A
SJO.O
SIO.O
They consist of Single and Double Breasted Sack Suits, Cutaways and Frocks in fine worsteds, cassimeres
and cheviots. We have too large a stock and must reduce it now, ; This sale is FOR CASH ON LY, We
want money.
THREE HUNDRED
SUITS
Ages 14 to la years, fine suits, former prices $8, $10 and $12, all go now for one price of $5.00 each. FOR
CASH ONLY. '
TWO HUNDRED CHILDREN'S SUITS
Go at $2.00 each, CASH. Formerly sold for $3, $4, $4.50 and $5. This is deep cut and far below the cost of
the suits and they should move quickly. That is whv we have put these prices on. We need the room for
spring goods. We also want the money.
OLL
&
WEFT
Clothiers, Hatters and Furnishers
220 Lackawanna Avenue
lie Rajah
s .Honoom
- By FLORENCE IAMRYAT,
Author of Her Lord and Raster," etc.
Copyright. UIMk by Baobeller, Johnson and Bachellnv
1 " 6TNOP8I3.
John Busby, a Scotland Tard rtetoptlvf,
la sent to Manning ford to Investigate the
o lil wry of a diamond imrkluce worth
tMU.OUO. This b knifed to Sir Henry Klle
Iiifie, who la Juw. dinl, and the Jewels
"were found mining; after the readtnx of
tt will. Bimby puis up at tho hotH. and
over heant the ountomera dUousainK thn
matter, one of whom 8iictn the young
wife of Sir Henry to have 4 liken them.
The detective quoatlonH hlx stepson, the
nw baronet, who tell him the Jewel
were (lven to hia father by un Indian
firinue, were Intended ax un heirloom,
inJ that his stepmother always wanted
them. He tell of hi own marriage and
of a quarrel with hln father, who wja
angered by It. Binby quewtkona the widow,
arid ahe hlnla that her alvpxon himself
ha taken the Jewel. He aio hears of
arid see a deal ami dumb woman, Julia
Craley, a warf. who ha a home In the
tiouae, and haa always been very devoted
to Sir Charles and hi father. He talk
wtti Mi butler, .who. aks hla conlldence.
PAHT IV,
'Of course not. Are you not act
lnsr In his Interests?"
Why-certainly; but things aepm a
bit mixed to me. Well, .Hir, you pee,
servants ain't all deaf and dumb like
that pore'rreeter that la kept here otitJ
or charity. We has our Hprtses, air,
nnd our feclln's. and we can't always
phut our eyes to what is r-roIii' on.
"Well, it was about a month ago when I
fust see one evening as I was putting
up the shutters in the library, a dark
. fltruce lurking along the shrubberies
1 couldn't see him very plainly, but
lie looked like a loafer or a tramp to
trie I didn't like the looks of him at
all, and I called James, the footman, to
sto out into the garden and see who it
iniKht be! But James, being but a lad
and timorous-like, was such a time
about obeying my orders, that when
tie went the man was gone, though
I'm as certain as I saw him as I am that
I see you at this present moment!"
"Well! Well! but what of It? Tou
must often have beggars and tramps
round a large house like this!"
"This wasn't no beggar." resumed
Ooddard, mysteriously. "Well, sir, the
Tuesday before my old master was
taken, with his last Illness, her lady-
icura
WORKS
Wonders
caring- tortaring, disfiguring, ha
rtUstlng humour of the Skin,
( Ip, ul Blood whtn all clM falls.
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V.S.4.
ship 'had out the Jewels In the forenoon,
rubbing them up and shnwinir them to
Sir Henry and AIIhs Craley thut's the
pore deformed lady, you know, itachel
Marks was passing In or out of the
room at the time, and can bear
witness to the fact. My lady. sh held
them agulnat Iter gowr aiid nhi says
to Rachel: "They'll be mine, some day.
Kachel!' and Miss Craley she screamed
In her queer way, and Sir Henry smiled,
as if It waa all right, though, mind you.
I don't believe nothing would have
made him leave them there jewels
away from Sir Charles, not if he'd been
In his right senses, not for ever so!"
"Tou were present at the Interview
between Sir Ilenry and his son on the
following day, 1 believe, tlodiiardV"
"Tea, sir, I was, and I hope never to
be present at such another, for I really
thought they would have Mown at one
another's throats. Sir Henry he was
In a terrible Htate. and the yonnfr 'un
was as bad. and a I heard the old mas
ter say that Sir Charles was no son of
his. and that he'd out his name out of
his will, and that he'd be left a pauper
on the bounty of the Dowafrer Lady
KUesmere. thought I, for one, never be
lieved It, and knew it wns only said in
a passion like, and that In his heart the
old master loved his son better than
anyone else. Well. sir. you've heard
how it ended and we had to carry poor
Sir Henry u; to his lied, where lie lay
till he died, unable to speak or to swal
low. That evening, as 1 was watching
his bed, with little Jllss Craley
crouched down by his side, moaning
Just like on animal In distress, mv eyes
kept turning- to the window Just to
divert my thoughts, and presently I see
the same flggrer I've spoke of, loafing
round the shrubberies and keeping
well in the shadder. And while I was
looking, there -omes out a second fig
ure and Joins him and I could have
sworn that it was my lady but for
Ood's sake, sir. you won't betray me,
for I couldn't be sure, but Mrs. Nelson,
who have been here almost as lung as
I have, will tell you the same, that Is,
that my lady did go out that evening
in the dusk, and she see her pass into
the shrubberies, and come back alone!
And that's all I know about the miss
ing of the Jewels, sir!"
"Thank you. Mr. Ooddard. Your
confidence shall be respected. Will you
send Mrs. Nelson to me?"
When the old man had gone, I rose
from my chair and began to pace the
library. An accomplice probably a
lover on the scene. That put an en
tirely fresh complexion on the matter!
I seem to see It all as clear as day!
An old man with a young and beauti
ful wife who was jealous of his son,
and tried to set him in every way
against him. In order that she might
inherit the property. She believed her
self to have gained her object, and then
the old man's sudden illness prevents
the accomplishment of her plan she
determines at all risks to secure the
jewels for herself calls In an accom
plice, or, as I surmise, her lover gives
them Into his charge perhaps to take
them out of the country until she can
Join him and so they might be got.e
beyond recall. But I would get to the
bottom of the mystery If mortal man
could do It! It was a more intricate
case than I had expected so much
the more kudos might I gain from un
raveling It. My blood rose at the pios
pect. 1 felt quit excited by the time
the prim, old-faahtoned housekeeper ol
the Gables had entered my presence.
She was a quaint-looking old woman,
the very picture of a servant of trust,
in her respectable bluck silk gown and
he? white quilled cap. She curtsied
She Was a Qualnt-I.ookinc Old Woman.
low as she encountered mo, nnd stood
like a statue with her niittened hands
crossed over her apron, to hear what I
mlKht have to say to her.
"Votir name Is Mrs. Xelaon, I be
lieve?" 1 commenced.
"Yes, sir!"
"1 suppose, as you have been for go
long In the family, that you have often
seen the missing Jewels!"
"I have seen them several times,
sir." ,
"And when did you see them last,
Mrs. Nelson'.'"
"Not for a long time, sir; my busi
ness not lying in tlis upper stories of
the house."
"Can you tell me when you heard of
them last'.' what you can remember
happening on the Tuesday and Wednes
day preceding your late master's
death?"
"I don't know much about the Tues
day, sir. excepting that Rachel Marks
came down to my room, ull of a flutter,
to tell me that my lady had shown her
the rajah's Jewels. She said she had
never seen anything so beautiful in her
life before that they nasled like
lightning, and she would die if she
could only have some like them."
"Ah! Kachel Marks sutd that, did
she?"
"Yes, sir! foolish and girl-like as
I told her, for whut use would such
valuables be to her. specially If she
was deud. Hut 1 feel sure she had
seen them, for she was quite excited
over it. My lady was rubbing them
with a piece of chamois leather, she
said, till they looked like a rainbow of
colors. But that's all I know about the
Tuesday."
' "And the Wednesday, Mrs. Nelson?"
"Ah! that was a terrible day for us
all, sir." Master Charles las he was
then) came down from London by the
eleven o'clock train, and saw Hlr Henry
In the library. There was high words
between them we servants could hear
them plainly down in the kitchen, and
it frightened us to death and my lady
was listening outside In the hall, too,
with a face like a sheet. We heard Sir
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Henry say. "That's right! strike your
fathers it will be only another crime
added to your record!' and Master
Churles replied: 'If I were to kill you
it would be scarcely a worse crime than
that woman (meaning her ladyship, if
you please, sir) has induced you to com
mit against me!' We was all listening
in the pasage, sir, and our hair stood
on end to hear them. Mr. Ooddard. he
was for breaking in the door to pre
vent bloodshed, but presently Master
Charles came out, looking very white,
and he says: 'Uood-by to you all. I
shall never darken these doors again!'
und he rushed away Into the grounds,
and we saw no more of him till he came
down for the funeral. There was no
sound from the library, and after
awhile my lady went In, and gave a
scream, and then we all followed her,
and there was my poor old master sit
ting in his chair with his mouth drawed
to one side. Ooddard and me we saw it
was a. stroke at once, and when we'd
carried him up to his bed we sent for
the doctor. Mr. Ooddard, he' was told
off to see after Sir Henry, and by even
ing he seemed a goodlsh bit better, and
the doctor didn't think there was any
danger, so Mr. Ooddard left him for a
bit with little Miss Craley, who couldn't
be persuaded to leave his side she
was that fond of him and Master
Charles and came down to tell me how
he was a getting on. And then it was
he told me of the ligger that he had
seen loitering about the premises some
days before, and how he's seen it
a?ain that very moment, entering the
shrubberies.'
"What did you say to that?"
"Why, sir, my first thought was for
my lady, who had left the house but a
short time before. Whatever would
she do, I said. If she met the man and
he was rude to her. I had seen her
In the hall wrapping a dark mantle
round her head and shoulders, and I
had ventured to. say. surely she was
never going out at such a time half
past six, sir, nnd such a dark even
ingand she replied that she had a
headache nnd must have some fresh air,
so, of course, I said tio more. Mrs. Ood
dard and me, we watched nt the dining
room windows for over half an hour,
and then we saw my lady coming out of
the shrubberies by herself. I went to
meet her In the hall and her cloak
wus wringing wet. I said: 'It Is to
be hoped that you won't catch your
death of cold, my lady!' And she said:
'I'm so unset about this affair. Nelson,
that 1 don't know if I'm standing on my
head or on my heels.' Hut I never saw
nothing of the man, sir, and when I
asked my lady if she'd seen him, she
called me a fool, and said It was too
dark to see anything! Which it was,
sir!"
"On what terms have you servants
usually been with the Dowager Lady
Kllesmere. Mrs. Nelson?" I asked.
"Well, sir, not what you may call
over and above good! Many's the time
I would have given warning. If It hadn't
been for the old master. , Her tem
per's high, and she haven't much con
sideration for her servants. Nor she
hadn't for Sir Henry, neither, though
he wouldn't hear a word against her!
But I, for one, wasn't surprised, when I
heard the contents of the will, for I
knew he loved his son at heart, though
my lady had come bo much between
them of late years. TTe never really
meant to leave his money away from
Master Charles, not for one moment,
and my lady, she knew as much, ton!
I've heard her coax him again and again
to give her them Jewels, but he always
made the same anBwer, that they
weren't his to give!"
"Is this all you ran tell me, Mrs.
Nelson ?"
"It is all. sir!"
'Which of the other servants saw the
most of Sir Henry in his last hours?"
"Only Rachel Marks, sir!"
"Well, send Rachel Marks to me
here!"
The old woman curtsied herself out
of the room again, and In another min
ute her place was taken by a bright,
rosy-cheeked girl of about twenty, all
giggles and; blushes; stuffing a cornel
of her apron in her mouth the while she
spoke to me.
"Are you called Rachel Marks?" I
began.
"Oh, yes. sir; but I hope you're not
going to write down anything I say,
because I never set eyes on them jew
els till my lady called me to her and :
asked me if they wasn't beautiful, and
she said they would be hers as likely i
as not when Sir Henry died, and all
I answered was: 'Yes,' and I never
see them again, sir, as sure as I'm, a
living woman!"
"I am certain you did not! How could
you when they were always locked
away. Have you a young man, Rachel?
Hut I needn't ask the question. You're
too pretty a girl to want a beau!"
Rachel reddened and smiled.
"It's like your impudence to ask" she
replied, with the effontery, with which
a pretty woman always feels she can
address even a constable of the law;
"but of course I have. Haven't you a
young woman yourself, now?"
"And you met him on the Tuesday
evening following the day you saw the
Jewels?"
"I'm sure l didn't." said Rachel, open
ing her eyes, "you ask Sirs. Nelson if I
did. Why.I only have every other Sun-
FilllSiiii
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All Gig Is and Dlnshas.
day out. And Tuesday evening Is my
time for washing the line things, and I
always do them In her room, so she's
the best person to apply to If you want
to know where I was on Tuesday even
ing. Hut what If I did go out? Whut
do you want to Insinuate?"
"Nothing, my dear, nothing." I re
plied in my pleasantest manner, "and
how many more maids are there at The
Oables besides yourself?"
"There's only Molly the kitchen maid,
and Miss Townsend, my ladv's own
maid, sir. and Molly she's never up
stairs, and Miss Townsend she's never
downstairs, so they didn't hear noth
ing of the quarreling and that."
Nevertheless, It was my duty to cross
question them all, which I did, but
without eliciting anything satisfactory
concerning the loss of the Jewels. I
next went thrugh the entire house with
Sir Charles Rllesmere, rarefullv exam
ining every place, nook or box wnere
the heirloom might by haphazard be
concealed, followed all the time by the
dwarf, Julia Craley, who nodded her
Imbecile head from side to side, and
clapped her hands as If ahe understood
what we were saying but we found
no sign nor token of them and I felt
convinced they were not in the house.
I was reluctantly compelled to tell the
baronet that 1 had been unable as yet
to come to any conclusion on the mat
ter, but must ask leave to return to my
hotel and take counsel with myself.
Meanwhile he was to see that no one
left The Oables, except for a promen
ade. As soon as I returned hrdlu rillu
ade. As soon as I re-entered the hotel,
I wired to our chief at Scotland Yard:
"Cannot trace. Send Crewe up by next
train. Want assistance."
My chum arrived true to time, and I
laid the whole story as I had gathered
it before him.
ITo Be Continued.)
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CONNELL
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