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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1899.
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Mrs. lomax's Diamonds.
Sy H. F ABELL,
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CHAPTKH I.
John Thompson lato (not very lat")
nerpe.itit In Her Mfitsty's :oUn. now
coachman to ''olcmel Otrntlon, nine litu
JOOth, now or the (.limine. l'utUllPhnm,
Hophlrc was lmrrylni; toward Thin
down Hnll, residence of Squire I.omax,
two .lilies fiway. with n note He wns
hurryliiR as fast as hi portliness and
Ice-bound rouli would let hltn, partly
to keep hlnvr-lf warm, and partly be
cause It win past 12 o'clock mld-dny,
and upon his leaving tho Orange a
j-trldent female olce had commanded
him to be on io account late for tho
family meal at one.
John Thompson had packed the Ool
den Ball Inn -a rare performance) on
his part and hail but a few hundied
yards to uo when he f.iw sauntering
from tho direction -f Thnrdow Uall a
tall, Rood-looUlnp man of Jive and
fort j or thoioabonts with whose flfiure
he seemed to be familiar, and so no
shifted the note from his left hand
to his rlRht, and prepared to give the
military salute.
"Blessed If It ain't' Hut no, It can't
be But It Is' Dlesscd If It ain't the
bWek captlnE!"
The two figures met. Thompson, be
flR In a huny, would have passed on
;lth a salute, but the other stopped
him with a cheery:
Why, Thompson. who'd have
thought of running across ymi here?
What are you doing?"
"Coachman to Oolrncl Oxenden. sit,"
replied the old sergeant at stiff at
tention. ' The deuce vou are' Why. I didn't
know he'd come to vegetate down here.
Well, how do .ou like it? He was
considered n hard one, wasn't be''"
' H kep' up the name of the regi
ment, sir," teplled tho sergeant,
'Yes, yes, cf tonrse. Well, now tell
m about vourself," said th"' captain,
crossing his leg, and leaning on his
stick with the air of a man ready for
a lontj chat.
"Perhaps you'll excu me. sir," re
plied the sergeant: 'To a most parti
cular note here to deliver nt the 'all,
sir. The mistress l took with Mie in
fluenza, sir, and they can't come to
the ball at Squire Fornax's tomorrow
night."
"Dear me' I'm sorry for that. I'm
staying at the Hall for the ball, and
I should have tried to meet the colo
nel again after so many years. Any
answer to th note?"
"Nc, sir. Iastwa.s I hadn't oiders
to wait for one. Hut I had oughter be
getting on, sir, with your leave."
"Olve me the note. I'm going bide
to lunch now, and the squire shall
have it directly when ho comes In."
"You're very good sir, thank you.
It would save mc a quarter of nn
hour."
So the sergeant handed tho note to
the captain, saluted, and was malting
the rightabout turn, when the captain
said-
"Oh. I say, Thompson, don't say
jou'xe seen me. I'll drop In and sur
prise the colonel perhaps this after
noon "
"Verv well, sir, Oood morning, sir."
'Colonel and Mis. Oxenden and
partv" were, of course, regularly in
vited, and as tho colonel and the squire
and their respctHe Indies were, al
thourh living within two miles of each
other, cloe friends, the rigret of the
Colonel and Mrs. Oxenden nt being
disappointed at tho last minute were
as genuine as was that of the Squire
and Mrs. Loma that they could not
come.
"Tho poor thing has evidently writ
ten tho note from her pick room." re
marked Mrs. Lomax. "She writes so
beautifully as a rule, and this Is not
nt all her hand. She hopes we will
welcome her 'party' a great friend of
her husband's, Major Clifford "
"Of course we will," said th squire;
"wo have none too manv men as It Is,
and the colonel's friends are always
good fellows."
At 11 o'clock the next night tho old
fashioned half at the squire's, con
erted Into a ball room, presented a
pleasant and brilliant scene Every
body worth knowing for miles around
was there, and tho nolghboihood was
famous for prettv girls, althr.uch It
deplored. In common with most ruial
districts, n paucity of voung men. Th
musl" was good, the floor was good,
the room was well-lighted, all the com
pany danced, and the old house, with
Its numberless nooks nnd corners, was
admirably adapted for these hetween
dance tete-a-tetes which are the most
fatal nets for susceptible youth.
Matnr Clifford had arrived early, and
With that ease which the social side
of military life so generally teaches,
was very soon as much at home In
this room full of people whom he had
never seen In his life before as a native
of the Roll tay there was one per
son with whom he seemed to be ac
quainted. This was a stvllFh woman
of between SO and 40. whose fnee. which
had been beautiful, bore upon It that
Impress of h.irdnes-s and indifference
which so surely comes after a life In
the world. When Ciiffoid entered tho
room she how him nnd the color tied
fiom her cheeks In nn Instant. Whn
1ip saw her, he raised his esobrows
and emlled, verv lltrtlily, but mean
ingly. He was afterwards Introduced
to Mrs. nndeibv, but he did not risk
her for a dance nor did they meet
again during the evening
The principal object of his attention
, was the squire's eldest daughter. Hettv.
a pretty girl of IS, who was evidently
ns much attracted by the quiet, well
bred talk and minner of tho Orange
representative ns he was Impressed
by her chaims
After Major CUffoid's thlid waits
with Hetty Lomax ho led her unstalt.s
to one of the before-alluded-to nlcoves,
a dainty little corner, luxiuiously cush
ioned, screened from the vulgar ga?o
by artfully atrnnged greenery and dim
ly lit by a quaint Japanses lantern.
"You must be very fond of this old
house," he said.
"I am: I love it And Indeed It Is
nn Interesting old plao T believe it
Is historical, but I am ashamed to say
you must not examine me itoo closely
ns to this. At any rate It has a
ghost."
"Oood' One of tho usual English
country house ghosts, I suppose," said
the major. "Party In white, with a
pnle face, sad eyes, and all the rest
of It?"
"No, It Is a man In a long cloak, and
he haunts th landlnrj outside mother's
bedroom door,"
"Hew Ituerehtlns!"
"Do you think bo? Well, I suppose
there's too much of the new woman
In me to see the fascination of ghosts
Hut come nnd sec his scene of action "
So the major followed the girl up th
broad slalrcnfe, at the top f.f which
she turned to the left, nnd entered a
dimly liighted legion of nooks and
mmem, nnd sharp turns, and steps
which went up. nnd others which went
down, until she stopped opposite a
door which she opened, salng:
"This Is mother's room."
"The ghost comes along the ,ias
sage." whlpered the girl, with n mock
nlr of mystery, "enters tho room, walks
up to tho dressing table In tho bow
window, stands for a moment, and
walks back."
She looked nt her companion ns she
spoke, and noting that his keen dark
eyes were taking In oery detail of
the room, said:
"Ye"; It's nwfullv untidy. T ve
you'ie looking nt It but we didn't
llnlsh dinner until late, nnd there was
lather a rush to get ready for tho
dance."
"You know Mrs Hndeiby, 1 think'
I mean you have met her before this
evening?" said tho girl when thev were
seated.
The mnjor bowed affirmation.
"Who is she?"
"Wife of rndcrhj- of the P. W. T.
He's on the frontier. I met them nt
Dunduin three or four jears agn. Why
do you ask""
"Because she has been asking about
yen "
"Well?'
"And of course all I could say wa".
that I had never met you before this
eenlng intl that you were staying nt
Colonel Oxenden's."
"No. She Is the 'And Partv' fiom
Towers, at Crashfoid. That fat man
and the florid womnn are her lntrnduo
en Mr. and Mis Cirnegle We don't
know much about them, but mother
nlwajs asks them to one of our dances
Xow. Mnjor fllffoul, don't answer this
quewtion unles j.on choose, and don't
think me Impeitlnent for asking It.
Has she any particular reason to dis
like you'"
The major examined his shres, and
did not rpply for a moment Then he
said.
' She ought not to have certainly
not. Hut why do you ask?"
"Well, there was something in the
tone of her inquiiles about you. not
In what she actually said, which made
me wonder." ieplle.1 the gill.
"What did she say'"
"She asked who jou were who 'thnt
caulry-looklng man" was, she put It,
and how long you had lived In these
parts, and what you were doing now
thnt ou had left the service."
"Left the service? Who told her I
had left the service? Well, anjhow,
there's nothing ery spiteful in all
that."
"No. Hut, as I said, women always
Judge what other women mean, nut
from the actual words they use, but
from their way of saying thun."
"WeH, Miss Lomax, so far from hav
ing a spite against me. Mis. Hnderby
ought to regard mo us a ery grea,
benefactor, although I say so whu
should not."
"Why did you sao her life, or
what?"
"No I ei saved something which is
often moie precious than life."
"Will jou explain, Major Ciiffoid-"
The major'hesltated, as It balancing
in his mind the course he should pursue.
Then, with a sudden movement, he
chnnged his leaning-forward posture
for an erect position, and facing full
his companion, said-
"Miss Lomax, as Mis. Kndeiby lias
given ou the Idea of being spiteful to
me, and she may possibly say sofethlng
spiteful about me, I must take jou into
my confidence. Now please understand
tint only upon jour assuiance that
what I say shall go no further, I will
tell you what I know about Mrs Hn
dei by."
The gill gave the lequlied assuiance.
"Mrs. Hndeiby was eiy well known
In India ns a woman who thoioughly
meant to enjoy life, and In India tha
Is associated with a good deal that In
England Is considered fast. She pre
ferred the society of men of n certain
stjle of men to that of women, and
was known as the Gay Grass Widow
everywheie, and entered heart nnd
soul Into their put suits Well, theiy
was a good deal of high play at the
station Just then."
"Caul play, do you mean?"
The mnlor nodded and continued.
"Men can't be blamed for seeking e
i Itement when they nro exiled away in
a bad climate, hundreds of miles fiom
life; nor can women, when thev keep i
within bounds, but Mis Knderby went I
the pace At any rate, she was always
at the baccarat table, and she won so
consistently that I watched hei, and
1 don't think 1 need say any mure."
"I'm afraid I'm very stupid," said
the ghl. "What lhen"
' Well she didn't play quite as ladles
and gentlemen are usually supposed to
Play."
' You don't mean to say that she
cheated''
"I do. Hut, Miss Iomax, please u
membei she had her lesson. I spoke
to her quietly about It. She l enounced
the caids, became another woman, nnd
Is, I believe, an excellent wife and a
devoted mother. There! I'm sorry to
tell such n stoiy about a guest In your
house, but In self-defense I must, foi,
of course, she can never foiglve me for
Imvlng found her out Let us change
the topic."
After supper Hetty I.omax came up
to Major Clifford and tald
"Mrs. Hndeiby and her friends have
gone. Their excuse was that being
such a feaiful night, they were afraid
the loads would be blocked with snow
If they stayed later "
"I'm afraid, then, that you think my
pi e some heic has something to do dtli
their depniture'" said tho major.
' Well, I dare say sho was uncom
fortable," replied Hetty.
The major and Miss Lomax were not
together until tho lust dames on the
progrnmme came When they met fo
the final waltz, the major said
"Strange that you should have spok
en about that ghost, for, as I was tak
ing Miss Lcmarchant to a seat In tho
uppermost nlcove during supper, I saw
something very like your friend goln
along the passage from the direction
of Mm Lomax's room, although If you
hadn't told mc It was a man, I shoul 1
have called it a woman."
"Probably one of the maids," said
Hetty, "transfoimed by your imagina
tion into a ghost."
The party broke up soon after his
departure, but the story of the even-.
Ing wns not quite complete.
Hetty Lomax could not get Mrs. Un
del by out of her mind, and, unaccount
ably, with her sho naaelati'd the fuml
nlne ghost' seen by Major Clifford.
Some Impulse sent her Hying up to her
mother's room, whencso she presently
appeared, pale as death, nnd snld to
her mother, who was seated with her
father discussing the dance:
"Mother, when oti changed your
dress nfter dinner, did you leave your
diamonds on the dressing taMile?"
"Yes, dear why?"
"Hecause they nro gone!"
CHAPTER II.
"(lone! My diamonds gone!" ex
claimed Mrs. Lomax when Hetty had
made her announcement. "Impossible!
Who could have gone In to steal them?
People have been passing up nnd down
the stnlrs about the passages the whole
evening. Harriet must hnve put them
nwaj."
"Han let has never left the supper
room the whole evening, mother," snld
Hetty: "Besides, you know she has
stilct orders never to touch your Jew
elry." "I can't believe It'" cried the dis
tracted Mrs. Lomax. "they must by
somewhere about. Oh, my beautiful
diamonds which you gave mo when
we were married, John' If they nro
goiu), I will never weolr dlamonriw
ngaln." And sho burst Into historical
sobs and cries.
They went upstairs nnd sought high
and low. The scivnnts were called up
and questioned, so wore the hired
walteis and the cloak room man. All
In vain. The dlnmonds were not to bo
found, nnd nobody could throw a lay of
light upon the fact of their disappear
ance. What was to be done? It was ncaily
4 o'clock In the morning. Tho snow
was lying In heavy drifts nil about th
house nnd was still falling, m that no
tiaces of footsteps could be utilize.
I'heless to telegiaph, even if a telo
giaph office could be found open, and
the only train for anywhere nt this
time of morning tho up-London mail
had left Ciashfoid statlfti an hour
pievlously.
Hetty Lomax had given her word to
Mnjor Clifford that she would not re
peat what he had told her about Mrs.
Hnderby. but putting two and two to
geter the fact that Mrs. Hndeiby was
already branded as a thief, that sho
had left the house suddenly nnd at an
abnormally eaily hour and tho coinci
dence that this very night Major Clif
ford should have seen a female figure
In the neighborhood of her mother's
room, ciented such n feeling of suspic
ion In tho girl's mind that she felt ab
solved from her piomlso nnd hinted
her opinion. Her father and mnthei,
of course, laughed at It, but Hetty per
sisted, and In replv to their questioas
upon what giound Mie suspected a lady
who had been brought by such well
known people as the Carnegles. said:
"Because she has n past, and I know
It"
"But 'iiv dear gill," .Md her father,
"ever If we riant thai Mrs Hndcrby
Is quite capable of committing 'inch
nn act, and I am verv tar fiom con
ceding It. Is It at all likely that she
would c hcose such an nccislon foi
committing If What possible oppor
tunltv iculri a ladv, very much In ie
quest for her dancing nnd llvellncs-s
gmernllv, hnve for getting unnoticed
into a bed loom"'"
"The very fact of Its unlikeliness
would protect hoi." icnlled Hcttv.'
"And ns for her oppoi tunlty well, I'm
not a practical thief, but I would soon
find nn opportunity for doing what I
wanted to If such diamonds as mother's
weie mv object."
In due course Mr. and Mis Lom.T:
went over to call upon Colonel Oxen
den and to Inquire about Mis, 0on
den but the house was closed, n trl
they were lnfoimed that Mt Oxenden
had been ntcWed to Hgpt for the re
mnlndei of the wln'er
I'lve months latei, that is. In the
month of Apill, Die nfmlr, which had
been well-nigh forgotten iv all but the
suffereis, was recalled to public notice
bv a strange event
Crashfoid th" mnrket town and cen
ter of this pan of Hopshlie-boastPd
thnt It moved with the times. It did
not bv a long wav. but it peisaiadod
Itself that it did. and tint was enough
for the contentment of all. So, ns
everv other town of anv pretfiislins
had n golf club, it was necesirv f.u
f'rashfuid to hnve one. nnd a commit
tee of publle-spliited men wns foi mod
to spied a si'o for links,
Blue Breezes Common, a wild tiact
of land, lving between Thm down Hall
nnd Crashford. was finally M.iocted
a good nine-hole course, rome very
sporting bunkers nnd oaj of neefss
to the town. At n certain point of the
course n foot path, known to verv ftw
pep!o leading frim the hall Into
Ciashford town, but across, nnd lust
h"iv the open expnne of common
was bioken bv a "splnneiy." a collo-
Hon of trees glowing closelv toretlier I
In a elude out of a deeplsh excavation !
which had In past times been a gravel
1'lf
Of course, the links had to be foim
nlly opened nnd the occasion was t"
be celebrated by a match between two
well-known piofesslonnK a membors'
handicap and a dinner gt the tempor
nrv club hous".
The clay fixed was Ideally Apill like
nnd nn Ideal April day on nn Tngllsh
common Is not easily sin passed. lt
Crashfordshlie and nelghboihood wor
thy of consideration wns piesent, nnd
the biiglit t.pring co-tumec of the
Indies, the red coats of the players,
the -loud-dappled sky, the sunshine
nnd the beauty of the common nnd
Uh surroundings mnde up n healthy,
cheerv plctuip which would hae In
spiied the Pi;est misnnthinpe for the
nonce to think well of th woild and I
or all In It.
The piofessionnls played their mrtch
with a solemn and sllei.t crowd tramp
ing behind them, and cleared tho "Cor
ker" with an ease am! Indifference
which convinced evvrv nmriteur duffer
piesent that ne could do the same The
members' handicap followed, and th
"Cotker" received a goodly tilbute of
balls. In the gloamlnr a general ad
journment to the club Jiouse was made
nnd theie wns a giand lush of c addles
to the "Corker" fr the put pose of
picking up tho halls !n ihe spinney,
to be sold nt a cheap rate to the club
"pro." who would doctor them up a
bit and lesel! them to members at
eight shlllfngs the dozen Suddenly nn
urchin who had penetrated faithor
Into the spinney thnn his fellows came
rusning up, breathless ancKscaied, cry
Ing" "There's a skellnton In the Danes
hole!"
Of rouise, the lest of the youngsters
left their quest for lost balls to view
tho discovery, and there, nt the bottom
of the excavation, they saw a heuvlly
coated figure lying In an easy posture
of sleep, the hands tluust Into the
deep pockets, and, as the urchin had
said. In tho place of an ordinary head,
a ghastly skull.
"Some poor fellow who must have
lost his way during tho winter storms
and hnve fallen Into a snow drift,
which here would be twenty feet deep,"
observed one man
rpon undoing the ulster they found
that tho man was In evening dress, that
he had a gold watch and chnln, so that
the skeleton was clearly that of no or
dinary night wanderer. I'pon with
drawing the hands from the pockets,
each wns found to be tightly clasped
over a Jewel ense,
"Mrs. Lomax's dlnmonds," exclaimed
a bvstnnder, a doctor. "I remember
them; they were lost upon the night
of the December dance. It wns a ter
rible night, for I was nearly snowed
up myself"
The question which now naturally
suggested Itself wns, Who wns the
mnn?
There wns a pocket-book In the coat.
there wns nothing In It to Identify the
owner, but there was distinct evidence
that he was the thief. In the shnpc of a
Plan of Thrudown Hall approaches, and
a map of the Immediate neighborhood
upon which the short cut to Crashford
across the common wns stiougly
marked In another pocket was a dance
programme, tho writing on vv hlch was
barely decipherable, although tho In
itials H L, appeared more than once.
"Then tho thief was cither a guest
nt the dnnco or some fellow who had
rigged himself up ns a guest and who
linel. by virtue of his ilg, got Into the
house unnoticed," said the doctor
Just about the time of this discovery
Colonel Oxenden and his wife returnee
to the Orange from Egypt, nnd th"
first people to welcome them homo wer
their old ft lends, the Lomnxes
Convocation naturally turned upon
the loss and recovery of Mrs. Lomax's
diamonds, and In the com so of chat
Hetty recounted what Mnjor Clifford
had said about the flguie he had seen
moving In tho neighborhood of Mrs
Lomax's bed room.
"Major Clifford! Who's he?" asked
Colonel Oxenden.
"Wh." replied the squire, "your
guest hcie, who came to our dance as
the rcpiesentntlve of jour 'paity.'"
"Major Clifford our guest tepre
sentatlvo of our party'" exclaimed the
colonel. "Why, 1 don't know anjbody
of the name, and wo had nobody stay
ing In tho house at the time."
Mr and Mis. Lomax and Hetty ex
changed looks of astonishment.
"But, denr," said Mis. Lomax to Mis
Oxenden, "In youi note of rtgret
which, by the vvaj I remember observ
ing wns not wiltten nt all In your
usual hand you snld that as our card
of Invitation was maiked "And partv,'
jou hoped we would iccelvo as j-our
r"presontative an old set vice ft lend of
j'our husband's, Major Clifford "
"My dear," leplled Mis. Oxenden, "I
could not have done so, for, as my hus
band saj s, we know no one of the
name and thete was no one In the
house but oui selves."
"Well," said the colonel, "time's a
fumij mlsundeist.indlng somevvhei
Let's send for John. He took the note"
So John Thompson was lung for and
dulj appeuied.
'John," said his mastei, "you re
membei taking a note nvei to Thru
down Hall on the day when join mis
tress was flist taken 111?"
"Yes, sli," leplled the coachman.
"Leastwajs, 11 didn't take the note
nil the va myself."
"Didn't take the note all the way
j oui self What do you mean?"
"Whj, sli. It was this way. A few
'undred jaids fiom the 'all I met Cap
tain Mercei jou ictm-mbcr him, sli,
what used to bo of oms, ho weie
called the Black Captain "
"Meicer, that blackguard' I see It
all now !" exclaimed the colonel. "Well,
Co on "
"Well, sir. he said as how he wev
stayln" at 'Squlie Lomax's and offered
to take the note In himself, and as I
weie in a bit of a "uny, I didn't see no
'aim In savin' myself a quarter of a
hour, so 1 give It him "
"All light, that will do Pon't be In
such a hui i y another time," said the
colonel "If jou hadn't given up the
note. Mis Lomax wouldn't have lost
her diamonds."
The crestfallen John saluted nnd left
the loom.
"It's all ns clear as noondaj." said
the colonel. "This fellow Mercer was
one of the biggest sioundiels who ever
wore uuifoiin. H- had to send linhls
papets at last for a lot of shady npeia
tlons In which he had been concerned
one he can led off on Mrs Kndeiby,
wife of Bill Bnderbj or the P. W D,
about a horse, and another, which
wasn't In ought straight home to him,
about the Imitation of a slgnatuie. I've
never seen him since, but I he.ud thnt
he'd gone icgulailj In for the swindling
and inbblng business and that he'd
seived two oi tin oo teims foi It "
"Oh, what a wicked man'" exclaimed
Hettj Lomax "He paid me such at
tention, and I thought him quite the
nicest man at the dance Then It Isn't
tine what he told mc- about Mis Hnd
eibj that heel round hei out ch itlng
at cards'"
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"The r,aj Ctiass Widow cheating it
cauls' 11a' ha' That s too bad
laughed the colonel "Mis Kudeibj
liked a bit or run iih well ts anjbudj,
and went the iaee In a ladjlike vvuj,
but cheat at .aiK not Mio!"
"Oh, how lellevcd I am," h.ild Hettj,
"and what a mi tow escape 1 had r
disgracing myself b ate using her of
having taken methei's dl inionds:"
"Thou this iasc.il nuifct have kept mv
wife's note," said the colonel, "le
wrlttcn It with his own embellishment
and pot.tcd It. for vvi didn't get It un
til the nei mm nlng." Chambers'
Journal
NO LET TJ? TOSSIBLE.
'The Htm li'uvv vvns stuiek bv the In
surgents. i"d It was ii foul blow. Our
kindness vviik nilprneiiicd with cruellv,
otil men' with a Mauser 'I hi ling of
(nice wns Invoked onlv to lit iliflioiiiiied.
elur noldlcis win Hhot down while minis
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mutilated out litnn.mUv was liuerpicted
,i weakness cur foi In uinnce us coward
lie Thev iics.iiiiit jnu sovereign, and
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