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[Continued from last Week.]
"My advice to you, Mr. Harrington,"
said he, "is just this: Leave the whole
business to me. If there's anything iu
this, we'll nip the man right here. If
there isn't anything in it, you don't
want a word said. Am I right?"
I assented, but ventured to inquire
what steps he intended to take.
"I'll hang around," said he. "If
Scotch Davy is going to do this job,
he's been in town to look the ground
over. If he was going to do it tonight,
he'd come gently walking in from one
of the neighboring towns about 10
o'clock or so and lay around behind a
fence till it was time to operate. That's
ois way on a job like this. I know
him. I'll bet a hat that I can go lay
down in a place where Davy will fall
over me if he's our man. I know him
us well as that."
"Where would it be?" I inquired with
interest, for I like these men of line
Instinctive perception who can foresee
(he acts of their natural enemies.
"There's a path comes up across lota
from the railroad station," he replied.
'lt splits iu a field, and one half of it
runs up to your office, as you call it,
While the other goes to Elm street just
at the junction with your private way.
Davy will loaf along that path because
tliat'B where nobody ever goes at
night."
It struck me as a distinct probability.
I asked whether Reedy thought that
there was any chance of Mr. Creel's
"operating" immediately, and he re
plied that he saw no reason for delay.
"If he knows the stuff's there," said
he, "tonight's as good as any other. I
advise you to sit up pretty late, so that
if any message comes from me you
won't have to stop to dress. Maybe
I'll get him on his first round. With a
fellow like that there's no use of wait
lug till he actually breaks in. Consid
ering his record, we can send him up
anyhow, whether he does anything or
not. The judge'll know that Scotch
Davy wasn't out here for the scenery.
Bo you can't tell when you may hear
from me."
Donald suggested that we might get
into the office secretly and wait there
without a light. It would be handier
than going to the house. This was
pronounced too risky by Iteedy. We
might frighten Mr. Creel away. It
would be easy, however, to get into
the main factory building and wait in
a certain little room in the end nearest
the office. We might stay there as
late as would be possible without ex
citing alarm at the house and then go
home.
This plan was adopted, and we ef
fected an entrance into the factory
building without the knowledge of my
watchman, a detail upon which Iteedy
Insisted. While this project was in
process of execution the detective se
cured a private word with me.
"This ain't any trance," said he, re
ferring to Donald's disclosure. "If it
was, I'd say, 'Nothing doing!' 1 don't
believe in that sort of tiling. But your
young friend's got some kind of a dead
straight tip. He knows what he's talk
ing about He don't know as much as
he pretends to. Take that business
about the suit of clothes as an exam
ple. He merely followed m.v lead. But
what he does know for certain is that
somebody's after that money, and he
wants to make sure that they don't get
it. And that description is no dream.
You can gamble on that."
So long as Mr. Reedy's view did not
prevent him from exerting his best en
deavors in the case 1 had no desire to
quarrel with him, but he did not dis
turb, in the slightest degree, toy faith
In Donald. The matter of the position
of the packages had settled that, not to
mention Donald's accurate knowledge
of the amounts contained in them. 1
have never been able to remember why
1 divided the money in that way, but
there was no reason why I should have
mentioned the circumstance to any one.
My opinion at that time was that Don
aldson might know about it, though 1
could not positively recall having told
him. We knew the total amount, and
so did Carl Archer and Jim Buun, but
It was a certainty that none of these
persons had given Donald his informa
tion.
It was about U o'clock when we got
Into the factory, and during an hour's
time nothing of importance occurred.
The night was windy and dark. We
could get a very imperfect view from
our window, for the lamp In the street
was dim and very much blown about.
Once we thought we saw the figure of
Reedy crouching beside the office and
occasionally our watchman appeared in
the roadway between the two build
ings.
This utter monotony of waiting se.
our nerves oil edge, and when the whis
tle of the 10 o'clock train blew we
jumped as if it had been an unusual
sound. It seemed very loud and star
tling.
A fine rain had begun to fall, but we
did not know of it until we saw the
top of a covered carriage that passed
along the roadway glitter with the
moisture. It was a carriage that I did
not remember to have seen in Tun
bridge, and I communicated this fact
to Donald in a whisper, though I fancy
we might have spoken aloud without
doing any harm.
The carriage passed rapidly Just as
the train whistled, and I thought tliero
must be somebody In it who was hur
rylug to the station, but I could see no
one at all. Half a minute later our
watchman paused directly In front of
the window. He lighted his pipe, and
the match made a great flare in the
dark. Then, after he had smoked a
bit, he suddenly thrust his pipe into
his pocket and ran toward the office.
Curiosity got the better of me, and I
softly raised the window. The sound
of angry voices came from beyond the
smaller building. The words were in
distinguishable at first, and then I
heard Reedy say with precision and
conviction:
"You're Scotch Davy; that's who you
are. I've been looking for you."
Again there was a tangled jargon,
ending, as before, in the supremacy of
Reedy's cold tones.
"You're the watchman, eh?" said he.
"Well, you're a nice kind of a watch
man, you are! There's two men in the
factory building at this minute, and
you don't know anything about it.
Who am I? Mr. Harrington will intro
duce me. Catch hold of the other wing
of this old jailbird, and we'll go and
And your boss."
Donald and I dropped out of the win
dow and ran into the street, where wo
encountered tne trio, wno were all
talking at once.
"Bring him Into the office," 1 called,
and ho led the way.
As I struck a light I heard Donald
at my elbow. He seemed to be greatly
agitated, and he was muttering: "This
is dreadful! This is dreadful!"
Immediately Keedy and the watch
man stalked in with their prisoner.
Each of the officers had a revolver in
his disengaged hand, and they were
using these weapons in emphatic ges
ticulation. 1 had a strong temptation
to dodge behind my desk in the face
of this recklessness.
The prisoner at the first glance
seemed to answer Donald's description
wonderfully well except in the matter
of attire. He was dressed in a black
suit of expensive material, and he car
ried a gold headed umbrella. I marked
the cold brutality of the face, the cru
elty of the thin and rigid lips, and I
made up my mind that I was in the
presence of a very desperate charac
ter.
"This is an outrage!" lie protested in
a voice that matched his iron counte
nance.
"Uncle," whispered Donald, "they've
made a mistake. This is not the man."
"Not the man?" echoed Reedy, who
had caught the words.
"Certainly not," said Donald. "Didn't
I tell you that lie had a dimple in his
chin, a little, round hole that looked
as if it had been made with a brad
awl?"
"This ain't much of a night to look
for dimples," said Reedy, "but I think
this is the feller."
The prisoner, released, began to
rage.
"I'll show you who I am!" he cried.
"I'll make you answer for this false
arrest!"
" ,r ou ain't under arrest." said Reedy,
"and you never have been, but you've
"This is not the rutin."
got a right to tell what you were do
ing prowling around behind this build
ing."
The man reached into his breast
pocket and threw down a handful of
letters and documents upon the table.
"My name's Kelvin," said he, speak
ing in gasps because of his wrath.
"Samuel Kelvin is my name. I'm no
unknown man. You'll all smart for
this."
"Are you the Mr. Kelvin who has
just bought the old Stoughton place?"
said I. "If so, I am sure that we deep
ly regret this error."
Kelvin extended a trembling finger
toward me.
"You're John Harrington," he said.
"You're the responsible man here.
What have you got to say?"
I told the best story I could without
giving any color of the miraculous to
this adventure. I said that we had
had reason to fear a burglary and had
taken precautions. Our defective had
received a description of the expected
robber and had made an error, in the
darkness of the evening.
Mr. Kelvin fumed and ra;.:d, but we
got an explanation from h'.m at last.
His family had been occupying the
Stoughton mansion for several days—
as 1 already knew -but he himself had
not yet spent a night in Tunbridge. He
had telegraphed to have a carriage
meet him at the station—that was his
which I had seen. It had come too
late, and he had tried to find his way
home afoot and across lots because of
the increasing rain, which suggested
hurry. He had gone astray in the two
paths that ran through the field.
I offered my best apol 'tries to Mr.
Kelvin, but he refused to be satisfied.
He berated us all. and the last words
that I heard from him as l:e burst out
of the door were these, addressed to
the unfortunate Reedy:
"I'll teach you to call me an old jail
bird!"
"I'll be hanged if he doesn't look like
one," said the detective after Kelvin
had gone, "and as for false arrest, for
get it. He was trespassing on your
property, and I had a right to ask him
what he was up to."
I m.-y add that this view of the case
s; eined to be sustained by Kelvin's
lawyers, whom he consulted on the fol
lowing day.
But meanwhile what had become of
Donald's burglar? It was a mystery
which did not solve itself that night,
and I have rarely seen a human crea
ture so distressed as my j.oor boy was.
He derived no comfort from the
thought that all the mistakes, so far as
we might venture to decide, were
Reedy's. Mr. Kelvin really did not an
swer full}' to Donald's description.
Certainly he was not Scotch Davy,
with whom, according to our detective,
the description tallied exactly.
"Any other man in my place would
have done the same thing," said Reedy.
"That feller looks enough like Scotch
Davy to be a ringer for him anywhere.'
He was perfectly satisfied with him
self, and he had the true detective's
power of being satisfied with his em
ployer and undisturbed by any error or
sin of the latter It was Reedy's hon
est boast that he never forgot whose
money lie v. s taking and that he was
strictly on the level.
"Don't you worry," said he to Don
ald. "Thit- man Kelvin can't do any
thing. If we all tell the same story,
where'll he be? He's got no witnesses.
Besides, 1 know him. now that 1 come
to think of it. He's old Sam Kelvin
the trust magnate. He'd be all right
In a civil suit for a million dollars, but
in a little case like this that would
have to lie tried before a jury of farm
ers that sort of a feller wouldn't stand
as much show as one chicken among
twelve colored gentlemen."
"I've met his daughter socially," said
Donald iu a weak voice. "She's been
visiting some people in Cambridge.
She's a very nice girl."
It was obvious that the hand of ca
lamity had arranged the pieces on our
little chessboard. However, there was
nothing that could be done about it.
Douald and I went home, where we
had considerable trouble in evading
questions, and Reedy remained on
guard, being still convinced that a real
robber was coming. He did not appear
that night, However, nor the next. |
which was Friday, but on Saturday !
about noon Reedy came swiftly into
my office and tapped tue on the shoul
der.
"Our man's in town for sure," he
whispered. "There's no mistake this
time. He ain't Scotch Davy, though.
I don't know him."
I sent a man running after Donald,
who had been with me a few minutes
before. The boy came back ahead of
the messenger, however, and he looked
very much excited.
"I've seen him," said he. "You know
whom I mean, lie's down by the sta
tion."
"What shall we do?" said I.
Reedy expressed a general conviction
that everything was all right. It was
a somewhat long winded opinion, and
while he was in the midst of it the
door was pushed open, and a pale,
hard featured, smooth shaven man en
tered the room. lie was clothed iu a
reddish brown suit, with an "invisible
check." He produced upon us very
much the effect of a ghost. For my
own part I found myself with my
shoulders planted squarely against the
farthest wall.
"Good morning, Mr. Harrington,"
said the intruder. "What seems to be
the matter?"
"You?" I cried. "Y'ou? Why, what's
happened? Where Where's your
beard ?"
Mr. William Hackett grinned in a
melancholy fashion nnd passed his
hand over his chin and then stroked
the hair which had grown gray over
his ears in the few months since I had
seen him.
"I've been verj' sick," said he."l
wrote you about it."
"But you didn't say you'd shaved."
"Well," he cried, flushing angrily,
"what if I have shaved? Whose whisk
ers were they, I'd like to know? Do I
have to ask you every time I use a
razor?"
"I beg you pardon, William," said I.
"We have had an extraordinary expe
rience which I will describe to you
presently."
He heard the story with interest and
wonder, and as I told It I began to see
the full value of the psychic phenome
non involved. Every item of Donald's
information had been absolutely cor
rect. It was only through error in the
interpretation that any difficulty had
arisen. No additional explanation
could be extorted from Donald. Al
most his only contribution to the con
versation was the gloomy and oft re
peated prayer:
"Please don't say anything about it,
Mr. Hackett."
Finally we veered around to the sub
ject of business, and Hackett produced
the documents necessary to the trans
fer. Donaldson and Archer were sum
moned, and I opened the safe, produc
ing the two packages and my check
book. Then came the real surprise of
this most strange affair. The pack
ages when opened proved to contain
sheets of thin brown paper cut to the
6lze of bank notes. The $40,000 had
vanished.
I will confess that this was the black
est mystery that had ever darkened my
understanding. No one but Donald
eon (than whom no man could be more
trustworthy) had known the combina
tion of the safe, and lie had had no
key of the inner doors nor of the draw
er. Yet the locks upon these had not
been tampered with. After an exam
ination of them Reedy declared that
"the trick hadn't been turned in the
Bate," and we all at last agreed in the
conclusion that the theft had been
committed days ago, during the time
when the packages had lain upon my
desk. They had been there only a few
hours, but unfortunately my memory
was very weak as to the circumstances.
I seemed to recall having locked them
up in the desk while I went across to
the factory, but under Reedy's ques
tioning 1 admitted that 1 might have
left the keys in the desk's lock.
"This puts it onto everybody," said
the detective. "We don't know noth
ing about who might have come into
this room. We've got to make a gen
eral hunt."
Mr. Reedy was immediately directed
to assume charge of the case, and for
the next two or three weeks he worked
with exemplary diligence, but without
results. An attempt was made to keep
the story froin circulating, but some
how it got about, even that portion
which related to Donald's foreknowl
edge of the robbery.
It came to Kelvin's ears, and he took
pleasure in referring to my boy as "the
mind reader." He had conceived a
violent dislike of Donald, and the boy
seemed to be deeply affiicted in conse
quence thereof, no doubt for pretty
Amy Kelvin's sake. From certain
which I observed I formed a
firm judgment that the daughter of
my amiable neighbor did not agree
with her father in regard to Donald,
and considering the youth of the par
ties this parental opposition could not
be taken too seriously. However, as
Donald suffered and I loved him, my
heart was warmly on his side, and I
began to hate Kelvin cordially and
with a fervor that may have been
prophetic.
CHAPTER VII.
THE MTSTERY OF THE COLLAB OF DIA
MONDS.
THERE are those who detect a
sense of humor in the fates.
The old Creeks called them
the eumenides (well wishers),
which was an obvious attempt to make
them smile. I do not wish to decide
whether such a view of the matter is
justified by the facts, but I will ven
ture to assert upon my own observa
tion that if the fates care at ull for a
jest they prefer a man like old Sam
Kelvin for the subject of it. Already
he had figured once in this role, and it
was not enough.
Kelvin is a pawn in the game who
fancies himself the player. He Is such
a man as is fond of saying: "If I were
poor tomorrow, 1 should be rich again
in a year. You cannot keep a good
man down." Or this, "If you ask me
for the secret of my success in the
world," etc.. when you haven't asked
him and have no interest in the process
by which an unsuccessful man became
a successful hog. lam convinced that
the fates do relish an occasional prank
with such a man, and the affair of the
collar of diamonds which 1 am about
to lay before the reader is a case in
point.
It was in the middle of July, nearly
a month after the advent of the Kel
vins in Tunbridge. Upon an especially
beautiful morning I was taking my
usual walk before breakfast and had i
gone up to the cemetery on the hill.
There, from the grave of my wife, that
is covered with flowers at this season,
arise both my sorrow and the strength
to bear it. I am not a somber man. I
always come away from that spot with ;
the drumbeat of courage and of strlv- ;
ing in my heart, after the excellent
military custom.
My way home led me past the Stough
ton place, now called "Kelvin Elms."
Those fine old elms were quite well
grown, 1 jud; •. when Kelvin's grand
father was building a sawmill In Penn
sylvania. He was a carpenter nnd (
built the mill for another man and then
got it away from him by some sort of
hocus poeus. 1 looked the matter tip
out of curiosity. Sain Kelvin's father
Inherited the sawmill, but not the ca
pacity for hocus poeus. The latter
skipped a generation, so the sawmill
passed out of the family with other ill
gotten goods, and the present propri
etor of The Elms was born poor.
His first success was a rather shady
transaction in coal lands, and after
ward he associated himself with pow
erful men and rose with them.
The present Mrs. Kelvin comes of a
good family, but is herself a sharp,
shrewd, selfish woman. She has little
beauty of character or person, and her
husband has none, but from that union
has sprung as fair and lovable a girl
as ever gladdened the eyes and the
heart of a man. Nature performs these
miracles once in awhile. In the cem
etery where I had just been walking
the very sweetest rosebush grows from
the dust of the sourest rascal ever laid
away to rest there. I refer to Ezra
Walmsley, the miser, and I shall have
occasion to speak of him later, for the
claim that he made to the Stougliton
estate during his life is an essential
feature of the present narrative. There
he lies, at any rate, and there is the
rosebush to prove that his dust is as
good as any man's for rose culture, and
this despite the well founded legend
that he sold his right hand to Satan
and paid the forfeit.
While skirting the east wall of The
Elms I caught a glimpse of Donald
near the south gate. It was no sur
prise to see liini abroad at such an
hour, for Donald is an early riser. 1
like that habit. The world looks best
in the morning, and early rising argues
appreciation. Moreover, it shows cour
age and a healthy view. I have heard
a cynic claim to prove that life is not
worth living by the fact that a vast
majority of ull humanity put off living
as long as they can every morning,
lying abed to the last minute and coax
ing sleep, which the Latins called "the
image of death." If the cynic had
possessed a logical mind and had lim
ited his conclusion to the scope of his
evidence, I would have been willing to
agree with him in the proposition
which he really had established—name
ly, that the life of the sluggard is not
worth living. That sort of person nev
er wants to get up and begin the day.
Donald is no sluggard. He often
joins me in my morning walks, but he
has not shown a fondness for the vi
cinity of The Elms, and I was sur
prised to see him loitering by Kelvin's
gate. When l turned the corner of
the wall, I saw that Donald was talk
ing with Amy Kelvin, and this was an
explanation of his presence which was
harder to credit than the original phe
nomenon, unexplained, as often hap
pens.
I was not prepared to believe that
they had met there by accident, still
less that they had met there by design,
but it must have been one or the other,
for there they were. Little Miss Kel
vin was sitting on a rock about the
size of a bushel basket, and her back
was supported by the wall. Donald
leaned against a tall stone pillar of
the gate and looked down into the
girl's face. Their manner indicated
that they were busily blowing the soap
bubbles of youthful sentiment, fragile,
beautiful, floating away on the air,
not meant to be handled like the toys
of later years nor even to be remem
bered except in the aggregate.
Neither of these enviable young crea
tures was so placed as to be readily
visible from the house, and yet I
would not wish to say that their posi
tions were taken with the definite idea
of avoiding observation. It was cer
tain, however, that both of them knew
well enough what Mr. Kelvin would
think of their meeting.
I was quite near them before they
noticed me. Then Donald looked up
and saw me, but he showed no sur
prise. surprise was the rarest
Of his emotions. He gave me a cheery
good morning, and Amy greeted me
very prettily. She has something of
the old fashioned shyness and a defer
ence toward her elders such as I do
not see too much of nowadays. The
modern young woman seems to me to
have paid a price for the three or four
inches .of stature that she has gained
over her grandmother. She finds per
haps less that she can look up to.
While we were praising the beauty
of the morning we were interrupted
by a grinding sound of feet—l had al
most said hoofs—upon the gravel walk
within the estate, and, glancing over
the wall, we saw Mr. Kelvin striding
toward the gate. Amy looked at Don
ald almost as if she expected him to
run away, but he smiled in that gentle
way of 1 s that makes his face so
handsome and slowly shook his head.
Kelvin came boisterously through
the wicket that is beside the main
gate and then turned, holding it open
with his left hand. Donald instantly
raised his hat and slightly inclined his
head while Amy passed before him,
looking up at him out of the corner of
her eye and murmuring "Goodby!" in
very dainty fashion. The wicket closed
behind her with an angry snap, and
Kelvin wheeled about.
"1 don't want this to occur again,"
said he to me.
"What?" said I.
"I don't want this boy hanging
around here," he replied. "I don't ap
prove of him as an associate for my
daughter."
"You are very foolish," said I, "and a
poor judge of human nature. Good
moraine, sir'"
"One moment, uncle, please," said
Donald, laying a hand upon my arm,
and then to Kelvin: "Will you tell me
why you object to me?"
Kelvin grinned.
"I don't think much of mind read
ers," said he.
"Have you any objection to a mind
reader if he really Is one?" asked Don
ald politely.
"There's no such thing!" snapped
Kelvin. "Do you take me for an old
woman?"
"You can hardly object to me," said
Donald, "on the ground that I am
something which does not exist. But
that is what you have stated."
"You're a fake and a fraud!" roared
Kelvin.
Donald slowly nodded.
"Were you convinced of it,"he ask
ed, "by the mistake I made on the
night when you—er—when you visited
the factory?"
"Well, I should think that was
enough!" said Kelvin.
"But why should I practice such a
purposeless fraud?" pleaded Donald.
"What possible motive"—
"I'll be hanged if I know!" Interrupt
ed Kelvin. "It seems to me that you
made a fool of yourself and got noth
ing out of it, for I don't believe you got
the money. I'll do you that much jus
tice. But that's neither here nor there.
What I say to you is this: You must
not speak to my daughter again. Do
you understand?"
"I want to be perfectly respectful to
you, sir," rejoined Donald. "I'm very
60iry that 1 can't give you the assur
ance which you desire in this matter,
but it would be absurd for me to do so.
This is not a play upon the stage; it is
life. You have no authority over me.
no right to lay any command upon me
nor to exact any promise. My attitude
toward your daughter has been gov
erned by the social code and must al
ways be so L'overned. I cannot address
' If** '
"i'ou're a fake and a fraud!"
Miss Kelvin without her permission,
and I am sure that she will tie guided
absolutely by your wish."
"I'll attend to that," snapped Kelvin.
"I am sorry to be the cause of any
annoyance," said Donald, "Really I'ia
not worth it. Please tell her so."
"Yes, sir; I'll do that!" rejoined Kel
vin in a very disagreeable tone. "I'll
tell her precisely that."
"Thank you, ' replied Donald.
His manner had been perfect through
out this scene. Although he had been
Arm and even insistent, still lie had
not forgotten his years, but had pre
served a tine deference toward this old
rascal who did not in the least deserve
it. At the last he had seemed to feel
much depressed and had cast down his
eyes, but suddenly he raised them to
Kelvin's face with that peculiar, gen
tle, searching look that I love so well.
When lie turns it upon me, it warms
my heart, for I know that he is seeing
straight into its innermost chamber.
Yet there are some who cannot bear
this look, not dishonest, scheming peo
ple who might well be expected to
shrink from it. hut those who are
aierely nervous from illness, like our
cashier. Jim Bunn. for instance. Jim
Bunn dreads death, and perhaps ha
shudders to think that Donald coulc
tell him when the grim fellow is com
ing. At any rate, I have seen poor
Bunn turn white and his hands pour
sweat from their palms when Donald
has looked at him thus.
Even Kelvin's thick hide was pene
trated. lie backed away toward the
wicket.
"Don't try any of your tricks with
me," lie said. "I don't want my for
tune told."
Donald started slightly, and a faintly
perceptible shudder passed over him.
It seemed to communicate itself to me
and to Kelvin, who paled and then
flushed.
"You're a humbug!" lie cried out
roughly, ashamed of his momentary
superstitious alarm. "You're an open
humbug. Anybody can see through
you."
Donald turned away wearily, while
Kelvin kicked the gate open and went
blustering up the patn.
As we walked home together I tried
to revive Donalds spirits by compli
menting him upon his language and
bearing in this trying scene, but he
seemed to be very much dissatistied
with himself.
"Why is it," said he, "that when I
am excited I talk like 'Hollo's Tour In
Europe?' 'Oh, lie. uncle!' exclaimed
little Kollo. 'You are seeking to im
pose upon my youthful credulity.'
That's the way it sounds to myself.
And I was tremendously excited just
now. You won't ask me why, will
you? You'll let me go ahead and
make a fool of myself in my own idi
otic way and forgive me afterward.
It's your promise, you know."
"I don't think you'll make a fool of
yourself," said I. "Little Miss Kelvin
is a very charming girl. I wish she
had a better father."
"I am too well satisfied with Mr. Kel
vin just now to say anything disre
spectful about him," responded Don:;! I
"This conversation with him has taken
a great weight off my mind."
Remembering Kelvin's words, 1 could
not understand Donald's ground foi
satisfaction, but he was obviously very
much in earnest about it. My curios
ity was piqued, yet 1 would ask n<
questions. Still less would 1 offer ad
vice, for I am ever slow to cloud tin
bright day of youth with the gray coun
Bels of age. Youth, as a rule, lives life
honestly as it is, while crabbed, dis
satisfied age would thrust in a pool
plan of its own contrary to nature's.
So I turned the conversation into tlit.
way of small things, and we went
home cheerfully to breakfast.
1 was at the factory until the middli
of the afternoon, and when I came
home again I was surprised to see the
Kelvins' carriage alongside my veran
da. Mrs. Kelvin was just alighting,
and Dorothy was giving her greeting.
They presented a remarkable contrast
as they stood there together in the clear
light of the summer afternoon.
Mrs. Kelvin is a woman who always
looks as if her clothes and herself had
fought a great battle while she was
dressing and the clothes had got tin
better of It. They assert their superi
ority. She is not fond of flaring colors,
but she puts on too much of everything.
Trimming seems to stick out of her at
random, with the result that every
plain spot on her gown looks bare.
Dorothy's raiment is the handmaiden
of her beauty, serving humbly and in
sweet simplicity. Her personality puts
a soul info her clothes. If it were not
too curious a fancy, I could see her
Uown falling away to a mere bit of
cloth when she takes it off.
The ways of the two women are like
their attire. Mrs. Kelvin bristles, and
yet her manner is expensive, as wt
might say, for it e. mot be had except
in the society of the wealthy. It. is
silk backed plush, but it is plush.
"How do you do, Mr. Harrington?"
said she, extending her hand upon a
level with my chin. "I have come to
you for sympathy and assistance."
She laughed pointedly in order tc
show that her language was intention
ally extravagant. I never liked tlioso
Utility laughs.
"What is tiio trouble?" I asked.
"It is a story of crime," she replied,
"a mysterious midnight robbery. Real
ly lam heartbroken. They have stolen
my diamond collar, a gift from Mr.
Kelvin and dear to me far beyond its
value. I don't suppose it is worth
more than SO,OOO, though, of course, I
never asked him what he paid for it."
"I am iu a position to sympathize
with you," said I, "as you may be
aware. We have obtained no trace of
the money that was taken from my
c a fe."
Mrs. Kelvin';; face took on such an
expression of Mitlilen gloom that I was
really touched. I had not sur>, c. Ed
that she would thus feel for me in my
misfortune.
"I hadn't thought of that," she s.;id,
with hesitation. "Of course, young
Mr. Donaldson lias tried to tind the
money'/"
Instantly 1 saw straight through the
whole game. This superstitious wo
man had come to ask Donald t > lind
her diamond collar by the exercise of
that occult power which Mr. Kelvin
had so fiercely derided that very morn
ing. I'pon my word, a tine piece of
presumption!
"Don hasn't an idea what has be
come of the money," said Dorothy.
"Vet he might be more successful In
the case of mv diamonds," responded
Mrs. Kelvin, rallying. "Do you know,
Mrs. Donaldson, I have the greatest
faith in your son. I think he in a very
remarkable young man. My husband
itnd I have the most protracted argu
ments about it. You know, Mr. Kelvin
s such a commc-n-sensible man he can't
believe anything that is at all out of
the ordinary. 1 understand," she add
ed, turning to me, "that you and Mr.
Kelvin had quite a disagreement about
it this morning. You must not take
what he says; too seriously. It is really
ley fault, because 1 keep him stirred
up about i '
"Dona'd was greatly pleased with
Mr. Kelvin this morning," said I, with
dishonest and contemptible evasion
"lie was not in the least offended."
Mrs. Kelvin was surprised and de
lighted. turned to Dorothy with a
most effusive manner.
"Please use your maternal influence
in my behalf," she cried. "If your son
will come over to The Elms"—
At that moment there was a clatter
of hoofs, and Donald, en horseback,
en me around the corner of the h >use
r.t such a pace that he had to pull up
sharply in order to avoid collision with
Mrs. Kelvin's equipage. The boy rid< s
like a wild 1 ndian.
His m flier called to him, and he
slid off I: s horse and came up on t >
the verami;' He looked big and hand
some in his riding clothes, and his
mother eyed him proudly.
"Mrs. K< Ivin has come to ask you to
go over to The Kims." said Dorothy,
raid she paused there for the mischief
of it.
Donald sat down upon the arm of
his mot he: "r? chair, and I think it v.
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lli Looked big ii>i<l hn HI I some in his rill
ing clothes.
because he had not the strength to
stand, though lie did not reveal his
surprise In any olh r way.
"It is very kind of Mrs. Kelvin," said
he.
"My husband joins me in this re
quest," said our visitor "We have
iost a diamond ornament of consider
able value, and we hope that you wili
help us to find it."
"I wish I could be of some service,"
responded Donald, "but I'm afraid y >u
will he disappointed. How was the
firticle lost?"
(To be continued.)
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"• ' Saturday " ' via subway, "b " South
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD,
TIME TABLE
In Effect May, 25, 1902'
A A.M., i
Scritfiton(D&H)lv :y 3S ■ I 12 A 2T
littston " " T 112 i i>o§ 2pi« 52 ''"l]
A. M. A. M P. M. P.M
Wilkcsbarre,.. 'v; 7 2> siiu :;"> 2 l". :S MI
Plytn'th Ferry " I 7 \'i lin 42 I 2 ">2 ft "T **"
Nantlcoke •• 742 10 3CI «17 ".****"
Mocanaqua ...." 112 il 11 07 3 2»i 8 37'"
Wapwallopen.. " In II li, K :tl 947
Nescopeck ar <l» 11 21; :i 42 700
T. A.M. P.M.;
Pottsville Iv 11 Vi !
Hazlctdn ■' 12 .*>2 5.2 4.">
Tomhlcken '• 1 II •• #*>['
Fern Glen " I 18 :i 1">|".....
Kock Olen. H 22,
Nncopeck. . ar I 4.">— L.....
CatHWis>a 4 00
\. M A.M P.M. P M
Nescopeck... .Iv •is.l Si 42 *7 i»'
Crcasv S3l 11 :>. 3 :,2 709 '
Espy Ferry... -I 8 4 11 4f. I 4 irj 7*J
K. liloonJ?liuri *• 8 4 II 5n 4 I"1 72 .
Catawi?sa Iv 8 5 11.." 41.
south Danville " 1 4 12 1 4 :si 7 :,i
Sunbury nr 3."i 12 4" 4 -Vi mlj
\. M. P. M P. M P.M. _
Sunbury Il •4: f!2 18 i 5 In ;i 41;;
at 10 I 4 *> 4<_»
Alill.iii lu ' 1 1 :i |n i'T
Williams] rt . " 11 0< 141 •• 30 10 V>
Lock Haven... " 11 61 22' 7 .i
Henovo " A.M. :i no 8 iiu
Kane " 8 i- 1
~~ P.M. P.M.I
I.ock Haven..lv 12 li' :: 1" 1
Bellefonte ....ar 1 0.". I 11
Tyrone " 22t •> u"
Pblllpabarg " | IBSJ 8 «2
Cleartield.... " !> 2,> > 1}
Pittsburg.... " i> .V. 10 45
A.M. P. M. P. M. P M
Suiil.urv Iv .0 j ISt 4M*B 31
Harrlsburg.... ar II 3" * 3 l."> t> MlO M
P. M. P. M. P. M. A M
Philadelphia., ar >3 17 C 23 10 2" 4 2.>
Haltimore • ;3 11 61 0 !' 45 23»
Washington... "5 Ilo|, 7 I& '.O 55 405
A. M. P. M.
Sunbury Iv $lO 00 J 2 I >
Lewistown Jc. ar 11 1 I o'>
Pittsburg •• 0 ■*•"> Si" H
A.M . P, M P. M. P M
Harrishurg.... Iv IMS >Ol n 7 1.V»102>
P. M. A M. A. M. A M
Uttsburg nr ov. i 1 &•' 15» 5 :>»
P. M-l P M A M A Ml
Pittsburg Iv 7i' !» 0" :i «» is w
.A.M AM PM
Harriaburg.... ar 200 42" 030 , 3 10|
AM A M
Plttsboir Iv s 8 00
P M
i.ewistnwn Je. '• 7 ii «i
Sunbury ar w • 4 60
P. M. A M A M A M
Washington... Iv li> 4o 7 a" 10 5..
Baltimore •• 11 On 4li s4O 114".
Philadelphia... " 11 20 4•£ - :*) 11 40
A. M A M A. M. P M
liarrisburg.... Iv 3 3." 755 II lu ; •'! 20
Sunbury ar .. oti 0•' 10s 6U>
P.M. A M A M |
Pittsburg I\ 12 45 son
Clearfield.... " 350 ..... ......I • |?|!....
l'liilipsburg.. " 140 10 12
Tyrone " Tov slO 12 vi">
Bellefonte.. " 810 !» 38 I »»"> ' ...
Lock Haven nr 15 10 30 210 ;
P. M. A M \ M P M
Erie Iv 535 -###
Kane, " v IV •> 00 '
Benin • " i 1 » 04 • 10 30
Lock Haven.... " 12 .'is 7 11 25 3 t*t
A.M. P M
Williamsport .. " 220 83u 12 10 400
Milton •' 221 817 I - 4 «
Lcwishurg " 005 I I > 442
Sunbury ar 324 o it) 1 4.". 615
~M. A 51 P M P M )
Sunbury Iv .fils , » 200 5 '£> >tii
South fianville • 7 11. iO 17 221 •' -, l ....
t/'atawissa " 7 32j lu 31. . • OKI"
E Bloomsburg.. " 7 ■' 10 43 2 1 615
Espy Ferry.... '• 7 4. 110 47 f0 I'.t
Creasy 7 ."'2 l' 1 2 .v» i>
Noscnpcck •' sO2 II Ov 3 o"> 640 "**
A M A M P. M. P M
Cutawissa Iv 732 10 is 2 Si'. •> 0s
Nesc«>l«'ck li 523 ! > O". ; 7 0.5
Kock 1 lien ar II 22 7 '.'s ]ll
Fern (Hen " 8-1 II 2* . :>2 731
Ti.mhlcten .... > . v II."> 742 _
Hazleton '• I" II -58 . 806
Pottavlll* •• M I". '■ ■ ••••
AM AMP M P M " ~
Nescopeck Iv 8 (>2 11 n»> ;; u.". :8 10 ••••*
■Vapwallopcn. .ar s 1 11 20 :; 20 «. f>2
Mo<*anauua .... " s il II ><l 701
Nantioke " 8 ■: II r.4 l>. 7 I!'
. P Mi
Plyni'lh Ferry" I t'ii:i 12 <-j 17 »
Wllksbarte ..." 01" 12 U> 4u. T35
AMPM P M P M
Plttstoi) lull) ar Kl '.' 12 4 N 836
-Wanton " " 10 08 121 521 86
; Woekdav". Ihiily. I Flag station.
Pullman Parlor a:-d Sleeping Cars run oa
through trains between Surbury, Williamsport
and i:ric. between Sunbury an.! Philadelphia
and Washingt >i and between Harrisi Pitts
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Geii'l Manager, (hn'l Ay
Lackawanna kailuoad
BL'X >MSBUR<» DIVWI
W F>T.
A. «. A. M. A M. I*. M.
Rn Y«fft Iv -'•» •••• ••••
r M.
Herauton »112 WIT 15M
P. M
Buffalo ...Iv II to -I*
A. M.
Scrnnton »' •' '** .
S.raiiton I* *' ■' *' 1 "
A. M. A. »I P M l' M
fWai,t..l. IV ♦*« 'WW 1 1 •* *«i«
HeDevOf ** *•••*****" *"l*
Taylor '• *■= 'V.[; ""
Lackawanna K f - 1 ,
Huryea «« J"? * f-' '
rittHton Ji 7!
SiiMiiH'liainui A\' " •*' l '
Wi«t FNlntun 7M 1,141 - "
Wyoming. . . *'* 10 4». --• **'
Forty Fort • - _»
Bennett.. J 1 ' 1 f\
Kingston ar Til I" ' I* _
Wllkes-liarre .:ir 7f> II M» 3-0 •
Wllkew-BMrre iv . I I" •" 2»» •» l'i
Kingston Iv T2l In *• j m •»
I'ly iitout li .1
Plymouth 7:« II <*> 2*» T tff
Avondale T fi - -»4
Nantlcoke ~ 111! 2 > T M
II unlock'* 745 1119 ■ <»• 721
shlckshinny TV> II :I 2» 7.1
Ht. ks Ferry HOT ril 41 3 T7 il
Beach Haven. M:1 II I* " Tin
Herwtck BIS 11 "»4 II Ti!
Itriarrnwk f*23 . I
Willow < irovf 27 MM i- ■ :
Mm. Bidge * 1 fI2P» # «"7
K" py h.:T 121.» l>« #l2
Blooilisburg *44 12 22 112 «IT
Rupert *47 12 2 • in «. ■
• ataivissa *>4 12 "2 I*2 *
I'anville * T
Cameron W2l 12 4T ti-
Northuniberi'd ar •:G 11« 500 '
FAST.
A. M. A. M. IV V,
Northomberr '<3& 4H>M H
Cameron 'it; .. KBI C,
hiui.li:> CSS IIP 211 I
Catnwlwui 71" 1«« 22:
l!u|M-rt T |n :7 •>
Blooilisburg T2' In 41 2 •
Kspv 72* 10 4s J m •. t.
I.irae llldge 7 1. fl» A T2 Ki 1- .-<
WUtow Om< •• IHI ..... f2
l'.rlar<-r«-k T II f2 \ f'.'27
lierwick . ~50 II it, 2 V
Heech Haven " '-•> fll 12 y. II
HickM Ferry MT fu IT : ««• ..IT
Shlrkshlnny hIT li ;l jl pi
Hnltck'i *27 in rm
Nantlf'.kfr" II II ; •»# 711
Avondale - ~
I'lynioiitli * 1! i 73H
Plymouth June.... . ai; ..
KinifHton....... ir *35 !!.">!' In
Wilkea-llarre art» It) 12 11 I l«l
Wilkea llarre Iv -#l I! k> *•
Kingston Iv BSS 11U" l«i
Itennett *'* ..... 11*< " i
Forty Fort WW ... *"T
Wyoming !»<*• I- Ii-
Weat Pittnton.... • It' IIT . -■
siis<juehanna Avt .. s> I! 1211 12>» T »•
Put-ton »l» 12 IT *U Hfll
Puryea »* »
l.itckawanna >Si ..... I"2
Taylor « "2 14"
llellcvue !* ~ I I*.
Seranton ar #l2 I2:i"< I >
A M. P M. A.
S.-rantoc Iv KklU li»i
P. *.
New York ar 3& ."<)»» .... •
P
JScranton Iv 155 K
A.
Buffalo ar .... T» 7m
*1 tally, tDaily except stinilay.
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