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The Diamond
By I AWRENCB. M. L'ialcH
(E. M. Van Deventer)
Author of "A Wotnan's" 'tr Arthur's " "Tits
C=lone, john ,flab s Ward, 1+s oat ,\
Willem," "A Slender' Clue," "Dangerous Ground,"
lr Against Odds," Etc., Etc.
ra\ \, ,tel "* *•l �,'"•,�
tie Diamond Coterie although nal matt was to relate iii adventuress; itnd this he
aw whether • they numbered two, or
' enter. "IP I ran hear a voice, before Feting
They could always. recognize their
andiwork, however, and whenever the
tnews caure that some lady in the city, or
4 eultuxbs, hos lost her diamonds, and that
' • [the thieves had made a `clean job' of it,
• the officers said, 'that's the work of the
Diamond (,"•oterie•"
"I have been much abroad of late, but
- "nyory time I came back to New York the
• ' .0otticie had gathered fresh jewels into its
I ,tieasure boat and no man had found a
„clue to the sly fellows.
'' "I began to feel interested in the clique•
.and resolved to take a hand at them, at
the first opportunity. That opportunity
ozone, with the news of the great Windour
- ''robbery, and I came down to W—.
r "`e. saw enough in this robbery to inter
est ane, for various reasons. • •
"I believed I could see distinctly the
Iianditeori: of the Diamond Coterie, and
' ; I saw another thing; it was the first piece
• . t work I bad known thein to bungle.
..Anel they had bungled in this.
' "I made some of my conclusions known
.to Miss Wardour and her friends, but I
.kept to myself the most important ones.
' "The story of the chloroform, eo care-
, 'fully administered, was one of the things
.over rtvhieh I pondered much; I borrowed
the chh'rofornt bottle and the piece of
' linen that had nein used to apply the
ling, and that night v- e ccepted the hos-
vitality proffered me In air Clifford. I
took a 170X i]11pi•ct:.sion of the vial, at his
'rouse, and I made an important discov-
ery while there.
nSir Clifford found mo half 'athlshed
and esacene his 1loaase.:cepa to bring in a
ouch. Not wishing my identity known,
pretended to by a patient; and jest as
xny host was lowing the room, ho tossed
Ino a handkerchief, which he took from a
nide table, bidding 1e mite myself a
Under to parti.,,i,) conssal My hiee,
' "Now my eyes are trained to see much
.at a gh;nee, and the moment fhey fell
upon that bit of white linen they were
.riveted there.
"The handkerchief was precisely like
the mutiliated one used with the chloro -
;term. This might be as coincidence—
plain white handkerchief with wide bor-
ders'twere not uncanulaon, but this hand-
kerchief was marked!
"I could scarcely wet until Sir Clifford
should show iiie to my room, so anxious
*as I to -compare the two pieces of linen.
"The whole one bore the initials F. L.,
on the raw, torn edge of tho half square
vias a black dot that was undoubtedly
Ate fragntoi't of a letter, or name, that
Alta leen torn hastily off. It corresponded
gettactly with the lower end of the letter
, upon the whole handkerchief given
o by Sir Clifford.
"This ]eight be 'a coincidence, but it is
aline of my rules to suspect two coinci-
dences corning close together; and I bad
already discovered three remarkable ones
Win this ease.
"Sitting alone in my room, I reflected
thus :—
"Take it for granted that this raillery
• was perpetrated by the Diamond Coterie,
what are the facts?
"The robbers ,:new whereto enter, and
• neliere to look for plunder; ergo, they
must have known the premises.
"They administered the deadly chloro-
form with nicest calculation; ergo, they
Must have known Miss Wardour.
"One of them was eom^tiling• of oa
•dandy--s\itness the superfine bit of cam-
bric, and the print of jaunty boots where
.he leaped the garden fence.
"The ne]:t morning I took encercmen-
.1ous leave of ley host, and set out on nee
•explorations. As I approached Wardour
Place I met a man. who immediately
,drew my interest to himself.
"This nuns was Jerry Belknap. H'e
wore a disguise quite familiar to ince, and
.T recognized hint easily. He entered. at
the Wardour gate, and1 sauntered on,
leasing found new food for thought.
"'Now, a word. concerning third ]ran
Belknap.
"At one time he was an honorable
inember of the best detective force in the
City; but he had. too much cupidity. and
not enough ]poral firmness. Twice he
:allowed himself to be bribed into letting
a case fall through, and finally I caught
him in secret conclave with a gang of
bank burglars, who wore conspiring, to
raise a fortune for each, and escape with
-their booty through the connivance of
,our false 'detective.
"I exploded this little scheme, and
,compelled Belknap to withdraw from the
force.. Imagine any surprise when, a little
later, Miss \Verdour told mo that Mr.
Belknap was the . detective sent down
from the city by sir. Lannotte 1 •
"Well, Mr, Belknap went to work upon
he case, and Miss Wardour concealed
near her dining room so that I might
have the pleasure of listening to kis first
report,
"That was a forttinato ambush for me.
Mr. Belknap's deductions were as dia-
enetrically opposite to mine as if he had
purposely studied out the contrast; and I
Was shaking my sides with the thought
of hots all this plausibility nnust be pu-
lling Mies Wardour and (er aunt, to the a now element "arts
eirogremme.
"Mr. Frank Iiramotte, rresle front an
the
the face, I can usually measure its truth
or falsity, Now, I had not seen Mr. the story of this girl as connected with
Frank Lamotte, but his voice told inc Lamotte: but this newt be borne in
that he was rehearsing a well studied mind. During the time that my agent
part; and, furthermore, I way assured had this girl under surveillance Frank
that Belknap knew this, end purposely . Lamotte. visited 11er, and, it is sueposed
that he removed the remaining bottles of
the set, for one was afterward exhumed,
in fragments, from Doctor He:dth's ash
beep, by the intlustrians .Jetty Belknap,
and the others have disappeared."
tray or nit s1ster"s linger, and to assist id
the setireh for the robbers, would be thus
eaplaintil ; and his anxiety `concerning the
contents of his sister's letter might be
easily trend to tt guilty consclence,
"But my theories were doomed to be
livid aside for a time. Other duties
claimed me and it \vas four weeks before
I could turn so much as a thought to-
w"ircl W—.
"Before leaving the e'ity, however, I
had placed my wax cast of the chloroform
bottle in the hands of one of my best
men. and had also given him a clue upon
which to work.
"My agent wvas wonderfully successful,
IIe found the counterparts to the chloro-
form bottle, and then he began shadow-
ing the owner of said vitas. It proved to
bo a young woman who had formerly
lived in W—, es a factory hand, but who
had been trarteen:haci to the city by
Frank Lamm to.
,"It is not necessary to enlarge upon
helped hire on.
"By and by Mise Wardeur withdrew,
and Mrs. Aliston fulfilled her mission.
Then I was more than ever convinced of
the fellow's insincerity. I heard how he
received the news of his sister's flight;
and w11en Mrs. Allston went, in a panic,
to cii1 her niece, I heard hire, when he
fancied himself alone.
"It seems he had been the bearer of a
note from his sister to Miss Wardour, and
he was now intent upon learning if that
note had contained any thing damaging
to himself. This much' I learned. from 'his
solitary mutterings, anis then Miss War -
dour re-entered the room. Re was half
wild, until she had assured hien that the
note contained nothing that could injure
him; and then he became calmer, and
Went out into the air to recover his
breath. `a'
"Miss Wardour made haste to release
me, and I came out of my concealment
congratulating myself that I had been so
lucky.
"And now I found myself compelled to
leave W— just as things were growing
very intere: ing; 1 had grade my flying
visit ; ? mon:. nt of leisure, but my va-
cation had run out; duty, honor and in-
ttrese alike impelled me in another
direction.
"J left my add}rest; With Miss Wardonr,
and I promised myself that at the first
opportunity I would return to W— and
take up my abode here for a time.
"I had been in W— not quite three
clays. 1 had not seen jasper Lamotte, I
had barely seen Frank, and I had added
to my deductions made on the eight of
]ny arrival, lintel the case stood like this
In ]]iy hind:—
1st. The robbers •were fantiliatr with
Wardour, outside and in. •
"end. They knew Miss Wardour, • and
-cher sensitiveness to theeeffects of chloro-
form.
"3rd. Ono of them was a man of gen-
tle]naanly propensities, and pfobabiy
young.
"4th. They or a part of their number
approached, by the river, using a boat
with muffled oars.
"So much for jny deductions. Now for
some coincidences.
"It was a coincidence that the hand-
kerchief I got from Sir Clifford should
bear Frank Lax/lotto's initials, and
should be euntsise 1y like the one left be-
hind by the robbere.
"It was at coincidence that Frank La -
motto should be a student of medicine,
who might have been quite as capable of
administering chlorotorm as was the
burglar eirnself.
"Innen a coincident: that Miss Sybil
Lamotte should have eloped on the very
day when her best friend was robbed,
and thee father, mother and brother were
all absent in behalf of the robbed friend,
thus leaving the way open to the fugi-
tives, ""But the crisis mune. The s:i t`r cloud
p and giving them plenty etif time to turned its. dark side.
escape. "Luck. Jim played a losing game one
"'Ngo. for so]ue facts that looked 'day, ttrrut hie wife suddenly found herself
strauge. it Lamotte face to face With the truth.
"Itswas strange that yb "They lived through stormy .,axes, but
likeleave her hole to marryws a man . Jim had,. in his palely dayes 'left his
like Bohn Burrill, when she, was known wil'e's fortune intact, and now it proved
an anchor to windward.
"They absented themselves nem this
country foto ]nese than two years; then
they carte track, and Lucky Jinn brought
his family, whites now included. noun, to
W—. 'i!Ee Maryland fortune enabled
then to set up as arietocrats, and Lucky
Jim seem:a to have aspired to• become a
power in:the community.
"I don't think he often attempteal any
of his old confidence and swindling
games; bat, during his absences from
home, which were frequent, during his
earlier notelet/to here, he macloustudy of
fine burglary..
"I can fancy how carefully he put his
new schemes in practice, and how he
passed himself off upon W— aaa a -rising
spectilatear.
"He probably spent years in gathering,
together that select society,. known as
the Diamond Coterie.
"At first, it consisted of four; himself,
a city pawnbroker, known as Ennis, who
received and negotiated the sale of the
stolen goods, and who is aa keen a rascal
as ever escaped. justice, and tele noted
cratelo nnen. who had headquarters in the
eity, and were famous in. their day, but
who were compelled to withdraw in the
midst of their high career, one dying
of
a malignant fever, the other being killed
ley a woman,
"To replace these departed worthies,
Ezras, who was always on the alert for
pals, and who had bad various crooked
dealings with Jerry Belknap, brought
CHAPTER XL•VI
''Frons the moment when I appeared
among you as Brook'(, Inn work eves
double. I was bent upon posting myself
thoroughly in regard to Jasper Lamotte,
and day by day I hectante more interested
in the career of this remarkable man.
"Step by sten, 1 trod backward the
path of his history, since his advent in
W—, gathering ny information from
many sources.
"'It would be tedious to enter into de-
tails; 'entice is to say that while I work-
ed here, two others, trained to such re-
search, were beating up the past I was
so anxious to become familiar with.. And
a third, a.crosas the water, was gathering
up the history of Sohn Trill, another
object of interest to me art that time.
'Anti now I will reverse the crer in
which we made our search, and, begin-
ning where my men left off, give you, in
Itrin+' tine meeeley of a reeneleible man.
"The teen v6 know as Jasper •Lamotte
figured in various cities, twenty-five
years ago, and (hill earlier, as Lucky
Jim, a, handsome, well educated, sharp
witted, confidence man.
eHo seldom grble,cl. and made he
m
Swindling operations of various sorts reap
him a rich harvest; andby his unvary-
ing good luck In escaping the 'dragons
of the law, as wen as because of his
lucky ventures; he became known tolls
intimates as Lucky ,Jim.
"In these days, Miss Sebib Schuyler,
the daughter of a wealthy old Maryland
aristocrat. came to the city to reside with
an aunt, while she completed her musical
education. Lucky Jim saw her, and fell
in love with her beautiful, haughty face..
"He contrived to make her acquaint-
ante, and the rest was easy; . it was a
repetition of the old story;• he was benne ]Hake my chain of evidence complete I.
some and fascinating, she young and un- needed his testimony. IIe will go out to
sophisticated, with plenty of headstrong the frontier, and never appear in Now
Southern blood and self will.
"After a brief courtship, Lucky JYwim "Andk. noir, perhaps, you can eompie-
retarrlecl the Maryland heiress. Her father. bend why 1 brought that charge of per -
as may be supposed, repudiated the mar- jury against Jasper I.aunotte.�larFor
t is
riage, but she clung to her` scamp, and wife s sake, for kis unhappy
so the old Maryland aristocrat sent her sake, for the sake of Evan Lamotte, who
a small fortune, which was flet':., inheri- implored me, while going to give him -
ted frim her mothers moiler, and be- sett up to save another, than I would not
yond his control; and bade her consider let further disgrace bow his mother's
herself ]ger more a t ehuyler, of the head to- the dusts --for the sake of these
Schuyler*. unfortunate'victinis,• I would let Jasper
"For a time, Lucky Jint rode smoothly ',motto gmfree, so far as we are corn
en the' top wave of pre/sperft:s : his wife err]]ed.. 11]sve seer hem, and I gave hire
easily aimed, believed. ]ti.nt a Well street two alternatives to choose from. He
operator. Frank was born, and then court 11 1111111710 :anal be arrested as the head
Sybil, and the Maryland beauty' gate ted and front of the T)ka]trond Coterie, or he
it in an elegatrt rod : echuletl]ittle> home. could. tea .o passage on beard the lintship
bound for Australia, to remain
the resit of hi.* natur.:l.• Iife. He chose the
latter, and I have appointed my agent,
'Smith the -book peddler,' ars his guard-
ian, to:see that he carries out his con-
tract to the letter:
"And now there is one thing mare:
After BurrilI's death jasper and F" auk
Lamotte made a search for certain p:•pers
supposed toe ]rave been upon the ;croon
of the u?ead near. They never found
them, for the reason. that I, as Brooks,
had relieved Burrill cut the rare of these
starve papers weeks before, substituting
for them blanks; which no e7.oub, Burrill
had hidden somewbcre, in one of his
fits of•drunken cautkoi. These papers de --
fine elletinctly each portions of the La
motto• property as ire reality belonged to
Burrill;: and if I am not ]n1staken•in
Mrs. Lamotte and her daughter they
will wish no share f l it. I will put those
papers into your hands, Mr. O'Meara,. to,
i be held. for feature action."
$r...,. •
into an at:lsfoeeat, and to Shinn .nit rine+ of rule, one evening, when some imp pos-
the lords of the land. To this rend he outwit rue f lead Sybil Lomat.. 1 shall
hoarded his share of all the Spool+(, and, never ,ter ret Petr strange ivauoer nor her
Adding it,•to tha bunt brought front king- wild we.rd'. ()iitifurd, dost awful /testate.
land bo began to find himself sorich
red tt.
"Meantime, Mr, Barnette bad speech-
fated a little too freely; he had built 4,
mansion, and built his factories. li:e had
been living like a prince, and some of hiss
late ventures had failed. Something
must be done. And then his eye fell
upon Burrlil; he coveted the rnglish-
ntan's hoarded dollars.
."He found it easy to persuade Burrill
.f Mine , 1tt,oyt :litade Sybil a nttrrclennee
"i Meet .ere 1"
"Ude 1, dear! son Ixati brooded over
what I level told her. Trouble, t+s'as unset-
tline her'fntind. Sire had sonar vailuable
jewel9e; she:' went with her mother to the
elty, and veleile there, had the real Atones
replaced by paste, as 1 Rsati done, and re-
ceived two thousand dollars for firer dia-
monds. In fame way. she bad toyed out
to conte to W—, ostensibly to take the that Jerry elelknap 'twztS a ]ran to be
position of overseer at the factories; bought; she ohtabled, an liaterview with
rei#11y to be more readily duped by Lucky him, and offensa bleu two thousand def-
Jini, Burrill tame; he saw how his coo- lays if he would -get John 1 u rill one of
rade was reepec•t:ed and bowed down to her way!"
by all W—. lIe had alvenee admired "Good heavens^''•"
Lucky Jim for his gentlemanly polish "Don't interrulntt ane. Belknap agreed
and his aristocratic manners; and he to remove Burrille and received five Irmo
now concocted. a scheme for his own iron dollars iii ad,' ante. He tint to the
aggrandisement, Thelnennottes haul made city for a ruffian, One of his Meas. Tho^
themselves aristocrats, they should, make i man mune, but Mr. Bathurst had. his ere
an nristoerat: of hint. , upon him. On tin. aright of the'murder
-"You all know tho result; John I3.nr- 1 this ruffians was hidden outside of the
rill di+orced his wife; Jasper InneAto saloon, waiting to follow and waylay
sold his dnnghten John Burris when he. e]tonld go hone.
"While Frank Lamotte felt trletottly The boy detective, George. was iiidden
sanguine of winning the heiress of War ` and watching the ruffian. When I nrrill
dour, the W;trdiolr jewels were left- un-; came nut of dm $0100)8; the mann, sup -
molested. Bust when a rival came into ; posing of coarse that h'rwas going ,some,
thtl field, they determined to have the
je as, oven if they lost the heiress.
"Aceorclingly they 'planned the robbery
and the elopement, and you all know the
aftetpart.
'"Miss \i'atrdonr, you once offered a• I3athnst, and so followed the ruffian.
reward for the arrest of the robbers Who Think of it, Clifford'. While Svbil's paced
invaded Wardour Place, net to recover assassin lay in wait for hise'cictfm, $yhi3's
your diamonds, but for the sake of jus, iirother was saving her soul from,,gnta,
tier. It is for the sake of ju4tece and for 117 taking a crime upon iiis;own. But for
the future safety of peaceable citizens' nesan's knife, poor half crazed Sybit
that I have ruin the Diamond Coterie to
earth. For, be it known to you, ladies•
and gentlemen, that Miss Constance
Wardour, like the wise young lady she•
Is,' took her jewel, to an expert, one fine
day long ago. and had them all dupla- was the minty one." •
sated in paste; and while ,Jasper La- -And you could not betray your un-
Con -
motto and his clique were industriously fr]rnotate friend? cin true•ksssted Con-
eaell'ines into -safe hiding these paste dia.
atlinee 1"
"I had promised Mrs. Lanett -be not to
Iieetrawt• her, but was • nerving' ]myself );o
dare all and save you when parr Evan
threw himself into thenireach, and saved
hurried on ahead, crossed the br ege,
and secreted himself in, the hedge. The
boy, George, was far enough hehinc?.i to
see that Burrill! Was me going hole,
but he was acting as elirected
would have been a murderes8, and this ;i•
knelt in part front the fir:;#", and that in
why I said that the true slayer must noir
lie punished. lentil they ; brought Evan.
li,amotte into court; 1.belianecii that Sybil
monde, the real Wardour jewels were re-
posing seifely in the vaults of a city bank,
and they repose there safely still! •
"When Jaeger Lamont' went to the
city, two days before the killing of Bur- us- all three. You. must' knees,. Clifford,
rill, he went to dispose of some of those thra Mr. Belkna:%1 ]nade aa•ftil confession
paste jewels; and, not until then, did he to'Mr. Bathurst, when he°found he could
�•
learn how the heiress of Wardour had co•no better. And 14ir. Btdtltnr, a,now-
1+
outwitted hint. inn that I was aware of •Sebii's• dealings
- "Miss Wardour, the rawer of the Dia- with Belknap, told me everything."
mon. Coterie is at an end. "'And ibis it,s what Bethune/ meant
"Old Innis has long leen under our when he said that Senn believed herself
A. Tz .t toss 8aaarp.
The following (c1mnfia men
Grant} Valley ; A , tare lrlliee in one oft
s th
an idea that he
the village stores ha
was pretty sm',rt. Bowe irne ago .
took in a tub of hatters wbie , Ifs
being tested, seemed to teettenin wet
thing hall, Ilia curiosity bet
aroused he (lug into the Utter
extracted a stone weigl'bt,g eigl,
pounds. Sugar being wanted tit
part prey for the hotter tileyouth
carefully placed the Winn In the
sugar to return to the plain frog,
which it came. lie then related ligt
Incident wan evidence of smrrtittr•
iiinee he avratened to the fact;.hr,,w-,
ever, that he had paid 15 tet) peg'
• .0 scan it tigaif art
• - air: had ceased! tet
glmekle. and st(n s no more abouiSillit
, r-ei,rI l e,!,.
CASTORIN
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VOCmisl ]dor Indcvr• uu& Outdoor'•'
Workers..
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the February Ladies: Hone Journal,
.gives ails instructive, Mot as to the
• proper foodfor indoor astd outdoor
"The ine'. aoie toborer, cued'
as -the edie+'or and the bookkeeper,,
„ nd2 gill persons sitthir,, : t desksil.*
e11y'.ventteIt ted and drvsei•hea,ited rooms,
need a+ goodly quleentaty of repair
fsod,--t+hena work is Welting—but lest
outhe hent and force iteiods. Rieet
andloli!wr, oil are thin" bent forms Ori
hoat•too ,. as they are s.e easily anal
gniably appropriaaixk Outdoorlaborers„ or hose who have bodily
exercise. wad a greater oniltrunt 0 -
fresh- ai1r„ should pacepertion :their
allows
,ecanes' three fifths:. caubonsceoll
or teats `giving foods;, to t;wo•f)fthes
albuntin(•ite3:i or repaii. lo()r}s— boas
ratios to he c',ang(,' 1u•• stilt sedsont
anti oilman SIM t(t day'er
works. le. t.otr,ma; , 14 • instance, thr
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ole be allow -
:71 will!''
,.torch and
a. greater
Tie• slow
•41 Of those
• while then
livealmost
Meter=
eye. Last night I sentMeter=which guilty. 'I thought he referred to come of
will encase his Instant arrsnt; and there her insane ravings."
aro enough charges against him to in- • $o they all thought. Bet it in best as
sure him a life sentence, had he yet ser- it i 'Thebe is no need toren this sad
enty years to live. ti.ory, unleie ii sterns beet teat: Bay
"John Burrill has passed' beyond our ti andyck should k,iow it.'r
reach. Frank Ltunottee, too, with all his anon, Rey. omense one. Ilene ever
sin and selfishness, has passed' before ce c011155 when Hay and Sybi11 znlvert again,
higher tribunal. There remains only she will tell hint her own stet
Jerry Belknap and Jasper Janette . Constance bent over the • glowing eoa.Is
""To Jerry Beicnap I have promised a ]moment, and then lifting bier face,
protectitm—not because he deeerve.s the she:geld in a hushed voice:—
sante, but because in 310 other way could "•1 saw Evan. He is just•fadiag out of
I avail myself of bis services; and to life. Oh! it was so fortunate that there
;was+ no resistance to the humane ones
who sought to help Mar out of that
gloomy prison. ' Sybil never- leares him
for a moment. What must her feelings
have been when she learned that Evan
had saved. her fro_n a Fife time of re-
morse! I could see by her•face—such a
poor, pale, sad, utterly changed face—
that she knew all; everything. But Mrs.
Lamotte's courage is wonderful. ed)Id Mr.
Schuyler, Sybil's grandfather, is dead,
and he has left Mrs. Lamotte line prop-
erty; but too tied up that Mr: '•teamotte
meld never touch a dollar.. llrs. Lamotte
I says that when it is overe-levaas's life,
t yore know—she shall take Sybie and go-
to•live in her old Maryland hones They
will not touch a penny of John: Bnrrill's
money; it is all to be transferred. to his
wife, to bo held in trust for her little
boy. The woman is going back to Eng -
Linn: as soon as the transfer is made.
A"anii now do you known what I see in the
future? I see poor Even laid away under
the snows. 1 see the mentors: of .chn eent yea;
Burrill sunk in oblivi:)n. I see. Sybil La- Lewis 11ICIld(iwr'.lt, o ix}ErlitrE'} earn', La -
motto ting slowly back life anti
to have bestowed her heart elsewhere.
""It was strange that Jasper Larnotte, �
going to. the city to employ •n, deteetives
should so soon have stumbled upop Jerry
Belknap, who was identified with no
agency,aand could only bere�sbeed tatough
private means.
"35 utas strange that Frank Lamotte
should set himself up as an amateur de-
tective,• and should bring beak a report/
that taallied so perfectly with the deduc-
tions of Jerry Belknap.
""It was strange .doer Mita Wardour,
having just been robbed of jewels to the
amount, of fifty thousand dollars, should
be so little distressed, so little agitated
'ty her loss.
"From deductions, ooinrcidences and
•
strange facets, 1 evolved the following
theory, which certainly looked well from
my standpoint, but might not hold
Water. non WILL We, that Lean the flet 1
connect:: the. Wardour rehhery and the
Inmate Hclop - ,hent
"Now, Sybil Lamotte'' strange flight
gave proof that there wan a ekeieton in
+yhe Lamotte closet. I said: --
""If this unseen Mr. Lamotte had
planned this robbery, and IV for sone rea-
son it seemed. good that leis daughter
should elope, ]tow well all was arranged.
-"His son assisting hint, they sotild
drop down from Mapleton in their row
boat; come- up from the river, and, with
their plans all laid, and knowing their
ground, ('order make quick headway,.
Frank Lamotte's boot heel would leave
just such a print its one of the roibel%
left in the loose dirt 'inside= the garden
fence. Feat* Lamotte would know just
)tow to administer the chloroform. Then,
Mr. Lamotte, in goinf, to the city, osten-
sibly to procure the sert•ire's of a detec-
tive, could easily take the spoils along;
and his wife also, that she, might
be well
out of his daughter's way.0
t1c1 ]tattira1 .. select a fellow like Jerry
amateur robber hunt, carne int.
room. It had been arranged. that Mrs.
Ali,;etc wheuid break to this young man Belkn,ho woildlkiteepa away f rcwbo
the new ; that his sister had that day investigation,
cloned with ;Tulin .L'urrilk: but -first. be might, anlf',ia eeinennesstttoblbe absent,onti' truth,
sallt9'attd(,•,t
ed,. but lt,:
grea,ttir t,.u_
giv&.';. in•
an:ount
looming
l i " keg iia
pet tie
en' In • -
The forest (;f W i,nitc, t, which want
made a 10ea1 1�t.ttr SS- Williaatil tli
Conqueror, no, ( ye el great extent
be ilg' 1i�O miles roan et.
}a, the Sliakesrease Memorial Gar',
den at Stratford-cn'Ikvon, there 'a
demist tire !„ n ft',t.l::ei's grove,
The C. P. 1 ce `e ii. iatac"s
li±t t • < ri tkte westeTtl
t : aani ig 1140 ple-
m(•r • e con ,
alae and happiness, under the. kind blue utui'rvialJ traveller, ti akdpted to
P
Maryland skies. I see elm. I;atnotte, her rE1aG strode by canoes::; 1!).s tin gel t ana.
pride softened. and chastened, tend a ook
I
Peart Tope In te).
of serene content upon her face. And
see Ray \'andyck making his:zszay south Thomas Nolt•',,. (1 'Rawdon, t tt4t3.*
.ward some day, and'standing before Sybil
was found guilt;! r t ?"'3E! murder, of'
with his heart in leis eyes. I. wane"
"You. see enought. Leave Bay and Sybil, three sisters at(ai n err' ther.nslnd` wast
faace to face; you: and I can guess the sentenced to b i.'z Cm play .0.
rest, Do von alto see Doctor Clifford •
CHAlnenle :GENII.
"€lliffbr;S,„” says the heiress of Whore tT,
standing beside her lover, ono winner
dayy, not long after the extinction• of the
Diamond Coterie, "Clifford, I hare been
to Mapktn to -day, for the first time
eitecE*-n a
She pauses abruptly, and. ]ter looter
draws her closer to his side,
"nince the drama ended," he. finishes.
"You have been to Mapletem, beloved!
Tell neo about it,"
"There's something I wine to nen you
Clifford; something that, in full, Air
Bathurst generously kept oat of his stor
When he told us the rest; something tha
is known only to Mts. Lamotte, Sybil,
,;van, Mr. Belknap, Mr, Bathurst, ane
myself, but which I think I had, bette
tell you now."
"1 ant listening, Conny."
"Well when the robbers made off will
my pinto diamonds, I made up my mine
to mane the most of the business, and lei
everybody think nut a loser, hoping thus
to possess myself and. my diamonds in
Herm and safety. ikit when Mr. Battlturst
had talked to me a second time—I be
lieve that man can see straight throng'
people—he luta my secret at his tongue':
end and. he warned, me to he 101';
eauti.:us anti not to tell any ono the trut?-
en nieeruinl; the diannoutis. In :Mite n;
t'41i; gentleman and. "Jar. Lamotte. 3311
Surlily Min together.
"Belknap proved the right man in +h:
right, place, and wa.s soon admitted 1 tto
the Coterie', lett to collie under t11:'
favorable notice of I,aras, was John Bur.'
rill, 'who had come over front England
bringing with him some ill-gotten gains,
and who set himself up in New York es
a swell (•raeksman.
"Now, Burrill, the English boor, had
ate ambition. In this easygoing America,
he Toned fu .some wuv to build Women"
Iie^athercliffe resuming hist prattle(' m
'1V—, as if nothing had happened P01
that's what hi5•-rewwly appeented tyrant
has bidden him do. Do yen see a ceriait ,
ter lady, transformed into Indy Heather-.
elifie by and bee and sailing away over
the seas to, bewilder the dwellers at
Heathere1iffeellowers. with the brightness
of her eyese and,, in spite of the pia -
mond Coteri•_,i. to blaze forth upon tbie
'nobility ante gentry' of Hampshire in
all the splendor of the Wardour diamon.dle8i'
All this shale cone to pass beloved; end,
since it has gained meths fairest, blew.
est, truest wife in Christendom, 1 cane
even rejente in the persecutions tete the
hatted a. the Diamond Coterie. If John
I;urrill flail not mistaken nee for Herbert,
on the- night when the feud, began, he
might now be living, perhaps, aan,el you
and I be far apart; aro, at the last, Her-
bert I1onthercliffe, in his grave, leas done
me a service. I do book like hint, Conny,
and ins small wonder Burrill knew 1110
for a Iieethereliffe, and intade. capital out
of my altered 31072 10. But all that is past.
My darling, we have learned our hard
lessson, now we have only to forgive the
tined anti the erring, to forget the she-
dows slut s6rrows of the past, and to say.
'God bless our friends in need; —nod.
bless Bathurst, king of his kind tkal
bless the o'Mcaras; God hit ss the beau-
.
tf ftit darling who entwined the Diamond
wears•lout
ilia- •
Coterie, and who the Watts
mends ant, the Wardour honor with regal 1
grace' 11
Fifty veer: ago rise trapr'porisstintA
of a letter cost about, twenty tiines8usi;
.mnc11 As it 0,.c,,:
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that nothing did hie any good, Mi.
Hilburn, the druggist, gave me a
sample box of (,hue's Ointment, and
from the first application I found relief
and lyes able~ to go to bed and sleep,
then purchased 4110 box end that ora
cured 010 so tltut 1 lave not been afflict,
ed since, and that >aver a year ago."
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