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The Diamond Bracelet
By MRS HENRY WOOD
Author of Erxst Lynne Etc
CHAPTER III
Alice left her sister standing in the
room and went upstairs But she was
more than ono minute away she was
three or four for she could not at first
lay Tier hand upon the letter When
ahe returned her sster advanced to her
from the back drawing room the fold
ing doors between the two rooms be
ing as before wide open
What a flno collection of bracelets
Alice she exclaimed as she tcok the
letter Are they spread out for
show
No laughed Alice Lady Sarah
Is going to the opera and will be in a
hurry when she comes up irom dinner
She asked me to bring them all down
as she had not decided which to
wear
I Hke to dress before dinner on my
opera nights
Oh so of course does Lady Sarah
returned Alice as her sister descend
ed the stairs but she said it was too
hot to dine in bracelets
It Is fearfully hot Good by Alice
Dont ring I will let myself out
Alice returned to the front room
and looked from the window wonder
ing whether her sister had come In
her carriage No A trifl ng evening
breeze was arising and beginning to
move the curtains about Gentle as it
was it was grateful and Alice sat
down In It In a very few minutes the
ladies came up from dinner
Have you the bracelets Alice Oh
I see
Lady Sarah went to the back room
as she spoke and stood before the
table looking at the bracelets Alice
rose to fellow her when Lady Prances
Chenevix caught her by the arm and
began to speak In a covert whisper
Who was that at the door just
now It was a visitors knock Do you
know Alice every hour since we came
to town I have fancied Gsrard might
be calling In the country he could
not get to us but here Was it
Gerard r
It it was my sister carelessly an
swered Alice It was not a true an
swer for her sister had not knocked
hut it was the readiest that rose to
her lips and she wished to escape the
questioning
Only your sister sighed Frances
turning to the window with a gesture
of disappointment
Which have you put on inquired
Alice going toward Lady Sarah
These loose fancy things they are
the coolest I really am so hot the
soup was that favorite soup ot the
iiels all capsicums and cayenne and
the wine was hot there had been
some mistake about the ice Hill
trusted the new man and he did not
understand it it was all hot together
What the house will be- tonight I
dread to think of
Lady Sarah whilst she spoke had
been putting the bracelets into the
jewel box with very little care
I had better put them straight re
marked Alice when she reached the
table
Do not trouble returned Lady
Sarah shutting down the lid You
are looking flushed and feverish Alice
you were wrong to walk so far today
Hughes will set them to rights tomor
row morning they will do till then
Lock them up and take possession of
the key
Alice did as she was bid She
locked the case and put the key into
her pocket
Here is the carriage exclaimed
Lady Frances Are we to wait for
coffee
Coffee In this heat retorted Lady
Sarah it would be adding fuel to
fire We will have some tea when we
return Alice you must make tea for
the colonel he will not come out
without it He thinks this weather
just what it ought to be rather cold
If anything
Alice had taken the bracelet box in
her hands as Lady Sarah spoke and
when they departed carried it upstairs
to its place in Lady Sarahs fcsdroom
The colonel speedily rose from the
table for his wife had laid her com
mands on him to join them early
Alice helped him to his tea and as
soon as he was gone she went up
stairs to bed
To bed but not to sleep Tired as
she was and exhausted in frame
sleep would jaot come to her She was
living over again her interview with
Gerard Hope She could not in her
conscious heart affect to misunder
stand his implied meaning that she
had been the cause of his rejecting
the union proposed to him It diffused
a strange rapture within her and
though she had not perhaps been
wholly blind and unconscious during
the period of Gerards stay with them
ehe now kept repeating the words
Can it be can it be
It certainly was so Love plays
strange pranks Thus was Gerard
Hope heir to fabulous wealth con
sciously proud of his handsome per
son his herculean strength his tow
ering form called home and planted
down by the1 side of a pretty and noble
lady on purpose that he might fall in
love with her Lady Frances Chenevix
And yet the well laid project failed
failed because there happened to be
another at that young ladys side a
sad quiet feeble framed girl whose
very weakness may have seemed to
place her beyond the pale of mans
love But love thrives by contrasts and
it was the feeble girl who won the
love of the strong man
Yes the knowledge diffused a
strange rapture wlthn her as one
lay there at night and she may be ex
cused if for a brief period she gave
range to the sweet fantasies It con-
Jured up For a brief period only
too soon the depressing consciousness
returned to her that these thoughts
of earthly happiness must be subdued
for she with her confirmed ailments
and conspicuous weakness must nev
er hope to marry as did other women
She had long known her mother had
prepared her for it that one so af
flicted and frail as she whose tenure
of existence was likely to be short
oughtnot to become a wife and It had
been her earnest hope to pass through
life unloving and unloved She had
striven to arm herself against the dan
ger against being thrown into the
perils of temptation Alas it had
come insidiously upon her all her
care had been set at naught and she
knew that she loved Gerard Hope with
a deep and fervent love It is but an
other cross she sighed another
burden to surmount and subdue and
I will set myself from this night to
the task I have been a coward
shrinking from self examination but
now that Gerard has spoken out I can
deceive myself no longer I wish he
had spoken more freely that I might
have told him it was useless
CHAPTER IV
It was only towards morning that
Alice dropped asleep the consequence
was that long after her usual hour
for rising she was still sleeping The
opening of her door by some one
awoke her it was Lady Sarahs maid
Why miss are you not up Well
I never I wanted the key of the jewel
box but Id have waited if I had
known
What do you say you want re
turned Alice whose ideas were con
fused as is often the case on being
suddenly awakened
The key of the bracelet box if you
please
The key repeated Alice Oh I
remember she added her recollec
tion returning to her Be at the trou
ble will you Hughes to take it out of
my pocket it is on that chair under
my clothes
The servant came to the pocket and
speedily found the key Are you
worse than usual miss this morn
ing asked she or have you over
slept yourself
I have overslept myself Is it
late
Between nine and ten My lady is
up and at breakfast with master and
Lady Frances
Alice rose the instant the maid had
left the room arid made haste to dress
vexed with herself for sleeping so
long She was nearly ready when
Hughes came in again
If ever I saw such a confusion as
that jewel box was in cried she in
as pert and grumbling a tone as she
dared to use The bracelets were
thrown together without law or order
just as if they had been so much
glass and tinsel from the Lowther
Arcade
It was Lady Sarah did it replied
Alice I would have put them
straight but she said leave it for you
I thought she might prefer that you
should do it so did not press it
Of course her ladyship is aware
theres nobody but myself knows how
they are placed in it returned
Hughes consequently I could go
to that or to the other jewel box in
the dark and take out any one thing
my lady wanted without disturbing
the rest
I have observed that you have a
gift of order remarked Alice with a
smile It is very useful to those
who possess It and saves them from
trouble and confusion
So it do miss said Hughes But
I came to ask you for the diamond
bracelet
The diamond bracelet echoed
Alice What diamond bracelet What
do you mean
It is not in the box miss
The diamond bracelets are both in
the box rejoined Alice
The old one is there not the new
one I thought- you might have taken
it out to show some One or to look at
yourself miss for Im sure its a sight
for pleasant eyes
I can assure you it is in the case
said Alice All are there except what
Lady Sarah had on You must have
overlooked it
I must be a great donkey if I
have grumbled the girl It must be
at the very bottom amongst the cot
ton she soliloquized as she returned
to Lady Sarahs apartments and I
have just got to take every individual
article out to get at it This comes
of giving up ones keys to other fols
Alive hastened down begging par
don for her late appearance It was
readily accorded Alices office in the
house was nearly a sinecure when
she had first entered upon it Lady
Sarah was ill and required some one
to sit with and read to her but now
that she was well again Alice had lit
tle to do
Breakfapt was scarcely over when
Alice was called into the room
Hughes stood outside
Miss said she with a long face
the diamond braceletis not in the
box I thought I could not be mis
taken
But it must be in the box said
Alice
But it is NOT persisted Hughes
emphasizing the negative cant you
believe mo mles Whats gone Tith
It
Alice Beaton looked at Hughes with
a puzzled look She was thinking
matters over It sooned cleared again
Then Lady Sarah must have kept
it out when she put In the rest It
was shewho returned themto the case
I did not Perhaps she wore It last
night
No miss that she didnt She wore
only those two
I saw what she had on Interrupt
ed Alice But she might also have
put on the other without my noticing
Then she must have kept it out for
-some purpose I will ask her Walt
here an Instant Hughes for of
course you will like to be at a cer
tainty
Thats cool thought Hughes as
Alice went into the breakfast room
and the colonel came out of it with
the newspaper I should have said
it was somebody else who would like
to be at a certainty instead of me
Thank goodness it wasnt in my
charge last night if anything dread
ful has came to pass JMy lady dont
keep out her bracelets for sport Miss
Seaton has left the key about thats
what she has done and its hard to
say who hasnt been at it I knew the
box had been ransacked over
Lady Sarah said Alice did you
wear your new diamond bracelet last
night
No
Then did you put it into the box
with the others
No languidly repeated Ladj
Sarah attaching no importance to the
question
After you had chosen the bracelets
you wished to wear you put the oth
ers into the box yourself exclaimed
Alice Did you put in the new one
the diamond or keep it out
The diamond was not there
Alice stood confounded It was on
the table at the back of all Lady
Sarah she presently said next the
window
I tell you Alice it was not there
I dont know that I should have worn
it if it had been but I certainly looked
for it Not seeing it I supposed you
had not put it out and did not care
sufficiently to ask for it
Alice felt in a mesh of perplexity
curious thoughts- and very unpleas
ing ones were beginning to come over
her But Lady Sarah the bracelet
was indeed there when you went to
the table she urged I put it there
I can assure you that you labor
under a mistake as to its being there
when I came up from dinner anr
swered Lady Sarah Why do you
ask
Hughes has come to say it is not
in the case She is outside waiting
Outside now Hughes called out
her ladyship and Hughes came in
Whats this about my bracelet
I dont know my lady The brace 1
let is not in its place so I asked Miss
Seaton She thought your ladyship
might have kept it out yesterday even
ing
I have neither touched it nor sees
it said Lady Sarah
Then we have had thieves at work
It must be in the box Hughes
spoke up Alice I laid it out on the
table and it is impossible that thieves
as you phrase it could have come
there
Oh yes it is in the box no doubt
said her ladyship somewhat crossly
for she disliked to be troubled espe
cially in hot weather You have not
searched properly Hughes
My lady answered Hughes I
can trust my hands and I can trust
my eyes and they have all four been
into every hole and crevice of the
box
Lady Frances Chenevix laid down
the Moi ning Post and advanced Is
the bracelet really -lost
To be continued
NAPLES BREAKFAST VENDORS
They Slake tho Morning Air Vocal -with
Their CaUs
The air of Naples becomes vocal
with the characteristic calls of the
breakfast vendors Hot hot and big
as apples shout the sellers of peeled
chestnuts These are boiled in huge
caldrons in a reddish broth of their
own making which Is further sea
soned with laurel leaves and caraway
seed A cents worth of the steaming
kernels each of which is as big as a
large English walnut is a nourishing
diet that warms the fingers and com
forts the stomach of troops of children
on their way to school or rather to
the co operative creches or nurseries
where one poor woman for a cent
a day each takes care of the babies of
a score of others who must leave them
behind to earn the days living
Meantime dignified cows pass by
with measured tread and slow shak
ing their heavy bells and followed by
their beguiled offspring whose busi
ness it is to make them give down
their milk at the opportune moment
and to let the milkman take it Noth
ing can be funnier than this struggle
between the legitimate owner the
calf and the wily subtracter of the
lacteal treasure Although tied to his
mothers horns with a rope long
enough to reach and even lick her
hag but not to get satisfaction out
of it his bovine wit is often sharp
enough to give the slip to the noose
and elude the vigilance of the keep
er occupied perhaps for the moment
in quarreling with some saucy maid
servant over the quantity of milk to
be paid for The scene which ensues
is worthy of the cinematograph As
a sequel calfys tail is nearly pulled
off but he has spoiled the oppressors
game for one day anyhow The Cen
tury
Call a man a donkey and he 5s apt
to kick
DELIBERATE ACTION
PRESIDENT NOT DISPOSED TO RUSH
RECIPROCITY
Practical Detail nnd Results to Bo
Carefully Considered lleforo Any of
the Kaason Treaties Aro Resubmitted
to tho Senate for Ratification
Free Trade and other newspapers
which so glibly misinterpret the late
presidents attitude with regard to for
eign trade extension and who so con
Jidently count upon President Roose
velt to make good their misinterpreta
tion would do well to pattern after the
Intelligent reasonableness of the fol
lowing statement by the Washington
correspondent of the New York Times
There will be no precipitate action
L by the president on the subject of reci
procity The agitation on this subject
in some of the newspapers with asser
tions bolstered up by quotations from
Mr Roosevelts public assurances
whether intended to help tho cause of
reciprocity or to prejudice it -has no
warrant further than that Intended in
the promise of tho president to adhere
to the policies of McKinley The sub
ject is a large and complica ed one and
not even Mr McKinley after years of
experience was prepared to say just
what the details of a reciprocity treaty
with a foreign country should be A
reciprocity policy cannot be defined in
any but the most general terms by the
executive and with the legislative
branch must rest the task of providing
the details
It is well and truly said that the sub
ject of reciprocity i3 a large and com
plicated one so large and so compli
cated that not even President McKin
ley with his wealth of practical
knowledge in tariff matters could or
did claim to have mastered it Unlike
that rather numerous brood of quick
thinkers who imagine they have solved
the intricate problem after having
given It a cursory glance and who
dont trouble themselves about the
working details Mr McKinley consid
ered it to be his duty to go into the
reciprocity question deeply and thor
oughly He had previously turned the
matter over to hands and heads which
he supposed were competent only to
find out that they were bunglers and
botchers So in the last few months
of his life he had devoted himself
studiously to the examination of reci
procity alike on general principles
and in detailed workings The result
of his painstaking investigation was
the Buffalo speech in which he de
clared for the enlargement of our for
eign trade through a scheme of re
ciprocal concessions such as should
not curtail domestic production In
his judgment reciprocity that should
increase the imports- of articles which
we ourselves produce was not reci
procity at all it was free trade in dis
guise
It was this deep seated conviction
which animated the statement by
President McKinley to a close and con
fidential friend in Washington on the
afternoon of June 6 1901 to the effect
that he the president favored only
that plan of reciprocity sanctioned by
the Republican national platform of
1900 namely reciprocity in articles
which we do not ourselves produce
and that he was opposed to any scheme
of trade extension that would take
from a single American workman his
job There is precisely where William
McKinley stood at the end of the first
week in June at a time when the quick
thinkers had him all thought out as
ready to abandon protection and that
is where he stood when at Buffalo in
the first week of September he made
his last great speech
Hence we say the over night theo
rists would do well to think again once
or twice before they attribute to the
dead president and to his successor in
office views and purposes regarding
reciprocity not entertained by either
Mr McKinley or Mr Roosevelt The
policy of McKinley is to be continued
absolutely unbroken by Roosevelt The
country has this pledge recorded as it
were over McKinleys coffin Of its
conscientious fulfillment by President
Roosevelt there is no possible doubt
There will be as the Times Wash
ington correspondent states no pre
cipitate action by the president on the
subject of reciprocity That is the
foolish treaties negotiated by Commis
sioner Kasson will not again be laid
before the senate for ratification Other
treaties there may be but if so they
will be treaties framed in accord with
the spirit of American prosperity and
progress and not free trade folly un
der the mask of so called reciprocity
WAGES AND LIVING
Foreign Work People Cannot Live More
Cheaply Than Americans
The old stock argument of the free
traders used to be when in spite of
their squirming they were brought
face to face with the fact that wages
were higher in this country than
abroad that although wages were
higher the cost of living was higher
too and that therefore workmen in
this country were at no advantage and
that free trade while it would lower
wages would at the same time lower
the cost of living This argument has
fallen somewhat into innocuous
deseutude of late yet occasionally it
stalks abroad like Banquos ghost It
is interesting therefore to note that
Mr Jacob Weidmann a prominent silk
dyer of Paterson N X states that
while the wages of the workmen em
ployed in hs mill at Paterson are from
two to four times as large as the wages
paid to similar labor in Switzerland
which is Mr Weidmanns native coun
try the cost or living is less In
zcrland a good silk dyer Is paid 4 a
wek in this country the poorest dyers
get 9 per week The best dyers In
Switzerland are paid from 35 to 8 per
week while in this country tho best
dyers earn from 515 to 30 per week
The3e are actual figures given by a
man who knows- There is no guess
work about them neither is there any
guesswork about Mr Weldmanns
statement concerning the comparative
cost of living for as he states some
of the men employed in hlff mills who
have come to this country from
abroad have kept records and have
found that they can live more cheaply
In this country When free trade is
forced to meet facts it always gets the
worst of things
GERMANYS TARIFF EXPERIMENT
A high German official said to the
correspondent of tho Associated Press
in Berlin that foreign newspapers
need not get oxcited over the new tar
iff the text of which has just been
published since nothing has been de
cided the bill is only a basis for dis
cussion It has been eminently suc
cessful in provoking discussion at any
rate In this country the press com
ment has been temperate enough the
verdict being that the tariff seems dis
advantageous to tne Interests of indus
trial Germany But in Russia and Aus
tria against which the new tariff
operates more severely than against the
United States strong resentment is
shown by all newspapers It will be
remembered that a few weeks ago
there was talk of a great European
combination against the United States
The first aggressive movement made
by Germany hits her neighbors harder
than it does America and furnishes an
instructive commentary on the futility
of the suggestion of a European anti
American Zollverein Buffalo Com
mercial
A VERY BAD CHILD
A QUESTION OF SUGAR
The consumption of sugar last year
in the United States averaged about
57 pounds for each inhabitant which
at 5Y cents a pound would cost 342
apiece or 1610 for a family of five
persons If the duty were removed and
the Sugar Trust allowed tne people to
get the benefit thereof the saving would
be 114 for each person or 570 for a
family of five for a whole year There
is neither certainty nor probability that
the saving would be as great as that
but there is almost a certainty that
whatever reduction should be allowed
would be made for the purpose of
breaking down the domestic beet su
gar industry which is now the source
oi wages and income to 1600000 per
sons
Would the saving secured by remov
ing the duty on raw sugar pay for en
dangering the life of so important an
American industry and one which in a
few years promises to supply all the
sugar needed and at lower prices than
ever before known What intelligent
man would consent to be bribed with
570 to bring about a possible disaster
to so useful and beneficial a business
Mischief for Idle Hands
When men or women have plenty of
serious work to do they dont potter
with trifles It is the idle who make
mountains of molehills If the Demo
cratic party had any great or true aim
for the real good of the country it
would not bother itself and harass the
voters over such a petty and utterly
useless issue as the repeal of duties
which it claims are outgrown and
therefore inoperative Its patron saint
for such enterprises is Don Quixote
The party can only make itself re
spectable by tackling the main ques
tion and fighting protection squarely
on its merits In doing so it may ex
pose its blindness to a thousand obvi
ous facts nnd its obtuseness to sound
reason but it does thereby escape con
tempt
The German Tariff
All the commercial barriers that
could be raised against other lands
would not enable Germany to raise all
her breadstuff s During the year end
ing June 30 1899 Germany imported
from the United States 290710196
pounds of hog products alone much
greater than we sold to any other na
tion except the United Kingdom It is
a safe assumption therefore that the
tariff law that is now before the fed
eral council and which will be passed
for the agrarians- Is not the same
schedule of impost duties that will go
go into effect on January 1 1904 Chi
cago Record Herald
Producers and Consumers
Like other theorists free traders
have ever tried to separate producer
and consumers into distinct classes
with contrary interests How futile
In our day and country the producers
are the consumers and the more thej
produce the more they consume
TONT
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S A VIOLATOR
Being So Declared hj Secretary Boym of
the State Banking Board -
NEEDS LICENSE f OR ITS BUSINESS
Lav Require thut Same He Secured
Prom State Banking Hoard A roar of
Inspection of Irrigation Other Ne
braska AIntter
LINCOLN Oct 30 Secretary Royso
of the state banking board has notified
the state representative of the Tontine
Loan and Security company of St
Louis that he has violated the Nebras
ka building and loan association Jaw
by conducting an investment business
In this state without the necessary
license from the banking board Mr
Royses attention was called to the
operations of this company and an in
vestigation brought this result He
ruled that the company by the nature
of the business It seeks to transact
comes under the jurisdiction of his de
partment to be governed according to
the provisions of the building and loan
association law This law requires
companies to procure licenses from the
state banking board No license hav
ing been issued to the St Louis Ton
tine company it therefore has no legal
right to do business in this state
The Nebraska manager for tho com
pany Is A C Maskedal of this city and
his assistants arc F E Beeman of
Omaha and I W Withrow of Lincoln
The prospectus details the plan of in
vestment as follows
Under our plan you can -arrange to
borrow from 100 to 10000 the agent
taking your application for any amount
you desire to borrow from 100 to
10000 Dy paying at the rate of 50
cents per 100 loan value all monthly
installments to be paid before the 20th
of each month After twelve consecu
tive payments of 50 cents per 100 you
are legible to a loan In cash equal to
the face of our certificate as soon as
there is sufficient money paid Intotho
trust fund to make the loan and from
the date the loan Is made you are re
quired to pay not less than 80 cents
per month which includes Interest on
each 100 borrowed until all the money
has been repaid to the company at
the rate of 3 per cent simple interest
for average time or 1 for all the
time
Inspect Irrigation Works
LINCOLN Neb Oct 30 State En
gineer Dobson and Assistant Forbes
left for Lexington where they will
begin a tour of inspection of irriga
tion works along the Platte river Be
tween Lexington and the states west
ern border line there arc numerous
irrigation canals in course of con
struction and Mr Dobson and his as
sistant will visit many of them before
returning to Lincoln An examina
tion of the five miles pipe line of the
Culbertson Irrigation and Water Pow
er company which extends into
Hitchcock county was inspected last
week and found to be in good condi
tion
Plans for Chinese Reform
WASHINGTON D C Oct 29 The
State department has received from
Minister Conger at Pekin a translation
of a series of preliminary regulations
adopted by the recently organized Chi
nese board of national administration
charged with the reorganization ot
that government on modern and effi
cient lines The sentiments expressed
are conservative says Mr Conger and
it is made plain that there is no in
tention to imitate the too brisk place
set by the reformers of 1898 but in
sated to study western methods
Youth Killed by JUlghtntae
LINCOLN Neb Oct 30 William
Stiegelmann 18 years of age was
struck by lightning and instantly kill
ed while attending to the stock in
his fathers barn at Princeton this
county during a sharp thunder show
er The young man was found shortly
after the bolt descended lying beside
a horse which had also been killed by
the same shock
Washington Countys Two Victories
BLAIR Neb Oct 30 This county
has won a victory in each of the two
cases before the supreme court at St
Louis one being an equity case and
the other a law case both growing out
of the Washington county bond case
Bank Vault Too Strong
JACKSON Neb Oct 30 Burglars
entered the Bank of Dakota County
by breaking a window but could not
open the steel vault The damage was
small There was 5 in the stamp
drawer ahd it was taken
Record Breaker on Sheep
SOUTH OMAHA Neb Oct 30
The largest sheep receipts since the
establishment of the stock yards in
this city were registered yesterday
There were seventy three cars con
taining 19865 head of sheep Tho
best previous record was October 10
1900 when 17628 head of sheep were
received in a single day The most
important feature of this record break
ing event however was the extraor
dinary demand
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