The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-18

Concluded rom Ftr@ rage.
your bounty any longer You are the best
man that ever lived and | am the most
wretched of women, but that's no reason
why / should keep on imposing upon you.
So | saws to her, What's up?' for | was
pretty sure now abe had news OF Mark,
and nothing good. Have you heard from
Cary?' General jack she says, solemn
like, know my husband is dead know
that he has been false to you, and it killed
him Its killing me / was struck all
of heap. Never mind, little woman,
never mind | was going on to say, when
my wife broke in, 'How did you learn all
this, Margaret she asked. In dream,
a dreadful, awful dream says the poor
creature, and then she broke down, burst
out crying, and couldn't say any more. So
we sets to work to console her the best way
we could, but didn't make much Roadway
at it. / told her would be cruoly hurt II
she didn't let me keep my promise to Mark,
but her last word was she couldn't darsen't
and wouldn't live on me.
"Just then the front-door bell rang, and
when William opened it the raggedest buzz
zard of man broke past him and came
rushing into the sitting-room here where
we were. He hadn't whole stitch nor q
clean stitch on him, that fellow hadn't his
hair was long and wild, and his beard also;
his feet bare and his face would have won
the premium over Connecticut Ratchet for
sharpness. All the same that little woman
knowed him as soon as he stopped at the
door. turned as white as sheet, held her
two hands together tight, and just sighed
between her set teeth, Mark | thought
she'd go over, but she was too true grit for
that. He never noticed her nor nothing
alca He struinht n IN aud lipI
O. steadied his staggering feet by holding
on to the table, and looked me In the face
and said, cool aud calm like, but in mon
strous thin, ready voice, General Jack,
I've been thief and traitor, sot and
vagabond for more than year but have
lived long enough to make you amends.
Here's your diamonds; take it quick, for
I'm dyiDg!" and he put bundle of rags
about as big as your two fists in my hand,
and went over like he was shot.
"The little woman gave one cry, half
Joy, half terror, and had him in her arms
the next instant, his head in her lap, and
see smothering him with kisses, while my
wife, cool as statue, turns to William and
says, Have some soup made, and the
first thing | saw she had the brandy bottle
and spoon, and was down on her knees
beside him. He's Just starved to death,
'tDtiul, llluJ dils guy Blu. huu W 10 III
nowhere in that ring, while them women
were bringing him round with little doses
of beef tea and brandy, kisses and pattings,
and calling him all the loving names in the
dictionary. BY and by he sits up-'Where
is it 2 says he, and makes me hand that
parcel of old rags out of my pocket, where
I'd slipped it in the hurry of the moment,
and unwrapped and unwrapped until out
there shned-but shO! there are some
things you cannot describe"
And at this point in his narrative the
General always unlocks his safe and pro-
duces his great diamond. There he is
Biggest diamond in America Finest Jew
ell in the world Look at il That man
fetched it for me all the way from Africa,
by way of Australia, and hadn't q cent IN
his pocket half the time Dind't tell you
! was never mistaken in mans character
in my life: Hadn't had bit to eat from
Omaha here, but held on to the diamond
and said nothing-only starved
"Well he told me all about it; not that
believe all his sentimental trash, though.
People with his sort of face are honest be-
cause it is their nature. If they get wrong,
their nature beats and kicks them and pulls
their ears till 1t sets them right again.
That's all of it. His story was that he
hand't been at the new place more than a
week before he lighted ON the big diamond
kicked it up with his toe. He no:sooner
saw it than he knew it was fortune for
him if he kept it. Then, he says, the
devil entered into him and tempted him,
and he got on an ALFRED rollcklng bust,
and ran away to India to sell the stone to a
rich maharajah there. But just as he was
concluding the bargain he ran away again
He don't say the devil tempted him this
time, though. Then he landed in Austria
la and kept up his jolfication till he
hadn't red left; but all this time he held
on to the diamond, because it was mine,
not his. So he makes up his mind to come
home, and works his passage across to CAL
ifornia. And then, for fear least he should
be tempted again, or get robbed, begs and
borrows his way homn. Now, that / call
pretty much of temptation for a poor
man to overcome, don't you? Look at the
stone-it's worth $4,000 as it's cut, and
that Mark Cary didn't know he was going
to get penny for it, outside his wages, as
agreed on. But he brought her on all safe
1t isn't every man who would do it-but
the way l got rich was in looking in mems
faces and seeing If they're honest. And
never was wrong in judging mans char
acter in my life."
General Jack will not tell you, what il
nevertheless the fact, that, after his
famous diamond was cut, he had it APP
praised, and paid Mark Cary its value, less
the advantages made to him and family.
He will not tell you Of Cary's fine planta-
tation and his fine prospects Of how he is
temperate man, good citizen, and the
best of fathers and husbands-made 30 by
General Jacks ministry but he will show
you the big diamond, if you call upon him,
with exquisite pleasure, and relate to you
with much gusto such portions of it's his
tory as DO not reflect too great credit upon
himself