The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-02-28
CHAPTER Y.
PRECIOUS sTnNM.

| Susie Macy had worn no fnery for fifteen
| years Reared in comfort, if not luxury,
she had come to her husband, from Cap
tain HOOper's old-fsshiOhed mansion, In
| Salem, with ali the graees and accomplish
ments education could add to a warm and
truthful nature. Her mothers jewels, and
q liberal outfit of fashionable attire, were
worthy of her beauty, as they were of her IA
| theirs reputation as a man of property,
whose income was not less than three thou
! sand dollars year; the proceeds of shares
| then held by the retired sea-captain, in trad
! ing companies for whom he had sailed dur
| ing youth and manhood,
| Saul Macy, In his prosperous days, had
/ given his young wife many jewels and
| trinkets; but, with the exception of her own
mother wedding ring, and watch that
| Sauls mother gave her, poor Susie's BIZ
| iouterie soon melted down 70 a few ora
ments of no market value. Pearls and
diamonds, one by one, had gone TO keep
! life through straits of poverty; and now,
when this little woman's eyes dwelt upon
all that heap of wealth in precious stones,
! her feminine hsart-chastened by long
| years Of trial-bounded not with feminine
admiration, although she saw diamonds and
pearls worth, as her husband surmised, not
.oss than Il thousand dollars for the smallest
cluster of those antique settings.
! She took up gorgeous necklace of emer-
al,:7 and rubies, alternating, with .opals, and
! fairly hlazing under the lamplight. But
/ Saul lifted a diamond carcanet, and, before
she was aware, he clasped it on her fee
! head.
"There, now, little queen go and look
in our palace mirror" laid the man Of
! Power. with his .iovial laugh; and Susi.
obeyed her king, by taking q peep at hel
head-dress in their little looking-glass near
the bed, while Saul held the lamp, to .'see
how the crown fitted.
But Susie saw something else; q gray
hair, making its silver line on her auburn
head, which was always smooth and glossy
as golden ilOss. That silvery hair recalled
ell their wintry care and trouble, their cold
and hunger at times; and she went back
quietly 10 the table, and took off that glitter
ing tiara, saying to her husband
Shakespeare was right :"
"What about?' asked Saul
"AdyerSity !'' answered his wife; "whieh,
like a toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a
precious jewel IN its head"
"Pshaw :" said Saul. 81 intend my
Susie to wear some Of these trinkets ~
She did not reply n onoej but, In little
while, as Saul went On with his inspection ,
she inquired
Husband what can you do with all
this treasure ?''
''Well, Susie !" said he. sit is all ouTs.
isn't it? have right to it!
''YOu have the right of possession" an
swered honest Susie. "But did not this
treasure belong to some one else ~
Certainly, my dear!'' replied the dis
a'zerer. but, pshaw! that must have
&;'en century ago, I've no doubt. Good-
tess, child! who knows how long this
lasket has lain sealed up in that hollow
wall, behind the marble manager? 1t might
have belonged TO Captain Kidd, the
pirate 20
Eyes, Saul! but, then, Captain Kidd
must have stolen the diamonds and pearls,
from poor murdered people ~ cried Susie,
ehuddering at her Thoughts.
''Oh, nonsense! Captain Kidd never saw
these gems They belonged to some old
family; for they all bear the same crest and
CIPHER. Look, Susie! There are two ini-
tials, ''W. B." in old black letters. repeated
on every gold setting, and the same emblem
on all, serpent, with legs and wingS-that
is what they call q tOycera -