The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-08-23

1t was miserable day, that, when
Madame Pasteur and Matllde came
screaming down the long corridor.
g The jewels are gone gone gonel"
The Baroness had the great bell of the
castle rung, and Newsletter was sent
for at once. She was very pale, for she
loved those pearls and emeralds.
Newsletter was composed, every look
was made to say, told you sos" he
had always warned her about the Jew
els.
What can be done ?" asked the Bar
oness.
Search, whip, imprlson all who at
tempt to leave the province, said Neu-
siedler, calmly.
Except womeh-I will have no
women whipped" said the Baroness.
''I am glad to hear that, !" said Neusie-
dler, laughing his malicious laugh, " for
Madame Newsletter goes to Vienna to-
morrow"
All !" said the Baroness, "you know
] could not mean, at any rate, that Mad
anne Neusiedler should be disturbed !;
send her in my little carriage with the
three ponies to Erdiosegh.''
"Your excellence is very condescend-
ing" said Newsletter, bowing to the
ground.
The local police sought everywhere for
the lost jewels, but no traces of them
could be found. The Baroness sat in q
sort of stupor and gazed out of the win
dow
g will go to England" said she has.
tily one day. " Newsletter, some mon-
ey, and arrange for me to be gone three
months"
sit is well, madame said the stew
ard.
1t was very roundabout rout that the
Baron ess took for England. When Ma
tilda and Madame Pasteur reached the
station at Erdiosegh they were aston
ished to see the Baroness dash into the
ticket office and buy tickets for Vienna,
and when they arrived, all of them, at
her fine hotel at Vienna, who should
step out to meet them but Sir Howard
Lyster.
Nothing but the we'll. known eccen-
tricity of the Baroness apologized to
Madame Pasteur for what followed
She commanded two dresses to be made,
and that Madame Pasteur should go
with her to a Jewish masked ball at the
Opera House in Vienna.
"Sir Lyster Howard ,Lyster will go
with us said she, as shade passed over
rthe pale face of her companion.
oh that lady of sixteen quarteri ngs
should be seen in such low placel No:
she was not seenl She was masked but
that she should even go What sacri-
flee of pride and of decency, Madame
Pasteur thought it, as she saw the Bar
oness take the arm of one masked man
after the other, and then go into the
supper-room with a party who followed
tall mask in black domino.
A voice struck on MAZDA me Pasteur's
ear-was it that of Madame Newsletter
was it-could it beY
Yes and as she threw back mask and
hood there sparkled on her neck the
pearl. colored pearls and the emerald
pendants of the lost jewels. o Heaven
1.-THE necklace of the Baroness, :"
shouted the impulsive, the imprudent
Madame Pasteur.
1t nearly spoiled the plot, for Madame
Newsletter was among the friends and
fao 10 l1n fnn
lishman stepped forward, and the two
Viennese policemen arrested the
woman.
She behaved with extraordinary cool
ness, and explained
"It is indeed the necklace of the Bar
oness, given by her to my husband for
moneys which he had advanced to her.
Let her deny it If she dare. 1 have her
written acknowledgment of the money,
and have come to Vienna to sell the
necklace, where 1t is wellknown.p
The Jews gathered around the Won
derful necklace, which the Chief of Po-
lice put in his breast pocket, removing
the woman Neuseidler.
The Baroness went back to her hotel,
and allowed Madame Pasteur to pass
wretched night. She would explain
nothing.
All Vienna was alive when the great
case came on, and not few ladies were
glad to hear that the Rukavina. .Eltz
jewels were in pawn-that envied neck
lace