The Osceola times., 1881-12-10

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her say one day:
"Do YOU know, dear baroness, think
YOU are very careless-don't you know?
about those beautiful jewels ofyours-
| do YOU known
"Rut who could steal them?' said
The baroness, laughing, There are none
ike them in all Hungary, and no one
would dare to wear them, they are so
| Garc"
"Ahl but some OF these wild people
Of yours! They might swallow your
meralds, those fierce Croats, the Ron
manians, and then you keep them in
such open closets and boxes" Madam
Pasieur nodded her meek head, too
She had trembled for the jewels always.
But the baroness and Sir Lyster began
to think of other things than jewels;
there were moonlight rides and walks,
and there were long talks and many
reyeries; Lady Louisa went home, they
all went, but Sir Lyster came back.
And then, one evening, Madam Pas
teur said afterward that she saw Neu
siedler come in and bully the baroness
and she heard him hiss out the words.
Remember if you marry, you lose
all. Remember the baron's will!'
And Rukavina Eltz turned pale and
said, "Bully, traitor, tiend," between her
shut teeth. She weLt off to Paris, for
one OF her long visits, and Newsletter
squeezed the tenants, and made every
one miserable. The castle was shut up
and black Tetenyer grew thin in bis
stable.
When she came back she looked older
and more sedate. She went often to see
fne nuns at the foot of Reg Gebirge. She
saw the priests also very often, aud
VI idam pasteur thought she was grow
ING devout But she dressed in her usu
n dashing colors (for she was very
Il jumanian at hearD and she wore one
Of those scarlet quilted petticoats that
the English ladies' wore SO much, and
very pretty it looked. with her dark
habit and her dark dresses looped up
over 1t. tins, with scarlet feather in
her hat. looked as If tue baroness was
linking OF Eneland.
1t was a miserable day that, when
Madam Pasteur and Matilde came
screaming down the long cIrridor.
The jewels are gone gone gonep'
The baroness had the great bell of the
castle rung, and Neusiedler was sent for
at once. Sue was very pale, for she loved
those pearls and EN- raids.
Newsletter was composed; everv look
was made to say, Il told you so;" he had
always warned her about the jewels.
"What can be done?' asked the bar
oness.
Search, whip, imprison all who at
tempt to leave the province" said Neu-
sIeuler, calmly.
mil l.
whipped" said the baroness.
81 am glad to hear that" said Neu>
siedler, laughing his malicious laugh,
"for Madam Neusidler goes to Vienna
Tomorrow"
"Ah !" said the baroness, "you know |
could not mean, at any rate, that Madam
Neusidler, should be disturbed; send her
in my little carriage with the three
ponies TO Erdiozegh."
"Your excellency is very condescend-
ing" said Neusiedler, bowling to the
ground.
The local police sought everywhere
fer the lost jewels, but no trace of them
could be found. The baroness sat in q
sort Of slupor, and gazed out of the win
dow.
II will 90 to England ~ said she,
hastily, one day. "Neusiedler-some
money, and arrange for me to be gone
thrte months"
at is well madam" said the steward
1t was very roundabout route that
the baroness took foi England. When
Natilde and Madam Pasteur reached
the station at Erdiozegh, they were as
tonished to see the baroness dash into
Al, ,,I- h,,,, t,.ly ata
emma, and when they arrived, all Of
them at her fine hotel at Vienna, who
should step out TO meet them but Sir
Lystcr Howard Lyster
Nothing but the well-known eccen>
tricity of the baroness apologized to
Madam Pasteur for what followed.
She commanded two dresses to be made,
and that Madam Pasteur should go With
her to masked ball at the opera house
in Vienna.
"Sir Lyster Howard Lys.er will go
with usl' said she, as a shade passed
over the pale face of her companion.
Oh that the lady of sixteen quarter
ings should be seon in such low place !
No, she was not seen. she was masked;
bu' that she should even 90! What
sacrifice of pride and of decency.
VI tdam Pastour thought it, as she saw
the baroness take the arm of one masked
man after the other, and then go into
the supper room with party who fol.
lowed tall mask in black domino.
A voice struck on Madam Pas,eur's
ear-was it that Of Madam Neusiedler's?
Was i,-could it be?
Yesl and as she threw back mask and
hood there sparkled on her neck the
pearl.colored pearls, and the emerald
peDda. Is of the lost Jewels. Oh, heaven!
The necklace Of the baroness" shout
cd the impu.siye, the imprudent Madam
Pasieur.
II nearly spoiled the plot, for Madam
Neu-iedier was amongst friends and
con iederates. However. the tall Eu q
.h.hmau stepped forward and two Wen
nese policemen arrested the woman.
She behaved with extraordinary cool
ness. and explained:
"lt j. Indeed the necklace Of the
baroness, given by her to my husband
for MONEYS which he has advanced 10
uer. Let he deny II if she dare ]
have her written acknowledgement o.
the money, and ! have come TO Vienna
to sell the necklace where II is well
known"
TIE people gathered around the won
dorNul necklncc, which the chief of DO.
lice put 1t in his breast pocket, removing
the woman Neusl, dler.
The baroness went back TO her
hotel, and allowed Madam Pasieur to
pass wretched night. She would ex-
plain nothing.
Al Vienna vas alive when the great
case came on, and not few ladies were