The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-13

:" Repeatedly, but no one would
listen. One said, in your fierce cerebral
you have dreamed of that. No one
would encourage the search
What think you was the value OF
that sack?'
Monsieur, it was the accumulated
plumber of twenty years, by good Judge
OF diamonds. The sack must have
weighed seven pounds, of which there
was OF course a very small part of the
precious stone"
And You think you could fad the
place of deposit again?
/" 4 am certain
" How much would such an expedi-
ton cost?'
90 / could make it for 20, 900 francs.
This would include the support of nay
wife and children during my absence,
with the assurance of something to them
if died on the expedition
Nothing more was said. The next
day the Patron said to me-
" You heard the Conte of lie Roux,
what do you think of it?'
" 1t was Gidgste"
9" You do not doubt its truth?'
ono, but the government has long
since traced that peasant and that mule
1t has shot the peasant and dug the
ground for miles around the charcoal
camp.
"What, to find all those diamonds at
once? There they dig down mountains
for n few lie croiS ca, MAR
" 'But do you think the search would
be worth 1000 francs?'
"'NO. Brazil is country of dense
vegetation. A man working in the
night, in fear of his life, would not re-
gard tho surrounding objects with suf-
fcient care to identify them again. lie.
member that thirty years have elapsed
since the diamonds were hidden
81 think differently, said the head of
the house. | know lie Roux to be q
man of truth. He would not have
otherwise retained his employment 50
long If they were in the United States
tho men who have invested their money
Ill search for the treasure of Capt. Kidd
would form society for this search.
For me, | have resolved to invest -, 600
francs in the enterprise. shall cntlust
the execution Of the enterprise to lie
Roux. You will have charge of the
money. Prepare to accompany him.
This decision took me completely by
surprise. 1t involved quitting Paris,
which was to me then rs quitting the
world. 10 was bOUieucrSeDicHt toI0Ie
of all my plans and pleasures. was an
industrious, accurate and honest clerk,
but then one is not always bending over
the ledger There was the thcater, the
Boulcvarls, La Bal, tine restaurant, the
gay companions, Ia petite file Ouricrc
u quicz cme Rue La llarpc.
"'Ahn, said lit Pcrc Renald, 'Jr rDUS
cOinaiS biCo, NonS Pant; rOu@ C'cS
bon, g0rcol, muiS duSSi nm garco0 bjcn
gai Sur precision. NEST &c paS
"Upon reflection | determined to- dis
suade the patron, if possible, from the
adventure, aud if failed i'll this, to tell
him that for me to go it was impossible.
"IIc yielded to my arguments, but |
have since thought it was because he
saw | could not be persuaded to go, and
he had no one else SO Trustworthy.
Years afterward | lived some years in
Spanish America, and thought more ia
volabIy Of the chances Of success, if ul-
drrtaken in company with the old sol
der OF Napoleon
"'And Lr Roux?'
CAS- the patron had never mentioned
his purposes to him, the subject was
never referred to again, [ have, how
ever often wondered whether with n
little more enterprise, might not have
succeeded in finding the deposit of h sac
a c"jr deS NaU0I'M and .iGL A"Ssi
mes rcHieS Il Paris. '-Ncw Oic0HS
PjcdyHlie.