Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-07-28

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the scenery, the wild, barbaric splendor
of the baroness housekeeping, and
how they all hated Neusiedler, and his
big, black-browed wife, who were in
vited up to the balls.
There was an English lady, one with
very long teeth, and very long nose
and very high eyebrows, and they
called her Lady Louisa. She was very
grand and lofty, land Madam. Pasteur
heard her say one day:
DO you know, dear baroness, think
you are very careless-don't you know ?
about those beautiful Jewels of yours
do you know2"
"But who could steal them ?" said
the baroness, laughing. "There are
none like them in all Hungary, and no
one would dare to wear them, they ar
SO rarei"
"Ah but some of these wild people
of yours They might swallow your
emeralds, those fierce Croats, the Rou-
manians, and then you keep them in
such open closets and boxes" Madam
Pasteur 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
reveries; 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, fiend," between
her shut teeth. She went off to Paris,
for one of her long visits, and Neusied-
Ter squeezed the tenants, and made
every one miserable. The castle was
shut up, and black Tetenyer grew thin
in his stable.
When she came back she looked older
and more sedate. She went often to see
the nuns at the foot of Rez Gebirge.
She saw the priest also very often, and
Madam Pasteur thought she was growing
devote. But she dressed in her usual
dashing colors flor she was verv Rou-
manian at heart) 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 it.
This, with a scarlet feather In her hat,
looked as If the baroness was thinking
of England.
1t was miserable day that, when
Madam Pasteur and Matilde came
screaming down the long corridor.
The jewels are gone gone gonei"
The baroness had the great bell of
the Scastle rung, and Neusiedler was
sent for at once. She was very pale, for
she loved those pearls and emeralds.
Neusiedler was composed every look
was made to say, 81 told you SO - he
had always warned her about the Jewels.
What can be done ?" asked the bar
oness.
Search, whip, inprison all who at
tempt to leave the province" said Neu-
siedler, calmly.
ss Except women - I will have no
women whipped" said the baroness.
81 am glad to hear that, said Neu-
siedler, laughing his malicious laugh,
" for Madam Neusiedler goes to Vienna
tomorrow"
''Ahl'' said the baroness, "you know
could not mean, at any rate, that Mad
am Neusiedler should be disturbed !;
send her in my little carriage with the
three ponies to Erdiozegh."
"Your excellency is very condescend-
ing" said Neusiedler, bowing to the
ground.
The local police sought everywhere
for the stjewels, but no trace Of them
could be found. The baroness sat in q
sort Of stupor, and gazed out of the
window.
ST Will go to England I. said she,
hastily, one day. "Neusiedler-some
money, and arrange for me to be gone
three months"
cit is well, madam" said the steward.
Tt was q very roundabout route that
the baroness took for England When
Matilde and Madam Pasteur reached the
station at Erdiozegh, 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 Lyster
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 a masked ball at the
opera house in Vienna.
"Sir Lyster Howard Lyster will &c
with usw said she, as u shade passed
over the pale face of her companion.
OH that the lady Of sixteen quarter
ings should be seen in such low place
No, she was not seen she was masked
but that she should even goi What a
sacrifice of pride and of decency,
Madam Pasteur 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 Pasteur's
ear-was it that of Madam Neusiedler's
Was it-could it be?
! Yesl 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. Oh, heaven
g The necklace of the baroness, y
shouted the impulsive, the imprudeni
Madam Pasteur.
It nearly spoiled the plot, for Madam
Neusiedler was amongst friends and
confederates. However, the tall Eng.
lishman stepped forward, and two Wen
nese policemen arrested the woman.
She behaved with extraordinary cool
ness, and explained ::
cit is indeed the necklace of the
baroness, given by her to my husband
for moneys which he has advanced tc
her. Let her deny it if she dare
have her written acknowledgment O.
the money, and have come to5Vienns
to sell the necklace where it is well
known"
The people gathered around the won
derful necklace, which the chief o
police put in his breast pocket, remov