The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-25
TRAIL OF THE DIAMOND NECKLACE


the East.
Saratoga Letter in Chicago News.
Blokes, of New York, is rich. He is worth
! at least $4,000, 900, His father was Van Du-
senbury Blokes. His mother was one of the
celebrated Hornpipers. Hornpiper Van Du-
senbury Blokes had never married. Having
money always he had never mixed in vulgar
trade. He has always been in the best of So
ciety and has had no end of gallant adven-
lures with dashlng New York married wo-
men. When the scandals would become too
great, Blokes would go to Europe and remain
for year or two. This has gone on with
charming regularity for forty years. Blekes
has never made love i'll any OF these years to
any one but married women. With plenty
of money, good figure, fine tailor, and a
flow of animal spirits one can go far in a
society where money is worshipped as it is
in New York. After a career OF nearly
forty years OF breaking up the domestic
hearthstones of his friends BlokeS has arrived
at period of life where it is no longer con-
venient for him to dash off to Europe to es-
cape an irate husband. He is sixty years old.
He is straight and well preserved. He holds
himself well together, and is living ex-
emplifcation of the proverb that only the
truly wicked prosper. He is very fond OF
ladies society but as he is changeable he
never confines himself long TO one. He has
brought to Saratoga this season two as hand
some young married ladies from New York
as ever came here. They are accompanied
by their husbands-very quiet, modest, retir-
ing fellows. Blokes pays all the expenses OF
the two families. The husbands live well and
have everything that is going, while the la
dies are supplied with every luxury in the
way of dress Every morning and evening
Blokes parades the porch with his two lady
friends, one a blonde, the other a brunette.
They go out riding with him. They dine
when he does. The husbands appear occa-
SinnaliV Their here Mt first forbade
any talk of scandal, but when tine wife OF the
lessee of the house told the dowagers that
Blokes was paying the bills of both families,
then the dowagers began to talk. This talk
| increased when it was found that Blokes had
been travelling about the country with his
charming families, and that the oomplalsant
husbands were not always along. But the
gossip was only casual and ordinarily pun
gent until the affair of the diamond neck
lace. Blokes came into the office OF the hotel
very drunk. He was in full evening dress,
with light overcoat over his shoulders a
servant stepped forward to brush him off, as
Blokes had evidently sat down on the side
| walk number of times to recover from the
fatigue of advancing years and much rum.
| When the boy had finished Blokes felt in his
waistcoat pocket for q small coin. In his
| clumsy fumbling an enormous diamond
necklace was crowded out of the pocket and
fell to the floor. Fifteen thousand
|
| fall upon the floor of brilliantly-lighted
and thronged hotel office without attracting
some attention A friend of Blokes picked
up the necklace and handed it to its owner.
He winked as he put it in his pocket, saying:
sit is for a dear child of mine'
The next day the brunette of the Blokes
combination wore the much advertised neck
lace into the dining room 1t made such a
sensation that it quite destroyed the appetite
of the dowagers. The necklace has verify
broken up the combination. 1t is under
stood the blonde will have nothing to do
with Blokes ntil she, too, has necklace.
Then the husbands are becoming uneasy.
They are followed by too many pittying
chances. They are called behind their backs
the wet-nurses of the "Blokes children"
The actors In this little local sensation are
all stopping at the leading hotel of Saratoga
If anything, the facts relating to the Blokes
combination have been understated.