The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-07-12


Of every day life that barmopized i'll with
the splendor Of her ball-dress. Conscious
of this incongruity, she hurried away "a
quickly as possible to avoid the surprised
glauces and possibly i'll -natured remarks OF
| more richly bemantled ladies. Loisel tried
to detain her.
"Ceftaiply, cleric, why not f''
Zone moment, and will call a cab for
you. You will be chilled standing In this
air."
But deaf TO his words she hastily de
scended the stairway. Arrived In the street
they could not find cab, and were obliged
10 walk some little distance, calling in vain
TO two or three iu the distance rapidly dis.
| appearing vehicles. Greatly vexed aud
grumbling they turned toward the Seine.
| AT last they found on the quay one of those
dilapidatcd Parisian coupes that one only
sees crawling about at night as If ashamed
to parade their sbabbiness In broad daylight.
| II took them 10 their door In the Rue des
Martyrs, and they somewhat sadly mounted
the steps TO their modest apartment. Much
was over for her--he only remembered that
he must he at his work at the usual hour
that day. Standing before her mirror she
slowly unfastened the faded cloak for one
more look at her brilliant reflection. Sud
denly a cry Of horror broke from her. The
Her husband, already half undressei l,
called out, What ia %
"I-1-have lost Madame Forestier's dia.
monds ~
Oh Mon Den! II is impossible I"
| Aud she searched in the folds Of her dress,
her cloak, In the pockets ywhere (; but
In vain.
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AT the end of week, hearing nothing,
they lost all hope. And Lois.l, five years
older, decided: 1--WE must consider how W.
eau replao. this necklace" So the next
day lie carried the tox TO which it belonged
to jsweIer whose name was engraved on
the cover After consulting his books the
man said:
~ did not sell this rir,ere. madame: I
must merely have furnished the case.''
They went from one jewelers. to another.
seeking n similar necklace, as much re.
sembling the lost Que as possible; both
weighed down under a sickenipg sense of
cbagriu and anxiety. At last thew foupd.
in shop in the Palais ROYAL. ririere of
diamonds that seemed the very fac simiie
of the first. The price was forty Thousand
francs, but they could have Il for thirty six
thousand.
LOisel begged the jeweler not 10 dispose
fit for three days, and they arranged that,
II the lost Jewels wers found by the end OF
February, the shopman should buy IL back
again for the sum of thirty-four thousand
francs. Loissl possessed eighteen thousand
francs left him by his father. The rest he
borrowed. He borrowed q thousand francs
from one, five hundred from another, w
louis here, three louis there. He gave O
US, made ruinous promises, went TO the
nsurers, to the whole race OF money lenders.
lie sacrificed all his aspirations, risked his
signature again and again reckless of the
poss'b'iity OF not being able to honor IL
then, overwhelmed by the haunting anx.
ieties of the future, by the inevitable misery
he was laying up for himself, by the pros
pect OF all the physical privatiops and moral
tortures they must surely undergo, he pur
chased the ririore-the terrible price of a few
hours pleasure.
When Madame Loisel returned the neck
lace To Madame Forester, the latter said,
coldly:
fancied you would have returned this
before; might have wished to wear it,"
But she did not open the case, which
caused little SILVER ofdoubt To pass through
MathiIde. What would she think had sh.
noticed the substitution That her friend
had robbed her
n
A lifs made wretched by privation was no
new thing TO Madame Loisel, and she took
her place in their new fortunes at once, and
heroically. This horrible debt had TO be
| paid. II was paid. The little Breton
maid was dismissed still more modest
apartment was rented under a mansard-
m-ar the stars. Neither was she a stranger
to the drudgery of sweeping and cooking.
She washed the dishes and sno;Ied bsr