San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-13


prophesy what has gone Of the Grea
Hesper. It's not a hard job, if you Civ,
| yer mind to il. 'Tain't nothin' near 8,
hard as prophesying what's goin' to be-
II had hold on him by the arm. Al
| of a student, he filings himself round
! grapples on to me, and fore I'm awar,
Of anything, I'm ON my back, and hi
two thumbs is inter my wind-pipe.
never thought he'd got il inter him-sucl
strength and agility-and I'll allow h,
would have strangled me eff tine KiC
hadn't come up in the nick and brighten
ed him by singing out for you. / die
not lose any time, and when l had shown
| was as strong as him, with q little bit
to spare, got him to prophesy. He
wanted plaguy lot of perswadin', and
he got il; but when he couldn't stand no
more on it, he let on that it was inside of
a rotten willer alongside a pond in the
holler. did't know no pond, but /
ketched sight of the Kid sneakin' off, end
jest sneaked after her, takin' Israel
along case he mighter made mistake
in his Biography. There was no walking
fast with Israel over the brambles, end
lost sight of the Kid; but it stood to
reason the holler was down hill, so down
l went the way the Kid had gone, near
as could reckon, and there was the
pond and the rotten willer as he had
prophesied, and there at the foot of the
willer was the empty case, but marry
diamond. cooked my eye around, and
once more ketched sight of the Kid
sneakin' off. | went for her naturally,
but might jest as well have went for a
tom-tit. She got clean outer sight about
the same times got outer wind. But
Israel wouldn't give up, and we hunted
about for the Kid till we couldn't neither
of us hunt any more; then we sat down
in committe, and, arter pretty warm dis
cussion, we came to the unanimous con-
clusion that, for the sake of everyone
concerned, we had better git rid of the
leather case and say nothin' about it. l
laid it down that the Kid had not took
the diamond for mere mischief. She
knew, in her own greaser way. that the
thing had power i'm it to bring happi-
ness to the owner-like a charm. She
see that it clothed us decent end lodged
us comfortable, and that while it separ-
ated you and her, it brought you and
sources daughter together. And we laid
it down mutual that the Kid had too
much gumtion to pitch the thing away,
but would hide it somewhere where she
could fetch it bimeby. Now, eff we'd
done otherways what would have hap
pened? Van Hoeck nd have declared il
was all lie, and wild horses wouldn'ter
dragged the secret outer the Kid. The
only hope of gettin' back the Hesper was
ter let her play her game and watch her
close"
A copy of this statement sent to Sir
Edmund, and added:
Either Van Hoeck is possessed of sup
ernatural clairvoyance, or he must have
been in completely with the man who
took the diamond from me.
"Can that man have been the 'Furni-
val who obtained the address of Brace
and m self from your
By the return mail Sir Edmund wrote:
Il felt it right to read that part of your
letter referring TO the robbery to Van
Hoeck, who for the last few weeks has
been an accepted visitor here, and may
add the object of Ediths sympathetic
commiseration. He declared upon his
oath that there had been no struggle be-
tween himself and Brace, and that no
statement had been extorted from him
by the violent means indicated; that when
you left he felt his way to the road, and
waited there. Brace came and undertook
to lead him home. He remembers stop
ping on the way while Brace asked him
if he thought you had really been robbed
of the diamond. He knew nothing of
the leather case, which Brace might well
have concealed in the manner you de-
scribe without his perception. After this
explanation, he said that he must once
more relinquish our friendship until all
doubt is cleared up. But, he added EN-
phatically, as he was about to leave us,
If only part of this story is true-if the
girl got possession of the diamond, hid it,
and should restore it toBrace and Thorne,
they will make away with it, and you
will never see anyone of them again.
IF Van Hoeck is not the very old 'un
hisself, said the Judge, when showed
him this letter, "he's hand in hand with
HIM"
We asked Lola if she had recognized
the man who dropped from the oriel win
dow.
NO. she replied; ''the night was too
thick; but he was about the size of the
one window to the other in the left-hand
side OF the house.
One morning brace SAID TO me:
We had my suspicious on II Tor some
time; but now m sure on II. we're De-
ing rdtched.
asked INN what reason he had for
this belief.
MY reason Is TINS, he rephed. The
ong-legged nlgger as comes here Tor
scraps give one OF the house-helps half-a-
dollar this morning. 1t looked like he'd
been buying up your silver spoons, so
lest had the rascal searched: but there