New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-30

| mean that Spanish FAM will pay
for it. it,
"But she said that $4,000 would
not pay for that fan, said mem
Der of the insurance committee who
passed. 1t is an heirloom"
The colonel groaned
At that moment one of the execu-
tive committee passed and whispered
caution. If there we're a pickpocket
in the building great care must be
observed, and undoubtedly both the
lace fchu and fan would be found.
So the colonel in no enviable frame
OF mind, departed to meet Miss Mira
beau, and to communicate TO her the
dreadful intelligence. To his sur
prise she was remarkably sweet, and
bore her full share OF the guilt.
II had no right, colonel to ask you
to take charge of that valuable fan.
It was not stolen from you, it was
stolen from me- and she looked at
him very kindly.
An electric telegraph shot through
the colonel from head to heel
''By Jove!" said he to himself, "a
woman with a sense of justice, and a
pretty woman tooP'
But although they had q very
agreeable half-hour bewailing their
woes, Miss Mirabeau turned pale
when she said:
"Who is to tell Mrs. McElroy?"
owe must wait few days to see
the result of Mr.. Smiths search"
said the colonel 3'Then, if it is real
" irrevocably lost, will pay for it if
Lean
"Oh, you can'tp' said Miss Mira
.bau. cit is an heirloom
The colonel thought there were
some looms on which nothing but
despair was woven, but he looked at
Miss Mirabeau.
LET US take it calmly, and go to
the opening tonight
ooh, mop said the careless Emily,
shivering, II can never face Mrs. Nc
Elroy until I learn the very worst. .
The lace fchu was found, but the
fan was not; and the colonel and
Emily walked about like two sus-
pected murderers. Their visit to the
exhibition we're made furtively, and
like undetected criminals they shun-
ned Mrs. McElroy. Strangely enough,
that irate lady did notmake any in
quirles for her fan, and it was OBJ
served that she did not come to the
exhibition, all of which was omin-
Gus.
Nothing is more sweet than a mu-
tual joy. Col. Beauclerc would never
have found out how charming Emily
Mira beau could be had it not been
for the anxious and mysterious So
whichnow bound them together.
They grew intimate with policemen,
employed detectives, and were to be
seen together in pawnshops. Wher-
ever stolen fan could go, there to-
gether, did this handsome and I'M
usual couple go. That fan must be
found.
However, this was not the worst
of it. The colonel came one day with
a paper in his hand. His martial
brow was c]ouded.
"Read that said he to Miss Mira
beau, almost assuming an after
breakfast martial air. "Read that,
emily until this minute.
1t was low paper, one she had
never seen before, still it was print,
that was the terrible fact The iron
machinery of the patent printing
press had caught up their trouble,
and was to blazon it to an unsym-
pathizing world. The paragraph
read thus:
"Thoses conversant with a certain
gay set in this city cannot have failed
to hear that losses have occurred,
quite unaccountably, in the most ar
istocratic circles, and, indeed, Wefear
that some Of the deposits at the
noted exposition have not all found
their way to the glass cases. A
striking looking individual, with pre-
maturely gray hair and certain So
called beauty, a great favorite with
the ladies, and the possessor of a
foreign name and title, is more than
suspected Of being little better than
a thief"
ooh, DEAR said poor Emily, quite
crushed: $50 we have got to that!''
+" Dear, did you say?'' asked the
colonel, sand we ~ and he looked
volumes.
Sat any rate said she, 81 can
prove your innocence. Let me write
to this paper and tell the whole sto-
ry," and she moved toward her desk.
NO" said he, "that would de-
light them too much, that would be
putting on the cap
The great exposition came to an
end, and everything was sent safe
~ home to it's owner. Not a loss of
any kind occurred, excepting that of
Mrs. McEroy's fan. The colonel had
spent oend of money to find it, but
the thief remained concealed. Both
he and Emily had lost flesh and col
or, but their faces looked as if they
had found something else Of great
value.
They sat. hand in hand. and eve To