The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-11-24
THE SAN MARCO RUBIES
LCContinucd from Seeona lPagel

MS own consent. However, L bear no malice.
All these things are luck-mere luck; the
stars were against me. As you seem, how
ever, to have the welfare of the Sinclair fam
lily at heart, l ask you to do them service.
Miss Sinclair has written me many letters /
would like to return them to her, and express
to her my sense that sho is gentlewoman.
She was sincerely attached to me, l be-
lever
So this hardened villain had a soft spot in
his heart-one grain of honor left In a scared
conscience declare was touched as he
gave me a card with few words written ON
it, to take to his mother.
$50 to this number if you please" said he
"Ask for Madame Gregoire. Tell her shall
see her in five years. Sheis very old, but she
must wait till come out. Bid her keep up
good heart, and to give you a packet
of letters she will find in my cscritoire'
Monsieur Gregoire," said /, ''for this /
thank you"
And left behind me a man who was no
longer man, but a number-a convict sem
fenced to the galleys.
had no difficulty in finding Madame Gre
goire, or in gaining possession of Miss Sin
clair's letters. 1t struck me, however, that
the grim old French bag received my COM
munication from her son with more pleasure
than pain.
The young English heiress stood in no need
of friends; but in the midst Of newly found
relatives and anxious and affectionate cousins,
who found "their dear Emily" suddenly SO
attractive, she turned to me, and begging Of
me to help her to bear prosperity as had
helped her to bear adversely, she made me
her chosen friend and adviser
She claimed the 'sEuphrosyne,n and hung
it in her own beautiful picture gallery,
amid the kindred whom she had not known.
Next to it was that OF superb young soldier,
tho i'll fated colonel in his youth, and not far
Off hung pretty young simpering beauty,
poor Miss Sinclair.
Emily had been on her own ground year,
the respected honored, and rich young
woman, with name, title, and an estate,
before we saw the San Marcos again. Then
in great state came the Princess and her son
and daughter to London, and old DIR. Sebas-
tiani, with more wrinkles about his eyes than
ever; and the Princess made an offer in due
form for Ernily's hand for the young Prince
Cesare, and it was accepted in due form. I
have an idea that her Majesty's mailbags had
been freighted with missives all through this
year of mourning, and that Prince Cesare
had not waited for his mamma except in
form.
On the day Of her wedding Emily was pre-
sented with share Of the San Marco rubies.
81 would give you the tiara" said Madame
Mere, 'sbut that was not found. The robber
contrived to hide that; and it has escaped
the police"
Emily, however, refused to wear any orna-
ment but one. That was the bracelet which
| had led to her arrest, to whose keeping was
again entrusted the portrait of Cesare.
And the titled relatives who were ready to
give away Euphrosyne, and to see her be-
! come a princess, were all declined, and an
American artist led her to the altar.
1t was not until years after that I found
| out that at tho last moment Of his free exist
! ence Victor Gregoire had made tool of me,
| and that the card l carried to his mother had
revealed to her and to choice set of associ-
| ates the whereabouts OF the missing tiara.
| | dare say that ON that one fragment of the
| splendid equipment of jewels known as the
| San Marco rubies Mr.. Polenta, alias Victor
Gregoire, is now living in virtuous ease and
| retirement.
At any rate, considering all things,
although am the favored friend of both the
Princesses di San Marco, shall never choose
| to quarter with my coat of arms red Russia
leather travelling bag.
| THE END.
|
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