The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-03-07

.we wish to negotiate a loan on the Sc
curity OF a large diamond that we nave
brought home from the Cape. sa'o van
Hoeck.
.Figbt hundred and twonty carats. fust
water" added the Judge; the grandes1
etone in this almighty universe l,,,,t;on
There was a whispered "a SonsuIa.,0 @snt ;nto a
among the clerks ks bast and OF ont the bank from
which he presently returned WIN 'ho man
| ager. v,.. do Won wantp"
! Van Hoeck repeated hts'statemert
the diamond is genuine?. asked the mana
gor with pleasant disnose sm1ie; OF 81 'h"'
sYou will allow. sir. IL any one he'd lost
stone Of this kind he would nave ma MAGE IL
unsafe for us to walk ABOUT wltn ~ s ~ for % y
5ein. genuine. you kin hev the security OF
your own eyesight. s,.,ds
Il do not profess to be u judge OF diamonas;
and can have nothing 10 DO WIN it' shiu
nv We streamed out Of that bank as we had
streamed into 1t, and tried another put Wltn
no better result. the manager telling us ina.
transactions OF such kind were altogether
heyond the range OF his business; and we
foHnd n third, but tho manager was absent,
and by this time. being conVincea .,ac ,ue a,e
! mt our heads together In counsel al the
= corner of the street to determine what
coW[se We wsre @u ' disGusted with southampton.
n and, had we possessed the means. should
i. have gone on at once to London. WheIe VIC
!, might have found some former asquantappces . nee
: to help us out OF our present dincuay; but put
: : IA mad nothing-nothing In the world put
~ sSianIUmo. -tea our .pr .saaa the
Q four implements we had sold at Natal to
k and our spare clothes. our knives--every
% available thing--we had bartered away on
o our passage for food to supplement the
Is miserably insufficient steerage fare.
| said
h Judge. END that's about the only perkisft
n as we could we'll do without"
10 1t was now well upon three o'clock. and
70 We felt the need Of food, having enten moth
10 ing since six, when our last rations were
n served out to US on the Southern Cross;
70 Our position was desperate ono. With
:" in the street, or have to take refuge in the
ty work house. IL was odd, indeed. and very
unpleasant also. AZ length. .on being % unable
it made lee our y way Vt to a police station and laid
ID our case before the Inspector.
at We'll. my good fellow. said he. having
ge beard us out, Il don't see how I'm 10 nell
at you. The Mayor Is the proper person to &C
to, but he's away yachting. The only per
4. son can think Of" he added. after mo-
a. ments reflection. who might serve you II
ivl Sir Edmund Lascelles. He's got kind o
sd museum, and buys up curiositios, know
IN and kind old. gentleman he is. too. Now
is W,sskea Ne ~ apps him hurrtssly where Sir Ed
haa mund lived, and he replied that 1t was on
NO Lymington way-Monken Abbey-eight o
a nine miles. and any one would tell us tn
At way.
NJ Well. there was nothing better to be done
he SO wo got the Inspector to give us NOR
We definite direction. and then started of i
h. search Of the Abbey. The judge swingn
nd along ahead at good four miles an houl
ty the Kid had to trot TO keep up with us; bu
I'd 1 gavo her my hand. end she did not com
Iy piain--1t was not In her nature to show sui
We fering I'm the ordinary way.
g. It must have been about six o'clock whe
or we found tho park entrance to Monken Ab
ge bey. and there we were stopped ey tn
lodge keeper. who refused to let us pas
- without permission from Sir Edmand; bu
nix when he heard that we had been sent b