The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-11-19

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pleasant in the extreme, proceeding
from an open condition of coat and
waistcoat, quite unsuited to the time of
year. A low chorus of muffled whisper
ing was going on round me. AS l
groaned involuntarily it stopped.
"He's coming tor heard Carr say.
'Go and fetch some brandy" And [
felt myself turned right side uppermost,
and my hands were rubbed, while Carr,
in a voice of the greatest anxiety, asked
me how felt. was soon able to sit
up and to become aware that had
splitting headache, and was staring at
tallOw candle stuck in a BOTTLE Having
got so far got a little farther, and on
looking round found myself reclining on
a sack in a corner of a disreputable look
ing room, dingy with dirt and faithful
to the memory of bad tobacco.
Then I suddenly remembered what
had occurred. Carr saw that l did SO,
and instantly poured forth an account
Of how we had been rescued from con-
dition of great peril by the man to whom
the house we were in belonged, to whom
he hardly knew how to express his graft
tude, and who was now gone for some
brandy for me. He told me great deal
about it, but l was so dizzy that forgot
most of what he said, and it WIS not I'M
til our deliverer returned with the brandy
that I became thoroughly aware of what
was going forward.
could not help thinking, as I thanked
the honest fellow who had come to our
assistance, how easily one may be de-
ceived by appearances, for more for
bidding looking face under it's fur cap I
never saw. That of his son, who pres
emily returned with four wheeler which
Carr had sent for, was not more prepos-
sessing. In fact they were two as vii
famous looking men as I had ever seen.
After recompensing both with all our
spare cash we got ourselves hoisted stiffly
into the cab, and Carr good naturally
insisted on seeing me home, though he
owned to feeling, as he put it, ''rather
knocked up by his knocking down" We
were both far too exhausted to speak
much, until Carr gave start and gasp
and said, ''By Jove!'
"What?" inquired.
"They are gone!' he said TREMENDOUSLY
-'my sapphires. They are gone! Stolen!
I had them in bag around my neck, as
you told me. They must have been
taken from me when I YVES knocked
down. I say" he added quickly, chow
about yours? Have you got thu all
right"
Involuntarily raised my hand to my
throat. A horri6 qualm passed over me.
THANK heavenw replied with q sigh
of relief. ''they are safe at home with
Jane. What mercy! might have
lost them"
''Might!' said Carr. 'You would have
lost them to dead certainty; and mine
regonew And he stamped and clenched
his fists and looked positively furious
Poor Carr! I felt for him. He took
the loss of his stones so to heart, and [
am sure it was only natural. I parted
from him at my own door, and was glad,
on going in, to find Jane had stayed up
for me. soon figured in her eyes as
the hero of thrilling adventure, while
her clever hands applied sticking plaster
ad hbitum. We were both so full of the
events of the evening and the letter
which I was to write to The Times about
it the next day that it never entered the
heads of either of us, on retiring to bed,
to remove Sir Johns jewels from the tea
caddy into which they had been tempo
rarily popped in the afternoon.