Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-09-21
THEsDANERS. JEWELS
an ANONYMOUS NOVEL
10 Wbi1b is Told a TPrilli3e Story
of Baffied Crime.

Now what you have got TO do with
that bag" he said a moment afterward,
~is to take it to Ralph DanverS, the
second son of Sir George DanverS, of
Stoke MOrctOn, I'm D"Shire. Sir
George has two sons, but don't mean
/ the eldest Co have them. He is spend
thrift. They are an for Ralph, who is
a steady fellow, and going TO marry a
Ipicc girl. Girls who are going 70 be
married always are nice. Those
towels will Sweeten matrimony for
Mrs. Ralph, and if she is like
other women 10 will need Sweetening.
There, now YOU have got them and that
is what YOU have got To do with them.
There is the address written on this
card. With my compliments, you per
ccive. He. he. I don't suppose they will
remember who ! ann"
"Have You no relations" / asked, for
/ ann ALWAYS strongly of opinion that
property should be beQueathed to rela-
lives. especially rear relatives. rather
\ than t0 entire strangers.
..N0ue." he replied. mot even poor
relations. 1 have no deserving nephew
0r Stotch cousin. If 1 had they would
Doe here at this moment, smoothing the
pillow of the departing saint and
wondering how much they would get.
Ou may make your mind easy on that
score"
Then who is this Ralph whom you
have never seen and Co whom You are
leaving SO much2' / asked. with my
u-ua. desire for information.
lie glared 40 me for a moment, and
then hc turned his face away.
.D-u TO- What does 10 matter, now
I'm dyng2" he said. And then he
added. hoarse'y, 81 knew his mother.
could not speak, but involuntarily
rlt out my hand and took hiS leadcn
One and held 10. lie scowled atme, and
tlru the words came out as IL iu spite of
himself.
-Shc-if she had married me who
Knows what might But,She mar
.r.eI Danyers. She called her second
SON Ralph. My first name is Ralph.
Tner. with sudden change of tone.
milling away his hand. There. now
I roa SNOW an about it, Edifyiug, isn't.
/ rs These Jcathbcd scenes always have
I'D element of interest, haven't they?
|G.oI evening ringing the bell at his
|..n0V-~I can't say l hope we shall
meet again. 60 would Doe impolite. No.
DON'T .ot me keep you. Goodbye
Ia-a.r.
-Good-bv. Sir John, said taking
|If, impatient hand and shaking il gent
..v: stood bless you.
-Thauaec" gr.uued the old mat with
-.rion.. chuc6ic. IF anything
could DID, m. good that will, I'm sure.
Oooi-or.
AS hruakast.d next morning previ-
, |ou, to ms departure l could not help
-.r..r.r- oa th. different position In
(which wl, u0w returning 90 England
-r,a co.ou. ou long .eayc-to that I'm
(which had 'ctt .- many, I do not care
.-1 -hius how many, years ago, the
Youngest ensign iu the regiment.
lt was curious t0 remember that In
wy youth / had always been considered
,le fool of the family; most uuiustIy SO
considered, when I look back at my
quick promotion owing Co casualties.
and at my long and prosperous career
in India. which cannot bat regard as
the result of high principles and abili-
ties, Co say the least of it, of not the
meancSt order. On the point of return
ing OBJ England the trust Sir John
had. with his usual ShrewdneSS, re-
posed iu me was an additional
proof, II proof were needed, OF the con-
ideuce I had inspired in nina conf
dcucc which seemed 90 have ripened
suddenly no the end of his life, after
many years of hardly concealed mock
cry and deriSion. Just as l was finish
/ ing my reflections and my breakfast
Dickson, one of the last joined Subalt-
ems. came boz.
This isyery awful. " he said, so grave
I iy that / turned To- look at him.
"What is awful?'
Don't YOU knowe" he replied.
Haven't you heard about-Sir john
last uigbt?'
'Dead2" I asked
He nodded and then he said:
Murdered in the night Cathcart
hoard noise and went in and stumbled
over him on the floor. As be came in
boz saw the lamp knocked over, and a
figure rush out through the ycranda.
. .Iu.moo was bright and he saw man
+. Drum across clear space in the moon
. -at-a tall. slightly built man IN ma
4 Use dress. uut not a native, Cathcart
+. said. that D.. would take his oath ON by
d b., m.l lie reused the house, but
tae man -of clean off, of course.
Sand Sir Joln?'
Johuwa, quite dead when Cath
cart -l- aac, ,o him. He found him w.
ing 900 li, tace His arms were spread
% one and his dressing-gown was torn as
' r. h. had struggled hard. His pockets
Dad been turned inside out, his writing
fable drawers forced open, the whole
room had been ranSacked. Yet the ola
mans gold watch had not been touched
and some money iu one OF the drawers
had not been taken. What ON earth Is
. the mcauingof 10 all?" said young Dick
/ SON. below his breath. 'What was the
thief after2'
I'm moment the truth flashed across
my brain. I put two and TWO together
as quickly as most men. ] fancy. The
/ Jewels. Some one had got wind of the
\ Jewels. which at that moment were re-
/ posing on my own person i'm their old
I brown bag. Sir John had been only
just In time.
sWbat was he looking for?' continu-
cd Dickson. walking up and down. The
old man must have had some paper or
other about him that he wanted TO get
hold Of But what? Cathcart says that
nothing whatever has been taken, as
far as he can see at present
was perfectly silent. Tits not every
man who would have been So i'm my
place. but was. ! know when TO hold
my tongue. thank heaven.
Presently the others came I'M. all full