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

.wo wish 10 negotiate a loan on the Sc
curitv of a large diamond that we nave
brought homo from the Cape sa' w"
Hoeck. e.
Eight hundred and twenty carats, iust st
watnr" added the Judge; the grandes'
stone in this almighty universe consultation
There was a whispered comS" cont into a
among the clerks, and one went mo s,on'
nrivnte room ut the back Of the bank' from
which he presently returned Will ''o
ager. .r. what do YOU wantp"
I Van Hoeck repeated hiSstatement.
| And what security can YOU give mo .na'
the diamond is genuine! askon @ th" ,hot t'" ~ is
| ger with pleasant smile. or thaI ~ 10
| Icnitimately yours to dispose OF?
You will allow. sir. IL any ono hea loSt !; a.
stone of this kind he would nave iiiaa" ~
unsafe for us to walk about with IL III oa!
light" replied tho Judge. and as lot lts
Sein. genuine you kin hev the security ot
your own eyesight ,;r,orIs
and can have nothing to do WITH IT, stiu
| the manager. dahnitively. ~ .a
We streamcd out Of that bank as we had
streamcd into it, and tried anothSI pu. W. wv
no better result. the manager rlhhs us ,ha.
> transactions OF such u kind were hitoScther
hryond tho range Of his business ana we
{ found third. but the manager was aoseh,, It,
9 | and nv this time. being convinced tnat INC
:, | nIan we had proposed was impracti"nbic we
: | nut our heads together in couhsel at .ne
:, | corner of tho street to determine "h"'
h course we should take. go .,.o,
n and, had we possessed the means; snouln
!. have gone on at once to Lohuoh. WIZ W. w"
s. might have found somo former uity Rut
- -. .had nothing-notning In thc WORM pu' !
IS We 4, ,uUnu. u.toni '"s9iRdIjp natap Inc
10 our Implements we had sold at Naial tc
lc make up enough to pay our steerago nome
* and our spare clothes our knives-cverS
lc available thing--wc had bartered away or
10 our passage for food to supplement the
s miseraby insufficient stcerage fare
"We kin not pawn the klu. SIlI tnf
III Judge. "end that's about tho only pcrkisi
rn ~ wo could well do without.
he II was now we'll upon thrco o'clock, ant
We we felt the nccd of food. having eaten moth
90 ing since six. when our last rations wer,
an served out to us on the Souihcfh If0SS
re Our position was desperate ono; VIII
millions in our possession. we might SthrN'
l." in the street, or have to take refuge IN tn
ty work-hou 1t was odd. indeed. and YER
unpleasant also. At length. being mnabl
,st 10 sec any way out of our difficulty. W
it made our way to II police station and lat
ell our caso before the Inspector.
lat Well nay good fellow" said hc, hayln
Ivo heard va out, Il don't see how I'm to hci
lat eou. Tho Mayor is the proper person TO &
TO, but he's away yachting. The only per
ct- son can think Of" he added after mo
tc, mcnt's reflection. who might serve you
ciy Sir Edmund Lascclles. He's got Kind {
ed museum and buys up curiositics, know
on and kind old gentleman he is too. Nov
rr'e " Wo.asEed W him hurrieedIy whore Sir Et
tie mund lived, and he replied that it was o'
Wv Ivmington wav-Monkcn Abbey-cght
n nine miles. and any one would tell us u
ist way
an Well. thcro was nothing better to be don
tho so VIC got tho Inspector to give us mo
i've definite direction. and then started of
th. search of tho Abbey. the Judge Swiugi
md along ahead at II good four miles an hou
,ity the Kid had to trot To keep UP witn US: h
,ild / gavo her ms hand. and she did not cor
,rY plun--it was not in her nature to show su
ave fering in the ordinary way.
cs- IL must have been about six O'Clock VIII
her we found tho park entrance TO Monkch a
ago bcy and there we were stopped by q
o-kccper, who refused to let us pa
lc- without permission from Sir EdmGnd b
ink when he heard that we had been sent