Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-13

The lady admired the jewels and toldt
her husband, who was present, that they'
suited her exactly. Charles Augustus,
had literally frozen to them; he stoodl
close to the lady while she tried them ont
and furtively watched her lest she shouldt
make a dash for the opposite door, when II,
he would snatch the diamonds and fght'
the two conspirators single handed, and !
he pressed something in the breast
pocket of his coat. 1t was the first \
purchase he had made out of his fathers
gold piece-a revolver, which he needed
about as much as cat needs two tails.
"You can leave them," said the gen.
tleman languidly-geutlemanly villains
are always lauguid-"I will call in and
pay for them on my way home from the
office"
"Ha, the plot thickeus," remarked
Charles Augustus, mentally. Aloud he
said:
~ beg your pardon, sir, but my or
ders are peremptory. l am not to leave
the diamonds without receiving the
money"
The gentleman smiled. But man can
nj Ao lo,t
Charles Augustus stood his guard with q
come one come all this rock shall fly
from-its first base as-soon-as.I-Fitz-
James es'-expression that meant business.
"The idea" said his wife Indignantly,
''to think that you are not good for that
amount! They can't know who we
are"
"Never mind dear. It's just as we'll
to pay for them now as at any time.
will write out check aud give it to the
young man, and you can keep your dia-
monds." But Charles Augustus saw
only a new move in the game in this ar
rangement.
"I must have a certified check" be
said firmly.
"Ring for COUPE" said the gentle
man to his wife, 81 will 60 to the bank
and get the cash, aud see it paid into
the hands of the jeweler myself. It's q
good idea to deal only with principals in
an affair of this kind"
This was carrying the war into
the eoemys camp with vengeance
Charles Augustus felt that he had met a
foeman worthy of his STEEL These are
stock phrases which novelists use, and |
they were as familiar to Charles
Augustus, as they are TO the rest of the
world, and served to illustrate crisis.
The coupe was announced, and the
two men went down and got in together,
each visibly shrinking from the other.
The fact was the buyer of the diamonds
was suffering from raging toothache,
and just as the coupe got well started he
remembered bottle of ether, and some
other mixture which he had bought that
morning for that purpose, aud forgotten
during a lull in the misery. Now he
brought it out, removed the cork, and
was about to apply it, when the bottle
was snatched from his hand, and dashed
through the open window of tho coupe.
"No you don't, I'm onto your little
game. You don't chloroform mel"
shouted Charles Augustus,as he drew his
pistol aud popped it under the nose of
his captured "viIlain."
The noise of the two meu fighting
vigorously in the coupe, both doors of
which had flown open, the cries of
"poIice!' "murderr' "stop thief"
which could be heard tor block, ,fually
reached the drivers ears, and brought
him to a stand still when,i in atwiukling,
two policemen were on the spot.
"Hold him. He tried to chloroform
mel" yelled Charles Augustus.
ARREST this man He's trying TO rob
and murder mel" shouted the other oc.
cupaut of the coupe.
The result was that both men we're ar
rested and taken to the station, where
they were incsrcerate1 in separate cells
and booked as drunk and disorierly, un.
til such time as the law Of police officials,
which is different from any other kind
Of law under the sun, should admit Of
heir cases being looked up ani the facts /
,f the affair brought out. The dia- '
nonds and Mr. -s checkbook were 7
aiken care OF by the same authorities. : II
They we're both fiued for breaking the 4
,eace, but the innocent party OF the first
,art, who bought the diamonds, or tried S
o, was only kept in Jail one night. Then e
lis distracted wife found him, aud fgura- v
lively warmed the policemau's ears for ii
yer putting him there. Tue jsweler ii
naIly got his money and the lady ia the S
ase received her diamonds, but Chsrlcs h
augustus, the valiant, lan5uishei IN Jail 7
nti his father c,me aud bailci him out. +,
Te is now running plow on the home n
ancb, but what new tura his genius will m
axe remains to be ssen. For :ho pres c,