The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-25
Copyright 1893 by he .luhor,l
CHATTER XIV,
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LADY cAALANp's SCHEME.

him with the Committat OF some holm
GUS crime, and for q moment he was
staggered by her manner, as much as
by the sentence she had spoken. But
he recovered himself quickly, and in
almost his natural voice asked;
"You found the White Gipsy-Miss
Barrlngham-I suppose, wearing this
brooGh2"
Certainly Have not told you SO al.
ready? You don't think ! lied?"
"Not for moment, my dear" he an
swered, dropping his gaze from his
Wile's questioning eyes. and examining
the massive, heart-shaped trinket she
had thrust into his hand. "But after
all see nothing mysterious in the fact
that you found the girl wearing this. "
~ think it most mysterious" she re-
piled, hotly, land mean to get ut the
bottom OF II before I've done. / ask
you again how did 1t come into her pos
sessionF"
"How should know / dareaay
Paul may have bought it and given it to
her."
"That is not the case" she snapped
out, triumphantly. "She told mo her
self that Paul did not present it to her"
"Who did then2" he querled, know.
ing that he was only evading the real
points at issue between him and his
wife, but unspeakably glad 10 gain a
few momeuta' grace, in which he could
think over the difficulty that faced him,
and decide how he was to meet it.
"some old and dear triend, and |
want to know who that friend is."
"What does it matter who the glver
isT
ut does matter because that is one Of
the Jewels which would have belonged
to me had you not been" she was
about to say "a thief'-but she added,
chad you been an honest man."
1--WE will not discuss that point
now" he said, biting his lips with an
anger he could not afford to put into
words at that moment
"As you please but you will have to
discuss it, for intend to know what
you did with those jewels, and how
that brooch came into the possession OF
that pit-brow girl"
"You may be mistaken after all, AIDE
laide," he remarked, willing to over
look the affront and menace her words
contained.
"Mistakenl In which way2"
''fhis jewel may not have been tho
one my mother possessed. 1t resem-
bles it, but do not think it Is the
same one. Az you must know, articles
OF this kind-brooches OF this very put
tern-would be made in scores, per-
haps hundreds"
81 am prepared to admit that, but ii
this is not the brooch saw that day
when your father showed me the jewels
which were to form his wedding pres
ent to me, howdoes it happen that your
parents initials are engraved upon the
back?"
"Are you certain2"
He asked the question with an excel
lently ieigned look OF amazement. OF
course, ne had already seen the Initials
TO which sho referred, but had hoped
they had escaped his wife's notice.
"Quite certain, rs you must be. For
heavens sake" she exclaimed, "let me
have no more OF this pretensel / am
not silly enough to be led from my pur-
pose by any Of your tricks aud make.
believe lodges. Tell me once and for
all whnt you did with tho jewels"
81 did not take"
"You did, and you know that l know
you did. The safo was found open the
next morning and you had disappeared.
Your father knew who the thief was,
Just US | and Frederic knew also. Had
you been anyone save your fathers son
you would have been hunted down and
sent to gaol."
~ daresay you and my brother urged
my father to put the police on my
trackl" no cried bitterly, stung at
length into rotorting by her virulence.
"And il l did take them l had q right to
themw
mot at all. They were your fathers
property to do with as he liked, and but
for the advice OF his solicitor, Mr.. Ellis.
ton, you would have discovered that
your relationship to your father made
you none the less plunderer. But why
not admit like man that you took the
jewels when you fled ?"
"Well, did tako them, and ] would
do it again. Did you and Frederic
think was cur enough to stand every
indignity you could hoap upon me? II
was not enough TINT he should cut me
out with respect to yourself but the in.
suit and injury was to be carried furth-
or, inasmuch as his wife was to be'given
my mothers Jewels. 1t was carrying
matters too far that, and stopped the
game,
~ do not blame you so very much for
doing So" she replied in moro amia.
bio way, for, after all, there was some
reason in your point OF view"
"Then why raketh business up again
after all these years2"
because want to know more. You
have admitted that you took the things
now what did you do with them2"
"Why trouble yourself about such n
thing2 You have jewels In abundance,
and II you desire others you have only
to speak, You know, Adelaide, that
meanness Is not ono of my faitnVs."
"Nonsense" she calculated angrily.
II want nothing In that way only
want to know what you did with tho
things. There is nothing unreasonable
in my request | think, especially In
lace OF tho fact that found that brooch
upon tho person who calls herself Miss
Birmingham. You must tell mo what
became Of tho jewels. l insist upon
knowing and II you refuse to speak !
shall have to find out through othor
means, that is all"
"well, tho truth is-it you will know
that ! did nothing with tho cursed
things"
"NothingI" che cried with amazed
looks,
~ mean that lost them-was rob,
bod Of them-bOioro they had boon in
my possession many hours"
"Robbed ?"
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