Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-29

"Dutton's diamonds" responded wanga.
smiling.
Mr.. Warren fairly shivered as he hogan
to see the terrible truth of the situation in
which he was placed.
II don't know anything about them" he
said, huskily, for real fear, fear for his
choked his voice,
Wanga's cleaning eyes shons with a hor-
ribl. luster.
Take carer he Kissed. 'eWanga knows!
Wanga goes everywhere! Wanga sees every
thing! Wanga knows no love except for
bright. sparkling diamondsv'
Mr.. Warren had not the emotional. i'm
pressionable nature that might have been
excited by the black mans frenzied words,
and though his fear was real enough, he
replied, with matter of fact irony:
IF Wanga sees everything. why in thun-
are and go get them?"
The black man was momentarily ron
plused.
fiend," he said, slowly, land I have some
times believed them, and you do not seem
to fear me! But" he continued, with in
creasing animation, 'let me tell you some
saw the man button, the keeper of the ola
monds, go to the farmer Warren's house at
sunset He saw him come away at once
and Climb the mountain. He saw the farmer
Warren go up the mountain right after
ward, and when the farmer ran from the
cabin to his home again, he left the man
Duttop bound and dying on the floor. and
there were no diamonds in his pouch!'
See here!' interrupted Mr. Warren.
don't try to scare me with threats Of tes-
tifyng against me in this matter OF the
charge of assaulting Duston. Wanga didn't
see me do that. and he knows it. Moreover,
Wanga, the abductor. wouldn't dare to go
on the stand. Farmer Warren knows a
thing or two, SO stick to your first text"
intensely evil. Evidently determined to
crush the prisoner at last by his emulation
of evidence stated in melodramatic style
he continued in the same strain:
There were no diamonds there, and later
| that evening, after the fire, Wanga looked
| into the room where the man button lay
| and he saw the farmer, Warren, searching
| the pockets of the sick man."
Mr.. Warren started slightly at this IN
spite of his effort to remain undisturbed.
/ and Wanga noticed 1t.
"Some time that evening"" he went on,
''Wanga doesn't know when or how, for
he had to ride fast up the mountain to
| tell his partner Sam about things, the dia-
-mond the farmer had found in Dutton's
pocket was ignorantly thrown out OF doors
Next morning the farmer went to search
| the ashes, hoping that Dutton had hidden
some Of his Jewels there. Wanga had
been ahead of him. Then the farmer
searched in front of his house. ne louno
the diamond, he examined 1t in his yard,
| he locked it in box in the barn. he took
it again from the box, for Wanga did not
| have time to get it. Now, do you under.
| STAND lHdt "dHSd secs a SiSde dCois Inc
he will go anywhere and dare everything
for the diamonds? They belong to me, to
me and Sam Meeker. for We alone have
| been faithful!
He spoke always in a low tone, but he
had worked himself up to no little frenzy
| before he finished and he was furious wher
| the prisoner put in an anti-climax in the
i commonplace inquiry:
| "And where does Ben Golding come fn?'
Perhaps the eloquent black man was moi
| in the habit Of talking to unimaginativt
persons like this farmer. At all events hi
was again momentarily staggered by the
question, and when he replied his tone wa.