The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-19
PRESENTATIONS OF
A PEARL SCARF PIN
From the London Truth.

] Oh u.
stow Sl,ii missioner, that 1 cannot re-
/ $3.50 gu your property al once I am
/ S s,.-it 20 QeIain il until il has been in
| stCcleu by the other two claimants If
icy are both satisfied that the Mn is nov
| S-iTi s-as after your identification Of II
bsn,,ilalY4 uouDJ, be the case-it shall be duly
Nearleu 70 your lordship''
! ~. nank you. Sir Jacob" replied tho
I cCIlrP' Iislng 70 take his departure 'Of
C, UstsS, am pleased TO leave il i'm yoir
/ s to4y under those conditions Hut-
/ ~ lne bishop dropped his voice ana
/ SPOKE rather nervouslv-ssvou will 10 M
S % Srest favor by letting this be strictly
/ ~ lt1Nate between ourselves. And NAV /
30 mat the pin be handed to me person.
,By all means said the chief commits
SigmeI' GOOD morning, my lord
! Inc chief commissioner was stiu nm
S,5 iii5 over me bishop of Silchester's visit
/ bavs Tf ~ what reasons he might
lahe Ior desiring secrecy, when another
Sdler was announced. This time is was
SS IG1ieraole intimate friend of Mr. Justice
Hilloa, sprlggs.'' said the chief com
missioner, shaking hands with his visitor.
t; Dach from Norway, then? Had a good
| ume Catch many salmon2"
/ = ripping time" answered .Justic.
| SPICES, who was not above taking
StoI ~ 70 MS lntimates. Killed fifty brace
81 81, nsh 70 my own rod. l must tell YOU
an aoout II some other time. But I'm
/ rather in a hurry, and I've come to see Won
/ On nltie matter of business. see that
| y,JIu are advertising pearl scarf PIN
/ Ihe chleI commissioner literally Jumped
| IN ms chair. What's up eh{ / didn'r
| 81 gpur advertisement till last night.
CShiy LANDED at Harwich yesterday. The
tact Isl m certain of il from the de-
| sctipuon-that that pin belongs to me-
Belongs to your gasped the chief
commissioner
Yes, without a doubt; that is if You
| nave described it correctly Perhaps Won
VIII let me have a look at it. -
.. es-yes l have it with me now. Here
By Jupiter! that's the article" cried
Jus nee Sprlggs, taking ii and holding 1t
up 10 me hight "Uncommonly glad to
naNe round IT, can tell you. Lost il lust
before started for Norway"
But l say, Spriggs,' said the chief
ftoIiiIiss missioner, with an expression of ut
! been identified by another gentleman
IN TACT, by bishop-as his property -
On, a bishop will say anything Then
you you Won let me take my pan away with
Quite impossible, my dear fellow. 1
nave pledged myself TO retain it until it
Very well. But look here: don't Won
go surrendering it TO any one else until
you nave communicated with me- 1t is
very un1udicial wink if YOU come to see
me in the meantime don't say ANYTHING
| about the pearl in Lady Sprigg pres
ence. There's a good fellow"
lie hurried away, leaving the chief com
missioner more perpleXed than ever
What did all this mean? Why was there
SuNu an extraordinary similarity in the
tales of all the claimants? And why did
they want the ownership of the pin kept
secret? 1t was
But his meditations were interrupte1
by a third visitor. His clerk opened the
door and announced: Lieut.. Gen Night
ingale"
Lieut.. Gen. Nightingale was no stran-
ger TO the chief commissioner. They
were both old soldiers and had known each
other more or less ever since the time
when they had served together in 'the
Mutiny" as subs. They shook hands
cordially.
Just come back from a yachting cruise
in the Mediterranean" said the general
only landed at Southampton last night
Saw your advertisement OF this wonderful
pearl pin then for the first time. Why.
you've got II there on the table by love
That 5, a.. 4 am glad to have found it.
Thought I'd lost it for good. Disappeared
just before l started on my cruise Hinoa.
what's the natter"
do l understand that you claim the pin
as yours? calculated the chief commits
Certainly. / couldn't possibly mistake
y. Thought I'd call myself and see YOU
Don't want my wife to know anything
about II. Just bear that in mind-won't
your
1t was to James MakrilI the HAMPSHIRE
squire, that the pearl pin was ultimately
handed over by the police. lie produced
evidence which proved beyond a doubt
that Il had been family Jewel of the
Makrills Tor upward of a hundred years
But 1T had been the property of each of
tn eother four claimants for a day or two
apiece, and each curiously enough had OBJ
tanned 1t in precisely the same way
James Makrill was widower, with an
only daughter-a beautiful girl of twenty
lie was bookworm, a man who lived for
reading. Whenever he was in London he
spent the whole of his days at the library
OF the British museum. He scarcely saw
his daughtes. except at breakfast and din
ner. He allowed her to be the mistress of
ms household; to do just as she pleased.
together, neglected her IN a manner that
was undeniably culpable
The girls mother had died many years
ago IN an asylum. If Makrill had been a
less preoccupied and self-absorbed man
he must have noticed that SYMPTOMS Of
mental delusions had lately been develoD-
ing In his beautiful daughter The delu-
SION assumed peculiar form. The young
lady was overcome by an intense desire
to get up affaires du occur with distin-
gulShed men. Under pretense of COLLECTING
SUBSCRIPTIONS for charitable object she
managed to interview a large number of
Well-known gentlemen. No doubt she was
sharp enough to see where her blandish-
ments-they were perfectly innocent, poor
cnnQ-Were likely to be accepted Al all
events in the royal prince, the Bjshop Of
Silchester, Mr.. Justice Spriggs and Cen
Nightingale, she selected four particularly
susceptible men.
Her beauty was extraordinary: her man
ner fascinating to degree But she did
not rely upon them alone She pressed
into her service the celebrated pearl lie
pin, to which, by family traditions. a GER
tain virtue wat attached. 1t was said
that If presented to a gentleman BY "a
lady of the Makrill family, in the direct
line, II would secure that gentleman's af-
fections to her forever and forever
The royal prince, who was much epris
with the mysterious and lovely girl-for
she resolutely withheld her name and al
dress-had been the first recipient of the
pearl. But poor Miss MakrilPs fancies
We're f1eeting; and after a few davs she
had managed to fitch it from him STEALTH
ly and carry it away to the Bishop of Sill
chester. That prelate had in his turn
been similarly deprived; and so, afterward
had Justice Spriggs and Gen. Nightingale
On the night when the young lady had
driven to Hamilton Terrace St Johns
Wood, it is believed that she was going to
present the pin to Frank Pinl1it r. A. the
celebrated artist whose residence is in
that road. But finding him absent she had
been unable to effect her purpose and al
last in a moment of increased mental aber-
ration. she had transferred it, together
with her affections, to the cabman who
drove her.
Poor Miss Makrill had a brief interview
with the chief commissioner while this af-
fair was being cleared up. If any further
proof of the truth of the above explanation
were needed, ii was supplied then.