The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-01

Der company and to make as much in
three months as he would in a year by
his clerkship Mabel would not listen to
the suggestion that the bank would adj
vance enough on the diamonds to en-
able him to make the investment.
Then Leander discovered that his
wife could be a very obstinate woman.
It was in vain that he laid before her
the benefit that would result from a
transient disposition of the gems.
ST WISH" he said in tones of INJECT
i've, sthat burglars would get the hate
full stones. They might at least be of
some good to them!'
It is said that curses. like chickens,
come home to roost. After Leander had
asked forgiveness for his rudeness and
Mabel had sweetly extended the olive
branch of reconciliation he suggested
that she be doubly careful Of her cher
ished possessions.
'"The town is full Of burglars and
they know the people who have fine
diamonds, and if they once set out to
get them they'll succeed"
! Mabel did not sleep with the dia-
monds in the same room. Womanlike,
she thought if she secreted them in
some place where they would never be
detected they woul9 be safe.
One night there was crash in the
room below. Mabel shook her sleeping
husband and whispered in his ear:
Burglars! Get your revolver and go
downstairs. The diamonds are in the
bottom Of the clock
| Leander was startled and confused,
but as the noise continued he hurried
on his clothes, and taking his revolver,
ran softly down the stairs. Mabel re-
| fear. There was fearful commotiOn
NAMED where she was, shivering with
below, the noise of falling furniture,
| opening and closing of windows, and
the rapid firing Of the revolver after
some flying roober. Then regard for
her husbands life compelled Mabel to
hurry to his assistance. She found him
lying on the floor grasping his revolver.
She did not faint nor shrek, but,
| kneeling beside him, bathed his face
and besought him to speak to her.
'Where am I?' he asked feebly as
he tried to raise himself. 'Are the dia-
monds safer"
Never mind the diamonds" said his
wife; fare you mortally wounded any
where?"
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feebly, and to her credit be it recorded.
Mrs. Leander assisted her husband to
couch and sent off, or, rather, called,
| for assistance before she even thought
of her diamonds.
| Then the open door of the clock told
the whole story-the diamonds were
gone root and branch! And they were
| the only things stolen.
| If Leander had been surprised at the
| manner of his wife on receiving the
| jewels he was aStoniShed at the calm
| Indifference with which she parted from
| them. She allowed the usual course to
| be taken to recover the thief, or thieves,
| to justice, but when no results followed
she said she was glad of it; that the
gems had been like an evil eye to them,
and for her part she never wanted to
hear Of them again.
ST wonder" she said, 'tthat did not
| see it in that light before. I will never
keep anything in my house again to
tempt the cupidity of the wicked or UNI
fortunate. To that extent am / my
| brothers keeper"
| But the effect upon her husband was
entirely different. Either he caught
! cold on that night of the burglary or
his nervous system received shock,
| for he was almost i'll from the effect of
| his tussle with the burglar. And he
could not endure to have the subject
| mentioned before him. Not even the
| success of the Little CataWba," in
| which a friend had invested for him,
gave him the peace and rest he craved.
| A little incident that happened at
that time did, however, help to restore
him to his normal condition. His wife
received a small package, accompanied
by soiled and delapidated note, which,
upon being opened, read:
| ''honOred madam:
81 gets no sleap sence i stoal yure
dimons i no yure lady an i am a reich
if i Civ them up pra fur me.
| "an unnone frend.'
And in the package Mabel found her
diamonds, exactly as she had last seen
i them. ee
| She was pleased-Where is the Wom-
| an who would not have been?-and she
at once showed her confidence in her
husband by placing the gems in his
hands for safe keeping in the bank.
st wish I had taken your advice ear
lier," she said gracefully; sit would
have saved us so much trouble"
Leander murmured something about
all being we'll that ends well, and at
noon brought her a certificate Of de-
posit.
There we leave them, on the way to
fortune and happiness if-if-Leander's
conscience does not upset the whole
scheme. He would give a great deal
to know, what no clairvoyant could tell
him, how much or little Mabel has dis
covered. My own opinion is that she
saw through it from the first and holds
herself equally guilty, as accessory
after the crime, and with that sweet
fickleness which even an upright wom-
an employs she will make herself
loving accomplice. For it is foregone
conclusion that Leander Clarke was
| his own burglar.
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