The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-17

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NEATLY PLANNED.
I had just reached my Office aftel
y lunch one miserably wet day last No
N Nomber, when visitor was announced
s'.Mr. Engstrom'' was inscribed on the
card s name quite unknown to me.
Mr.. De Warre2" said my visitor, q
& ahrewd looking, well groomed man,
Who apparently had not yet touched
\ d1urty: N
si3 .sThat is my name,"" I answered.
Please take . seat and tell me what
~ do for you =
s8S 81 am in great trouble said Mr..
i 2ngstrom. 1--WE had burglars at ou1
Aouse at Lyndhurst, in the New For
ct the night before last They broke
II while we were at dinner and several
thousand pounds worth of jewels are
rome from my wife's bedroom. But what
listresses us is that q valuable heir
Noon. pearl necklace of great value,
that has been in our family for two
hundred years, is among the plumber.
The other jewelry we could bear to
lose, but not this To tell you the
truth" he added, with smile, II
lmust own to being little supersti-
itious, aud there is q legend in our
{ family that this necklace was gift to
/ An ancestress of mine by Charles IL,
and whoever shall lose it his days
shall be very short and full of evil It
Is said it was lost about the beginning
Of the century, and the legend came
true. My wife is more superstitious
i than myself, and I am afraid it it is
not recovered it may seriously affect
her health. OF course the police have
been at work, but have not very
great confidence in them, and up to
The present they have discovered moth
ing. If you can aid me 1 shall DO
very glad.
II am" said Mr.. Engstrom, "the de-
seendant of an old landed family who
have lived in Hampshire for genera
lions. We are not rs wealthy as We
snce were, and I find employment for
my time by being on the board OF di-
rectors of several companies. I have
only been married . short time, not
quite year, and we have been living
very quietly. On Tuesday night, when
I the burglary occurred, there were only
Ave Of us ct dinner. Besides my wife
and myself were the rector and his
wife and Capt. Olyer. the son Of IN old
friend, whom I lately met in the city
md invited down. He has been with
NJ over week. and leaves to join his
regiment on Saturday.
'..We bad just reached dessert and
capt. dyer was inquiring of the but
Ter If Wisden (his man servant) had
returned from London, when my wife's
maid came in gasping: oh, ma'am,
your jewels are gone-robbersl' and
sank fainting on the floor.
Y. Goodness graciousv l exclaimed,
and we sprang up.
''sLet us search out of doors 1T
once said the captain. Bring us
light, john he said to the butler, and
rushed out. We followed him.
SIT was quite dark, and we had not
gone dozen steps before he fell down.
Look out, he cried, the brutes have
laid wires. They have caught one fool
at any rate he remarked as he got up.
i went hack for light, and sure
enough there were wires around that
side of the house.
''The captain was holding his nose.
He was but little hurt, he said, for,
luckily, he had fallen on the grass. At
the captains suggestion summoned
two men servants. sri
II found lantern. and we searched
the grounds and the surroundings roads.
We found nothing, save a ladder under
one Of the windows, and a small
brooch which the thief or thieves had
dropped. No suspicious looking person
had been seen in the village or at the
station, and the two policemen who
came could do nothing beyond looking
wise. called at the police station
Ahis morning, but they have no clew.
nor il it likely they will have one. All
i have learned from them il that they
believe that two were engaged in the
fadan from the footmarks"
ut will be too dark by the time we
eould reach Lyndhurst to investigate"
Z said, .'but will come on by the first
train in the morning.
IT wish you to promise me one thing, I
not 70 mentionsto anyone the object OF
myvisit Call me . fellow director or
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