The morning times., 1895-08-11

charming manners, a linguist, a musician,
ajudge OF pictures, painter an amateur,
and a finished expert in precious stones.
He had been seventeen years IN the same
service, and his employers trust In him
was absolute. He drew liberal commits
sion, kept his own little family in solid
comfort at his Brixton home, was pillar
of his synagogue, a pearl among CONNER
cial travellers and deservedly respected. I
never saw this gentleman, but can draw
his portrait, and before 1 close this story
will tell you why. He had large dark eyes,
which shone out of a sort of velyety dull
softness, as a black heart cherry shines
when dew or rain is on it. He had a we'll
shaped aQulline nose and an olive skin. His
lips were shapely, but redder and fuller
than is common with men of Western type
He wore his hair cut short, and his beard
was trimmed Yandyke fashion The no
table thing about him was that hair; eye
brows and beard were OF a deep ruddy au-
burn, a color handsome in itself, but little
startling and bizarre in man of his com.
plexion.
In the year 1870, whilst the sergeant
and I, unwilling of this gentleman's eX-
istence, were hanging on the skirts OF the
Russian fOrgers, the commercial traveller
had submitted a scheme to his employer.
He had employed his taste and leisure
in the preparation of a number of designs
for brooches, bracelets, rings tiaras, neck
lets and pendants, ard he had designed
and drawn with beautiful delicacy, a case
in which to display them. He estimated
the cost OF the preparation of this tray
at about 20 COO sterling pounds, and his
proposal was that the real tray to be
manufactured from his designs Should be
kept in the show case at st. Pauls Church
yard whilst he should carry around with
him tray of paste and piucabeck ia
Illustration of style and color.
Both trays were made The real thing
went into the showcase, aud the bogus ar
ticel went on tour. The real tray was
paragraphed in the London and provincial
newspapers, hundreds of fashionable peo-
pie went to see it, orders came in briskly.
The new designs became fashion, and the
clever little Hebrew gentleman made SO
good thing of his liberal commission that
he was more than paid for all his trouble
His employer was OF course eminently sat
isfied on his own account, but by-and-by
disaster crept upon him.
lue bdNeleT iidOe iOuT journeys q year,
covering the three Kingdoms on Zach expe-
dition. He had started on the third round
since the completion of the two trays, when
the jeweler by chance examination of
his treasure discovered that he was in pos
session Of the limitations, and that his
servant had by some queer blunder walked
off with the real thing. To an unIearned
eye the mimic jewels were exactly like
the real, but an expert waSnot to be deceived
for an instant. The two trays had been set
for comparison side by side outside the show
case, and the traveller had made an acci-
dental exchange. 1t was little surpris-
ing, but 1t excited no suspicion. The jew
eler sent special messenger down to Brix-
ton with a note OF explanation, and the
special messenger came back TO say that the
gentleman had gone to Birmingham, and
the Jeweler went to his home in the sub
urbs quite contented and at ease
When servant has been faithful for
seventeen years in things big and little,
when he has had hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of pounds pass through his hands
and has never once been out in his accounts
by farthing, an honest man is not likely
to grow nistrust from so small seed as
TINS. But when no anEwer came from Bir-
nnngham, when telegraphic inquiry elected
the fact that the traveller had not been
to his customary hotel. when further in
quiry prlEed sLat he had not been heard