Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-10-14

YIN
courts.
I'D wager my existence" said Mr.
Robert Goode, making a desperate
attack on the cold ham and radlshes
that garnished the breakfast table,
"that she's innocent. Only here is
the question, where are the jewels?'
eyes" said Eleanor, incredulously
"that's the question, where are the
jewels? How you men are dazzFed by
a pair of bright eyes!"
'pll go out for a While," said she.
II want to see a dear friend Of mine,
who must think [ am neglecting her
shockingly.
And in the soft July sunset she went
to the big house i'll Trevor street, and
timidly pressing the electric button
inquired for Miss Kasson.
''Ihe tall butler froze her with a
glance. "Ain't been here for a long
time," said he, and shut the door I'm
/ tremendously in her face.
And she returned home in great
amazement
In her absence Mr.. Robert Goode
had been turning the place upside
down." as little Sarah expressed it, in
search of bag to carry his papers in
''The lock of mine is out Of ORDER"
said he, land I can't get it back until
| Wednesday. Any one of your bags
will do. Nonsense: Do you think L
want family trunk?" as Sarah pro-
duced her mothers travelling case,
'Or a doll baby satchel?" as she
reached down her own from the top
shelf. ''Is this all you have got?"
"There's Nell's shopping bag" said
the little girl. 'It's hitler than mo-
theirs and bigger than mine"
"Getit then-quick! there there's
dear little dot. Oh, don't stop to
dust it,
''But [ must" pleaded the house
wifely little thing. cit was on the
top of the wardrobe, where Nell put
it before she went to bring mother
home. And it's awful dusty! And /
think there's something in it too"
She was fumbling at the catch when
Robert caught it from her.
"Pshaw!' said he impatiently. GA
box Of ca1dy!'
He tore the pink ribbon knot apart,
the lid dropped off, and little Sarah,
standing on tiptoe to look into the
bag, stepped back with shri Elk.
Something from the inside seemed to
flash up into their eyes like imprison-
ed fire.
At the same time Eleanor came in
to their eyes like imprisoned fire.
$50" cried Robert, looking up with
a face which would have furnished a
study to any physiognomist, ''you are
the one who stole the Grafton dia-
monds!'
81? The Grafton diamonds? What
do you mean? Have you gone crazy?"
gasped Eleanor. ''What are you do
ing in my room?"
eve found the diamonds in the box
in your leather bag" said her brother
''the diamond necklace for the theft
of which poor Miss Kasson is on trial"
''Miss Kasson! You never mean
that it is Miriam Kasson my friend
Miriam?"
e'Didn't tell you so this very day?"
cried Goode.
'You never mentioned her name at
all. You kept saying my CLIENT the
defendant But, oh, Bob, know it
all now! I was there-at the big house
the day before I went for mother. L
was in Miriam's room, and l opened
her bureau drawer to find a pin and l
thought it would be joke to take her
box of candy away. 1 never opened
it. [ never dreamed what was in it,
and when [ got home and found the
telegram from Aunt Laura | just flung
the bag down and thought no more of
the whole thing. Oh, poor darling
Milly! But how came the diamonds
in her p ossession?"
"Don't you know? But how should
you?n said Mr.. Goode. "The necklace
was put in her special charge to be
delivered to the jeweler, who was to
call for it at O'Clock. And when he
called it was gone. But it's all right
now. Great Scott! Nell, who would
have thought that you were the
thief"
''They arrest me, Bob?' stammered
She Will they put me into PRISON."
But [ don't care so long as Milly is no
longer unjustly suspected. Yes, am
a thief. But-but, I didn't know it.
And [ never meant it!'
There was a rather unusual scene
in that court that day when the neck
lace itself was presented in evidence