The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-15

crossed over her apron, to hear what Z
might have to say to her.
"Your name is Mrs. Nelson, I be-
lever" ! commenced.
"Yes. sir!'
81 suppose, as you have been for so
long in the family. that you have often
seen the missing jewelsir"
II have seen them several times,
sir"
Sand when did you see them last.
Mrs. Nelson?"
"Not for a long time, sir; my bust.
ness not lying in the upper stories Of
the house"
"Can you tell me when you heard of
them last? what you can remember
happening on the Tuesday and Wednes-
day preceding your late masters
death?"
Il don't know much about the Tues.
Gay, sir. excepting that Rachel Marks
zane down to my room, all Of a ~fiutter,
TO tell me that my lady had shown her
the rajah's Jewels. She said she had
never seen anything so beautiful in her
life before - that they flashed like
lightning, and she would die il she
could only have some like them"
"Ah! Rachel Marks said that, did
she2"
"Yes, sir! foolish and girl-like as
l told her, for what use would such
~yaluables be to her, specially II she
was dead. But l feel sure she had
seen them, for she was quite excited
over it. My lady was rubbing them
with a piece of chamois leather, she
said, till they looked like a rainbow OF
color. But that's all i know about the
Tuesday"
"And the Wednesday, Mrs Nelson"
"Ahi that was a terrible day for us
all sir. Master Charles Gas he was
them came. down from London by the
eleven o'clock train, and saw Sir Henry
in the library. There was high words
between them-we servants could hear
them plainly down in the kitchen. and
it frightened us to death-and my
lady was listening outside in the hall,
too, with a face like a sheet We heard
Sir Henry say: That's right! strike
your father! it will be only another
crime added to your record and Mas
ter Charles replied: If / was to kill
you it would be scarcely q worse crime
Than that woman (meaning her lady
ship, if you please, sir,), has induced
you to commit against mel We was
al listening in the passage, sir, and our
hair stood on end to hear them. Mr..
Goddard, he was for breaking in the
ioor TO prevent bloodshed, but present.
" Master Charles came out, looking
very white, and he says: 'Good-by to
you all. / shall never darken these
1oors again!' and he rushed away into
The grounds, and we saw no more of
aim till he came down for the funeral.
There was no sound from the lib airy
md after awhile my lady went in, and
gave a scream, and then we all fol-
lowed her, and there was my poor old
master sitting in his chair with his
mouth drawed to n side. Goddard
and me, we saw 1t was a stroke at once.
and when we'd carried him up to his
bed, we sent for the doctor. Mr.. God
lard, he was told off to see after Sir
Henry, and by evening he seemed a
poodish bit better, and the doctor
7idn't think there was any danger, so
Mr., Goddard left him for a BIT with
little Miss Craley, who couldn't be
persuaded to leave his side-she was
That fond of him and Master Charles
md came down to tell me how he was
getting on. And then it was he told
me of the figger that he had seen loiter-
ing about the premises some days be-
fore, and how he's seen 1t again that
yery moment, entering the shrub
berries"
"What did you say to that?"
"Why, sir, my first thought was for
my lady, who had left the house but i
short time before. Whatever would
she do, / said, if she met the man and
he was rude to her. l had seen her
in the hall wrapping a dark mantle
round her head and shoulders, and ]
had ventured to say, surely she was
never going out ut such a time-hal!
past six, sir, and such a dark even
ing-and she replied that she had a
headache and must have some fresh air
so, of course, / said 10 more. Mrs. God.
dard and me, we watched at the dining.
room windows for over half an hour,
anI tfleh We so" ~ '"NS NOhhibS cotOi
the strawberries by herself. went &c
meet her in the hall, and her cloai,
was wringing wet. | said: 1t is to
be hoped that you won't catch you.
death of cold, my LADY, And she said:
I'm SO upset about this affair, Nelson
that | don't know if I'm standing on my
head or my heels But | never say
nothing of the man, sir, and when
asked my lady If shed met him, shc
called me a fool, and said it was toe
dark to see anything! Which it was
sir!"
"On what terms have you servant.
usually been with the Dowager Lady
Eliesmere, Mrs. Nelson" / asked.
well, sir. not what yon may cal,
over and above good! Mays the time
/ would have given warning, if it hadn't
heen for the old master. Her tenn