Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-09
RS. BOB.
pY JOHN STRANGE WINTER

II nm afraid have, DEAR" Lady Staun-
ton replied.
Then, Anthony, go and fetch them, my
dear, and we will take them down to din.
ner with us, and tomorrow II you please
we will have them put into the Bank for
safe keeping. They are the finest sap.
phires I'm England" she added, to Mrs.
Bob, land I wo1ld not have the RESPONSE.
bility OF keeping them ia my house for
all the world. You are most foolish.
Laura. to carry them about the country
with you"
But I want to wear them, DEAR Laura
protested.
you won't be able TO wear them IL you
lose them, you know" Mrs. Bob put in.
II had a nice little collection Of diamonds
a few days ago, and now you see all my
wealth. / wear these every night aud near
ly all day for fear / may lose them, too.
Ia fact, I may as well confess among
ourselves-when I cannot wear them suit
ably outside my frock | wear them under
meath it. II I were you I should wear as
many OF your ~sapphires about you as you
can"
ooh, no." Laura cried, with a laugh:
they are too large aud too heavy; they
would show"
THAT is what I should do" said Mrs.
Bob, wisely.
But how could they know just when to
slip into Mrs. Lovelace's roomi' Mrs.
Trafford asked.
Thieves know everything Stephen
Howard answered. 'How did they find
out inst the position Of my sisters room
at Matcham. where her box stood, what
kind OF IL was9 How did they know
the exact moment TO choose them aud get
of clear with plumber from two different
parts of the house3 Oh! thieves are mar
vellOus creatures"
81 have never felt very sure of your
maid, remarked Mrs. Trafford.
"Oh! she is honest as the day. Besides.
SIZE could have taken them over and over
again IL she had wanted. | had her from
Lady Lunderton or rather from her
daughter Mrs. Stonor. She wa there
eleven years aud oa!y left when Lady
Lunderton died. Oh, no; she Is quite in
nocent OF that. have the utmost conf
dence in her.
"And her mother did die" remarked
Bob.
Then Cox came TO say that dinner was
eerved, and they all went down, Sir An
thony, with a comical expression. carrying
his wife's jewel case under his arm.
Put It on the chimney-shelf. Anthony
said Mrs. Trafford: "where | can keep my
eye on 1t. Dear me, poor Mrs. Loyelace,
/ do feel most sorry for her"
Yes, poor thing, so do H. echoed Julin,
thinking Of Captain Legard and Pamela
Winstanley and how he had played of
one against the other and ended by throw
ing over both. Poor little soul, with her
bold little dark face and her blazing blac,i
eyes, it was hard really that she should
have lost her jewels: aud yet. IL seemed
almost like a judgment upon her for her
folly in flirting so desperately rs she un.
doubleday had done. when she had a quite
charming husband always at hand who
would have been proud TO crafty her
every whim-yes, II was really like a judy
meut!
SO they dined in great merrimeut with
the Staunton sapphires safely reposing on
the chimney-shelf, and after dinner Laura
with much pride showed them to the
Markhams and Stephen Howard.
MY dear said little Mrs. Bob Mt part
ing" take my advice-wear those sap
phires about you, wear them under youl
clothes. Banks may be broken into al
most rs easily as houses-nobody can tax,
yogr sapphires away by violence, at leasr
not in such circumstance rs are likely t.
be yours"
"Oh! Anthony keeps a revolver by hin
ut night" said Laura, confidently.
Burglars are generally very neal
sahsfst , anndfYfS1sHrat MT s{ra paRsohsen sHs msi
tresses at night. Well, you may laugh
but It's true-I do really.N