Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-02-28

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"Iwill do whatever lean, certainly" ="
"Then, tell me, have you no suspicion
as to who might have taken your jew
el?" The girl hesitated, and the detect
i've watched her face keenly. As she
did not reply at once he asked another
question:
"Did you feel the person take the pin
from your hair?"
eyes, did; but I did not realize
what was occurring till he had it.
"Why did you not make any resistance
or cry out?"
Again she hesitated, but in a moment
she said firmly:
"I know that you have right to ask
me these questions, and I will reply to
them if you insist upon it. But first, tell
me, would it be right for me to call
name to you as one that I may have sus-
pected when I had but the fiimsiest ex-
cuse for my suspicion? Might I not
thus do more harm than good by attract
ing your attention to false scent?"
"That is certainly possibility, Miss
Remsen, but it is one which I am in
clined to risk. mean that prefer to
trust to my experience than to have you
omit to tell me your suspicious. "
Every we'll; only promise me that
you will not jump to conclusions and
thus perhaps annoy the person whom I
shall name"
"I agree to that. Twill take no action
without sufficient reason other than that
furnished by yourself. "
Every we'll You asked if suspected
any one, and again why did not resist
the thief. If you will remember, my
head was bowed. At first I could not
understand how something seemed to
move my pin. 1 fancied that it had be-
come entangled in the sultan's robe.
Then the clock began to chime, and in a
moment it flashed across my mind that
perhaps Mr.. Mitchell was taking my pin
in order to win his wager. Therefore
said nothing. This makes my action
clear to you?"
Perfectly. Then am to understand
that Mr.. Mitchell did not tell you in ad-
vance that he would do this?"
"No, he did not, and that is why I
have sent for you"
81 don't understand you"
"Why, all the time that thought he
had the pin was not worried. I even
went so far as to act indignation at, the
festival That was partly for your edifi-
cation and mystiication. I wanted to
help Mr.. Mitchel's plan. But when it
occurred to me yesterday that MIR.
Mitchell, if he had meant to take the
pin, would have told me in advance, I
saw at once that my first idea was
wrong and that my ruby is really gone.
Then I wrote to you"
"Then you feel sure that he would
have told you in advance.
"Positive.
"May he not have feared to ask you
to implicate yourself in robbery and
possible scandal? You know he was
liable to arrest, and it might be a con-
siderable time before be could have
proved that his theft was only joke.
He may have wished to spare You no.
toriety."
"He knows me better than that. She
said this with smile.
Chow better!" asked the detsctis
"I mean that he knows there is noih
ing that I would not risk for him, since
I have consented to give him myself. ]
am one of those women, Mr.. Barnes,
who are not easily deferred from aiding
the man of her choice"
"Do you mean that you would be
willing to share unenviable notoriety
with him and that he knew this?''
81 do, and therefore feel confident
that he would have azked nv assistance
II it bad been his Intention t. take my
pir."
"Just as he did on another c<casion?"
The detective had been leading her up
to this for the last few moments, and
now watched to see the effect. She did
not change countenance, but simply said:
"What occasion?"
"The morning when he locked Your
maid in this room while you went down
town and took a little girl from one
house to another?'
"To what other?" This was hard
one for the detective, and as he did not
reply she smiled aggravatingly as she
continued:
"Mr. Barnes. you have no proof of
your assertion. You suspect that 1 did
what you say, but you do not know it.
As I told you just now, it is possible for
bare suspicion to lead one astray."
perhaps, but I do not think that
am far wrong in this instance. "
"We will not discuss it. Let us re-
turn to the ruby. You told Mr.. Van
Rawlston, SO he tells me, that you knew
in advance that this crime was about to
occur. Did yous know the person who
would take the pin?"
"To be perfectly frank with you,
Miss Remsen, expected that Mr.. Mitch
ell would take it. I think now that he
did take it. Do you wish me to continue
the investigation? 1t may lead to your
friends losing his wager, whereas you
have the right to notify the police that
your gem has been returned to you. That
would make our work on the case use
less and assure him Of winning his bet. "
MI. Barnes object here was ingenious