Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-02-24
Finding The Diamonds
How Maidservant Was the Means
of Restoring Lost Jewels.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1t was her system that made Mrs
Robinson what she was. If a lie got
loose anywhere near, she was up and
after it with anything she could lay
her hands on.
She showed you that lying didn't pay
when she was concerned. A lie turned
into serpent as soon as it got out of
your mouth. and you were glad to get
behind another.
Not to say that her system hadn't
it's drawbacks. Every system has.
And the naked truth is sometimes an
awful thing-ten times more awful
than any lie you can think of at the
time.
When Susan Jones came, however,
The girl lied like an eel-there was no
catching hold of her.
At first she just chirped out lies as
light hearted as a bird. "Pleas'm it
were the cat" or anything that came
uppermost. But the cat had a way
of proving an alibi that astonished
Susan.
So Susan got as cautious as charity,
and it would have done your heart
good to see the two ut it, for Mrs. Rob-
inson had no sooner got the ferret Of
truth into one hole than Susan was
out and in at another
Any one else would have got sick
and Disguised, but Mrs. Robinson
didn't.
"For." said she, 1.-THE girl has her
good points, and I'll make woman Of
her."
And she succeeded, for Susan got
worn out by the sheer uselessness Of
the thing and at last shut down in dis
gust. After that the girl did not de-
part from the truth for six months
and then she let off the awfulest lie
Mrs. Robinson had ever heard in her
born days. At least Mrs. Robinson
thought it was.
when Susan was in the coal cellar she
found lady's ring that dazzled your
eyes and took your breath away.
"Its one of them cent things as
you can buy in any tinker's shop" she
said to herself. "Just lot Of rubbishy
glass. don't believe it's worth both.
ering about"
She took it to her Mistress however.
| Mrs. Robinson gave cry when she
saw the ring and started up with her
| mouth open. ut looks like one of the
rings mentioned in my grandmother's
| inventory" she said. II shouldn't won
| der if it belongs to the lost set Of dia-
monds."
| Mrs. Robinson was widow and liv'
ed with her brother John. Few men
could look wiser than Mr.. John when
he tried it. His spectacles made him
look like Solomon. When he GANG
home, he put them on and raked out
the inventory and placed his foretinger
on an exact description Of the ring. 1t
was valued at 5000.
After they had all wondered awhile
they put on last years clothes, got
candles and went into the cellar; but,
though they shifted the Goals about for
hours, they got nothing but their faces
BACKED. Mr.. Johns was the blacklist.
When she had got herself washed
and busted, Mrs. Robinson put the
ring on and wore it till night, but be.
fore retiring to rest she put it on her
toilet table in case it got lost in bed.
In the morning the ring was gone.
Susan took red face as soon as her
mistress came down stairs. Mrs. ROD
inson lust stood still and looked at her
for n moment, and then she said:
"Susan, what have you done with the
ring?
~ never touched it, ma'am," was SUI
sans reply, and the girl sat right down
m her chest and burst into tears.
"Then what are You crying for!' IN
uuired her mistress.
Rut Susan sobbed on and said noth-
ing.
"rn give you an hour to make up
vour mind about it." said Mrs. Robln-
son YOU'RE not to do any work TOT
that time" m
Susan sat on tue CucSt 'he "no w
minutes and cried herself out. Mrs.
Rohinson came down at the end OF
that time and found her still glued to
the lid.
"Now, Susan, l want the solemn
truth"
"Yes'm."
"Wheres the ring?"
"Mr. John took it, maam."
"My brotherT'
"Yes'm." .,
Wise as he was. Mr.. John was strucH
in a heap when his sister mentioned
the matter. "What-wha-what| he
on sned 1.-THE girl is stone mad.
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