El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-18

JeWelry a Cnaln OF rdlnDOWS
''Oh Lord!' said one young man with
predatory instincts who propped wall,
''why aren't 1 a practicing bushranger
Just now? There's some of the finest dia-
monds here in all the world, and two
Johnnies with pistols could stick up the
whole house. Why's England such a
beastly safe place? If there was hard
wooden chair anywhere here to sit on and
think, I believe I'd turn anarchist on the
spot
Don't reduce the crowd to 6. S. d.,
said a fellow prop. 1T spoils the poetry
of the thing. Now find them good enough
to look at
Never said they weren t. rejoined the
other ''Only thing is they aren't mine.
Now I could do very we'll with the lot of
Them
'sThis isn't Turkey" said his friend re-
provingly.
''Oh, not the women. I've got one wife,
and she's enough for me. But I'd like the
dresses. And the diamonds. I'd sell 'em
secondhand and riot on the proceeds. Talk
ing of sales, come and find some burgundy
cup''
They went away from the ballroom,
passing down the broad shallow stairway,
and We're going to cross the hall when
man stopped them and told them the way
was closed.
whats the matter? Has there been an
ACCIDENT"
"Well, perhaps it might be an accident,
sir. 'Tisn't for me to say"
''Who the devil are you anyway"
ga member of the metropolitan police
force, sir; a plain clothes man, at your
service. Stand back, sir, I say! You can't
come down here. The police are searching
the lower part of the house,
my aunt! Has there been burglary"
''They are looking for Mr.. Shelf said
the policeman shortly. "Theres war
rant out against him for embezzlement.
But that needn't affect you gentlemen
and ladies up stairs. You can go on with
your dancing"
The two guests looked at one another
and broke into a strained laugh. Then
they calnaed their faces again and went
back up the stair.
land was envying that man a minute
ago." said one of them. ''Well all flesh
Is but grass, as the poor beggar would say
himself. Shows how little you can gauge
mans finances from seeing what he
spends. 1 say, bet you a flyer my wife goes
to the trial. She knows judge
The music stopped at the end of a polka
and the gable of talk burst promptly out
and was carried about all over the house
But by degrees it hushed, and in it's place
grew the rustic of whispers. The scandal
miorobe travels quicker than his cousin of
cholera.
Some were sorry, some were shocked, a
few were grimly glad. The band broke
out into ''Eldorado,' and being the best
band in London it played it so that the
very chairs tried to jig about and dance of
their own accord. But no leather sole
kissed the glistening parquet of the ball
room. The only things that moved there
We're the music players and latter of
tulle which whirled about to the gale of
the cornet.
Mrs. Theodore Shelf stood like a woman
mazed. She could not change color, for
happily that was fixed, according to the
canons of the day, but she stood behind
a chair in the drawing room and gripped
with her gloved hands upon the back till
muscles arose in her plump white arms
which had never shown there before
Through the q oorless doorway she saw an
unbroken stream of her guests, cloaked
and shawled, making their way to the
head of the stair. Most kept their looks