El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
TIE DANVERS JEWELS.
Continued from last Saturday,

Carr was much interested to hear that
L had sister, and asked innumerable
questions about her. Was she young
and lovely, or was she getting on? Did
she live all by herself, and was / going
TO stay with her for long? Was not Ken
.slnSton-was that the name of the street?
rather out of the world, etc?
was pleased with the interest he took
IN any particulars about myself and my
relations. People so seldom care to hear
about the concerns of others. Indeed, i
have noticed, as / advance in life, such
general want of interest on the part of
my acquaintance in the minutie of my
personal affairs that of late / have al
most ceased to speak of them at ANY
length. Carr, however, who was of
what should call truly domestic turn
of character, showed such genuine pleas
dre in hearing about myself and my re-
Lions that asked him to call in Lon
con in order to make James acquaintance,
s-.-,. accordingly gave him her address,
which he took down at once in his note
book with evident satisfaction.
Our passage was long, but it proved
most uneventful, and except for an oc-
casional dance and the theatricals be-
fore mentioned it would have been dull
in the extreme. The theatricals GER
tainly Were a great success, mainly ow-
ing to the splendid acting of young Carr,
who became afterward a more special
object of favor even than he was before.
1t was bitterly cold when we landed
ely in January at Southampton, and
my native land seemed to have retired
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We had a wretched journey up to
London, packed as tight as sardines in a
tn, much to the disgust of Carr, who
accompanied me to town, and who, with
his usual thoughtfulness, had in vain
endeavored to keep the carriage to our
selves by liberal tips to guards and pof
ters- When we at last arrived in Lon
don he insisted on getting me a cab and
seeing my luggage onto it before he
looked after his own at all. 1t was only
when / had given the cabman my Sis
ter's address that he finally took his
leave, and disappeared among the throng
of people who were jostling each other
near the luggage vans.
Curiously enough, when 1 arrived at
my destination an odd thing happened.
] got out at the green door of 90 Sub
urban residences, and when the maid
opened it walked straight past her into
the drawing room.
well, Janer' 1 cried.
A pale middle aged woman rose as
came in, and stood aghast. 1t was not
my sister. 1t was soon explained. She
was little pettish about it, poor womanl
1t seemed my sister had quite recently
changed her house, and the present oc-
cupant had been put to some slight in
convenience before by people calling
and leaving parcels after her departure.
She gave me James new address, which
was only in the next street, and / apollo
.,ized and made my bow at once. My
going to the wrong house was such a
slight occurrence that almost forgot it
ct the time until l was reminded of it by
a very sad event which happened after
ward.
Jane was delighted to see me. II
seemed she had written to inform me of
her change of address, but the letter did
not reach me before 1 started for Eng
land with the Danvers jewels, aboas
which i have been asked to write
this account. Considering this is an
account of the jewels it is wonder
fcl how seldom / have had occa-
sion to mention them so far; but you
may rest assured that all this time they
were safe in their bag under my waist
coat, and knowing 1 had them there all
right 1 did not trouble my head much
about them. I never was a person to
worry about things.
Still / had no wish to be inconven-
fenced by hard packet of little knobs
against my chest any longer than was
necessary, and wrote the same evening
to Sir George Danvers, stating the bare
facts of the case, and asking what steps
he or his second son wished me to take
to put the legacy in the possession of its
owner. / had no notion of trusting a
packet of such immense value to the
newly organized Parcels Post with
jewels consider you cannot be too eau
tious. Indeed / told Jane so at the time,
and che quite agreed with me.