The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-09

! library.
well, what is it all about?" asked
Barallay, finging himself into a chair
The large man raised a didactic fore
finger.
1.-THE pendant was stole,'' he said, and
then at his back appeared Miss Lid
| diard. with just a shade of pink at the
| tip of her nose and her eyelids. She
| paused in establishment, and Barrallay
| looked uncomfortably away. tine
| pendant was stole,' pursued the large
man, because the chain was stole and
other articles at the same time belong
ing to other people. Grabbed as they
came out of the matinee The person
90 comes for the reward knows all
about it. I don't say e stole it, but
e knows them that did. and e re-
ceived it, Now you came for the re-
ward, and, wot's more, you got it,
Miss Liddiard started, and the large
man turned and saw her. The pend
ant was in her, hands.
Excuse me. ma am he said, and
took it
.'Now," he continued, addressing Bar
allay, low did you come by it?"
Barallay remembered that he had
told Mabel that he had found it. In
view of its denouement, wild horses
would not drag from him the story of
his visit to the jewellers.
II refuse to say he said.
"Come, come" said the large man.
did you buy 1t, p'raps p
II refuse to say" repeated Barallay-
BILE, whose conception of his duties APP
peared to be to share fixedly at one
spot in the ceiling, and shook his head
There's nothing for it," he said, but
to take i'm to where e p'raps will say (
Mabel stared at Barally with two
frightened eyes, and was about to speak
when the front door bell pealed out
again. The footman rushed in, his face
pallid with bewilderment. and breath
lessly remarked:
There's another person come and seq
he's found the di'mond pendant"
Amid the astonished group the large
man stood the master of the situation
To the policeman he hastily whispered,
Hide yourself" and Immediately one
of the window curtains became dubious
with that officials form, and billowy
with labored breathing, while over the
too obvious feet the large man threw
an antimacassar. Then, tossing his hat
behind the sofa, and picking UP a book,
he assumed the air of a householder,
beguiling his elegant leisure with lit
erary pursuit.
'.Show him in he said to the foot
man. and the footman showed in Mr..
Bluejaw.
1t viii be seen that that gentleman
had solved the knotty points in the
consideration of which he was engaged
In the first place, Mondays paper had
added nothing to the reward, and, be-
ing in circumstances of financial en-
barrassment, he could wait no longer.
In the second place, he had come to
the conclusion that to have a thing well
done one must do It ones self. and SO
had riSked the recognition which might
have been incOnvenient and had gone
personally to the shop of Messrs. Ligh-
ton & Simmons. There he produced the
pendant and demanded as his reward
$40. The shopWoman, of course, told
him that not half hour before some
one else had claimed to be the findef,and
had gone off to the ladys house The
reward would probably have been paid
to him. BY hurrysing, Mr.. Bluejaw, Il
he really was the finder, might get theee
in time. Mr. Bluejaw swore by all his
gods that he was the finder, and wanted
to know where the thief had gone. He
was told the number in Lowndes Square
and, after calling Messrs. Lighton &
Simmons names undreamed of in their
vocabulary, had bolted round.
Hence his admittance, white and
painting, with angry eyes shifting from
one face to another The most nat
itself in his first words.
Lady, ave You parted?"
.'Haddress yourself to me, young
man." said the large man, the dignity
ing itself in added aspirates- What is
the purpose of your question:"
Mr.. Bluejaw held out his hand to
command attention, and started on his
stopless explanation.
.'Ah farnd the pendink, swelp me,
Thursday AFTERNOON, PiccadilIy Succus,
anybody else come re an say e farnd
it 'e's a liar swelp me; if you've give
i'm the cesh 'e's bilked yer; all farned
the jool as advertised, an ah want 10
pun cesh, s'trewth, swelp me-
You don't expect to receive the re-
ward without returning the article,
sively. for the pendant was in his
pocket so now" he added, with
some loss of dramatic effect as a house
holder in Lowndes Square, that's
enough of it,
enough of Though of itt' gasped
the exasperated Bluejaw.
What do you take US for?" said the
large man, majesdcally. You can't
produce the missing article. We all
know that
Cant perdooce?" said Mr. Buejaw,
in bewiIderment, drawing from his
pocket the pendant and presenting it
to the public gaze.
For the first time the large man was
unequal to the occasion. He made a
dive in his own pocket for his treasure,
and brought it forth to stare at in as
tonishment. Miss Liddiard, too had
some difficulty in believing her eyes.
She went up to Bluejay and examined
his pendant and then gave a rapid
glance at the one the large man had
p1a ced on the table.
THAT is the one I lost, I am sure of
it" she said, pointing to Bluejaw's.
This she continued. looking at the
other minutely, seems new somehow
and different
There was a painful pause. The large
man rubbed his head thoughtfully for
moment. Then he whistled very softly.
and. while the half-asphyxiated policeman
emerged from behind the curtain Mr.
Blueiay made a bolt for the street, fol-
lowed quickly by the representa- tives of
the law
Left alone, Mabel raised her puzzled
eyes and looked. at Barallay, who was
Juggling at his mustache in embarrass-