The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-09
THE LOST PENDANT.
[From the King.l

Square. a heart shaped pendant, blue
enamel, surrounded by diamonds, with
diamond center. Initials on back, M.
L. The above reward will be paid to
any one bringing the same to Messrs.
LEIGHTON & Simmons. Sloane-st.''
Three people in three different places
ter o'clock on the morning of Friday,
May 49,
The first, who was a solid looking
person in blue, sitting on a high stool
in the inner precincts of New Scotland
Yard, was doing so because he was
paid for it.
The second, whose paper had already
acquired some beer stains from the pub
lie house bar at which he was reading
it, was white-faced gentleman with a
pair of twitching eyes. a two days
beard and a bad habit of biting his
nails. His eye ran over the advertise
ment without surprise, for it had been
inserted in accordance with his expecta-
tions. This was not because he had
lost the brooch, but because he had
well-found it.
The sum offered was food for medita-
ton Mr. Bluejaw. to give him the
name usually applied to him, though not
bestowed upon him in baptism hand
somely conceded that it was pretty
fair but reflected, on the other hand,
that the general practice was not light
~ to be departed from, the general prac-
tice being to wait few days and see
whether any further inducement would
be offered.
The third reader was sandy haired
young man of fresh complexion, attired
in Zingard smoking jacket, who ap-
peared to have very little appetite for
his excellent brea kfast. and he had
come upon the ad. srtisement purely by
chance. There was not the faintest
doubt about it. He knew the pendant
a once For one thing, he had bought
it; for another when certain events had
happened, it had been returned to him,
and thereafter had been banded about
between the giver and the donee, till
she had finally kept it on the ground
that the whole thing was becoming ri
diculous.
And so she had lost it. "e1O"
The sum gave rise to reflection to the
sandy young man as well as to Mr..
Eiuejaw. She wanted it back, and
wanted it rather badly. Spare $40
notes, he knew, were rarities with
Colonel Liddiard's daughter. Yes, it
was clear that she still valued the
thing-but why? Fred Barallay-that
was his name-jerked himself from the
chair and paced the room. A glance at
ar Barclays face would have shown
that The conclusion he had arrived at as
to why she valued it was satisfying.
had wandered further afeld. He was
supposing. just sIpposing, that ne
found the pendant Would he have the
pluck to take it back TO her himself?
Yes, he was sure he would. Nothing
venture. nothing vim Faint heart
never won fair lady" WHO fears to
fall'-a dozen seasoned proverbs put
him on his mett1e Then if he did-and
it was at this point that Mr.. Barclays
agination fairly carried him away,
into the drawing room of Lowndes
Square.
Feeling the necessity of action, he
changed his coat, seized his hat, and
went forth into Piccadilly, possibly with
vague idea of finding the pendant. If
such was his intention it was, the
reader knows, doomed to disappoint-
nIent. but it so happened that in his
wanderings he came across the jew
eller's shop at which he had purchased
the lost article. He stopped, looked into
the winodw, went on slowly to the cor
ner, hesitated, turned back and en-
tered
The thing he ordered was curiously
enough, a heart shaped pendant OF
blue enamel surrounded by diamonds
initials M. /" We're to be engraved on
the back. The whole thing was to be as
like as possible to one he had ordered
the preceding spring, and he was
Obliged to have it Immediately. The
jeweller turned up his books, noted the
price, remembered the design and
shook his head. He had not another like
it. However. urged and entreated, he
gave ground for hope that among the
wholesale trade. which should be ram
sacked from end to end. a similar pend
ant could be found. 1t would be en-
graVed at once, and if such an article
could be obtained in England or Paris
he should have it on Monday.
Happily for Mr.. Barclays peace of
mind, on Monday morning the package
came but then arose a doubt as to
hot her. ha a n h3
been found and handed over. with
eager hands he tore upon the package,
threw the white morocco case into the
fireplace and started out to the shop
of Messrs. Lighton & Simmons.
Once arrived there, he inquired with
ready artifice whether the lady who had
lost her pendant had been to inquire
after it.
The lady had been in every day. was
the answer, but the pendant had not
yet been found
At the time he scarcely noticed that a
large, phlegmatic looking man gave way
to him Immediately.
That's all right said Mr.. Baral1ay.
1--WE got it. I will go and give it her.
Everything had gone so well that 1t
was with a tremOr, not of doubt, but of
excitement, that he ran up the well re-
membered steps and glanced over the
familiar square as he waited for his ring
to be answered. The same footman
came to the door, and beneath the inn
perturhability of the British servant
lurked a look of surprise and pleased
recognition. Miss Mabel was at home.
''Will you tell her.. said Barallay,
that her pendant has been found, and
that the finder would like to give it to
her personally, if she would not mind?
Do not give my name"
He was ushered into the drawing room,
and waited. Up and down he paced in
pleasurable excitement. Passing the
window in one of his peregrinations. he
saw the man in a billycock hat, who had
given way to him in Lighton & Sim
mons strol1ing by the ratings opposite
the house, but the recognition aroused
no curiosity He had to wait some con-
siderable time, and his fancy naturally
began to play with the coming inter
view He saw her as she would enter with
look hal clad hal xy Sl7xy of roroorifi0n