New-York tribune., 1901-10-27

What has the pendant got to do with your"
fumed Barallay.
Don't argue. Don't argue" said the man.
soothingly Now. my gentleman. would you
like a cab?"
desire for combat. They know at that
house. Ring the bell and ask them who 1 am"
know you, do they? Constable ring the
The bell rung and they waited.
Dld you get your reward?" insinuated thu
large man.
'Oh, yes, I got my reward" responded Bar
ailay. moodily. and the footman opened the
door.
Who am I?' asked Barallay.
Ihe footman was too much aStOnished at the
sight OF a constable and another, whose clothes
were the boots of police force, to give ready
answer.
Who is hep demanded the large
why, it's Mr. Barallay, and he used to
be- responded the footman.
Yes. yes broke in Barallay hurredly, who
did not want his love troubles blurted from the
houSetops.
And this afternoon he come with the pend
ant" volunteered the footman. Barallay wished
the pendant at the bottom of the sea
For Heavens sake don't let's stand at the
front door. There'll be crowd. Take us into
the library he said
Deep the conviction of the large
that the person who brought back the pendant
for the reward must be thief, or his guilty
ceiver, some vague doubts, connected with
Barallay's clothes and his knowledge of the in
terror of house in Lowndes Square wormed
themselves into his mind, as he, with the police
man, tramped after their prisoner into the
library.
We'll. what is it all about?" asked Barallay.
hngng himself into a chair.
The large man raised a ddactic forefnger
The pendant stole" he said, and then
at his back appeared Miss Liddard. with just
shade of pink at the tip of her nose and her
eyelids. She paused in astonishment. and Baral-
ly looked uncomfortahly away. THE pendant
was stole" pursued the large man. because the
chain stole and other articles at the same
time belonging TO other people. Grabbed as
they 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 received it, Now you came for the re-
ward and, wots more, you got it Miss
Liddiard started, and the large man turned and
her. The pendant was in her hands.
Excuse me. maam.' he said and took it.
Now he continued, addressing Baraliay.
" 'ow did you come by it?"
Barallay remembered that he had told Mabel
that he had found it. In view of its denoue-
story of his visit to the jewellers
Il refuse to say" he said
Come come" said the large man, did you
buy il. praps?'
Il refuse to say" repeated Barallay.
The large man turned to the constable. whose
conception Of his duties appeared to be to stare
fxedly at one spot in the ceiling. and shook his
head.
There's nothing for it," he said. but to take
i'm 10 where e p'raps will say"
Mabel stared at Baralay with two frightened
eyes, and was about To speak, when the front
door bell pealed out again The footman rushed
breat hlessly remarked:
"Thcrc'S another person come and seZ he's
found the di mond pendant"
Amid the astOnishcd group the large man
stood the master of the situation. To the police
man he hastily whispered. Hide yourself" and
Immediately one of the window curtains became
hulbous with that officials form. and billowy
with lahorcd breathing. while over the too Oh
yious feet the laree man threw antimacassar.
Then tossing his hat behind the sofa, and pick
ing up book. he assumed the air Of Il house
holder heguiling his elegant leisure with literary
pursuits.
SHOW him in he said to the footman, and
the footman showed in Mr.. Blue jaw.
1t will be seen that that gentleman had solved
| the knotty points in the ConSde Grafton of which
he was engaged In the first place Mondays
paper had added nothing To thu reward, and,
being in circumstances of financial embarraSS-
ment. he could wait no longer In the second
place he had come to the conclusion that TO
have a thing We'll done one must do il ones self
and so had risked the recognition which might
have been inconVenicnt and had gone personally
| ia the shop of MeSsrs. Lighton * simmons
There he produced the pendant, and demanded
as mis- reward 10. The shopwoman. of course
told him that not half hour before some
else had proclaimed himself the finder, and had
gone off to the Iady's house. The reward would
probably have been paid to him. Ey hurrying
blr Bluejaw, if he really was the finder might
get there in time. Mr.. Bluejaw sWore by all his
gods that he was the finder, and wanted to