Hutchinson gazette., 1901-11-14

believe me, misst What's gone with
~"
Alice seaton looked at Hughes with
a puzzled look, She was thinking
matters over. II sooned cleared again,
Then Lady Sarah must have kept
II out when she put in the rest, II
was she who returned themto the case;
did not, Perhaps she wore It last
night"
mo, miss, that she didn't She wore
only those two"
IL saw what she had on" interrupt
ed Alice, But she might also have
put on the other without my noticing,
Then she must have kept II out for
some purpose, | will ask her, Walt
here an instant, Hughes for, OF
course, you will like to be ut a GER
talnty."
That's cool" thought Hughes, as
Alice went into the breakfast room,
and the colonel came out of II with
the newspaper. 81 should have said
1t was somebody else who would like
to be ut certainty instead OF me.
Thank goodness II wasn't In my
charge last night, II anything dread
ful has came to pass My lady don't
keep out her bracelets for sport. Miss
Seaton has left the key about, that's
what she has done, and It's hard to
say who hasn't been at II; l knew the
box had been ransacked over"
Lady Sarah" said Alice did you
wear your new diamond bracelet last
nlght?"
NO"
"Then did you put II into the box
with the others?"
mo" languidly repeated Lady
Sarah, attaching no Importance to the
question,
after you had chosen the bracelets
you wished to wear, you put the 9th
ers into the box yourself" exclaimed
Alice, Did you put In the new one,
the diamond, or keep II out?"
"Thc diamond was not there"
Alice stood confounded ut was on
the table at the back OF ALL Lady
Sarah" she presently said; "neXt the
window"
81 tell you, Alice, II was not there,
| don't know that ! should have worn
It II It had been, but certainly looked
for 1t, Not seeing It, | supposed you
had not put 1t out, and did not care
sufficiently to ask for IT,"
Alice felt In a mesh OF perplexlty;
curious thoughts, and very unpleas'
Ing ones were beginning to come over
her, But, Lady Sarah, the bracelet
was indeed there when you went Ia
the table" she urged, 81 put 1t there"
Il can assure you that you labor
under mistake as to It's being there
when came up from dinner" an
swered Lady Sarah, "Why do you
ask?'
Hughes has come to say 1t Is moi
in the case, She Is outside, waiting
Outside now? Hughes called out
her ladyship; and Hughes came In,
Whats this about my braceletY
81 don't know, my lady, The brace
let Is not in It's place, so | asked Miss
Seaton. She thought your ladyshlT
might have kept II out yesterday even
ing"
81 have neither touched II nor seer
It, said Lady Sarah,
Then we have had thieves ut work
ut must be In the box, Hughes
spoke up Alice. 81 laid 1t out on the
table, and II is impossible that thieves
AS you phrase it-could have come
there"
"Oh, yes, It Is in the box, no doubt,
said her ladyship, somewhat GROSSLY
for she dlsliked to be troubled espe'
clally in hot weather. you have moi
searched properly Hughes"
my lady" answered Hughes, 81
can trust my hands, and can trust
my eyes, and they have all four beer
into every hole and crevIce OF the
box"
Lady Frances Chenevix laid down
the Morning Post and advanced. "ls
the bracelet really lost?"
ITO be Contlnued.)
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