Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-01-24
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lit"
Alice Seaton looked at Hughes with
q puzzled look. She was thinking
matters over. It sooned cleared again.
Then Lady Sarah must have kept
It out when she put In the rest Il
was she who returned them to the case;
did not. Perhaps she wore 1t last
night"
"No. 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 it out for
some purpose will ask her. Wait
here an instant, Hughes. for. Of
course. you will like to be at GER
tainty."
That's COOL thought Hughes, as
Alice went into the breakfast room.
and the colonel came out of it with
the newspaper. II should have said
it was somebody else who would like
to be at certainty instead Of me.
Thank goodness it wasn't in my
charge last night, If anything dread
full 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 1t; knew the
box had been ransacked over
Lady Sarah" said Alice. did you
wear your new diamond bracelet last
night?"
"No."
"Then did you put it 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 it out?"
"The 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"
II tell you, Alice, it was not there.
I don't know that should have worn
it if it had been, but certainly looked
for it. Not seeing 1t. supposed you
had not put it out. and did not care
sufficiently to ask for it,
Alice felt in mesh of perp1exity:
curious thoughts, and very unpleas-
ing ones, were beginning to come over
her. "But. Lady Sarah, the bracelet
was indeed there when you went to
the table, she urged. II put 1t there"
IT can assure you that you labor
under a mistake as to its being there
when came up from dinner" an
swered Lady Sarah. why do you
ask?''
Hughes has come to say it is not
in the case. She is outside, waiting.
Outside now? Hughes" called out
her ladyship; and Hughes came in.
Whats this about my bracelet? 2" .
81 don't know, my lady. The brace
let is not in its place, so asked Miss
Seaton. She thought your ladyship
might have kept it out yesterday even
ing"
81 have neither touched it nor seen
it, said Lady Sarah.
Then we have had thieves at work. "
ut must be in the box. Hughes"
spoke up Alice. II laid it out on the
table, and it is impossible that thieves
-as you phrase it-could have come
there"
ooh. yes, it is in the box, no doubt"
said her ladyship, somewhat GROSSLY.
for she disliked to be troubled espe-
cially in hot weather. you have not
searched properly Hughes"
'My lady" answered Hughes, Il
can trust my hands, and can trust
my eyes, and they have all four been
into every hole and crevice OF the
box"
Lady Frances Chenevix laid down
the Morning Post and advanced. is
the bracelet really lost?' 4