Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-23

uhuQ duu dBuluSt tue ldrkSSL OuUSs Heavens" he broke out suddenly, Ifs not this the lesson? Must I not learn to cut diamonds for myself?"
 It seemed to him as if, he had sailed at once out of his perplexities. He re uiembered that he knew d jeweler, one B. Maculloch, in Edinburgh, who would be glad to put him in the way of the necessary training. A few months, perhaps few years, of sordid toll, and he would be sufficiently expert to di- vide and sufficiently cunning to dis pose with advantage of the ratah's diamond. That done, he might return to pursue his researches at leisure, a wealthy and luxurious student, envied and respected by all. Golden visions attended him through his slumber, and he awoke refreshed and light hearted with the morning sun.
 Mir. Raeburn's house was on that day to be closed by the police, and this af- forded pretext for his departure. He cheerfully prepared his baggage, trans ported it to Kings Cross, where he left 1t in the cloakroorn, and returned to the club to while away the afternoon and dine.
 If you dine here today, Rolles,' ob- served an acquaintance you may see two of the most remarkable men in England Prince Florizel of Bohemia and old Jack Vandeleur.''
 "I have heard of the prince" replied Mir. Roles, land General Vandeleur have even met in society,"
 General Vandeleur is an ass!' re- turned the other. "rhis Is his brother John, the biggest adventurer, the best judge of precious stones and one of the most acute diplomatists in Europe. Have you never heard of his duel with the Due de Val d'Orge. of his exploits and atrocities when he was dictator of Paraguay, of his dexterity in recover ing Sir Samuel Lewis jewelry, or of his services in the Indian mutiny services by which the government prof ited, but which the government dared not recognize? You make me wonder what we mean by fame or even by in fanny, for Jack Vandeleur has pvodi- gious claims to both. Run downstairs" he continued, take table near them and keep your ears open. You will hear some strange talk or I am much misled'
 "But how shah know them?" in- quired the clergyman.
 .Know themp cried his friend. "Why, the prince is the finest gentleman in Europe the only living creature who looks like king, and as for Jack Van- deleur, if you can imagine Ulysses at seventy years of age and with a saber cut across his face you have the man before you! Know them. indeed! Why, you could pick either of them out of Derby dayy'
 Rolles eagerly hurried to the dining room It was as his friend had assert edit was impossible to mistake the pair in question. Old John Vandeleur was of a remarkable force of body and obviously broken to the most difficult exercises. He had neither the carriage of a swordsman nor of a sailor nor yet of one much inured to the saddle, but so- ething made up of all these and the result and expression of many different habits and dexterities. His features were bold and aquiline, his expression arrogant and predatory his whole ap- pearance that of swift, violent, un- scrupulous man of action, and his copi-
 
 that traversed his nose and temple add ed a note of savagery to head already remarkable and menacing in itself.
 In his companion, the Prince of Bohe- mia, Mir. Rolles was astonished to rec ognize the gentleman who had recom- mended him the study of Gaboriau. Doubtless Prince Florizel, who rarely visited the club, of which, as of most others. he was an honorary member, had been waiting for John Vandeleur when Simon accosted him on the previ- 0us evening.
 The other diners had modestly retired into the angles of the room and left the distinguished pair in certain iso, lation, but the young clergyman was unrestrained by any sentiment of awe and, marching boldly up, took his placs at the nearest table.
 The conversation was indeed new to the students ears. The ex-dictator of Paraguay stated many extraordinary experiences in different quarters of the world, and the prince supplied com mentary which, to a man of thought, was even more interesting than the events themselves Two forms of ex- 4CAA~A(S WSAS tAuo OAOuShL tOSCtoNa and laid before the young clergyman, and he did not know which to admire the nlost-the desperate actor or the skilled expert in life; the man who spoke boldly of his own deeds and perils or the man who seemed, like a god, to know all things and to have suffered nothing. The manner of each aptly fitted with his part in the dis course. The dictator induIged in bru- talities alike of speech and gesture. His hand opened and shut and fell roughly on the table. and his voice was loud and heady. The prince, on the other hand, seemed the very type of urbane docility and quiet. The least movement. the least infection, had with him a weightier significance than all the shouts and pantomime of his companion, and if ever, as must ire quently have been the case, he de- scribed some experience personal to himself, 1t was so aptly dissimulated as to pass unnoticed with the rest.
 At length the talk wandered on to the late robberies and the rajah's dia- mond.
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