Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-06-12
MYSTERIOUS
MISS DACRES
By Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield.
Copyright 1901. by J. B. Llpplncott Co.
CHAPTER III.-CoNr1NUED.

CHAPTER III.-CoNTINUED.
Evelyn. He could not have meant
mothers rubies. Oh, he could not!
Could he, Elizabeth
'Oh, I should think not, indeed"
said Miss Elizabeth. "I should think
Snot!"0
"But you put them away, Elizabeth.
You hid them, did you not?"
"Yes, before we left so-unpleas-
antly, you know, I took them from
David's drawer and"
81 remember what you said, Eiz-
abeth. You said: Now Evelyn, Da-
vid has turned us out. He may marry
again. We do not know what he may
do, and I intend to hide these jewels,
which were left to all four of us.
You and have as much interest and
as much right in them as David has,
since Eugene is dead, and, as we rep
resent a two-thirds share, I shall put
them where he cannot get them with
out consulting u.s."
"And so L" broke in Miss Eliza
/. beth. "Well, never told you where,
but I remember, though it was three
years ago, as if it were yesterday,
and 1 can go right to the spot this
minute
perhaps he's changed the place.,
saideI.
"He'd never find it," said Miss
Elizabeth
''And if he could I never will be-
lieve," said Miss Evelyn, chat Da
vid Darlington was the sort of man
to defraud his sisters. You are pref
udiced, Elizabeth. The Catholics I
have known were the best of Chris
tians. Margot must have heard
wrong"
81 don't believe she's heard wrong"
said I. "She said that he told her,
I mean the Sister, that the thing he
was thinking of was in the house
somewhere, and that when he got
well enough he would"
Q Told whom?"
; 1The Sister of Charity. This, in
fact. was only two or three days
, ago-the last etime that 1 was up
there Margot told me then, and
she said the Sister replied, We'll,
therei therei Don't botherl If you
can tell me where you think it is,
could look for YOU"
:. "Whatsdid shes1ook like ?''
never saw nCT DuC tncy IOlO
ME, those that saw her, that she had
pale face and dark hair; her hair
was smoothed back in. bands under
the cap Of her order. Then your
, brother had sinking spell, and the
sister called the priest. Margot lis
a tened a good deal, and whenever she
could screep up the stairs unknown
to any of them she stood as long as
she could at that back door. Once,
when she heard the sister go out of
the room and down the stairs. she
opened the back door and came in
softly She went up quickly to the
bed and said, stOh, Master David, Mas
ter David, my little David! What
are they doing to YEP She said he
looked up with the frightened eyes
of a child. They've got We under
their dominion Listen to yer old
liargot, who never told We wrong.
Send for the ladies, Master David,
sir. Send for the ladies, they'll
and then in came the priest. He
took her by the arm, she said, with
ga grip of iron, and put her out of the
back door and bolted it. The next
time she listened was on the night
Ssthat he died. She said that she
heard the Sister speaking very sternly
to him, somewhat in this way: You
will tell me before I leave this room
where those jewels are
"'Oh! oh! he cried out, how you
have changed! How you have
changed! Oh! OIL I am afraid! I
am afraid Margot! sMargot!'
You need not call upon Margot,'
said the Sister. Are you going to
keep your promise or not?'
oh, yes! yes!' he said. oh, yesi
yes! They. are here in this room.
viii tell you tomorrow"
Indeed, they were not sobbed
Miss Elizabeth through her tears.
Poor David poor, poor Davidi But
go on Sophronia.s'
Sin tals room2' said she-.you
swe1r 1t?'
Yes, yes. So soon as am able
to-,