The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-01-31

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do YOU KNOW THAT GIRLS A
allowed to smoke in that barn, not
in the Judges time, nor yet in
mine."
He might have done it all the
same" said 1. "We have to shut our
eyes to a great deal in this world"
That's true" said Aunt Jane
Mary. 'But there's one thing you
can't shut if you try, not unless you
put clothespin on it, and that's your
nose; the smell came right up
through the floor
Perhaps Mr.. Beldon came home
early, and it was he who smoked
He has no business to come home
early. He said -
''Oh, yes, he has," said l. "He has
right to use the room at any time.
But Miss Dacres may even smoke
and not be boy"
''And look at her hair!" exclaimed
Aunt Jane Mary, land her slang!
You'll never convince me she isn't a
boy until
Aunt Jane Mary did not say when
that time would come, and 1 must
say that what she had given voice to
stayed by me and had it's effect on
me to a certain degree.
Miss Dacres has a boys ways and
tones and manners; and her hair!
If l ever saw boys hair, it is her
short, coarse curls."
Well" said 1, s'boy or no boy, she
has got tn stay until ttnu ner mon
ey. I'm going to the funeral now,
and when | come home 1 shall bring
either John Sommers or his advice
with me. You needn't mind any of
them coming up to wait on you,
there's nothing to steal.' l sighed
again. Here's your bell" and l ran
hurriedly down the stairs.
Aunt Jane Mary's bell rang before
1 got to the front door. l had put
it too near her. l went back wear
lily.
"Well?" I exclaimed, somewhat
impatiently, 1 fear.
There's another thing. You run
off so! l heard voices under my
window last night
"Oh, dear! Aunt Jane Mary, don't
tell me of any more mysteries. 1
am so tired of them. Her brother
came out to see her the night before
last. Perhaps he came out last night.
l can't help it. She may be liar or
murderess, anything in the wide
world, but here she must stay until
find that money" and 1 ran down
the stairs again and ran out of the
house and out of the gate and half
way to the Hall.
l found the people assembling in
the great hall, but Miss Elizabeth
sent Margot to tell me that she want
ed to see me upstairs, that 1 was to
come down with the family to the
library [ went up as I was bid. Miss
Elizabeth drew me into small room
off the chamber where her brother
had died. She kissed me, and whis-
pered in my ear, They're here! I've
found them. just where | put them
three years ago"
"What?" asked l in an awful whis-
per.
''The jewels" she whispered. "The
jewels, my dear mothers rubies. l
think those were what they were
looking for, those wretches! And |
think that in some way they COM
passed my poor brother David's
DEATH" She drew down the shade,
closed the door, and locked it. Then
she went to the fireplace. "Here,"
she said. This upright slab was al
ways loose. ! often pulled it down
as child. When l went away, l
drew it out so," she suited her ac-
ton to her words. 81 deposited this
case within and then sealed it up
with little plaster-of-Paris. l
took the rubies from a drawer in the
library, a secret drawer; we all
knew the secret. They were mine,
as much as his, and you see now how
wise l was. Had l not done so, those
wretches would have had them to-
day" She had in her hand the blue
velvet case which l knew so well.
She opened it, and even in that dark
ened room the wonderful rubies
shone forth with million dazzling
rays. There was a knock at the
door. Miss Elizabeth hurriedly re
placed the case. YES, YES she
called, Il am coming; | will be there
at once" She pushed the slab in
place. stuck a folded piece Of paper