Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-02-27

and the Butchers boy Went dumping
past, and the sound of their feet and
their hoarse cries echoed loudly in the
narrow lane. The gardener had re-
ceived his answer, and he looked down
into Harry's face with an obnoxious
smile.
"A thief" he said, upon my word,
and very good thing you must make
of it, for see you dressed like a gen.
tleman from top to toe. Are you not
ashamed to go about the world in such
trim, with honest folk. l dare say,
glad to buy your castoff finery second
hand? Speak up, you dog" the man
went on. "YOu can understand Eng
lish, suppose, and l mean to have a
bit of talk with you before I march
you to the station
"Indeed, sir" said Harry. this is all
a dreadful misconception. and if you
will go with ne to Sir Thomas Vande-
leur's, in Eaton place. l can promise
that all will be made plain. The most
upright person. as now perceive. can
be led into suspicious POSITIONS"
my little man" replied the garden
er, 81 will go With you no farther than
the station house in the next street.
The Inspector, no doubt, will be glad to
place and have 4 bit Of afternoon tea
With your great acquaintance. Or
| would you prefer to go direct to the
J home secretary? Sir Thomas Vande-
leur. indeed! Perhaps you think
! don't know a gentleman when l see
! one from a common -the-hedge like
you? Clothes or no clothes, can read
you like book Here is shirt that
maybe cost as much as my Sunday hat.
| and that coat take it, has never seen
the inside of rag fair, and then your
| Boots
The man, whose eyes had fallen upon
the ground, stopped short in his insult
| ing commentary and remained for a
moment looking intently upon some
thing at his feet. Wien he spoke, his
voice was strangely altered.
| "What, in Gods name," said he, sis
all this?'
Harry, following the direction of the
mans eyes, beheld a spectacle that
: -&s=<Sruck him dumb with terror and
amazement In his fall he had de.
seconded vertically upon the bandbox
| and burst it open from end to end.
! Thence a great treasure Of diamonds
had poured forth and now Law abroad,
part trodden in the soil, part scattered
on the surface in regal and glittering
profusiOn. There was a magnificent
coronet which he had often admired
| on Lady Vandeleur, there were rings
and brooches, eardrops and bracelets
and even unset brilliants rolling here
! and there among the rosebushes like
drops Of morning dew. A princely for
tune lay between the two men upon the
ground-a fortune in the most inviting,
solid and durable form, capable of be-
ing carried in an apron, beautiful in it.
oelf and scattering the sunlight in a
million rainbow flashes.
Good heavens!' said Harry. II am
lostv
His mind raced backward into the
past with the incalculable velocity OF
thought, and he began to comprehend
his days adventures, to conceive them
as whole and to recognize the sad
imbroglio in which his own character
and fortunes had become involved. He
looked round him, as If for help, but
he was alone in the garden, with his
scattered diamonds and his redoubta.
bic interlocutor, and when he gave cal
there was no sound but the rustic OF
the leaves and the hurried pulsa ton OF
his heart. 1t was little wonder If the
young man felt himself deserted by
his spirits and, with a broken voice
repeated his last ejaculation:
Il am lost!'
The gardener peered in all directions
with an air Of guilt, but there was NJ
face at any of the windows, and he
seemed to breathe again..
"Pick up a heart" he said, "You fool