Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-22
By ROBERT
 LOUIS
 STEVENSON

But Harry stood before them silent
 nd downcast.
 "Speakm she cried. Speak! Where
 the bandbox?"
 And the men, with threatening ges-
 pres, repeated the demand.
 Harry drew handful of jewels from
 is pocket. He was very white.
 s'This is all that remains" said he.
 T. declare before heaven it was through
 b fault of rnina, and if you will have
 atience, although some are lost, am
 fraid, forever, others, I am sure, may
 e still recovered"
 ssAIas," cried Lady Vandeleur. "all
 UT diamonds are gone, and owe f90,-
 DO for dressw
 Madam, said the general, you
 aight have paved the gutter with your
 wn trash; you might have made debts b fifty times the sum you mention;
 lou might have robbed me of my moth r's coronet and ring, and nature might
 ave still so far prevailed that could
 lave forgiven you at last. But, nadanl, you have taken the rajah's
 diamond, the Eye of Light, as the
 rientals poetically termed it, the pride
 If Kashgar! You have taken from me he rajah's diamond he cried, raising
 is hands, "and all, madam-alI is at an
 Ind between usr'
 Believe me, General Vandeleur," 3he replied, that is one of the most
 agreeable speeches that ever I heard from your lips, and, since we are to be 1uined, could almost welcome the
 hange, if it delivers me from you. You have told me often enough that mar lied you for your money. Let me tell kou now that always bitterly repent I'd the bargain, and if you were still narriageable and had diamond big ger than your head should counsel eyen my maid, against q union so unin- Fiting and disastrous. As for you, Mir. Hartley" she continued, turning on the secretary, fyou have sufficiently ex- hibited your valuable qualities in this house. We are now persuaded that kou equally lack manhood, sense and sef respect, and can see only one course open to you-to withdraw in- stanter and, if possible, return no more For your wages you may rank as a creditor in my late husbands bank ruptcy.'
 Harry had scarcely comprehended this insulting address before the gen. eral was down upon him with another. And in the meantime" said that personage, follow me before the near lest inspector of police. You may inn bose upon a simple minded soldier, sir, &but the eye of the law will read your RIigreputable secret. If I must spend rny old age in poverty through your Sunderhand intriguing with my wife, mean at least that you shall not remain Aunpunished for your pains, and God, Esir, will deny me very considerable 'satisfaction if you do not pick oakum Sfrom now until your dying day" With that the general dragged Harry < from the apartment and hurried him 3downstairs and along the street to the police station of the district. Here, says my Arabian author, ended l this deplorable business of the band box, but to the unfortunate secretary 1 the whole affair was the beginning of a new and manlier life. The police were easily persuaded of his innocence, and ] after he had given what help he could in the subsequent investigations he was even complimented by one of the chiefs of the detective department on the probity and simplicity of his beha- vior. Several persons interested them selves in one so unfortunate, and soon after he inherited a sum of money from maiden aunt in Worcestershire. With this he married Prudence and set sail for Bendigo or. according to another account. for Trincomalee, ex- ceedingly content and with the best of prcsneets-