The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-01-24
MYSTERIOUS
MISS DACRES
By Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield.
Copyright 1901, by j. B. Lipplncott Co.
CHAPTER 1II.-CoNr1NUED.

CHAPTER III.-CoNrINUED.
''Not the rubies!" calculated Miss
Evelyn. "He could not have meant
mothers rubies. Oh, he could not!
Could he, Elizabeth"
ooh, should think not, indeed,"
said Miss Elizabeth. 81 should think
not!''
But you put them away, Elizabeth.
You hid them, did you not?"
eyes, before we left so-unpleas-
antly, you know, l took them from
David's drawer and
1 remember what you said, Eliz-
abeth. You said: Now Evelyn, Da-
vid has turned us out. He may marry
again. We do not know what he may
do, and | 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, shall put
them where he cannot get them with
out consulting u.s."
''And so IL broke in Miss Eliza
beth. "Well, I never told you where,
odo IL was U1FeC
years ago, as if it were yesterday,
and l can go right to the spot this
minute"
Perhaps he's changed the place."
said I.
'He'd never find it," said Miss
Elizabeth
''And if he could never will be-
ieve," said Miss Evelyn, that Da-
vid Darlington was the sort of man
to defraud his sisters. You are pref
JUDGED, Elizabeth. The Catholics 1
have known were the best of Chris
itians. 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"
"Told whom?"
''The Sister of Charity. This, in
fact, was only two or three days
ago-the last time that l was up
there-Margot told me then, and
she said the Sister replied, We'll,
there! there! Don't bother! If you
can tell me where you think 1T is,
could look for YOU"
what did she look lke?"
81 never saw her but they told
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
tened good deal, and whenever she
could creep 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, oh, Master David, Mas
ter David, my little David! What
are they doing to YEP She said he
looked up with the frightened eyes
of child. They've got we under
their dominion. Listen to yer old
Margot, 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
grip of iron, and put her out of the
back door and bolted it. The next
time she listened was on the night
that he died. She said that she
heard the Sister speaking very sternly
to him, somewhat in this way: You
will tell me before l leave this room
where those jewels are
sob! oh! he cried out, how you
ha changed! How you have
changed! Oh! oh! l am afraid! l
am afraid! Margot! Margot!
"'You need not call upon Margot,'
said the Sister. Are you going to
Keep your promise or not?'
ooh, yes! yes!' he said. 'Oh, yes!
yes! They are here in this room.
will tell you tomorrow
Indeed, they We're not" sobbed
Miss Elizabeth through her tears.
Poor David, poor, poor David! But
go on, Sophronia."
"'In this room?' said she-syou
swear it?'
eyes, yes. So soon as I am able
to-