The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-20
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

ana about no other necklace I amt heard
nothing. You know a harmed sight too
much, 1t seems to me, guy ner.' |
.'rhat may be, said l. but you can add |
to what / know. and 1t might be worth
fifty pounds to you.
"Oon the cushion@' 4
IT don't understand.
well on that table then?''
Scarcely. Twenty-Five now. and TWEEN
| ty-five when find that you have told mo
| the truth
| Lets see the sinners"
| I counted out the money on the bed
Ave English banknotes which he eyed
suspiciously.
MAY, his mark" he said, thumbing the
paper. ''Well, as I'm shifting for New
/ market tom that's not much odds,
If you're not showing the queer on me-
do you think they're bad?'
"I'll tell you in moment: broken,
e broken, watermark right; gunner, I'll
put UP with EN-. Now, what do you
| want to known"
! IT want to know how you came to
learn that the stones We're in Nine. Brew
er's grave?"
"A straight question. Well, 4 was told
| by pail
/ rs he here in PARISH
| HE ought to be; he told me his name
was Mougat but found out that it amt
j He is a chap that writes for the papers
and runs that rag with the rum pictures
In it; what do you call it, Paris and
i something or other"
4 Paris ct Londres," ventured to haz-
ard.
"Ay, that's the thing; don't read
much Of the lingo myself, but gave him
tips at Longchamps last month, and we
came back in dogcart together. It
was then that he put me on to the stones
planted me with a false name.''
what did he say?"
"Said that some mad cove at Raincy
had buried necklace worth $4,000 with
his wife, and that the dullest chap out
could get into the vault and lift 1t. I'd
had bad day, and was almost stony.
He kept harping on the thing so, sug-
costing that man could get to Amer
lea with five thousand in his pocket, and
no one be penny the wiser or a penny
the worse, that 1 went off that night and
did it, and got fine heap for my pains.
That's what call mouldy pal-a pal
wouldn't make a doormat off,
"And you sold the booty to the old
Frenchman in the Rue de Stockholm?'
Exactly He gave me tenner for It,
and I'm crossing to England tonight. No
, place like the old shop gunner, when the
: French hogs are shifting about YOU
guess there's few of them will want me
, in Parry III a day or two; and that re-
minds me, you can do the noble If you
like and send the other chips to the Ele-
, plant Hotel at Cambridge last post to-
, morrow
told him that would, and left You
, may ask why had any truck with such
a complete blackguard, but the answer is
: obvious: had guessed from the first that
I there was something in the mystery Of
' the green diamonds which would not bear
. exposure from Brewers point of view and
his tale confirmed the opinion. I had
/ learned from it two obvious facts: one
hot T,,1o -
! friend of my friend; the other, that this
Y man knew perfectly well that sham
= diamond necklace was buried with Nine
Brewer. 1t came to me then, as in a
e flash, that he, and he alone, must have
S stolen, or at least have come into pos
q session Of, the real necklace which had
!, made.
+ How to undeceive the good soul who
9 had entrusted me with his case was the
remaining difficulty. He had loved this
: woman so; and yet instinct suggested
: to me that she had been unworthy Of hi
d deep affection. That she had been untru
y TO him I did not know. Galimard nigh
v have stolen the jewels from her, and hav
J, replaced them with q false set; on tn
k other hand, she might have been a part,
k to the fraud. What, then, should say
" or how much should dare with the grea
a responsibility before me of crushing ma
n whose heart was already broken?
l. With such thoughts I re-entered tn
apartment in the Rue de Morny. AS I di
'e SO, the servant put a telegram into m
e hands, and told me that M Jules Cali
l. mard was with his master. Fate how
re- ever, seemed to have given the man an
If other chance, for the cipher said,-
'Green q Company in error, they Shout
n have sent the stones only; necklace nc
ia for sale; clients name unknown, acting fc
to Paris agents"
i? l walked into the room with this mes
T sage in my pocket; and when Brewer sa,
h me he jumped up with delight, and in
troduced me to a well dressed Frenchma
n Wnohad the red rosette in the buttonho
n, of his faultless frockccat, and who shove
a row Of admirable teeth when he smile
no to greet me.
or Here is Jules" said Brewer, IN
" friend I have spoken of. M. Jules Gal
is mand; he has come to help us, as I sal
10 he would; there is no one whose advice
~ would sooner take in this horrible matter
,a I bowed stiffly to the man, and seate
~ myself on the opposite side Of the table
-, -, him. AS they seemed to wait for me
~ speak, took up the question at once.
!. "Wel,' I said speaking to Brewer b,
H. turning round to look at his friend, {
I uttered the words, II have found o,
- who hold the sham necklace to the ma
81, In the Rue de Stockholm; the rogue is
w racing tout named Bob Williams!'
'u Galimard turned right round in h
table. Brewer said, God bless me, whs
re scamp!''
ne and" continued, s'the extraordi11a1
IT part of the affair is that this scoundr
n was put to the business by a man he m,
at Longchamps last month. 1t is obviol
ny this this man stole the real nemklace ar
SO now desires all traces of his handiwork
be be removed from Nine. Brewers coffi
I have his name" with which direct n
ng mark I looked hard at the fellow, ar
b. he rose straight up from his chair ar
at clutched at the back Of 1t with his han
For moment he seemed speechless; b,
on when he found his tongue, he threw ava
1t? with dreadful indebtedness, the openir
he had given him.
so Madame gave me the JEWELS !
blIrted out that will swear before al
IN court"
ng The situation was truly terrible, tt
ny man standing gripping his chair, Brew
lot staring at both of us as at lunatics.
he What do you say? What's that?"
an cried; and the assertion was repeated.
are II am no theft! cried the man. draw
ing himself up In a way that was gr
on tesquely proud, "she gave me the jewel
ng your wife, a week after you gave them
he her. I had a false set made so that "
should not miss them; here is her letter
L; which she acknowledges The receipt
ak them"
m, The old man-for he was an old ms
the then in speech, in look and in the fearf
commissions of his face-sprung from
e a jr and Sfr he r1s VIII IN