The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-08

self with anger. Sir Kdolphus mad up.
set the share market for forty-eigh!
mortal hours, half ruined round doz.
city, upheaved the house. and now---
he apologized for 1t as one might apol.
ogize for being late ten minutes for
som and rushed round to see him. How
| had he dared to introduce the tmpos.
tor to solid men as Professor schleier.
shoasers sF The AaG sow shdfus ses
| introduced himself as the great jena
chemists, he had lorg white hair. ant
2 stoop In the shoulders What reasos
| Elected to myself that on much thu
same grounds Charles In turn had ac.
cepted the Hon. David .iraaton and
object could the creature have for this
extraordinary deception? Charles knew
only too well. It was clear 1t was done
to disturb the diamond market, and ".
realized, too late. that the man wils
| had done 1t was--Colonel Clay, in "au;
other of his manifold allotropic enl.
| bcdin,ents!" Charles had had his wish
/ and had met his enemy once more IL
! Lnndun'
We could see the whole plot. Colonel
/ Clay was polymorphic like the elemens
tdinary sleight of hand, he. had substi.9s
tuted real diamonds for the SHAPED 81
mass that had come out of the appa.s
Eratus in the Interval between handinE
1
! DISTRIBUTING them gpiecemeal to the
men of science and representatives. O (
the diamond interest. We all watched
him closely. of course. when he opened
the crucibies. but when once we had
isatisfied ourselves that something CAM
4 out OUR doubts We're set at rest, anc
We forgot to watch whether he dis.
tributed those something's or not 70
the recipients Coninrers always de
i pend upon such momentarv dtstractionss
Eor lapses of attention. As usual too.
4 SPACE the moment his trick was one
we'll performed. He vanished ltlse
smoke as the count ana seer had vail
Iished before. and was never again
Charles went home more arsry THAI e !.
imagine why. He seemed as deeply
hipped as # he. had lost his :. $, thousands
After all,' said. Though Col q:
have suffered a temporary loss n
comfort to TIL nix that you should have
tide, hut also preventoii yourself from
losing ANYTHING Mt all of your OWE
for the widows and orphans; but i
at least 1t isn't you who lose by 1t this
time"
Charles withered ms with tiercs
'.Wentworth!" he said once more
"you nre a fool!" Then he relapsei
! Into silence.
But you declined to sell OUT 4 said
q / He gaZcd at me fiXedtyj ss
as 1t likely" he asked. at last. .'ii
would tell you If / meant to sell@ont
4 or that I'd sell out openly through Fin
4 glemore, my usual broker? Why, al!
4 the world would have known, and Col
condas would have been finished. a.
lit is, I don't desire to tell an ass like
y lycus exactly how much I've lost. Butt
did sell out, and some unknown opera
tor bought In at once. and closed for
5 ready money. and has sold again thiss
morning; and after all that has hap.
opened, 1t will be impossible to track
him. He didn't walt for the account
he settled up instantly. And he sold
lin like manner. 1 know now what has
been done. and how cleverly 1t mas al
been disguised and covered; but tho
most I'm going to tell you to-day II
Just this-it's by far the biggest ham
. Colonel Clay has made out Of me. y.
could retire on 1t II he liked My one
Hope Is. It may satisfy him for Ilifes
but, then, no man has ever had enough
u . You sold OUT" exclaimed. you.
81 the chairman Of the company? You de.,
serted the ship! And how about tht5
81 trust? How about the widows and ORE
phans contided to your"
Charles rose and faced me. 81
seymour Wentworth, he said II,
4 his most sol..i,Ii volCt, syon have lived
witt! me for years. and had every adj
!. vantage. You have seen high finance,
: vet you ask me tina. question:! It's my
llLelief you Will never, never understand
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