The sun., 1908-09-13
THE JEWELS OF THE
l ARROWSMlTHS
Smithers Finds a Secret Hiding
Place. bot Fails to Get Away
With the Booty.


Back to fust principles. Smithers,
said Gentleman George Ringgold.
There's no game like the old game,
Jar-c. arter all, desponded nelly.
And with that pulled card from the
secrit raoords Of the Charakter Surety
Company, q defunct oopperatun, whose
deeds wero fated to live arter thin in
our iawless hands. The card read:
ARRowsNITH, AhRoS.-Since insured 10
now confined In an insane asylum as an In
durable lunatic. suggest that his policy
OF $50. .OO0 rs guardian OF the Arrowsmith
family Jewels be cancelled at maturity.
HIS maiden sisters have such faith In his
recovery that they refuse TO investigate
hts affairs, while Mrs. Emily Runyon. his
only child. Is engrossed with grief over
the recent death Of her husband. II should
be noted that just before Arrowsmith's 8
mania became uninistakable he made ex-
tensivc and mysterious alterations OF the
old home. / have heard that he had a
eecret receptacle contrived for the jewels.
At all events they are no longer In the
safety deposit vaults. where by the tern Q
OF his agreement with us he was bound to
keep them. Suppose he never recovers
and the heirs refuse TO tear down the house
where would We be? Cancel 1t, say.
large and / thereupon managed to
clip our two konks under wan linking
cap to such an effect that presently II
was agreed between the two distractin'
parties arter this wise: Smithers shud
secure n man suvvant's place at the
Arrowsmith home and learn some more
gentle and confidential capacity in which
large might introduce hisself.
whereupon large shud stip on the stage
as the principal charakter In the little
dramer Of -Hunt the Sinners" The actur
shud be short and sharp. without the us'a
delays for philanderih on his part. Whin
o man is hungry there 10 no time fol
nibbltn' at sweetmeats, we both agreed.
Two days later. perliminaries having
been deranged, i TUX the local for the little
river town near by to which the Arrow.
smithbedstead raised Its ANCESTRAL heights
Just In front Of me sat trim and likely
iass, with that unde1nable something
about her that didicates leddy's maid.
Z In her dress. 1 mean; for there was a
saft pinsiveness to her oval face, color.
less excipt for a lampblack glow under.
neat, like the touch Of the mimories q
better days. Even before l cart glimr
OF her dark and fathomless eyes l was
strangely imprissed. and whin she glanced
bacx'ards inquiringly to the conductor
and their rays touched me / felt thin
like sunlight streamin' t'roo a painted
cattedalf winder..
Heving learned from her talk with the
conductor that the cause Of her putty,
hatun was doubt as to where she shud
get Of for the Arrowsmith house, med
bold to offer my services as guide. Moo
tooat condolences revealed that her name
was Rebecca Curtain and that she had ac-
cipted the s,tuatun Of leddy's maid to
Mrs. Runyon. With me heart cevortin'
like two-vear-old at the post, / TUX my
eeat beside her, even as wan bites at lump
= Niver before had met or dreamed Of
sech divine creatur. The quips and
jests with which / ginerally graoed my
company speech fed from me nut like beg
gars aud rascals kicked out.
we passes this way but wanst.' she
murmured ct the very fust; is 1t too
much for US to do all the good We camp
I'm a tryin' to do thin, : yentured; and
thin stopped appalled, at the grief and
shock depicted on her countenance:
Taking juty as her tiki. she laid down
the law and gospil OF life in eech sweet
but strong wey that as we walked toged-
der up to the house fit like putin me
ehoes on me head and dust on me feet arter
the ancent fashpn, her very prisence
seemed 30 howly.
For the fust time in my life found me
t'oughts wanderln' from the real to the
ideeI, in orkard flights perhaps, but earn
est withal, like SQUADS f1utterin' from the
GOOD. With sech en- inspiratun and guide,
40 charrpingly embodied why might ! not
rise from the dark aud dismal alleys to su-
punnal moanting heights? For the fust
time in my life seen beeutyus wisiuns thief
cud not be pucha sed-the wisiuns OF
home cnd love. -
:. .utwithstarrdihfri' ] vas not "Hra.aiG,adlf!'ai
80 me hand end glove pledge to Gentle
- n largo. Tho two Miss Arrow
!. .iiths were twin specimens OF spinster-
hood ct it's dryest; they lived oy talk
alone. They. were pleased with my
c1issoj their affairs before me as freely
as they did before the odder dumb waiter
Thus / KEN to know that they were
greatly concerned because certir 9
Gerald Hawais, an English artist ana
architect, with whom Mr. Arrowsmith
had had somo correspondence relative to
the mural dicoratuns Of the house, had
not put in an appearance His last letter.
Il seemed. had limited at family compi-
catuus which might cause delay.
While the ould Ieddies were still debatin
whether or not they shud write him or
sock odder exputt advice Gentleman
large, ,infarmed Of the sitooatun, ar
rived In the full fig and simbiauce OF
Gerald Hawais and was deceived by thin
with opeu erms.
ii.
large tux up his job in q workmanlike
way. Wan day for an inspictun OF the
walls, wan day for an adaptatun OF the
famous cartridges OF the Chinch Palace.
wan day for Estimates Of cast. and there
y'are.
by the way, leddies, might have the
help OF that likely young man. Smithers
In running my misuremints'' he asked.
The Miss Arrowsmiths, like a pair OF
walnut faced dolls OF years ago, per-
farmed their DOODLE act OF being unly
too glad to anticipate Mr.. Hawais's livery
wish. Whereupon we repaired to the
hbry, that being the limit Of practical
work We cud expict TO do there.
"a Mobile room; done in the early Got
rocks style, with grind winders. fathead
arches, oystered columns, flying buffers
and all the odder architectitruliroora
qusves and quakers appertainin to the
frozen music Of the Stun Age.
sit is here IL anywhere, Smithers.
whispered large, that the old dotty die
his didly work. I've learned that he was
locked up here continooal with a skilled
xrertrr,an IN n oons,Inptive GALLON foI