Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-03

ne result was tHdl the E1lSllSl pollCS
had begun to feel rather nervous about
it all, and were extremely glad to have
matters cleared up, and to say so, and
to get the requisite order to set the pris-
oners at large. And even as to Baraka s
having worn mems clothes in England.
with the intention of Disgusting herself.
which it is against the law to do, they
were ready to forgive her on the ground
that she didoit in self defense to AVOID
annoyance. she being young and very
pretty; but they requested her not to
do SO again.
Also. Pinney restored the ruby to her.
and all her other belongings were gwen
back to her, even including the smart
gray suit of mems clothes In which she
had been arrested; and her luggage and
other things which the manager of the
hotel where she had been stopping had
handed over to the police were all re-
turned; and when Spiro appeared at the
hotel to pay the small bill that had been
left owing he held his head as high as an
Oriental can when he has got the better
of anyone, and that is pretty high indeed
Furthermore, Pinney insisted on giving
Logotheti a formal document by which
Pinney & Son bound themselves to make
good to him, his heirs, or assigns. the loss
of a ruby, approximately OF certain
weight and quality, which he had lost
through their carelessness.
IN the day following Baraka liberia
~ ton, Lady Maud received Margaret
pressing telegram begging her to go to
Bayreuth. The message reached her
before noon, about the time when Mar
garet and her companions had come back
from their morning walk, and after hest
tating for half an hour, she telegraphed
that she would come with pleasure. and
would start that evening.
She had Just read the official account
of the ruby case in its new aspect, and
did not believe a word OF the story. 10
her mind it was quite clear that Logothet1
was still infatuated with the girl; that ne
had come to London as fast as he could;
and that he had deliberately sworn that
the ruby was not his, but another, IN
order to get her out of trouble. Ii 1t
was not his, it had not been stolen from
Pinney's, and the whole case fell through
at once. If she was declared innocent,
the stone must be given back to her; he
would take it from her as soon as they
were alone and return it to his own
pocket; and. being an Oriental, he would
probably beat her for robbing him, but
would not let her out of his sight again
till he was tired of her. Lady Maud had
heaTQ from neT late nuSDdHu III" oil
Turks believed that women had no
souls, and should be kept under lock and
kew, and we'll fed, and soundly beaten
now and then for the good of their tenn
pers This view was exaggerated; but
Lady Maud was in humor to recall it
and accept it without criticism and made
up her mind that before leaving town to
Join Margaret she would make sure OF
the facts No friend of hers should marry
a man capable of such outrageous deeds
If she had not been an lmpulslve
woman. she could never have done so
much good in the world; and she had
really done so much that she believed in
her impulses, and acted on them without
taking into consideration the possibility
that she might be doing harm. But the
damage which very actively good people
sometimes do quite unintentionally IS
often greater and more lasting than
that done by bad people, because the
good ones carry with them the whole
resistless weight of real goodness and OF
real good works already accomplished.
Perhaps this is why honestly convinced
reformers sometimes bring about more
ruin in few months than ten years of
bribery and corruption have wrought.