Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-06-04

was drawing down behind the dark
range Hedges told his story:
Five years ago. before | met you.
Medford, l travelled for large dealer
In precious stones. l went TO Calcutta
on the track OF Il pair OF magnificent
pigeon blood rubies. the property OF n
gambling maharaiah. who was hard
pressed 10y his creditors.
"TheSe 1 bought together with sew
eral other splendid stones. the COM
bined value OF which was $200,O00.
Il walked into Calcutta from the
maharajahs palace just as dusk was
falling Perhaps the pressure OF my
revolver against my breast gave me
assurance, for Il Is dark aud lonely
road, but there was fascination in
watching the dying OF the red glowing
Indian sunset ana the coming OF the
velvet black darkness jewcled above
with stars and pointed here and there
with cleaning lights from scattered
dwellings.
81 was crossing bleak stretch OF
Wild ground. rank with parched grass
and weeds. when first heard the tenn.
Pic bell-the same bell that you heard
last night and from which ran away.
1T seemed as II all the poor down
troddcn. plague stricken natives OF
India called appeallugly for aims. IL
mattercd little that the Jewels were
not my own. tore them from my
belt with fcverlsh impatlcnce aud
threw them into the aims basin. and
they disappeared. Then something
happened, ana l went down. down!
when | rcgainod consciousness
was san lying I'm the parched grass.
! ana pariah dog was licking my face
The stars shonc overhead, but the tenn
| pie was gone marble walls ana door.
Turing bell-all gone!' Hedges buried
his head In his hands and was very,
still.
and what did you doT' asked aft
or long silence.
II ravcd like mailman" returned
| Hedges, lifting his hesd nercely. ~
ran into the city and h,lnd n man
whom knew, and he put great enrces
/ to work and discovered nothing. No
one had seen or heard OF such tenn
/ pie. ana they believed | had been
drinking and been set upon by robbers.
IL would be breaking stone now if II
had not had rich relative who lent
me the fortune TO replace the stolen
gems, | am rcpaylng him now"
"Of course l am ruined" | said.
Half OF what / have il yours, Pc
ter, and you can pay mo back" he said
/ quickly,
/ held up my hand 81 couldn't
/ Hedges. You know | am grateful. /
am engaged 20 marry Ethel Lambert,
/ as you are aware. have nothing but
my profession, no capital whatever.
ana | made this journey down into
hades for the gold TO get start. L
have lost it and must begin again.
/ cannot ask her TO wait much longer.
and the profcssor"-
rs Professor Lambert n stir or
money" demanded Hedges. II
thought him quite the other way, you
know"
He isn't bit mercenary," | said
hastily, "only ! haven't got the face
| TO take Ethel from her luxurious homo
into the poor quarters / can now nf-
! ford. and So
80 you1l both be miserable forever
''''''f 'H''i NPN'u IIfNBtb NTNlY.
| Lets go back TO San Francisco and
see Professor Lambert before you do
anything desperate"
We resumed our Journey the next
! day and several weeks afterward
| found me dressed once more I'm civil
LIED garments, shaven and shorn, ring
! ing the professors doorbell. 1 did not
| ask Tor Ethel, though my eyes wero
| aching TO see her, ana so / was taken
through the house and into the lonp,
! pasSagcway that led TO the Iabora.
tory.
Professor Lambert was metallur.
gist. found bis gray head bent above
! some fragments OF grecnish metal on
the table.
When he had warmly greeted me
told my unlikely story, knowing II waa
scarcely credible, yet when / had CON
! Guided the professor took me by the
hand and led me into back room.
Then he told me the story Of how no
| had experimental with bell tones. hon
| ing to carry out theory OF his own
that some day he might produce bell
whose tones might find n response IN
! human hearts. Ilc hoped 10 attain a
! pitch or tone whose vibration might
strike a chord ~ human sympathy in
every heart, that the hearing OF II
| might promote good fellowship ana
love and end IN universal pcoce-a vory1
pretty theory
The one casting nc had made had re.
! suited In producing That strange bell
whose call was 10 sacrifice. 10 give all
IN response 10 It's command StartlcV
at th" production and stll uncor,nin
as 10 is value he was shocked IA
. awake ono morning and find that hia
/ assistant had disappeared ana with
/ him the bell
Secretly he had pursued the man.
. Ills agents had trailed the thief from
country To- country. and ovop oftcr