Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-09-13
DIAMOND CUT
DIAMOND
By LEONARD MALLOY
Copyright, 1910, by American Press
Association.

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spector. scowling, but in spite of him
self puckering. up the corners of his
mouth in smile.
Eyes. He said there was quite s
story connected with your courtship"
"Courtship be hangedr'
"Oh go onp'
Brown offered the inspector cigar
telling him to light up. The bride was
accepted and the story given
You know that tradesmen abroad
are interested in learning ways by
which their customers may evade pay
Ing duties on goods, because if the
goods can be got in free of duty it's
very much easier for the tradesmen to
sell them. Some of these people know
more ingenious tricks for evading du.
ties than the regular smugglers.
well. one day the boss called me
into his private Office and. taking up a
letter friend of his had received.
read it to me. 1t was an offer of a
jeweler> in London to deliver goods in
America free of duty.
GLOW do you suppose it's doneT
he asked me.
4 don't know l replied
81 tell you what you do. Go over
there. get in with the jeweler and find
out. I'll get you letter of introduc-
ton from his correspondent so that
he'll feel obliged to show you some at
tention-perhaps invite you to his
house. You can't find out anything in
his shop, but you may run across
something at home that will give away
the trick
"The result was that took the next
outgoing liner and within a week was
in London. We had a good many
trunks in storage held for some reason
or other that had been all over Eu-
rope and were covered with hotel La
bells. I had taken off a dozen of these
labels and pasted them on my own
trunk. did this because intended to
appear as having been travelling on the
continent. delivered my letter to the
jeweler, an elderly man named Hicks.
He received me very kindly and. as it
was stated in the letter that wished
to bring home with me some jewels
for my sister. offered to show me his
stock at once. To this l replied that
was in no hurry and / would like to
see something of London before my re-
turn. AS l expected. he offered to
show me around.
BE took me to theaters. the Tower
the abbey and all that, but didn't see
the inside of his home Then l began
to ask him about his family-we had
got pretty thick by this time-and he
asked me, to dine with him and his
family. l met in this way his niece.
who lived with him, and it wasn't long
after that when | dispensed with the
services of the jeweler for guide and
:ook the niece. was getting to that
lge when a man feels fiattered by
young woman's attentions, and the
irst thing that l knew | was dead set
IN taking her back with me to Amer
ca. English girls, you know, have a
very pleasant accent, and many of
hem can show the finest compilations
n the world. Emily Robinson was one
# that kind, and her kittenish ways
we're just the thing to catch an old
like myself She was glad
enough to get husband who would
make her Independent, and before /
"a OF
,ut married.
"Of course felt guilty at trying to |
ind out how her uncle got goods free |
# duty into America, but anyway ! |
ould only stop his doing it. could |
lot punish him. he being an English |
nan and in London. So added matri |
nony with his niece to a detective |
use with him. We were married
ew days before the steamer sailed.
nd / bought about the same time |
10000 worth of diamonds, which my |
agreed to deliver in New
FORK free of duty
81 took my wife with me to my no.
ell, and the loneliness of the place was
ispelled at once. She was very prac
ical and insisted on packing my trunk
always hated that part of travelling
nd was glad enough to turn the mat
err over to her. We dined the day |
efore sailing with her uncle and aunt
nd had very jolly time When we
cached home my wife put my good |
lothes on the top of the other things
lready packed in my trunk and lock-
d it. Then she began to look at the
lbels and said how she wished we
ad met before my tour instead Of
fter it, as she would like to visit
hose places herself | kissed her and
romised her trip just as soon as ] 4
ould arrange to be again absent from
usiness.
when we reached home | told the
oss that some diamonds were to
ONE to us and we would have no
'ouble tracing how they reached US.
Iy wife said the day after we got
ONE that she didn't feel well and
lust ask me to unpack my trunk. |
i'd so and at the bottom found box
didn't recognize. ! opened 1t and
-as astonished to see the diamonds
Did by my British uncle-in-law. They
ad been put there by my wife.
az looked at her
"She burst out laughing.
You wouldn't wish me to go back