The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-08

room and the flunky OF formidable mien.
Apparently the lady would not depart
without seance, and the footman was
compelling her. In the end she went,
declaring the whole thing a cheat, and
that chit OF a girl" a particular inn
posture. When the sound OF her voice
had died away upon the stairs my lady
took up the thread of her remarks.
NOW, said she, II want 10 have A
good look at YOU. and you must have a
good look at me. People like ourselves
should know each other TO begin with.
Don't think I'm going to bore YOU with
the nonsense I trade in-you- are far too
clever for that. and would find me out
In minute, You sec. I'm like a man
with good cellar; ] keep the old wine
for the old birds who are not caught
with chaff That's n delightfully."- mixed
metaphor, isn't II? and not very polite,
when ] think of II. But come and sit
down near the light where ] can see
you.
pretend 10 hear half OF that which she
said. or To answer her: but I seated my
self upon the ottoman near the entrance
TO the conservatory: and when she had
thrown open the glass doors, she herself
took the low armchair facing me. 7 saw
then that she wore n strange dress lp
the Egyptian fashion. and that her breast
was all covered with iing1Ing gold medals.
while her hair was similarly ornamen ted.
Come she said. resting her head
upon her hand, Il want 10 know from you
why you are here II. Is not for me to
II viii he frank ] replied; 'it is not.
My life has already spoken a good deal
for Itself. What | did come here 10 sec
was the making OF diamonds. They tell
me you possess the philosophers stone.
or something near TO IT,"
She looked at me with penetrating
gaze and then laughed a little hardly.
And you believed it?" she asked, pres
Not for moment said 1; ''but ]
thought it was not unlikely that you had
some amusing trick which YOU would not
mind showing me. am very much in
terested In Jewels you know"
$50 am L. she exclaimed but with
the air OF one whose mind is away from
the wortis-'there is nothing more beau
tiful or moro mysterious on earth than
diamond, II just seems TO be a prison
for lovely things Of which it gives lis the
lights when we treat II we'll. And You
thought ! might amusc you with trick t?
That was a poor compliment, wasn't it?"
The thing was said with "A swift re-
version OF her mind to the subject. as
humor in her eyes when she turned them
on me.
III was no poor compliment" said T..
since you have convinced such q man as
Colonel OIdield that YOU can make
rubics. He is Il Judge OF Jewels, too
And a very good one she replied
but really. there was nothing In my
experiment, What ! do has been done
past. The colonel came here with an
open mind-but you, you closed the doors
OF yours you came upstairs
] protested fecbly. but she did not lis
ten to my answer.
Yes, she exclaimed. speaking very
rapidly, 81 have been thinking about
you as you sat there. and am sure that
l know you now You are a man so we'll
accustomed to steer I'm the shadows Of
your business that YOU never look be-
yond them. You make a gosItel OF dis
trust and you consider confidence the
sign OF weak intellect. You have been
often deceived. for your breadth OF View
ls not large and you will be often de-
cieved again. II is impossible for YOU
TO conceive beauty which Is not saleabIe :
and for romance you have no place In
your heart, You have come here. saying
all the way. I am going 10 interview an
imposter: she Will not amuse me--most
possibly she Will bore me- II is ten
thousand to one that her experiments are
all rubbish but / will take the ten
thousandth chance, in the hope that she
might have found out some thing which
| can sell--sell-sell. Yet you are honest
In a. measure. since you ask me for a
trick. knowing well that a trick is all
you can reasonably expect from me. You
are. in short. not very far removed from
that dreadful person. the pure man of
business. and you feel wofully strange
already in the presence OF one whose oc-