The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-01
HE DIAMOND SHIP
MAX PEMBERTON
Author O Doctor Navier" The Hundred Days" etc.
Copyright by /. Appleton & Co.
MAX PEMBERTON

smile. "a'
There are just 10 Of that particular
shape, MeShanus." says he, "and she is
wearing four of them in the pendant
~ her neck. The heart is a rose dia-
NJ , y Wnich once belonged to Princess
OF Austria. There is a sweet
stlie white sapphire In the ring that /
iancy = remember somewhere. If she
VIII give me another dance + will fell
you more perhaps"
=. would you nave me think that Won
DIT OF a girl is a thief?"
On. says he, his clear blue eyes full
upon me, does an Irishman eve piva
himself time to think? Come. Mcshane
us' use your wits. If she or her father
Knew that the jewels were stolen.
would she be wearing them In a. bali
room In London?"
Why, no, She certainly would not,
wrong every time. Timothy Nc
mara lus, she would wear them for
mere W. That's what rye been
Ielling myself while 1 danced with her.
father does" Su.' hei
what, the military looking GENTLE
man who so closely resembles my
irieMo, General Won Moltke?"
NO other at all. l have me doubts
fer 10 I'M, lie knows that his daugh-
yer IS wearing stolen Jewels, but he
mas not the smallest idea that I know.
Elther that, or he is clever enough to
pay Hamlet in a tam-o-shanter. Ex-
cuse my unwonted agitation, McShan-
US, ms Is really very interesting"
ana he left ME.
Here was Timothy Mcshanus next
; ultihg the baked meats, to say moth
ing OF ms convenient corner in the
nullet, TO go out and stare at q red
snepherdess with picture books and
ElalZypop to sell. And what kind of
a coileen was it hat he saw? why.
hotilng out Of the ordinary when
viewed from afar-but come a little
cioser and you shall see the blacklist
ever looked out from the face of Venus.
us no common man / am in my 1udg-
ment of the sex; but this I will saw
that when the girl looked at me. she
Iound me as red in the face as a SOL
der at court martha. Not tall above
the common; her hair a deep chestnut
running almost to black; her mouth
just a rosebud between two pretty
cneeks-there was something of France
ana something Of America helping each
other TO make a wonder of her. Young
as she was, and 1 supposed her to be
ABOUT IL, her figure would have given
her i've years more according to our
northern ideas; but 1, who know Eu-
rope as l know Pail Mall. said: mo.
she is Is. McShanus, my boy, and
America has kept that peach blossom
upon her cheeks" Had I been mis-
taken, her voice would have corrected
me. Twas a young girls voice when
she spoke. clear n musical as the
song Of silver bells.
Now, won't you buy a novel;" she
said, busting up to me just like a
bunch of roses. Here's Sir Arthur
Hall Riders very latest-an autograph
copy for one guinea"
Me dear" says /, '"tis Timothy Nc
Shanus who reads his own novels.
Speak not of his poor rivals"
How strange hat I don't know your
name" says she perplexed; Ibid they
review your novels in the newspapers p
reviewers couldn't understand EN-. Be
KIND to them for it. Ye can't make a
silk purse out of a sow's ear any more
than we can make black pearls out OF
lolypops. Could It be, Timothy Nc
Shanus would be driving his own motor
car and not rejuiced to the back seat
of the omnibus. IT'S a strange world
with more wrong than right in it,"
asked. 'Ne
1 said they were almost worthy of her
wearing them.
Papa bought them in Paris" she ran
on as natural as could be. "They's not
S4oSh' SOu hiioWb Out bronze. | don't
care a bit about them myself. 1 like
things that Sparkle
Like your eyes, cried 1, searching
for the truth in them. For sure. I
could have laughed aloud Just at nv
friend Fabos' tale of her; like vour
eyes then you were dancing a While
back with a doctor of my acquaint-
ance."
She flushed a hairs breadth and
turned her head away.
them" nm
we have been as brothers for a
matter of 10 short years"
you say?"
No such honorable employment,
He's just a fine. honest, independent
gentleman. Ye've nothing much rich
er in America, maybe. The man who
says a word against him has got to
answer Timothy McShanus. Let him
make peace with heaven before he
does So"
She turned an arch gaze upon me,
half-laughing at my words.
L believe he SEN you here to saw
so" cried she.
Indeed an he did," says 1; "he's
anxious for your good opinion.