Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-06-02

common. enabled me to be u good dcal
with her. ! hoped. if | made any fur
Their progress. 10 have my assistant 10
think that it was her ingenuity or
pcrccptive faculty that was doing the
WORK aud not niue. / wished for this
ON the basis that if you make per-
son think be is talented 1t counts for
more than II you show your own abn-
ity
Il have made n discovery" said
Miss Sweet to me one day. with great
glee.
you don't mean it, l replied
"lIavo you found where the gem is
concealed"
mo. 1 have discovered that Mrs.
Jcrncgan's nursemaid shares her Sc
crct with her"
How SOP"
They know that we are watching
them. Whenever the nurse sees me
looking at her she quails"
ITS two against two, isn't it,"
Eyes, ana well beat them yet"
''No doubt Of It."
'Ilavc you anything to suggest?"
'Wcll, no; not just now"
We saw the nurse go out with her
charge and knew that every afternoon
she took the child to little park i'm
the neighborhood. Treusdail should
not have permitted this. but he said
that it wouldn't do to keep the little
girl i'm the house. ! proposed to Miss
Sweet that we walk out, follow the
nurse TO the park and see if we could
learn anything. She consented. and,
getting her hat and wraps, we sailed
forth.
We soon saw the nurse walking
slowly, the child trotting alone, either
beside or behind her, carrying Il toy
balloon. We measured our pace to
suit theirs, and they entered the park
without knowing that we were near
/ them. A moment later the nurse turn
cd and, suddenly seeing us, gave an
involuntary start
The plot thickcns," ] remarked to
| my companion. "Ill bet that this
| nurse, being permitted to leave the
house, will get rid Of the diamond"
Suppose she has it with her nowf"
I said Miss Sweet.
ITS possible"
/ 81 have never seen her so agitated
as when she turned and saw us be-
/ hind her"
you are on the track. You made
the discovery that she was in league
with her mistress. Suppose we let
/ her see by our acts and the express
sions Of our faces that we are watch
/ ing her. 1t may drive her into doing
something that will expose her"
By this time the nurse had taken a
seat on bench. while the child played
about with her balloon. On several
/ occasions she let 20 the string, the
balloon rose. and the nurse caught it
only in time to save it. We walked
by the woman and as we did so stared
at her Ominously. She tremblcd like
a leaf We walked on a short dis.
lance ana turned. The chllds balloon
had escaped and was caught in the
branches OF n tree overhangiug the
seat where the nurse sat The child
was crying for her toy, and the nurse
was trying to quiet her
I'm buy you another dearie," she
said. That one has gone where one
can't get it,"
The nurse spoke the truth Only a
long ladder would enable any one TO
reach the toy. It had lodged some
thirty feet from the ground. AS l
walked past the tree | looked up at 1t.
7 noticed that the string attached to f.
hung straight. 1t suggested nothing
at first, but presently ! asked my com.
panion:
do you notice how straight that
string hangs? Is it caught on branch
and does the balloon keep it tautT
mo; the balloon IS against a Dough.
But there is somcthng-very small
tied TO the end OF the string"
80 there is"
/ glanced at the nurse. who knew
we were talking about the balloon.
and saw she was holding her breath
from suspense. i called some bows
who were playing near and offered
any Of them a quarter who would
climb the tree and bring down the bal.
loon. one Of the boys took my offer
and in a few minutes i was I'm pos.
session Of the toy. At the end Of the
string was a bit Of tissue paper. In
the paper was the diamond.
] looked around for the nurse. She
lad vanished
The delight both Of myself aud Miss
Sweet may boz imagined. We started
60 Gle house with The little girl. Tai
down the street wc saw Che nurse run
ming ahead o. US. It Gid not occur 60
us what She was going 10 Che house flt
$50 we got there. when wc discovered
that She had warned her mistress AND
gone ON. Before saying a word e.
any one took thc stone to TrcusdaiI
md Hc bad long consultation WcLal
uD proof against fhc widow. and sine,
She was % connection Of Jms be de-
c.dcl ~ tell her That her maid had
stolen Tho diamond and not intimate
4, bor that sNc herself was suppose,
t0 have been 900 accomplish. Thl
would avoid u-.t. Ifr.ff.g. frrrr