Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-09

had said no: so didn't. We've both been
going to our doom for the last month"; and
we knew it. Louie, do YOU think anv wom-
an can be sure of herself in month";"
1t seemed so odd 10 asking my advice
that stared at her with my mouth open in
the way I'll never, never get over. Il think
a woman knows her mind III five minutes"
| said, grossly exaggerating. And 10 be-
lieved it.
| don't know who told Mrs Hazard; l
guess shes wise enough to know things with
out being told. She came in and perched
on the side of a chair hardly proportional
to her short legs and held in on that chuckle
of hers.
a don't see how I'm ever going to stand
three weddings" she said; but"
"Three weddings echoed. "Then Win
throp-
moons around under girls window at three
in the morning, fits time After all, what
business have | to interfere with themo I
married the man | loved without the inter-
ference of anybody. Winthrop is a dear boy,
even if he does grow vegetables
"Im sorry | failed you. | told her.
"Failed?" she repeated. Good Heavens!
what have you failed in?"
"Lyerything, | answered, except getting
Hap On the right track, and even then you
never intended that he was to turn around
and look at me.
81 should have intended it, she said. Il
ought to have had enough foresight to see
exactly what was going to happen. I'm
Codman-mad myself, and was from the very
beginning She chuckled; then she went
over and drew JOS head against her mother
" bosom. "AIy dear, be sure to pour the
coffee for John every morning, and you have
my blessing.
And them may just as well admit it
we all cried
WHEN John and Detective Thomas
came back they brought a suitcase
which they insisted upon carrying up stairs
themselves, right under the unsuspecting
noses of the newspaper men scattered about
the terrace. John opened it and spread the
glttering, bewildering contents on Mrs
Hazards desk. Jewels, Great goodness!
The King S ransom we had read about, We
stood and looked at them amazed, and the
most awful part of it was that neither John
nor Detective Thomas knew to whom third
at least of them belonged.
They were i'll a series of little channels
cases. John unfolded them one by one
Laura and Natalie recognized Mrs. Dyke
mans necklace of pear shaped diamonds,
and a jeweled aigrette the wonder of two
continents, which belonged to Mrs Loring.
"That's part of the first North Shore rob
berry, commented Thomas
There followed other things no one recog-
nized.
"If that isn't Alice Peabody's Alexandria
collar, III eat it, Laura said suddenly, "and
we hadn't heard word about that being
stoen!'
al wonder if his Grace embraced her to
get it?' Natalie whispered to us.
Gradually John came to Natalie's missing
jewels-the six bracelets, the pendant, and
the rope of pearls she had missed from her
jewel box on the night Hap had seen wom-
ans skirt-A1rs. Cutler disappear into
the cardroom as he came up the stairs; the
night he kicked up the row about the card
room being locked. The sapphire and dia-
mond bracelet she had lost at the Aber-
crombies' appeared, and the bracelet missing
at Mrs. Lorings the very first jewel she had
lost The ruby pendant-which made me
positively shiver-came next, and the brooch
the Duke had secured the night he embraced
her; then those other Jewels lost on similar
occasions.
At last John unfolded-tke emerald brace
let! "Not another like it in the world"
Natalie had said. "or so many emeralds
matched SO perfectly" Yet she had identi-
fed family heirloom of Winthrop's as her
br,ca1att If ba bod or1,- 1oo1,oJ -