Catoctin clarion., 1911-06-22
THURMONT FREDERICK COUNTY, Md THURSDAY, JUNE g. 49,

simple and AbershaW was we'll salts.
fed with the proceeds. He had. In.
deed. l--n treated very lNerally In or
DEF thu, h- might return.
This was very easy" money. and
the mOsi Of II was, lUst IN single
evening nt cards. Npxt night be Wis
!t.u the Harrington Siitr again and Sc
cured II brooch which promptly be-
came Imste.
=" The evi! sIhrit dwelling In the mans
breast +XuI,ed 1T these Iaitry crimes.
Bul there was moi v-r! much In the
safe. Mrs. Harrington and Vera had
not vet taken their Jewels from the
vault IN which they deposited them
immedniely after returning from
abroad Only II small sum In cash
was even Kept In the house. The
st0lua, her was the only prize worthy
OF such an effort
The time cuile. however. when Aber-
shaw was forced to look upon that
heirlOoiD az his only salvation from
ruin Hut the StonlArhpr was too elab.
crate to ue copied IN paste within q
reasonable time II taken for this
purpose its absence might very likely
be missed 1t money was to be raised
upon II the thing must either be sold
or pledged But how could. this be
munngedI
Amrshaw revoived Hhe problem In
his mind for n day or two and then
wns suddrul; favored with u lumi-
Ru,s idea lie observed one evening
a suspi' ious looking man engaged In
u study uf the Harrington house from
the side str-al, where fhere IN small
paved court with fountain adorned
with statue Of Mercury. The win.
dnws Of the room into whose wall the
safe IL built look OUT upon this court.
ana It Serni-d to Abrrshaw that the
man was studying those windows and
the wall below them
That night Abershaw was on watch
from his own windows. which com
mantled the court, and he saw the
same nun who had been there in the
afternoon pass several times betw
and half past o'clock. Abershaw
crept down to the study" where the
safe was. and secured the casket con-
tuining the stomachrr. He secured
the valuable gewgaw. carefully meas
ured the interior OF the caSket and re.
stored 1t. empty. to the safe.
1t may t~ that AhprShaw was eSpe-
cially nervous on this occasion. 1t
may be that h- had taken too much
n IA
fact Is that he moved with less cau
tion than usu3l and was heard.
| huve said nothing thus far about
Adelaide Harrington, elder sister OF
Vera. and 1t is appropriate that she
should have passed without notice
She makes very little noise In the
world She IL one of those unknown
heroines who In the midst Of luxury
and seltiShness refuse TO be contami-
mated and persist in living usefully
with full realization of their duties
and responsibilities Adelaide Is
very beautiful and cultivated girl
with a thoroughly level head
Abershaw from the first moment
when she saw him was nm open book
IA most unpleasant volume-to Ade-
laide Harrington. His engagement
with her sister was abhorrent to her.
but she was powerless to prevent It.
for she had absolutely no influence
with her mother. who regarded her as
renegade and traitor to the noble
cause OF social prominence for the
family
On the night when Abershaw stole
the stomacher Adelaide was ast1r late.
The door of her room was at the head
of a stair which Abershaw descended.
She heard him and kept watch and
knew where he had been
On the following day Adelaide ex-
amined the Abershaw Jewels. She
discovered that two pieces were paste
and that the stomacher was missing
She concluded naturally that this was
to be transmitted In the same way.
and when on the following night she
heard Abershaw 60 to the safe she
supposed that he had substituted the
fraudulent article for the real one.
different. He had at last followed
out the plan Of bogus burglary
which had been half formulated in
England while the gems were pledged
and had been rounded out by his OBJ
servation Of the suspicious character
lurking about the house.
His knowledge Of chemistry and Ia
milIarity with delicate experiment had
enabled him to construct an explosive
bomb of great power operated by the
mecha nism Of a cheap watch. This
he had fitted into the stomacher
casket, for of course there was pos
sibility that the thing might not go
of, and In that case II was eminently
desirable that 1t should escape obser-
walton II possible. Its explosion would
blow open the doors Of the safe and
simulate burglary.
Adelaide Harrington. after hearing
Abershaw return from this errand.
paced her room for a long time In
thought. How could she best use
what she knew to break or this
wretched marriageY
After much meditation she decided
that first she must be sure OF her
ground Abprshaw might have changed
his plans He might have restored the
stOmachpr in its original condition to
the safe She must know whether this
was 80. and she decided to find out
immediately She could open the safe.
II was best to do so at once. If only for
her own satisfaction SO she went
softly downstairs
Meanwhile thp clOckwOrk In the eb-