The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-11-18
CHAPTER Xxx.
Kananda's Mission.

Kananda's Mission.
Kananda and the Swami, in the up
I ,oWn bachelor apartment whittier they
ened from. the Fifth avenue ballroom,
hent about table on which were
enread various diagrams. Ali, Mrs.
Missioner's servant, stood at re-
mectful distance. He wore a con-
eerned look that intimated he had
been subjected to some pretty stiff
n ouestioning by his masters. The high
caste Orientals paid little attention to
\ him. They leaned over the table I'M
n III their heads almost touched, study
liz diligently the papers that lay upon
II occasionally following the lines
\ with pencils, and pausing to make
n hurried calculations on the margins Of
The sheets. At length the Swami
a leaned back and gazed ixedly at the
prince.
H Ut Is evident we're on the right
track at last" he said. "Chunda and
q aazIm could not have done their
NJ work thoroughly"
"a 'They didn't do 1t at all, when 1t
q comes to that" answered the prince.
Tnstead of finding only loose end
IN a the thread, they ought to have I'M
tangled the whole skein."
a However" said the Swami. this
81 note shows my original suggestions
"A we're accurate. The jewels were ia
len BY the man who trod on the false
Il diamond in the opera box"
III Ut locks as If 1t were So" Kananda
replied. 1.-THE question is, where are
u they now2"
IL THE woman has them," returned
tho scholar.
aUnless," sneered Mandy, "she is
ID beating our enterprising clubman at
bis own game. How do you know
she hasn't sold shem?"
# This note"
IA "0h, know all about that" laughed
ne prince. TT is plain you have not
# gVen sufficient thought to the ways
d these western women. If only you
would take your head out of those
esoteric clouds once In while, and
zone to earth for look around, you
wouldn't be quite so Ingenious
But she says in this note she will
AYE to sell some Of the jewels" the
Swami persisted THAT certainly in
dcates they are still in her posses
M don,n
on the surface 1t does" said
% Mandy.
But the woman when she wrote
could not have supposed it was to
u o read by anyone save Griswold."
How do you know she didn't. in
And to deceive him." asked Kananda.
Ns good thing you chose the schol-
Fs life In early youth, my friend.
y society man, you'd make an ex-
aedingly interesting, but distressing
@ hopeless innocent abroad"
Mandy had learned his philosophy
iemlninity in one of the sWiftest
Wy q Cambridge town; in the most
inclusive London clubs; in the Olymp-
~ gatherings of Heidelberg stu
ssats, and in the most fn-de-siecle
Y. nces Of the gay capital. Whatever
y theory, there was nothing hest
WI about 1t. He held in regard to
@ !pns.
S, y seems to me-" said the Swami,
10y your conclusions are pretty far
4 sssAeo. But I bow to you. prince, in
y matter of social law. Perhaps /
saoW little more about the higher
sssefles, but when it comes to cotil-
Gee.p ~
alefe may have been shade Of
uay ~ his words. If SO, Kananda,
q y hls subtlety. failed to notice it.
Il. tllnk you are clouding the ques-
"a aeediessly when you take it for
NJ slssa the woman who wrote this
49, M Y not true to Curtis Griswold's
ss,ests = And the Swami tapped
saole meditatively with the scrap
~ saper the man with the glistening
NJ, aaa nlched from the camera
IN Burlen's workshop.
ssss AUNT II be a good deal more d.
M SAID the Swami. ito continue to
Il. = LOT granted she is sincere-that
I ID mi ssslYed the Jewels from Girls
I M aat she still has them, and that
Mn w =, not part with any of them
i, we clubman has refused to COM
aer request for money!"