Arizona republican., 1911-08-16
LADY CADDINCTON'S
 EMERALDS
By Cary WonderIey
Copyrighted by the Pearson Publish
 ing company.)

-s " Ai "Ot, Tommy" She was half ladghing. half-crying, miserable at { the idea of leaving the little cottage but desiring above all things to be | with him, see his smile. hear his laugh. Must we?" she said. Must we?"
 | We must" he returned. 'Tf YOU once saw those emeralds, little wom. | an"
 l How are we to get them away-on an ocean hner?" she asked. Leighton became suddenly serious. I thought 1t all out on the train, coming down, and it seems to me the usual way is the best way" he said. The simpler, the better, has always been our motto, you know. Well, we'll have paste duplicate made of the necklace-that Is the piece we really want. can get it-from Le- Dois, rue de la Paix, he has the model. Don't ask me how he got it--heaven 1 and he alone know. but he has!" What hasn't Lebo,s got?" asked Rosie, her cheeks flushed with excite ment. After all this was her life and Toms. and while they had taken from the rich without second thought. they had given it away again where 1t was needed most She had six orphan girls now enrolled at the viii lage school under her patronage. A barytone from Texas, who was win ming his spurs at the opera at Nice, | owed his musical education to Tom. And there were others.
 Are we both in this little gamer" she asked presently. -
 Yes, I have thought it out careful ly," he nodded. "I have decided yol had better be an opera singer, going to the States-a Latin, you can do it. I'll be simply myself. I've never crossed on a steamer as myself. you know. We are not acquainted on the boat. You had best be temperamea:a' -a la Carmen, say. And r. Ar you comfortable? had thougl about something like this"
 Just minute, dear"
 She slid down from his knee. dre~ the curtains in front of the windows
  the lamp. Then she poured oct tTc cups of fresh tea and rave thc cat 2 saucer of cream.
 "I'm ready now" she said. scatin~ herself on a low stool at his fec, You were saying-"
 The Duchess of Caidington. s,i0 demure little woman in Goycliho Fra- stood watching a game O. sSufleho1r on the promenade-deck of the PCr' tania. Or rather, to be e--act. g stood watching her two little GaUc' ters, the Lady Alexandra and the La Enid. aged five and four years. respect lively, watch the game. Tho Guche1 herself was just twenty-six. but s: looked years older exce1t when st' smiled. and this she did but rlrel, Suffering was written in boll letter on her forehead: the six years shc ha lived with Caddington as his wife had brought her only this. and the twr little girls. and the famous emeralds So great had been her misery in thes' years of her married life that even tn
 
 seemed preferable 10 further yea with her husband. She was Co.p home to Connecticut because she Wa. wretched and hardened and sick life as she had lived and seen it.
 It was a perfect morning. Live pool was forty-eight hours behin them, and the sea had been calrl an the skies blue ever since the Puritan had left the Mersey.
 Lady Caddington, travelling sl1ple with a nurse and maid. most ti1se7 left these women to them3elyes and took entire charge of her children her self. She made no attempt 10 minSl7 with her fellow-passengers. formed no acquaintances. and took her meals at a table by herself with-o only t1c two little girls for company.
 But little Lady Alexandra. perhaps because there flowed Caddfngton Hood in her veins, frankly desired and open ly sought the company of s;ranSe.s She smiled ol saint and sinner, snow ing no finer discrimination a3 tos class so long as her self-made friends chanced to be of the sterner sex. The deck-steward the cabin-boy, the Hun RdTlan VlOUnlSI CTOSSlHss TOT iOuT Oi the States. were one and alike to fire year-old Lady Alexandra. She smiled engagingly, with childlikc inaocelce, on each of them: tut she wholly adored O'Brien Adair.
 When she saw him to-day, idly watching with. others the game of shufieboard. she gave a loud. joyous shout. and breaking away from her mothers hand, crossed the deck to where he stood.
 Lady Caddington was nonplussed; she was even angry, but Mir. Adai-, bringing back the truant. made 10 of. fort to scrape an acquaintance with the mother through ;he child. And Lady Caddington. deeply grateful. wae nevertheless surprised. People. men and women alike. were forever throw Ing themselves at her head. tho men because she had left her husband and was worth millions of dollars in her own right, and the women because she xyoc o duchacc and woc oekp1 tO horl-