The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-03-30
The DIAMOND SHIP
MAX PEMBERTON
Author 81 Doctor Xavier" The Hundred Days" etc
Copyright by 7. Appleton & CO.


When Joan Fordibras wore my stoleA
pearls in London, was the genera
! aware that they were stolen?"
/ a smile, revoltingiy sardonic, crossed
i his aSben face.
f Would he have the brains? She
{ wore them at my dictation. l had long
watched ou-yo did not know it, but
knowledge was coming to you. l said
that o must be removed from my
path. Why were you not struck dead
before Harry Ross lay dead on Failing
beach2'
The young seaman who was found
with the Red Diamond of Ford Valley
in his possession, The brother of
Colin Ross who too your place upon
the Elgida? I begin to understandable
was carrying those jewels 10 London,
and an accident overlook him? That
was q grave misfortune for me"
He clenched his hands and looked me
full in the face.
Had he lived I would have torn him
limb frcc: l!=9h. &c stole The jewels
from my dispatch boat and was
drown escaping TO shore, My friend.
the good God was merciful TO him that
he let him die
I could not but smile at piety 50
amazing. In truth a new excitement
had seized Upon me and my desire to
escape the house had now become a
fever of Impotence. What if an ac-
cident hefell me, OF an agent OF evil
stood suddenly between Joan and my
tlGlngs! How if the Guy were dashed
rro.r2 -cT lips - the Lass ".2Ta2Gt. What
an agony, even in Imagination!
Mr.. lmroth,' l said, rising upon the
impulse. L viii cable at once 10 Vienna,
saying l have no evidence to offer, and
n girl Lisette VIII be discharged. &c
where 0 viii, but leave England. To-
night / spare you But should you
cross my path again, l viii hang you
as surely as there is an almighty Cod
10 judge Your deeds and punish you
Tor them. That is my last word to
you. I pray with all my soul that 1
q a neyar see your face again.
He did not move, uttered no sound,
sat Ike a figure of stone in his chair.
And SO I left him and went out into
the night.
For / "a going TO Joan, to bear to
her the supreme tidings of my message,
TO lay this gift of knowledge at her
feet and III those eyes so dean 10 read
sarth- were my desire.
The Epiiosue OF Timothy Mcshanus,
Journalist.
Ny friend Malock, in his "Magnus
ana Norma, has written that ye should
drink at a wedding with discerning. |
lest ye lose the way upon a straight
read afterwards. It's no man / am to
quarrel with a precept go honest or a
reflection upon m~atri=7ony so prudent. |
We shall drink az the Goldsmith Club
this night to The lost liberty of my dear
conrade Fan Febos, and would that 1t
could be with that same measure the
rnEs c-cot-1 - -,.L~ 4
possibility, It's TO remember with Hor- |
ace, that wine is mighty to inspire new
hopes, and able to drown the bitterness
or cares. Shall We reflect upon this
loss to our club, and to society with
parched threats. and 2 hand upon the
syphon Baechus and the
.corybantes Forbid We Will drown II
IN the best--at my desr friends re-
quest, and as he woulG wish it-ah.
heart.-at his expense.
He wa married at the parish church
IN Hampstead, you Should know. and
Iin7otny McShanus it YVES who gave
the bride away The lIrtSe witch of q
shephe-dess that has carried honest
men twice round the HBY5d and back
again set other women Weeping. and
al last to hat sure port which
Destiny had built for hsr-was she
managed from the black-eYeG mink I
at kensington, less, rtischisycus.
ess sprlnghtly, more of a woman. not
70 much the pretty child sc the school
DOCKS! NO. l say, q thousand TINES. no.
There In golden light about her gath.
me all The spirits of laughter shine in
1er eyes. Could I search adj the cities
or q wife for my friend, this ID the
heart l would chooss for him:
his the companion I would narzs for
rs blessing hss4 ga.a Ss1a!
mars love. n is happy therein. GOD
,e good to her, says old Timethy-and
ie Is n that has read the heart of
xnr.sn
so III ] asst out again 10. the Farm
laT haunte, a wanderer once more. a
inSpper up Of unconsidered' trfTes NV
ear friend, 1t is true, remefnberfng
/ have eaten the food Of the law,
lruE7k It's port n paidlits fees, would
naEe me a man and an
,ffSe1aL- But my heart fails me. 4 am
,rown old in the sin of indosence. Re
have a merit. 1t Is that I know ehe
blessings of doing nothing and the SAL
Try that should be expected BY him
yhe does 1T. Let me continue, in paths
% straight, In ways SO ancient. NV
friendship for Fan Fabos is too precf-
MS that men should call me a gather-
r OF moss and O. roller of stones
And is this to say that heneefortb
have no career; that like the little
lap. of whom my friend Has almost |
a son, ~henceforth my place is
~ s.S 5aSS @iIiiouh' MuSC i De % PAST"
o Ean Fabos, dear to his memory. one
his household, but voiceless as the |
hight, unhonOred, unremeirberRd. nm
The gods forbid. I say. The
tnaI#I am writing upon our adj |
In the South Seas-shortIv
% be published in one volume at siy !
shilings-that book shall be my mon
ument more lasting tffaa brass. Yon
will find many things In III. reader
much for the improvement Of yoIIr
mind, and the the elevation Of yo,1r
intellect-but above all YOU shall Find
a love and dey0tion to DIR. Fabos which
Is the trnest instinct OF my eyentf,,i
life.
And he iR married and is gone to ira
West. and I am alone and In SORROW,
and the doors OF the Club are ope,, ~
tne.Many men and cftfea have .a.