The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-05

eyes moist with traces Of tears. She extended two
chilled hands; he took thcm both mpct,o,lsy.
Miss l.ivinsstone!" hc exclaimed. 1t was JOY
at seeing her asain, COUPLED with vague fear
that some unoward thing had brought her here
The necklace! said the girl hrokcnly. 1t
hasn't been recovered after all"
1t instant before the phrase meant
anything to him ana when he understood
it didn't seem to matter She had been crying!
Her fingers, icy cold. slipped from his grasp ana
his hands closed fierccly
Please sit down. he requested quietly 'trm
afraid don't quite UNDERESTIMATE
The necklace" said the girl again. tho
black pearl necklace, don't YOU understand? we
left it--you left it--ast night in that vacant house
on the outskirts Of the city. Mr.. Barton stokes
was to go there and it. He did 20 there but
he didn't find the necklace. 1t had Vanished"
oh say but it couldn't have vanished yo
know" His Lorlshp demonstrated blanIily 4"
left it there, the table, ana tolay's papers all
say it has been recovered There's columns OF it,
But it wasn't recovered" Miss Living stone
declared. 1T must have been stolen again some
time from the moment we left there until Mr.
Barton stokes arrived
but the newspaper accounts toiay?'
Mr. Barton-Stokes told the reporters last
night that the necklace had been found III order
20 stop all this newspaper discusson,' she ex-
planned lie hoped By that to put cnd tho
case"
But Why did he tel them that If i, wasn't
truc?" inquired Lord WeX- Burton curiously ~
man doesn't Nay battedorc and shuttlecacl with
The truth unless he has better than that
YOU know"
stone in qlite another tone. ana the deadly paor
Of her face relieved by sudden surge of color
Don't yoil sec it? 1t was ont Of consideration FOR
me. In the first place, OF suspicion pointed
To mc--hc knew h6W unjustly and YOU knox now.
was the unnamed woman. he was afraid. il the
newspaper talk continued. that my name would nc
dragged into il in way She paused. seek;
ins understanding in TIC yount; mans face. You
know, Of course she Went hcsi,atinply that
am--we arc Nh aron-stofcs ana IL"
II know. yes Iona Wcx- Burton arose With Il
strange CLEAN in the male luc eyes Of lin. lie
clil quite right Of course" he went on after a
moment. You be considered first.
And the situation now is--viat?" he asked
Just as it was in the bcginning-only
worse she REPLIED. "Ihe NECKLACE was stolen.
it came into my hands nnoccntly as SOU know;
| gave il 70 you, sti innoccnty Your plan
to return it in way that would protect both OF
us and none was ever TO know that it hal bcon
in possession, YOU left i; iii that vacant
house. ana now--it is gonc"
She STOPPED and regarded him oddly
"You said 'Wolsc,'" he reminded lcr
Worse yes ana for reasons which he
didn't understand tears rushed hcr eyes.
Officially the case is II end. blit Mr. Bar
Stokes has put private detectives to work
MI Steven Birnos and his mon IN time
they're SIRE trace the Ilcc ID Vol. and"
Words failed her; She buried ci face in her
hands. and wcpt.
Lord Wcx-Hurton was deeily embarrassed.
llc didn't recall that he had ever before soon
q Womnn in tears ana hc stood hclplc$sly shift
ing his weight from foot tho other.
oh, say, YOU know you mustn't do that
really YOU mustn't YOU know he protested.
The bally old necklace isn't worth those
tears, YOU know.
1T isn't the necklace it's YOU" slc bur
Died. 1T was horrid ana hateful and selfish
drageng you into il this way. NOW, it's cor
tain that We will both be discovered and
and-hcrc's telling where ii will cnd''
1T doesn't necessarily follow that wc'll be
discovered, ht fed ont.