The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-11-10

rar as MT. Gr1swold is concerned sne
may remain Mrs. Delaroche for the
rest of her natural life. In other
words. Griswold promised to marry
her. and then got very busy in an at
tempt to marry Mrs. Missioner He
doesn't know yet. of course. that It
will be very long time before he has
chance to marry anybody. Neither
does Mrs. Delaroche know how she
has been fooled by the clubman.
When she does know-which I think
will be some time today think you'll
see some fur fly"
Fitch. to get the upper hand of his
nervousness. tapped his eyeglasses
with a medical-looking lead pencil
and listened very closely to the de-
tectives story. Manning. too. was ab-
sorbed in what Britt had to tell Both
of his hearers, therefore. were mo.
mentarily disappointed when Britt. in
stead of going ahead with his story,
asked that Donnelly and Carson be
pried apart long enough for one OF
them to arrest Griswold. and the other
to brings Mrs Delaroche to HeadQuar-
ters.
81 don't want to make things too un-
pleasant for these bright young men,"
Britt said sarcastically; but do
want to give myself the satisfaction
of having them nab the two persons
they should have arrested In less than
a week after the theft of Mrs. Mis-.
sioner's jewels was discovered"
Manning felt he had no choice save
to comply. He wasn't exactly pleased
by the insistence of his lieutenant's
request; but when Britt, at nod
from him, pressed a push button and
an attendant appeared in the doorway,
Chief Manning ordered the bluecoat
to ask Donnelly and Carson to report
to him in the lieutenant's room at
once.
Right here" Britt proceeded. "is
where an interesting side feature of
the mystery comes in. Gr1swold would
have probably been more alert II he
had known that men ten times as
adroit as he, and a hundred times
more inscriptions. had journeyed half
around the world to get one OF those
very gems he was preparing to steal
from the woman he hoped to marry.
l don't know exactly what's at the bot
tom of the interest those Hindoes
have in the great Maharanee dia-
mond; but l do know they're willing
to go pretty close to the electric chair
to get 1t. l understand 1t was not
really bought from the wife of an In
dian prince, as Missioner told his
wife 1t was. My best information is
that it came from Hindoo temple
You know those savages set great
store by their idols At any rate.
from a halfdozen to a dozen Indians
of various degrees came here from
Calcutta some time ago and camped
on the trail of the Maharanee dia-
mond. They played waiting game
and. apparently. they were on the point
OF making a grand effort to get the
stone when the head of this organiza-
ton happened to be in the box next to
Mrs. Missioner at the METROPOLITAN
Opera House on the night when the
necklace turned out to be fake. He
then learned that the original dia-
monds were not in the widows keep
ing any longer.
"Griswold also was in the Mission
er box that night, as you know, and
he must have noticed the Oriental
who butted in during the search for
the diamonds"
Britz paused little. and then re-
sumed:
These Hindoos worked about as
fast as l did. They must have made
up their minds pretty early In the
game that Miss Holcomb knew moth
ing about the necklace, and, OF course,
nobody would be foolish enough to
suspect little Miss March. Our dark
friends from the East concentrated
their attention on Griswold and
Sands. For long time. Ali had been
IN Mrs. Missioner's employ. He
wasn't. however. Mrs. Missioner's en-
ploye in the true sense of the word.
He was there as one of the subor-
dinates Of this Swami chap. along
OF whom calls himself Prince Kanan-
da. In fact, Ali was on the Job from
tho day he became . member Of Mrs.
Missioner's household. He was sent
there for tho precise purpose of pip
ing on the place. and either getting
the big diamond himself, or tipping
the Swami and all the rest of them
when 1t would be safe for them to
make . try. 1t stands to reason Mrs.
Missioner watched her jewels pretty
closely. and that her safe was q Jim
dandy. since that necklace In all
those long months could not be lifted
by the Hindoo servant. He would
have been perfectly willing to throt-
tie her In order to get It had he felt
reasonably sure Of q getaway ~
easily after q murder as after a rob
berry"
"You must have been reading about
All Baba and the Forty Thieves,
Britz" said Manning with another