Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-10-20
CHAPTER Xxx.
kananda's Mission.

hananOa anu LHo SWdIUls III the up
town bachelor apartment whittier they
sped from the Fifth avenue ballroom,
bent about a table on which were
spread various diagrams. All, Mrs.
Missioner's servant, stood at a re-
spectful distance. He wore con-
cerned look that intimated he had
: been subjected to some pretty stir
questioning by his masters. The high
caste Orientals paid little attention 20
nina. They leaned over the table un'
til their heads almost touched, study
ing diligently the papers that lay upon
1T, occasionally following the lines
with pencils, and pausing to make
the sheets. AT length the Swami
leaned back and gazed fixedly at the
prince.
ct is evident we're on the right
track at last" he said. "Chunda and
Gazim could not have done their
work thoroughly"
"They didn't do 1t at all, when IT
comes to that" answered the prince.
Instead of finding only loose end
of the thread, they ought to have un-
tangled the whole skein."
However," said the Swami, this
note shows my original suppositions
were accurate. The jewels were Ia
ken by the man who trod on the false
diamond in the opera box"
at looks as If it were So" Kananda
replied. ''The question is, where are
they now?"
"The woman has them," returned
the scholar
"Unless," sneered Mandy. "she is
beating our enterprising clubman at
his own game. How do you know
she hasn't sold them?"
This note"
"Oh, know all about that" laughed
the prince. ut is plain you have not
given sufficient thought to the ways
of these western women. If only you
would take your head out of those
,esoteric clouds once in while, and
come to earth for look around, you
wouldn't be quite SO ingenious"
"But she says in this note she will
lhave to sell some of the jewels" the
Swami persisted. THAT certainly In
dictates they are still in her posses
sion"
ION the surface it does" said
Mandy.
but the woman when she wrote
it could not have supposed 1t was to
de read by anyone save Griswold."
''How do you know she didn't in
tend to deceive him?" asked Kananda
Its a good thing you chose the schol
airs life in early youth, my friend
AS society man, you'd make an ex
ceedingly interesting, but distressing
Iy hopeless innocent abroad"
Mandy had learned his philosophy
of femininity in one of the swiftes'
sets of Cambridge town; in the mos,
exclusive London clubs; in the Olymp
ian gatherings of Heidelberg stu
dents, and in the most fin-de-siecle
circles of the gay capital. Whatever
his theory, there was nothing hest
tant about it. He held in regard te
the sex only the most settled opin
ions.
cit seems to me-" said the Swami
s'that your conclusions are pretty fal
fetched. But l bow to you. prince, II
the matter of social law. Perhaps
know a little more about the highel
mysteries, but when 1t comes to cotil
Ions. you take the baccalaureate de
gree"
There may have been shade Of
irony In his words. If so, Kananda
for all his subtlety. failed to notice 1t
az think you are clouding the CUES
ton needlessly when you take 1t FOL
granted the woman who wrote this
note is not true to Curtis Griswold'
interests" And the Swami tapped
the table meditatiyely with the scraI
of parer the man with the glistenine
ewes had filched from the camera
hoard in Burdens workshop
.Wouldn't it be good deal more oil
rect" said the Swami, ito continue &C
take It for granted she is sincere-tna'
she received the jewels from Girls
void. that she still has then. and tna'
she will not part with any OF them
until the clubman has refused to com
nlv with her request for money!