The Washington times., 1912-09-11


A brass bound box OF Oriental work
manship has lain In the window OF q
pRwnbrokers for over year. One day
q sailor, joan Lindsay, enters the store
fuses to let him have II at the price Lind
say can Iny, and the sailor summons
policeman. claiming the box to be MS
And pointing out the initials on 1t. J'
L." as proof.
The policeman demands time before en-
forcing Lindsay's claim. They turn 70
who has recognized Lindsay from the
street. The Hindu takes the sailor to his
rooms, and tells him that the box got 70
the pawnbrokers by reason OF the muroes
of Its possessor. who. with Lindsay and
the Hindu. was part owner.
The Hindu unfolds a plan to murder the
return to Lal Dass' quarters with the
box. The Hindu presses a secret spring,
q drawer opens, and magnificent neck
lace OF sixty-three diamonds Is exposed.
Overcome by greed. Lindsay kills the
Hindu. seizes the box, and makes for
the moors, finding shelter In lonely hut,
yict also finds shelter there. and kills
Lindsay to get his clothes. finding In
them the diamonds which Lindsay had
in little bag He He ms
law. Dropping the diamonds into a deep
fssure in boulder. he staggers. throws
up his hands, and falls dead.
TO the body and sit down to await the
arrival Of the officers. Each in succession
catches sight Of the diamonds and the
lies down upon his face to reach into the
fsstfre the other crushes his head with
large store. drops the body in the assure.
RECEIVERS the gems and, after removing
all evidence of the crime. makes for
home. He packs up q few Of his be-
iongings and leaves town. In neighbor,,
friend, who informs him that his crime
has been discovered and that he Is being
shadowed. He offers to hide him in the
glass works where he. Finney. Is night
watchman. The warder. seeking to drown
the memory OF previous events, drinks
himself to death during the night. Fin
person. but. afraid OF being charged with
murder, hides the stones in his own cot
tage. and, putting the body into a sack.
prepares to threw 1t into the big glass
On the edge Of the furnace he Is over
come with fright, loses his balance. and,
with the dead body on his back, falls
with his burden into the pit.
1t is found that Finney has let his
property to Miss Driscol a milliner In
the town. She comes upon the diamonds
IN buying back the family estate in Ire
land. A conference with her lawyer is
overheard by his disreputable son. who
Immediately plans, with the aid of an
artful criminal, to rob the milliner. Dis
guised as clergymen they follow her on a
journey to Ireland and obtain the dia-
mOnuS.
Young Baxendale wakes the morning
after the robbery to find that his pal has
5decamped. Miss Driscoll recognizes him
at breakfast by his signer ring. forces
the entire story from him and admin
listers a horse whipping besides. Mean
while Claye makes q lightning change OF
costume and repai RS to a saloon kept by
a friend, whittier he is tracked by Baxen-
dale under the orders of Miss Driscolr s
detective.
He takes into condence the proprietor,
one kilner, who being under obli cations
to Claye, warns him that he Is being
tracked. and for a share OF the diamonds 8
assists in the murder OF BaXendale
While the two are putting the body in a
disused wine-cellar. a loud knocking is
heard. kilner tells Claye that the de-
tectives are looking for Baxendalc and
bids him hide also in the cellar; where
upon XII closes the vault with a stone
slab and Claye Is left with the body of
his victim, and Kilner with the pleasant
reflection that the diamonds are exclu-
sively his.