The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1912-02-23
CHAPTER Xxx.
kananda's Mission,

kananda's Mission.
Kananda and the Swami, In the up
town bachelor apartment whittier they
sped from the Fifth avenue ballroom
bent about table on which were
spread various diagrams. Ali, Mrs.
Missioner's servant, stood at re.
spectful distance. He wore a con-
cerned look that intimated he had
been subjected to some pretty stiff
questioning by his masters. The high
caste Orientals paid little attention to
him. They leaned over the table I'M
I'll their heads almost touched, study
Ing diligently the papers that lay upon
1t. occasionally following the lines
with pencils. and pausing to make
hurried calculations On the margins OF
the sheets. At length the Swami
leaned back and gazed fixedly at the
I prince.
1T is evident we're on the right
track at last" he said. "Chunda and
Gain could not have done their
work thoroughly"
They didn't do 1t at all, when 1t
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 t1od on the false
diamond In the opera box"
'.---' locks as II It were SO, Kananda
replied. 1.-THE question is, where are
they now?"
1.-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. 1T 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 a while, and
come to earth for look around, you
wouldn't be quite so ingenious.
"But she says in this note she will
have to sell some Of the jewels" the
Swami persisted. THAT certainly In
dicates they are still In her posses
sion"
"On the surface it Does" said
Mandy.
But the woman when she wrote
1t could not have supposed 1t was to
be read by anyone save Griswold.'-
How do you know she didn't in.
tend to deceive him." asked Kananda.
Its good thing you chose the schol-
ar's life in early youth, my friend.
As society man, you'd make an ex-
ceedingly interesting, but distressing
ly hopeless innocent abroad"
Mandy had learned his philosophy
Of femininity in one of the swiftest
sets OF Cambridge town; in the most
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 1t. He held in regard tc
the sex only the most settled opin,
ions.
1T seems to me-" said the Swami
that your conclusions are pretty far
fetched. But I bow to you, prince, in
the matter of social law. Perhaps
know a little more about the higher
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.
81 think you are clcuding the CUES
ton needlessly when you take 1t for
granted the woman who wrote this
note is not true to Curtis Griswold's
interests" And the Swami tapped
the table meditatively with the scrap
of paper the man with the glistening
ewes had filched from the camera
hoard in Burdens workshop.
"Wouldn't 1t be a good deal more a.
rect" said the Swami, ito continue to
take It for granted she Is sincere-that
She received the jewels from Girls
void, that she still has them, and thas
she will not part with any OF them
until the c.ubman has. refused to com
nly With her request for money: