The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-07-16

green diamonds. II was the second Of
May I'm the year 1890. exactly three
days after his marriage with the fas-
chatting little singer, Eugene Clar-
vile, who had set Paris aG0me with
the piquancy OF her acting and her de
lightful command OF fifth-rate voice
some six months after Brewer had left
London 10 take up the management OF
great banking enterprise I'm the
French capital IIo was thon well into
the forties; but he had skipped
through life with scarce jostle
against the venial sins, and was as ig-
norant as a babe where that mortal
septctte of vices which the clergy ana
thematiZe on the first Wednesday in
Lent was concerned
When he was married he wrote to
me. and ] laid his letter upon my table
with n whistle. Not that ne was in
any way suited for the celbate state.
for his instinct was wholly cast in the
marrying mold. Had ! been called
upon 70 paint him. should have sat
him in an armchair by the side of a
roaring fire, with n glass of punch TO
toast a buXom Roodwife. and a pipe
rs long as the stick of my umbrella TO
make rings of smoke for Il now gen
Grafton at his knee. Such a man
should, said common sense, have been
yoked to an English dame, to one used
10 the odor OF lemon, and motherly by
instinct and by training. I could not
imagine him married to lady from
the vaudeville; the contrast between
his iron-hoaded directness and the
SauZe and tinsel of opera bouffe
seemed grotesque almost to incredul-
ity. Yet there was the letter. and
there were his absurd rawlings about n
woman he had known distantly for six
months, and intimately for three days.
Il have married." he said in this
memorable Wuuication. the dear.
ct little soul that God ever brought
into the world-fr,ah as the breeze.
bright AZ the sky, eyes like the night.
and temper like an angel You must
come a"d see her, old 10y"
There was good deal more OF this
rort Of thing but the Kernel of the
letter was I'm a postscriptum, as was
tho essence of most of his communi-
cations. lie told ne there that he
desired to make some substantial
present to the girl he had just mar
ried; and he incloscd a rough sketch
Of necklace which he thought would
be pretty thing If rare stones W ere
used to decorate #. | fell I'm with his
whim at once; and as II Glanced that
/ had just received from the Jagersfon-
TEN mine a parcel OF twenty very fine
greenish diamonds, | determined to
use them in the business. | may say
that these stones were of delicious
pale green tint, almost the color Of
the great jewel in the vaults at Ores
den, and that their fire was amazing.
| have known n gem of the hue to be
worth nearly q hundred pounds q
carat; and as the lot ! had averaged
two carats apiece, their worth was
very considerable. / had not learnt
what were Brewers instructions in
the matter Of expense; but 1 wrote to
him by the next post CONTEMPLATING
him on his marriage and informing
him that would set the green dia-
monds in a necklace and sell them for
two thousand pounds. He accepted the
offer BY cablCgram, and on the fol
lowing day sent a long letter of in
struction, the pith of which was the
order to cngravc on the inner side of
the pendant the words, major lex
amor est nobis.
When the trinkct reached him, his
satisfaction was quite childish. Tie
wrote of his delight, and of "Euey's,"
and spoiled three sheets of good note.
paper telling me of her appearance at