Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-03-15
cRAPTER Xxx.
Ksnsnda's Mission.

amanda and the Swami, In the up
.-,u bachelor apartment whittier they
- from the Fifth avenue ballroom,
III about table on which were
.ur,ad various diagrams. All. Mrs
pssIoner's servant, stood at a re-
m,c.ful distance He wore a con-
sr,ea look that intimated he had
hsn subjected to some pretty stiff
sus,uonIng by his masters. The high
r.sls Orientals paid little attention to
IN. They leaned over the table I'M
y heir heads almost touched, study
he diligently the papers that lay upon
occasionally following the lines
IA pencils. and pausing to make
h4ried calculations on the margins OF
He sheets. At length the Swami
z1ed back and gazed fxedly at the
rrilce.
4. Is evident we're on the right
.n:i at last" he said. "Chunda and
cain could not have done their
5oll thoroughly"
-11sy didn't do II at all. when 1t
ta,1es 70 that" answered the prince.
Instead Of finding only a loose end
4 he thread. they ought to have UNI
>ffled the whole skein."
However" said the Swami. "this
aof shows my original suggestions
sers accurate. The Jewels were "a
na bs the man who trod on the false
iIapond In the opera box."
Al looks as II It were So" Kansnda
isolIsd the question Is. where are
~ nowr'
me woman has them returned
o, scholar.
Unless" sneered Mandy, she Is
hating our enterprising clubman ct
n, own game. How do you know
s,s hasn't sold them?"
This note"
on, know all about that laughed
ne prince. 1T Is plain you have not
c5sn sufficient thought to the ways
q .hese western women. If only you
T5sld take your head out Of those
ecteric clouds once in q while, and
efls to earth for q look around, you
sollm't be quite so ingenious"
But she says IN this note she will
hsse 70 sell some Of the Jewels" the
Swami persisted. "That certainly IN
telies they are stin In her posses
fclie
-on the surface it does" said
Nlndy.
But the woman when she wrote
could not have supposed It was to
3 read by anyone save Griswold."
How DO you know she didn't In
trt 70 deceive hint" asked Kananda-
fss good thing you chose the schol
tn NE IN early youth. my friend
4 society man. you'd make an ex'
'Hc'ngly interesting. but distressing
2 hopeless innocent abroad"
Handy had learned his philosophy
isnininity in one OF the swiftesi
~ q Cambridge town; In the most
:niasive London clubs: in the Olymp
q gatherings of Heidelberg stu
''''z. and in the most fn-de-siecle
'ff'es Of the gay capital Whatever
iheory. there was nothing hest
~ about It. He held in regard tc
sex only the most settled opin
Z seems to me-" said the Swami
I q your conclusions are pretty faI
F'1ed. But bow to you. prince. IN
~ natter Of social law. Perhaps
E''R little more about the higher
.'sisfies. but when 1t comes to cotil
Us You take the baccalaureate de
r'A~
lhefe may have been shade Of
.'uy N bis words. II so. Kananda
n ~ his subtlety. failed to notice It
mink you are clouding the ques
needlessly when you take It fol
nied the woman who wrote this
q not true to Curtis Griswold's
H'ests." And the Swami tapped
uole meditatively with the scrap
PAPER the man with the glistening
had ilched from the camera
In Burdens workshop.
oulcn't II be a good deal more d.
~ said the Swami. Ito continue to
ior granted she is sincere--that
received the jewels from Girls.
" That she stiIl has them. and that
w VIII not part with any Of them
me clubman has refused to cora
''h her request for money!