Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-15

from diamond HarDor. l"Ai Save
bit of bother to dress before l go
ashore"
"Aw-w," said Danny, assimilating.
"And the MISUSE" he said
suddenly, some minutes later. MAN
in Madam O'Rourke, sor. Did ye get
no word from her?"
"For what else would 1 be driving
to every hotel in the town after leav-
ing Mr.. Sypher, Danny, but to inquire
for her? She's not here; but she'll
come, be sure. She's still got several
days-three or four-in which to keep
our tryst. 'Tis discontented I am not
to find her waiting for me, but I'm
satisfied. entirely she'll keep faith"
"And," insisted Danny eagerly
"beggin' yer honor's pardon-but what
will ye have to tell her, sor?"
O'Rourke sat up Have to tell
her? What dye mean?"
II mean, sor, I'm dyin' wild the wish
to know how ut's all turned out.
Phase, yer honor, won't ye be tellin'
me? Is ut-is ut all right?"
"Bless your heart, Danny!" laughed
O'Rourke, "'Tis SO dazed I've been
that never thought to tell ye-think-
ing all the time that ye knew. IT'S
all right, indeed, me boy. The Pool OF
Flames in Mr. Sypher's keeping and
the moneys in mine-in the bank,
Danny, payable to me order. Think OF
it-one hundred thousand pounds Of
real money, and all me own. 'Tis
ridiculous, 'tis absurd. 'Tis meself
hardly credits the truth Of 1t all; yet
/ was there-saw the man, gave him
the jewel, went to the bank with him
and for the space Of five minutes sat
at table, with all that money before
me, counting it over, bill by bill,
square hundred of them, each for
thousand pounds, guaranteed by the
Bank of England! Think OF
that-all that belonging to me-to me,
O'Rourke! :"
"Thank God!" breathed Danny de-
votedly. "Put did ye Parn nothin'
about the stone?'
Little enough, Danny-only a part
of the nearing of the whole divilish
business; the rest I'm to know to-
night. Mr.. Sypher II be tellin' me
after we've dined; he wants to hear
me own end of the story. too"
Sypher had very explicitly named
his dinner hour, after the formal Eng
lish fashion, nowhere and by nobody
more rigidly observed than by the
Englishman in the Orient; "eight for
eight-thirty," he had said. And as.
O'Rourke, very dignifed and impos-
ing o'Rourke in his evening dress,
waited for a sampan on the lower
grating of the Poonah's passenger
gangplank he had round three-quar-,
ters for an hour for leewav-ample leis-
ure for an interested INSPECTION OF
that part of Rangoon lying between
the floating jetty and Sypher's resi-
dence in q suburb near Dalhousie
Park.
Danny remained aboard ship only
temporarily, being instructed to follow
with O'Rourke's belongings to suitable
accommodations already engaged at
hotel on the Strand, overlooking the
roadstead; from whose windows
O'Rourke was promising himself the
pleasure Of watching the arrival OF
the steamship bearing his wife to his
arms.
"Bless her dear face!" said he soft
ly. otis meself will be desolated II
she's not aboard that Messageries boat
due tomorrow-now that can go
back to her, man Of property, no
longer a pauper ne'er.do-wel! Think
of that, ye lucky dog!"
A sampan slid noiselessly in beside
the grating. o'Rourke let himself eau
tiously into It and tncontinently col
lapsed upon the rear seat as the boat
slid awey toward the shore lights,
yielding to the vigorous sweeps Of the
single long oar welded by the Bur-
man in the bows.
Ashore, tikkagharry caught him
up and bore him down the silent road
that winds between the Strand and
the rivers edge, then whipped into
Mogul street, where the fluent tide
of life ran broad and deep beneath a
glare of light.
All too quickly the tikka whisked
out Of the main channel OF the city's
life. out beyond the Mohammedan
mosque and the Chetti's hall and the
Christian chapel. and into the soft,
dense night Of the countryside-a
world of darkness sparsely studded with
dim, glowing windows; and all too
soon, again, 1t swung off from the
highway into a private drive, crunched
over gravel and stopped before the
Illuminated veranda of a native bum
galow.
o'Rourke got down, discharged the
driver and ascended the steps, little