The Springfield herald., 1912-05-03

duu IL you tell me WQaL l want TO
know. will give you as much money
as you have in your hand there, and
you have my word that you shall go
quite free
Your world" he replied, looking
more knowing than ever; that's a
ripping fine bank of engraving to go
on bail on. amt 1t? Who are you, and
how's your family?"
Lets stroll down the street, any
way you like" said l, "and talk of 1t.
Choose your own course, and then you
will be sure that am alone"
He looked at me for minute,
walking slowly. Then suddenly he
stopped abruptly. and put his hand
upon pocket at his waist
"Guv'ner." he said. LAY your fingers
on that: do you feel It? it's a Colt,
amt 1t? Well. II you want to get me
in on the bow. tell you I'll go the
whole hog, SO you know"
II assure you again that I have no
intention OF troubling you with any
thing but few questions; and I
give you my word that anything you
tell me shall not be given against you
afterwards. It's the other man we
want to catch-the man who took the
green diamonds which were not
shams."
This thought was quite an inspira-
tion. He considered 1t for a moment,
standing still under the lamp; but at
last he stamped his foot and whistled,
saying:
You want him, do you? Well, SO do
I; and II could punch his head I'd
walk mile to do 1t. You come to my
room. guv'ner. and I'll take my chance
Of the rest"
The way lay past the Chapel of the
Trinity, and SO through many narrow
streets to one which seemed the cen
ter of particularly dark and unin-
viting neighborhood. The man, who
told me in quite an affable mood that
he name was Bob Williams. and that
he hoped to run against me at
Auteuil. had miserable apartment
lon the third" of a house in this
dingy street; and there he took me
offering me half a tumbler OF neat
whisky, which, he went on to explain
would knock flies" out of me. For
himself. he sat upon low bed and
smoked clay pipe, while l had an
armchair. lacking springs; and one
Of my cigars for obvious reasons
We'll. old chap was that already
to him-"what can l tell you, and
what do you know"
II know this much" said L; last
month the grave of Nine. Brewer at
Raincy was rifled. The man who did
1t stole a necklace of green diamonds
real or sham, but the latter, am
thinking"
"As true as gospel am the man
who took them, and they were sham
and be damned to them!"
We'll, you're pretty ruflan,"
said. But what / want to know Is
how did you come to find out that the
stones were there. and who was the
man who got the real necklace l made
for Nine. Brewer only few months
ago?"
"Oh, that's what you want to know
Is It? Well. it's worth something, thai
Is; 1 don't know that he amt a pare
of mine; and about no other necklace
amt heard nothing. You know {
blamed sight too much, 1t seems to me
guv'ner."
THAT may be-" said l. "but you car
add to what know. and 1t might be
worth ESQ to you"
ION the cushion"
II don't understand"
"Well, on that table, them"
Scarcely. twenty-five now, and 2s
when find that you have told me the
truth"
Lets see the sinners"
counted out the money on the bed
five English bank notes, which he
eyed suspiciously.
May. his mark" he said. thumbine
the paper. We'll. as I'm shifting for
Newmarket tomorrow that's not much
odds, II you're not showing the queer
on me-"
do you think they're bad?"
'Tll tell you in a moment; broken
e broken. watermark right; guv'ner
I'll put up with 'em. Now, what do you
want to know"
81 want to know how you came to
learn that the stones were In Nine.
Brewers graye?"
"A straight question. Well, 1 was
told by pal"
"Is he here in Parish"
'He ought to be; he told me his
name was Mougat. but I found out
that 1t amt. He is chap that writes
for the papers and runs that rag with
the rum pictures In it; what do you
call 1t, Paris and something or other?"
Paris ct Londres," l ventured at
hazard.
"Ay, that's the thing: I don't read
much of the lingo myself, but l gave
him tips at Longchamps last month.
and we came back In dog cart to-
gether. 1t was then that he put me
on to the stones and planted me with
a false name"
What did he say?"
Said that some mad cove at
Raincy had buried necklace worth
$4,000 with his wife, and that the
dullest chap out could get into the
vault and lift 1t. I'd had bad day.
and was almost stony. He kept harp
ing on the thing SO. suggesting that a
man could get to America with $4,000
in his pocket. and no one be penny
the wiser or penny the worse, that
went off that night and did 1t, and got
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