The Huttig news., 1912-04-13
SYNOPSIS.


 York City, It is accustomed by Mrs. Mis- sioners diamond necklace breaking and scattering the string of rare and costly gems all over the floor. Curtis Griswold and BruXton Sands. two society men, both of whom love Mrs Missioner gather up some of the diamonds, but the gem or the collection, the celebrated Mahar- anee, Is missing Griswod steps on the apparent missing diamond and il crushes under his heel. A Hindoo comes from an adJoinlng box, and picking up flake Of the crushed gem pronounces It a fraud. not the genuine Maharanee. but-paste.
 CHAPTER 1.-The entire party proceed 10 the elegant mansion of Mrs. Missioner where She takes them to room having safe containing other diamonds. She afterwards sends for MT. Rascome. an expert. who pronounces the stones all copies substitutions. of the original gems.
 CHAPTER III-Bruxton Sands teie- phones police headquarters and two de tecuVes, Donnelly and Carson, arrive on the scene They examine the safe and decide that the theft of the original dia- monds was accomplished by some one in the house The servants are questioned, but without result. Then they learn that Mss Elinor Holcomb, the confidential companion of Mrs. Missioner, has a dupli cate Key to the safe and they send for her.
 CHAPTER Iy-The detectives incline to the belief that Miss Holeomb Is involved In the robbery. They search her room and in cabinet wrapped in tissue pa per they find one of the original dia- monds. Mrs Missioner protests that Elinor is guiltless but the delicate girl Is marched off to prison.
 CHAPTER V-Meantime. In an uptown mansion, the Hindoo of the theater episode who is known as the Swami. and Hindoo prince kananda, discuss the arrest They are in the United States to recover the Maharanee which is q sacred relic of India, and are puzzled at the discovery of the imitation
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 pert of the police force. now takes mp the case. He interviews Eilinor who is pros trated by the cloud resting on her The detective evidently believes the girl inno- cent.
 CHAPTER vII-Dr. Lawrence Fitch the fance of Elinor. visits her in prison She is renIanded for trial on suspicion Of being the thief. Britz talks eneouragf gfngly to Iltch aud asks his cooperation in running down the real criminal.
 CHAPTER vIII-The detective advises that Ehnor does not seek bail until they nave located the real culprit. He makes a close investigation of affairs at the home of Mrs. Missioner.
 CHAPTER IX-Britz learns that Mrs Missioner while visiting Paris had the diamonds with her. He cables the police there and they ascertain that the dupli- cates were made from drawings of the original stones. The person ordering the substitutes gave the name of Elinor Hol- comb.
 CHAPTER X-fhe detective has an in teryiew with Miss Marche. He learns who of Elinor's friends can draw He clnmsilY draws picture of the safe. Griswold offers to assist him. showing skill as an artist. Later as the detective Is walking through Central Park he Is suddently. seized and thrown into closed automobile.
 CHAPTER xI-A wild ride ensues and Britz finds he has been made capiive hy three Htndoes He endeavors to escape but Is bound and drugged
 CHAPTER, XII-THis captors imprison manages to get free from his bonds es- eapes and reports at headquarters now convinced that the Hindoos are materially interested in the ease.
 CHAPTER XI1I-Pretending to be newspaper reporter Britz interviews the Swami as to the rare diamonds of India After he leaves the Swami informs Prince kanabds that he has penetrated the disguise of the detective.
 CHAPTER XIv-Mrs. Missioner visits bailng her out until her innocence is proven. Britz learns of an insane dia mond expert on Wards Island and asks Fitch to go with him and interview tn. man.
 CHAPTER Xv-The insane diamond .x pert tells enough to lead the detective te believe that either Grswoi or Sands em ployed him to make commercials of the
 
 CHAPTER XNI-Ciriswold interviewed by Britz. intimates that Sands is on the verge of failure. He evidently wishe. the detective to believe that his rival in love may have something 10 do with the iia mond robbery.
 CHAPTER XVII-Two Hindoos burglar that he max have the Maharanee dfas mond. Britz captures them and on one discovers a note addressed to Curtis, and signed "Millieent' which they have found somewhere In their wandering search for the gems.
 CHAPTER XVIII-The Swami visits Mrs. Missioner and tries to solve the mvs- tery of the diamonds Later at hts own house he directs his Hindoo allies to continue their search for the mysterious ly missing gem.
 CHAPTER XIX-Rrltz locates a woman named Millicent Delaroche. He learns that secretly she is afhanced to Curtis GriSwold.
 But something told him he must be stir himself even Dere vigorously than he had done to date If he was to trace the Missioner diamonds before the suave. subtle men from the East could find them and put them forever be yond the reach of any Westerner. One thing was in his favor Undoubt- edly he had broken the Swanli's line of communication by seizing the spies before they could report the finding of the Millicent note in Sands apartment. He had a vague sense that the scrap of paper would be of immediate value as clue to the Brahmin-that If he had not intercepted 1t, the scholar by now would have been close upon the discovery of the diamonds. It remain ed for Britz himself to ascertain the identity and whereabouts of Millicent before the Oriental prisoners could communicate with their chief Those prisoners were safe enough for the present in the Tenderloin Police Sta ton: but although it was in the de tectives power to prevent their i'm mediate arraignment in the NiSht Court by a word to the precinct com mander. he could not long keep them in cells They were entitled to 8 speedy examination before he magis- trate. and he was certain that unless their failure to report to the Swami should alarm that gentleman sooner, steps would he taken in the morning to have the prisoners produced in fa h1 ion