The Huttig news., 1912-03-30
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 CHAPTER I-The story opens with a scream from Dorothy Marche, a charm ing debutante, in the opera box of the wealthy widow Mrs Doris M ssioner, at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. IL Is occasioned by Mrs. Mis- sioner's diamond necklace breaking and scattering the string of rare and costly and BruNton Sands, two society men, both of whom love Mrs Missioner, gather up some of the diamonds, but the gem Of the collection, the celebrated Mahar- anee, Is missing Griswold steps on the apparent missing diamond and it erushes under his heel. A Hindoo comes from an adjoining 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 exp ri, who pronounees the stones all copies, sebstitutions. of the original gems
 CHAPTER III Bruxton Sands tele- phones police headquarters and two de- tttetlEes, tts Do4nelly and Carson. arrive or Ire scene They examine the safe and decide that the theft of the original dia- monIs was accomplished by some one if the house. The servants are questioned put without result. Then they learn thai i Mss lShnor Holcomb, the confidential eomp2nion Of Mrs. Missioner, has dupli- ,,tlt Key to the safe and they send for
 CHAPTER Iv.--The detectives incline to the belief that Miss Holeomb Is involved In the robbery They search her room and in a cabinet, wrapped in tissue pa per, they lind one of the or ginal dia- mohds. Mrs: Missioner protests that Ehnor is eailtless but the delicate girl Is marched of to prison.
 CHAPTER Y-Meant9me. in an uptown manson, the H!ndoo Of the theater episode Wao IS known as the Swami. and Hindoo are In the United States to recover the Maharanee, which is a sacred relic of India and are puzzled at the discovery of the imitation.
 CHATTER YI-Deteetive Britz. an ex- pert of the police force. now takes up the case He interviews Elinor who Is pros trated by the cloud resting on her The detective evidently believes the girl inno- cent.
 CHAPTER .YII-Dr Lawrence Fitch the fiance of Einor, visits her in prison She is remanded for trial on suspicion of being the thief. Rritz talks encoura ginglv to Hitch and asks his cooperation in running down the real criminal.
 CHAPTER YIII-The detective advises that Einor does not seek bail untiI they have located the real eulprit. He makes . 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.The detective has an in- teryiew with Miss Marche. He learns who of Elinor's friends can draw He eiumsily draws picture of the safe artist ae a he lafa i've is walking through Central Park he is Fuddently seized and thrown into a closed 1 CHAPTER xI-A wild ride ensues and Britz finds ne has been made captive by three Hindoos. He endeavors to escape but is bound and drusged.
 CHAPTER XII-His captors imprison Britz in a deserted house. He finally manages to get free from his bonds, es- capes and reports al headquarters now convinced that the Hindoos are materially Interested in the case.
 CHAPTER XIII-Pretending to be 8 newspaper reporter. Britz interviews the l Swami as to tie rare diamonds of India Prince Kananda that he has penetrated the disguise of the detective.
 CHAPTER XIV-Mrs. Missioner visits Elfnor in prison but is dissuaded from h2iling her out. until her innocence is proven. Britz learns Of an insane dis- mond expert on Wards Island and asks Fitch to go with him and interview the man.
 CHAPTER XV-The insane diamond ex pert tells enough to lead the detective t. believe that either Griswold or Sands em ployed him to make commercials of the Missioner gems.
 CHAPTER XVI-Griswold interviewed by Britz intimates that Sands is on the verge of failure He evidently wishes the detective to believe that his rival in love may have something to do with the dia- mond robbery.
 CHAPTER XNII-Two Hindoos burglar lze the home of Sands, evidently thinkins that he may have the Maharanee dia- discovers note addressed to Curtis and signed tMillicent" which they have found somewhere in their wandering search for the gems
 Hardly had Britz begun to let the air seep out of his lungs, and before he had indulged in the luxury of an intake of breath, when he became an interested spectator in the gentleman y art of searching a gentleman room The Central office man was nc Vidocq It is doubtful Ii he had even read Pce's story of The Missing Let ter" and had he done so, 1t Is by no means certain he would have adapted the methods of the French police to metropolitan detective work. Never theless, he had fattered himself that he usually made pretty thorough search for anything be wanted; but what he saw through that tiny pin hole in the leather poriiere showed him that he was the 'veriest tyro in that sort of thing. The two visitors went through the millionaire's furni- ture and other possessions with min uteness that would have made a fine tooth comb look like a garden rake. There could not have remained any thing-any nook or corner, any crack or crevice, not anything larger than a bacillus which they happened to covet If an article no bigger than pinhead had been the object of their hunt, their untiring scrutiny would have brought 1t to light. Yet so deftly had they searched that, granting them a minutes respite, they could have left the room without any traces of their activity.
 Their search seemed fruitless until they arrived at desk under hang ing ineandeSeent lamp. at which Britz