The Huttig news., 1912-04-06
SYNOPSIS.

| wealthy widow, Mrs. Doris NJ ssioner, at | the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. It is accustomed by Mrs. Mis- stoner's 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 lip some of the diamonds but the gem of the collection, the celebrated Mahar- apparent missing diamond and it crushes under his heel. A IIndoo comes from an adIoinlng ss 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 to the elegant mansion of Mrs. Missioner where she takes them to q room having a safe conta hing other diamonds. She afterwards sends for q MT. Rascome, an eNptft Wno pronounces the stones all copies. substitutions. of the original gems
 CHAPTER III-Bruxton Sands tele- phones police Headquarters and two de tect1Yes, Donnel1y and Carson, arrive on me scene They examine the safe and decide that the theft Jf the original dia- monds was accomplished by some enc in the house. The servants questioned but without result. TEen they learn that Miss EHnof 1olcomb, the confidential companion of Mrs Missioner has d dupli- gate Key to the safe and they send for
 CHAPTER IX-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 dla- monds. Mrs. Missioner protests that Elinor is suiltlesss but the delicate girl Is marched off to prison.
 CHAPTER v-Meantime, in an up-town mansion, the Hindee ef the theater episode @ho IS known as the Swami and Hindoo prince K kananda, discuss the arrest. They i are in the United States to recover the MAhardnee which is a sacred relic Of of the imitation
 CHAPTER yI-Deteetive Britz. an ex- pert of the police force. now takes up the ease. He interviews Elinor who is pros trated by the cloud resting on her The cent.
 CHAPTER yII-Dr. Lawrence Fitch. the hanee Of Einor. visits hei. in prison one IS remanded for trial on suspicion of belh$ the thief. Brltz talks encouragingly to Fitch and asks his cooperation in running down the real criminal.
 CHAPTER vIII-The detective advises that EHnor does not seek bail until they have located the real eulprit He makes close investigation of affairs al the home of Mrs. Missioner.
 CHAPTER Ix-Brltz learns that Mrs Missioner while visiting Paris had the diamonds with her He cables the police i there and they ascertain that the dupli- eates were made from drawings of the original stones. The person ordering the substitutes gave the name Of Elinor Hoi= | comb.
 CHAPTER X-The detective has an In terview with Miss Marche He learns 1 who of Elnors friends can draw He l clumsfly draws a 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 suddenly seized and thrown into a closed automobile.
 l CHAPTER XI-A wild ride ensues and Britz finds ne has been made captive by 1 three. Hindoos He endeavors to escape but is bound and drugged
 CHAPTER, XII-His captors imprison Britz in a deserted house. He finally manages to get free from his bonds es- capes and reports at headquarters now convinced that the Hindoos are materially interested In the case.
 CHAPTER XIII-Pretend!ng to be a l newspaper reporter. Britz interviews the Swami as to the rare diamonds of India ] After he leaves the Swami informs Prince kananda that he has penetrated l the disguise of the detective. 1 CHAPTER XIV-Mrs Missioner visits | Elinor in prison but is dissuaded from l bail!ng her out until her innocence is proven. Rritz learns of an insane dia- l mond expert on Wards Island and asks Fitch to go with him and interview the i man.
 CHAPTER Xv-The Insane diamond ex. l pert tells enough to lead the detective tc believe that either Grswold Sands em 1 ployed him to make commercials of the l Missioner gems.
 CHAPTER XVI-Griswold, interviewed | by Britz intimates that Sands is on the l verge of failure. He evidently wishes thu detective to believe that his rival in love may have something to do with the dia- mond robbery.
 CHAPTER xVII-Two TIindoos burglar l ize the home of Sands, evidently thinking | that he may have the Maharanee dia- mond. Britz captures them and on one discovers note addressed to Curtis" and signed 'sMillieent" which they have 1 found somewhere In their wandering search for the gems.
 CHAPTER XvIII-The Swami visits Mrs. Missioner and tries to solve the mys- tery of the diamonds Later a his own house he directs his Hindoo allies to continue their search for the mysterious l ly missing gem.
 CHAPTER XIX Rritz locates a woman named Millicent Delaroehe He learns that secretly she Is affianced to Curtis Griswold,
 "Oh, you're not, aren't you? W sil. | think you will. returned Rritz. Any way, If you don't feel like prosecuting them. I'll do it myself This case Is not in your hands now. it belongs to the people of the State of New York, and if you don't choose to appear as complainant, I'll call you as witness for the State. So. MT. Sands, if you are not hopelessly addicted to cigars or cigarettes to the exclusion of all others forms of the weed, permit me
 to suggest that when we have left
 you alone, you retire to the remote
 background of your apartment, put
 that in your pipe and smoke it''
 Sands became genuinely angry. II
 took a good deal to disturb his eaua
 nim,ty but the detectives manner, as
 he saw 1t, was offensive. Sands seri
 ously meditated for an instant an at
 tempt to grasp the Headquarters man
 by the collar, rush him 10 the door
 and drop him down at least one flight
 of stairs. The sieuth's coolness and
 courage avoided any unrleasantness
 of that sort. and his unwilling host
 quickly regained his grip upon him
 self.
 The tension of the situation was re
 laxed by the buzzing of the electric
 bell at the outer door of the apart
 ment, and the entrance of a somewhat
 clustering bellhoy with an announce
 of he