The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-04-16

breaking and entering my flat
you may make your explanations
to the police"
Madame" monsieur said, "be-
fore you call In re police, l have
something of great Importance to
yourself to communicate"
He paused. l nodded.
"zose diamonds which have
been stolen belong to 20 emperor
OF Germany"
With those words monsieur
actually turned the tables on u.s.
1 am free to admit that neither
Billy nor doubted the truth Of
the statement once II was ut
tered.
| Very well, them" said BILLY at
last. Granted the diamonds be-
long to the Emperor william
now. then, what are you doing
with them?"
Monsieur answered with hui
mility.
| Now re madame president of
Mexico Is young; she have great
beauty and she rule her husband
wis Eat beauty. So once she have
hear of re seven blood-red dia-
monds, above all ozzer sings In
re world she desires zoze dia-
monds and she have communicate
her wish to der kaiser and he
have seen In her wish some way
to his own for re Fazerland.
TO zis end he have arrange
treaty wis Mexico which make
Mexico a sister state of re great
German alliance he have In mind.
To els end, also, he have commits
| stoned me"
The rest of what monsieur said
was lost on me, for there had
swooped on me a lightning stroke
of Observation-Disclosures whole ne
farious scheme of Germany and
the emperor lay bare to my inner
eye. Mexico----the Panama canal
these were the strategic points
OF a world conquest.
"Never!" was the one impas-
stoned word 1 uttered.
"Say-this is the very deuce Of
a hole" Billy whispered to me.
Il should say 1t was--if the
diamonds belong to the emperor,
what the dickens are we going to
do with monsieur"
Got to let him go, of
course"
We acted without delay.
Monsieur, you are free to CO."
| Billy announced, and relieved
him of his handouts.
But would 1t not be better to
consider urged monsieur. "Ze
wrass of re emperor is terrible.
Consider, madame, beg you to
consider.
"Zose diamonds Eat you have
found in Eat slipper you have re
misfortune to carry off. Consid-
er to give zem back"
They were not I'm the slipper
I carried off," said, knowing in
stinctively what he meant. The
diamonds had been hidden by
Claire in Mrs. Delario's slipper
and so smuggled-but not in the
slipper | had.
Monsieur positively jumped.
"Zey were not In Eat slipper?
Zen Madame Delario must have
zem-in spite of her denial--in
! spite of Eat search ze entire
house-and herself = and find
also re slipper in her wardrobe as
she would not leave II IL she find
zoze diamonds. I go immediate
ly-I see her zis evening" He
took up his hat.
ooh. monsieur-you a diplo-
matt" ] fllpped off. "And you
think you can go to Mrs. Delari0
after such accusations as you've
made and say, 1t was all a mis-
take and settle everything?"
81 bet she doesn't even see
you," Billy supported, seeing my
drive.
The net result of the remainder
of the interview was that mon
sieur promised to relieve both
Mrs. Delario and me of all espi-
onage Immediately - dismiss his
detective who was shadowing me
bring Claire to the house the
next evening for full confession
of her part of the smuggling;
while I promised to see Mrs. De-
lario the first thing in the morn
ing and use all my influence with
| her.
And now, monsieur, I'll trou-
BILE you for the pass-key to my
front door," said /.
He went quick color as he
drew it from his pocket and hand
ed it with the single word, par
DON"
l at once got Billy's coat and
hat and managed to signal him to
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