Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-03

AEWW covered it, it rescmhlcd OF those accordions
@plOuNs1S upon which vaudeville artists play Mendcls-
eEMuRN sorn's Wedding March and the latest rastme
NSIsNsSeD DIV request. Someone had stepped 1t.
N2g&Y Among the unansweabc questions stands promi-
ncnty, Why do laugh when a man loses his
hat? Thomas burned with mixture OF rage and shame
shame that Kitty should witness his discontinue and that,
by the time he had retrieved the hat the ghost had disappeared
However, Thomas acted a polished OF the world
if eight dollar opera noings. He held it out
for Kitty inspect smiling Then he crushed it under his arm
where the broken spring behaved like Unmatched ackn-
thebox), and led the way to the klligrew limousine
q" am sorry, MIR. Webb, said Kitty, biting her lips
"Now, now! Honestly, don't you know hated the thing
knew something would happen never realized ul TINS
that all by itself high hat without
feeling and looking like silly
He laughed honestly and heartily and Kitty laughed and
did her mother Subtle barriers swept away and all
three of them became what they had not yet been trends 1t
worth many opera hats.
kitty, I'm beginning like Webb, said her mother later.
e very nice about the hat Most men would have been
in a frightfu temper over it.
"In beginning to like him too Mother. 1t cruel, but
with laughter he lodged and out of the
trong Did you notice he smiled when he showed it to
me? stepped it. When she screamed thought
there was going to be a riot
dies the gulclcss young man ever saw"
ale really and truly is asscnted Kitty.
9" like him because he isn't afraid climb up five fights of
stairs shake hands with the tenants themselves
! was afraid at first "-' 80
afraid Of what" .--....
"Tha you might have made mistake selecting him 50
casually for secretary"
"Periaps have murmured Kitty under her breath
ALONE-in lcr bedroom the smile left Kitty face brood
ing irown wrinled the smooth forehead ltwas there
when Celeste remained there after Celeste departed;
vanished only under the soft speng fingers of sleep
There rown Thornass forehead too, bitten deep.
He tried read he tried to smoke he tired to sleep, utlcy
In the middle of the banquet were like certain Asyrlan
king in Babylon Thomas the Chadaic characters the
wall: whenever he looked, written in fire, Thou fool!
CHAPTER XIII
TWO mornings later the announced the important
facts that Miss Kitty klgrew had gone Bar llrbor
for the week. and that the famous emcald of the Ma
haraa of Somchingor oherapur had been stolen
corelave in the departure of Kitty and the green
incidents only.
The Indian Prince known the world gem mad.
He had thousands unset which he neither Sod wore,
His hosts and hosesses lived IN mortal
him always and often whenever the fancy seized him. he would
go abruptly his spread square OF cobablue velvet
the floor squat his native fashion beside and empty
his bags of diamonds and rucs and pearls and sappre and
emcrads and turquoisc 10 him they beautiful
Whenever he angry they sootlcd him; whenever he
happy they rounded his happiness they his variant
moods.
He played magnificent game Round the diamonds he
would make circle of the paest Upon this pyr
mid of briiants he would place great ruby sapphire
emerald Then his commanded to raise and
lower the window curtains alternately. These shifting
lights strange life the gems they only sCntacd,
they breathed Or perhaps the pyramid would be of ccads
and he would peer into their COOL green deeps might have
pccred into the
lie Kept these treasures ornamentcd chest old,
battered of simple mechanism 1t had been his fathers and
his fathers fahers had been in the family DAYS
OF the Peacock Throne and most of the jewels besides Night
and day the chest guarded 1t lay upon ancient spaan
in the center of the bedroom which hotel
permit to His five that all his
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