The Holbrook news., 1914-11-07
She would not leave her father.

had flushed warmly when he brought the brooch to view.
 For the brooch meant something to her; come part of the twenty years ago. But she would not take it.
 T can't marry you, Henry" she said. You are too deep in your in terests and (this with a trace of gentle irony) I am too deep in mine. If you were poor it might be different
 'Tf have you I must have you all and always. and my place is here. A rich man could not be happy here and a poor man would have to work work with his hands.
 Besides" she continued, 'T would want you first to make sure that you are sure"
 Elton saw that to repeat his plead ings would be useless.
 ''If you should change your mind" he began.
 If you should change yours," she said with a smile when his sentence halted, "come back" And so he went away.
 A week later, on his way to the pier where lay the steamer that was to take him abroad, Elton stopped for moment at the great shop where he had bought the solitaire.
 Lock 1t up for me-" he said to the renowned MT. Gum, head of the gem department, land while I'm abroad get me a duplicate of this brooch-the finest you can. I'll be back" he said as he hurried out, fin about six weeks." 3.'
 He was back in New York in a month, summoned by a cable f1om Henderson, who made 1t as mild as he could under the circumstances; the said circumstances being that Partner No. 8, head of the bond department had eliminated some secret little ex- cursions into the home and haunts of the very highest finance by wrecking the firm of Henderson & Co.,. and blowing of the peak of his own made quate head.
 When the last penny had been wrung from every asset, beginning with the seat on the exchange and ending with Elton's motor car. there remained to each living partner just $422.37. Elton spent the 37 cents on telegram to Mary Sarre.
 May l come back?" it read.
 He knew that the newspapers had told her of the smash.
 Then he said good-by to Henderson
 "If we only had a hundred thou sand" said Henderson sadly, i've might start all over again Good luck, old man."
 Elton waited in his dismantled apartment for Mary's answer. his lug gage packed and ready. The answer came quickly:
 Yes, if you can be content Did you save the broochf'
 Elton laughed.
 He had forgotten the brooch and the duplicate and the solitaire as well
 He would get the brooch on the way to the train. and if the price of the duplicate should be too high for his slender purse he could turn back the diamond. A
 He knew that she had no great long ing for that costly ring.
 T suppose, MT, Elton, you have come about your duplicate" said the jewel master. have just been show ing it to MT. Moran and telling him about our luck in finding 1t at the Kansley sale. We got 1t for $2,0O0 and as you have been a very good customer the commission will be only five per cent"
 q didn't expect to pay nearly so great a price as that" said the stunned Elton.
 'If you wish." said MT. Gum almost eagerly, i've will dispose of it and without loss to you. To be frank. MT Moran is rather keen about 1t. It Is one of the few examples of six. teenth-century cameo work in which the artist was able to use the real oriental sardonyx of the ancients.
 "He undoubtedly obtained the stone by using part of cameo of the third century or earlier"
 Elton looked at his watch. Train | time was not far of.
 Sell it to MT. Morran," he said | Get the best price you can for me and keep your commission. And ii | you'll let me have my own brooch and the ring I'll be going"
 Gum disappeared into the private room. He was gone an unreasonably long time, 1t seemed to Elton
 T hope you don't mind the liberty I took in allowing MT. Hunt to ex. anime it," he said on his return. "He is MT. Morran's expert, you know Thev ara in the Drivate room nOvz %
 No harm done." said Elton.
 "Mr. Moran is a man of quick ac- tion," continued Gum, bit nervously land I'll have to be as blunt as he is He will give you $100,O00 for the cameo and not ask you anything about it's wanderings from the time 1t Jeff the Vienna museum in 1740.
 T thought" said the hazy MT. EL ton. with a note of suspicion in his
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