Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-06
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CHAPTER VII.
Chain ltuhtnjnu's Collar.

The villa Jasmine, Mrs. Bruce's
winter home, stood In park of palms
and shrubbery some two blocks from
the Hotel de Ia Pax. Mr.. Minot walk
ed thither that evening in the resplen.
dent company of Jack Paddock
you'll enjoy Mrs. Bruce tonight"
Paddock connded. 1--WE done her
some rather good lines, If do say 1t
as shouldn't"
ION what topics." asked Minot,
with smile.
international ENTHUSIASTICALLY
the way, don't suppose you know
that Miss Cynthia Meyrick is to ap-
pear for the first time wearing the ia.
nous narrowly, necklace?"
II didn't even know there was
necklace" Minot returned.
"Ah, such ignorance But then. you
don't wander much in feminine soci.
ETY., do you? Mrs. Bruce told me
about it this morning. Chain Light
ning's Collar"
Chain Lightnings what?"
"Ah, my boy" Mr.. Paddock light
ed cigarette. "You should 90 round
more in royal circles List, common
er, while relate. It seems that the
Earl Of Raybrook IL q giddy old sport
with q gambling streak yard wide.
In his young days he loved the Lady
Evelyn Holloway. Lady Evelyn had
a horse entered in derby about that
time-name, Chain Lightning. And
the Earl Of Raybrook wagered dia-
mond necklace against kiss that
Chain Lightning would lose"
Wasn't that giving big odds?' IN
quired Minot.
mot II you believe the stories Of
Lady Evedyn's beauty. Well, 1t hap
pened before Tammany politicians
began avenging Ireland on Derby day
Chain Lightning won. And the earl
came across with the necklace. After
ward he married Lady Evelyn"
ITO get back the necklace?"
"Cynic. And being a rather racy
old boy, he referred to the necklace
thereafter az Chain Lightning's Col.
lar. It got to be pretty well known
in England by that name. I believe
1t is considered rather neat piece OF
1ewelry among the English nobility
whose sparklers aren't what they
were before the steel business IN
Pittsburgh turned out q good thing.
Chain Lightning's Collar" unused
Minot. II presume Lady Evelyn was
the mother of the present Lord Har'
rowby?"
80 It's rumored," smiled Paddock.
Though I take it his lordsnip 1avors
his father in looks
They walked along for moment IN
silence. The story of this necklace
OF diamonds could bring but one thing
to Minot's thoughts wall
dropping on the steps OF the Mammal
tan club while old Stacy roared with
Joy. He considered. Should ne tell
Mr.. Paddock? No, he decided ne
would wait -,
GAS said" Paddock ran on. you'll
enjoy Mrs. Bruce tonight. Her INES
are good, but somehow--it's really
xreat problem to me--she doesn't
sound human and natural when she
gets them off, l looked up her beauty
doctor and asked him If he couldn't
put q witty CLEAN in her eye, but ne
told me he didn't care to go that tar
in correcting Mrs. Bruces Maker.
They had reached the Villa Jasmine
now, great white palace in a tioW-
ery setting more like a dream than
a reality The evening breeze muir
INJURED whisperingly through the
palms a hundred gorgeous colors
shone in the moonlight, fountains
splashed cody amid the greenery.
eAct two" muttered Minot. THE
grounds surrounding the castle OF the
fairy princess"
"You have to come down here, don't
YOU" replied Paddock. ito realize that
old Mother Nature has little on
Belasco, after all?"
The whir of motor behind them
caused the two young men to turn
Then Mr.. Minot saw her coming up the
path toward him-coming up that fan.
tastic avenue Of palms-tall, fair,