The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-06-05

set knitting his eyebrows and
twisting his beard. When /
had done he repeated after me two
Of the questions which the chief Jug
gler had put to the boy. seemingly for
the purpose of fixing them well In his
mind.
"'Is ii on the road to this house, and
on NJ other, that the English gentle
man will pass by us today?' 'Has the
English gentleman got 1t about himT
! suspect" says Mr.. Franklin. pulling
a little sealed paper parcel out Of his
pocket, that it means this. And
this B~etteredge, lean my uncle
Herncastle's famous diamond"
Good Lord, sir" / broke out, 'how
do you come to be In charge Of the
wicked %colonel's diamond?'
The wicked colonel's will has left
his diamond as a birthday present to
my cousin Rachel" says Mr.. Franklin.
And my father, as the wicked colo
nel's executor. has given 1t in charge
to me to bring down here"
The colonel's diamond left to Miss
hoNhtis cuSo H. n sOui AdthCt,
sir. the colonel's EXECUTOR! Why. l
would have laid any bet you like. Mr..
Franklin, that your father wouldn't
have touched the colonel with a pair
Of longs"
| spoke. a little way back, of my
lady's father, the old lord with the
short temper and the long tongue. He
had five children In all. Two sons to
begin with and the three young ladies
came briskly one after the other, as
fast as the nature of things would per-
nit, my mistress, as before mentioned.
being the youngest and best of the
three. OF the two sons the eldest. Ar
thur. inherited the title and estates.
The second. the Honorable John, got a
fine fortune left him by a relative and
went into the army.
It's an Ill bird. they say. that fouls
Its own nest. l look on the noble fami-
ly of the Herncastles as being my nest,
n | shall take 1t as a favor II l am
not expected to enter into particulars
on the subject of the Honorable John.
lie was, l honestly believe, one OF the
greatest b~lackguards that ever lived.
1 can hardly say more or less for him
than that. He went into the army, be-
ginning in the guards. He had to leave
me guards before he was two and
twenty. Never mind why. They are
very strict in the army, and they were
too strict for the Honorable John. He
went out to India to see whether they
were equally strict there and to try
a little active service. In the matter
OF bravery, to give him his due, he was
a mixture Of bulldog and gamecock,
with a dash of the savage. He was at
the taking Of Seringapatam. Soon
afterward he changed into another reg
1ment and in course of time changed
again into a third. In the third he got
his last step as lieutenant colonel and,
getting that, got also a sunstroke and
came home to England.
He came back with a character that
closed the doors Of all his family
against him, my lady, then just mar
ried. taking the lead, and declaring,
with Sir Johns approval, of course.
that her brother should never enter
any house of hers. There was more
tina one slur on the colonel that made
people shy of him, but the blot Of the
diamond Is oil l need mention here.
1t was said he had got possession of
MS Indian jewel by ear which. bold
as he was, he didn't dare acknowledge.
lie never attempted to sell 1t, not be-
Ing in need of any money and not. to
give him his due again. making money
an object. He never ave it away; he
never even showed it to any living