The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-06-26

Going to telegraph to London says
Mr.. Franklin. Il have convinced my
aunt that we must have a cleverer
head than Superintendent Seegrave's
to help us, and | have got her permits
sion to dispatch n telegram to my IA
Their. He knows the chief commission
er of police. and the commissioner can
lay his hand on the right man TO solve
the mystery of the diamond. Talking
OF mysteries, by the bye" says Mr..
Franklin, dropping his voice. II have
another word to say to you before you
go to the stables. Don't breathe a
of it to anybody as yet. but either
Rosanna Spearman's head is not quite
right or l am afraid she knows more
about the moonstone than she ought to
know.
"She came in here with a ring I
dropped in my bedroom" Mr.. Franklin
went on. "When / had thanked her.
Of course / expected her to 20. In
stead of that she stood opposite to me
at the table, looking at me in the odd
est manner, half frightened and half
familiar-I couldn't make it out. This
is n strange thing about the diamond,
SIR she said in a curiously sudden.
headlong way. / said yes II vas and
wondered what was coming next. Upon
my honor, Betteredge, l think she must
be wrong in the head, She said: They
will never find the diamond, sir. will
thnvS Not No.. tlo ,no-u1. --hN <ool-
it'll answer for that She actually
nodded and smiled at me. Before 1
could ask her what she meant we
heard your step outside. / suppose she
was afraid of your catching her here.
At any rate, she changed color and left
the room. What on earth does it
mean?"
/ could not bring myself to tell him
the girls story even then. 1t would
have been almost as good as telling
him that she was the thief. Besides.
even if | had made a clean breast of
it and even supposing she was the thief
the reason why she should let out her
secret to Mr.. Franklin, of all the peo-
pie in the world, would have been still
as far to seek as ever.
II can't bear the idea of getting the
poor girl into a scrape merely because
she has a fiighty way with her and
talks very strangely" Mr.. Franklin
went on. "And yet if she had said to
the superintendent what she said to
me, fool as he is. I'm afraid He
stopped there and left the rest un-
spoken.
THE best way, sir" | said, twill be
for me to say words privately TO my
mistress about it at the first oppor-
tunity. My lady has a very friendly
interest in Rosanna, and the girl may
only have been forward and foolish,
after ALL"
This view, which ] am bound to say
/ thought a probable view myself on
reflection. seemed to relieve Mr.. Frank
lin nightly. He folded up his tele-
gram and dismissed the subject. On
my way to the stables to order the
pony chaise | looked in at the serv-
ants hall where they were at dinner.
Rosanna Spearman was not among
them. On inquiry 1 found that she
had been suddenly taken i'll and had
gone upstairs to her own room to lie
down.
Curious, She looked well enough
when / saw her last" l remarked.
Penelope followed me out. Don't
talk in that way before the rest of
them, father" she said. You only
make them harder on Rosanna than
ever. The poor thing is breaking her
heart about Mr.. Franklin Blake"
Going round with the chaise to the
front door, l found not only Mr..