The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-07-21
Who Stole
The Jewels?
By EUNICE BLAKE


troduced to teach the younger children.
and Ned FolIansbee, the eldest son.
had fallen in love with her. But this
was only part Of the difficulty. Ger
tain jewels belonging to Mrs. Follans-
bee were missing. They had not all
disappeared ut once. but one at Il time.
This indicated that they We're being
taken by some one within the house.
MIR. Follansbee had II talk with his
son Ned about the matter and accused
Miss Winters. the soverness. Ned in.
dignantly denied the charge on behalf
of the girl. He did not make scene.
for he realized that since Miss Winters
was suspected she must be excnlpated.
After the first hot words between ia
Their and son 1t was agreed between
them that neither should say anything
about her being suspected.
This conversation occurred after a
valna BILE bracelet had been missed from
safe built into the wall for the stor.
age Of silver plate and jewels. The
only persons in the house who had ac-
cess to the key of the safe We're Mr..
and Mrs. Follansbee. Mr.. Follansbee
sleeping room by himself. When the
! jewels began to disappear he was
keeping the key and suspected that
some one had stolen it from his room
when he was asleep, for he put 1t I'M
der hiA pillow with his watch every
night when he went to bed.
1t was agreed between the father and
son that they should watch alternate
nights for awhile with view to solv-
ing the mystery; but, finding this more
wearisome than dividing the night be-
tween them. they changed to the latter
plan. Mr. -Follansbee watched from
bedtime till 2 IN the morning and Ned
from till daylight.
Meanwhile they were both very care
full to conceal their vigils from the
rest Of the> family, especially Miss
| Winters. Ned had perfect confidence
| in her innocence and had no difficulty
| in treating her as he had always done.
| AS for Mr.. Follansbee, be saw very
little Of her, and there seemed to be
no occasion for his betraying his sus'
piclons.
There were several servants irf the
house--a cook, a housemaid and a
chauffeur. Ned suspected the house
maid. she having access to every part
Of the house at all times. He had ev-
cry confidence that by careful watch
ing she would turn out to be the thief.
The only puzzling feature to him was
how she opened the safe. But he &C
counted for this on the superstition that
she had taken away a wax impression
| OF the lock and had pal who had
made a key from it. For the safe was
q very old fashioned affair put In be-
fore the day of combination locks.
The watchfulness Of the two Fol-
lansbees was not attended with sue
cess. One night the maid was discov-
cred by Follansbee junior in the kitch.
ell at O'clock in the morning. Ned
was sure this gave him clcw. He
kept in the dark and watched. The
| girl lit the gus range and put on some
water to be heated. then, dipping
cloth in It. held the cloth to her cheek.
Evidently It was case Of toothache.
! Not long after this the maid returned
| to her room.
The incident put damper on Ned's
suspicious Of her, and a p&ng shot
through him as he remembered that
Miss Winters was the only other per-
son, besides the members Of the fam-
fly, that had the run of the house.
The watch had continued ten days.
and the mystery was still unsolved.
No jewels had disappeared during this
interval. Mr. Follansbee was sure that
Miss Winters was the thief because
she was a very bright woman and
there was no ono else about who had
the ability to steal the jewels and es-
cape detection. Ned was Respondent
because he could not prove Miss Win.
ters to be innocent. The father gave
up his watch. while Ned concluded to
keep up his for few days longer be-
tween bedtime and daylight. which.
since it was spring. came early.
One night between II and ] o'clock
he was sitting in the library, where he
could hear sound in any part Of the
house. His vigils had deprived himof
good deal OF sleep, and he was un-
able to keen awake. There was no