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

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Perfect, Betteredge. as far as II
goes.'' says Mr.. Franklin. But be-
tween this and the birthday what's to
be done with the diamond?"
what your father did with it. to be
sure, sirr' / answered. "Your father
put it in the safe keeping of a bank
in London. You put it in the safe keep
ing of the bank at Frizinghall." Fri
zinghalI was our nearest town, and the
Bank of England wasn't safer than
the bank there. "If 1 we're you. SIR" 1
added. II would ride straight away
with it to F~rizinghall before the ladies
come back W ssa
The prospect Of doing something
and, what Is more. Of doing that some
thing on a horse-brought Mr.. Franklin
up like lightning from the fat Of his
back. He sprang to his feet and pulled
me up without ceremony on to mine.
"Betteredge. you are worth your weight
In gold,' he said. "Come along and
saddle the best horse in the stables d.
rectlyv'
The afternoon wore on, and my lady
dUQ Miss udCuci ALL DdCk. NCCQltSS
to say how astonished they were when
| they heard that Mr.. Franklin Blake
had arrived and had gone OF again on
horseback. / said Mr.. Franklin's ar
rival by the early train was entirely
attributable to one OF Mr.. Franklin's
freaks. Being asked upon that wheth-
er his galloping OF again on horseback
was another of Mr.. Franklin's freaks.
I said, Eyes, it was" and slipped out
Of It'll think very cleverly-in that
way.
The evening came, and the dressing
bell for dinner rang before Mr.. Frank
lin returned from Frizinghall. I took
his hot water up to his room myself,
expecting to hear after this extraordi-
nary delay that something had hap
pened. To my great disappointment
nothing had happened. He had not
met with the Indians either going or
returning. He had deposited the moon
stone in the bank, describing it merely
as a valuable of great price, and he
had got the receipt for it safe in his
pocket. 1 went downstairs feeling that
this was rather a fiat ending after all
our excitement about the diamond ear
lier in the day.
How the meeting between Mr.. Frank
lin and his cousin went off is more than
l can tell you.
Toward midnight 1 went round the
house to lock up, accompanied by my
second in command, Samuel, the foot
man, as usual. When all doors were
made fast, except the side door that
opened on the terrace, I sent Samuel
to bed and stepped out for a breath of
fresh air before 1, too, went to bed in
my turn.
AS the house stood, the terrace side
was the dark side, but the broad
moonlight showed fair on the gravel
walk that ran along the next side to
the terrace. Looking this way after
looking up at the sky. 1 saw the shad-
ow of a person In the moonlight
thrown forward from behind the cor
ner of the house.
Before l could steal suddenly round
the corner, as I had proposed, I heard
lighter feet than mine-and more than
one pair of them, as / thought-re-
treating in a hurry. By the time 1
had got to the IT the trespassers,
whoever they were, had run into the
shrubbery at the off side Of the walk
and were hidden from sight among the
thick trees and bushes in that part Of
could easily make their way over u
fence into the road. If 1 had been for
ty years younger 1 might have had a
chance of catching them before they
got clear Of our premises. As it was,
1 went back to set a-going a younger
pair of legs than mine. Without dis
turbing anybody Samuel and l got a
house and through the shrubbery.
Having made sure that no persons
were lurking about anywhere in our
grounds, we turned back. Passing
over the walk where / had seen the
shadow, / now noticed for the first
time a little bright object lying on the
clean gravel under the light of the
moon. Picking the object up. / discov-
cred that it was a small bottle contain
ing a thick. sweet smelling liquor as
black as ink.
On the next morning, the morning Of
the 26th, I showed Mr.. Franklin this
article Of jugglery and told him what
1 have already told you. His opinion
was not only that the Indians had
been lurking about after the diamond,
but also that they were actually fool
ish enough to believe in their own
magic-meaning thereby the making of
signs on a boys head and the pouring
of ink into a boys hand and then ex-
pecting him to see persons and things
beyond the reach of human vision. In
our country as well as in the east, Mr..
Franklin informed me, there are peo-
pie who practice this curious hocus-
pocus, without the ink, however, and