The daily Alaskan., 1916-11-08

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 Cheeks burning, eyes popping, Mir. Minot, hiding behind the curtains in a room overhead, watched them disap- pear into the Manhattan club.
 Here was news indeed-Lord Har- rowby's boon companion the ablest jewel thief in AmerieaI Just what did that mean?
 Putting on coat and hat, he hurried to the hotel office and there wrote a | cablegram:
 Situation suspicious. Are you dead cer- tain H. Is on the level?
 An hour later, in his London office, MT. Jephson read this message care fully three times.
 The Villa Jasmine, Mrs. Bruce's win ter home, stood in park of palms and shrubbery some two blocks from the Hotel de la Pax. Mir. MInot walked thither that evening in the resplendent company of Jack Paddock.
 You'll enjoy Mrs. Bruce tonight" Paddock confded. i've done her some rather good lines, if do say 1t that shouldn't"
 "On what topicsT asked Minot.
 International marTiage-jeWels-by the way, I don't suppose you know that Miss Cynthia Meyrick is to appear for the first time wearing the famous Narrowly necklace" q didn't even know there was necklace" Minot returned.
 "Ah, such ignorance! But then you don't wander much in feminine so- ciety, do you? Mrs. Bruce told me about 1t this morning. Chain Light nlng's collar"
 "Chain Lightning's what"
 "Ah, my boy"-Mr. Paddock lighted a cigarette-''you should go round more in royal circlesl List, commoner, while I relate. It seems that the Earl of Raybrook is a giddy old sport with a gambling streak q yard wide In his young days he loved the Lady Evelyn Holloway. Lady Evelyn had horse entered in a Derby about that time name, Chain Lightning. And the Earl of Raybrook wagered a diamond neck lace against a kiss that Chain Light ming would lose"
 Wasn't that giving big oddsT' in- quired N1inot.
 "Not if you believe the stories O. Lady Evelyn's beauty. We'll, 1t hap pened before Tammany politicians be- gan averaging Ireland on Derby day. Chain Lightning won, and the earl came across with the necklace. After ward he married Lady Evelyn"-
 '9To get back the necklace"
 "Cynic. And. being a rather racy old boy, he referred to the necklace there after as Chain Lightning's collar. It got to be pretty well known in Eng land by that name. believe 1t is con- sidered a rather neat piece of jewelry among the English nobility, whose sparklers aren't what they were be- fore the steel business In Pittsburgh turned out good thing"
 "Chain Lightnings collar?" unused Nlnot. q presume Lady Evelyn was the mother of the present Lord Har- rowby?"
 "so 'tis rumored," smiled Paddock, though I take 1t his lordship faVors 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-Martin Wall droop- ing on the steps of the Manhattan club while old Stacy rOared with Joy. He considered Should he tell MT. Paddock? No,. he would wait.
 The whir of a motor behind them caused the two young men to turn. Then Mir. Mlnot saw her coming up the path toward him-coming up that fantastic avenue of palms-tall, fair' white, a lovely figure in a lovely set ting!
 An, yes-Lord' Narrowly! He walk ed at her side, nonChalaEt, distinguish ed, almost as tall as a popular Illus trator thinks a manlin evening clothes should be. Truly, they made a hand some couple. They were, to wed. MT. Mlnot himself hadA sworn they were to wed.
 He kept the bitterness'from his tone as he greeted them there amid the soft magic of the F4orida' night. To gethpr they went inside. In the cen ter of a magnificent hallway they found Mrs. Bruce standing. like stout Cortez on his Darien peak, triumphant amid the glory of her gold.
 MT. Bruce slipped out of the shadows into the weariness of another formal dinner. Mrs. Bruce giittered. and he wrote the checks. He was q scraggly little man who sometimes sat for hours at a time in silence. There were those unkind enough to say that he sought back, trying to recall the reason that had led him to marry Mrs. Bruce
 When he beheld Mss Cynthia Mey- rick and knew that he was to take her in to dinner MT. Bruce frightened per ceptibly. None save a blind and deaf
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