Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-09-21

WITH AMY AND ME- THE MYSTERY WAS
e LEA
ready, Miss Leyland, I'll escort you to
your carriage, and the doctor will get
busy on his report"
1 felt as q middle aged man might If
he should try to be a boy again and
rob an orchard-ten times as much
scare for a tenth part Of the fun. Yet
I wouldn't take a dare. My hand was
at the door to open it for Amy, but in
stead I opened 1t for Slower.
"Ah, doctor!" he cried. "Great case,
Have you got the plunder?"
my dear fellow" said /, they
weren't there"
Stover's face showed boundless sur
prise, verging toward CONSERVATION.
you got the dog?"
Eyes"
"And-and"- He glanced at Amy.
EYES," said 1.
He was bewildered.
"But this simply can't be-" he finally
managed to say. Look here" And
he pulled a sheet of paper from his
pocket. Here's a message that APP
plebee sent to Horowitz, the man that
handles the struggled diamonds fol
him. He sent 1t just before leaving
the steamer. We bring nothing this
trip And now look here" producing
a small memorandum book containing
various sentences written In such q
way that l saw at once the thing vas a
code or cipher key. 1--WE bring moth
ing this trip means The diamonds &c
with the dog This is Applebee's CT
pher book. I got it out of his trunk.
But to make the thing surer I myself
tracked the messenger that carried APP.
plebee's note, and 1 nabbed Horowitz
while he was reading-nabbed him, by
lingo, with his own cipher book in his
handl And here's the book" He pull,
ed 1t out of another pocket. "What dc
you sayp
"Can't help it," said l in desperation.
"The dog had eaten no diamonds"
Slower laid the palm of his left hand
on his forehead, and 1t seemed to me
that l could near him think.
"What did you do with the dogs col
lar?" said he.
There was an awful silence, and then
Amy said:
II thing Mr. Jarvis carried it to his
stateroom with those other things"
"I?' cried Jarvis. turning pale. "Oh,
no! I didn't touch it."
at isn't here" said Slower, flashing
keen eyes around the room. you think
he took it, miss?"
II saw it in his hands," said Amy
icily and truthfully, of course, for Jar
Wis had had Dennis by the throat quite
recently.
"Show me where your stateroom is p
cried Slower as he dragged Jarvis away.
"And you hunt here, doctor"
I hunted and so successfully that
was able to place the collar in Stover's
hands when he returned pallid and
breathless. Dennis and the basket were
in my inner room.
With Amy and nj the mystery was
already clear, for no sooner had we
seer the collar off the dogs neck than
we perceived some part of the elaborate
trickery of its construction. 1t was a
spiked collar, such as is thought becom-
ing to bulldogs, but when Dennis had il
on it looked SO thin that nobody would
think Of it as the hiding place even OF
such small objects as diamonds, but ii
was rounded underneath most cunning
ly to deceive the eye, and there were
little spring traps communicating with
the brass spikes, which were hollow and
as thin as paper. From these recepta-
cles Slower took fourteen diamonds and
seven rubies, some Of them very fine
stones exceeding five carats in weight.
And when it was all over Amy and
I rode uptown together, with Dennis
In the basket, and Jarvis stayed aboard
the ship and wished that he had never
been born.