Gunnison news-champion., 1917-06-22

mere II the glamour OF rOtDanceg
How did you get itT'
He stared at me with a hopeless e.
preston upon his vacuous. good nat
ured, scrubby little face
Don't you think all this is a little
TOO personaI:- he said
Well. just one question" cried
What are yOut What Is your pro
feSsIJnf-
i am a solicitors clerk said he
second man AT Johnson < Meriyale's.
II Chancery lane"
Good night said | and vanished.
ike all disconsolate and broken heart.
rI heroes. into the darkness. with
grief and rage and laughter all sim.
uering within me Ike boiling pot
one more little scene and have
done. Last night We all supped nt
Lord John ROxton's rooms. and. sitting
together afterward. we smoked In good
cumradcship and talked our adventures
over. 1t was strange under these al
reTel surroundings 10 see the old. well
known faces and figures. There was
Challenger. with his smile OF conthe-
scensiOn. his dropping eyelids. his intol.
Grant eyes, his aggressive beard. his
huge chest. swelling and putting as be
laid down the law to Summerlee. And ,
Summerlee, too-thcre he was with his
short brier between his thin mIstache
and his gray goats beard, bis worn
rIce protruded In eager debate as he
Iucried all Challenger's propositions.
Finally. there was our host. with his
rugged. eagle face and his cold. blue.
Glacier eyes. with always simmer OF
deyilmcnt and OF humor down In the
depths OF them Such Is the last pic.
ture OF them that have carried away.
1t was after supper in his own sanc-
tum-the room OF the pink radiance
and the innumerable >Sfophies-thst
Lord John Roxton had something TO
say to us. From a cupboard he had
brought an Old cigar box. and this he
laid before him on the table.
There's one thing" said he. that
maybe l should have spoken about be-
fore this, but | wanted to know little
more clearly where ! was. No use to
raise hopes and let them down again.
But it's facts. not hopes. with us now.
You may remember the day We found
the pterodactyl rookcry in the swamp
what? Well. sonethin' In the lie Of
the land took my notice. Perhaps It
has escaped you. so will tell you. II
was volcanic vent full Of blue clay"
The professors nodded.
We'll, now. In the whole world I've
only had to do with one place that was
Il volcanic vent of blue clay. That was
the great De Beers diamond mine of
Kimberley-what? So you see got
diamonds into my head. rigged up
contraption to hold Off those stinking
beasts. and | spent a happy DAY there
with a spud. This is what got
He opened his cigar box, and. tilt
In: 1t over. he poured about twenty or
thirty rough stones.
perhaps you think should have
told you then. Well. so ! shou'd. only
! know there are lot of traps for the
unwary and that stones may he of any
size and yet of little value where color
and consistency are clean of. There
fore brough' them back. and on the
FIRST day at h.me | took one round to
Spink's and asked him to have 1t
roughly cut aud valued"
He took II pill box from his pocket
and spilled out of 1t beautiful gilt
tering diamond one of the finest stones
that | have ever seen.
There's the result" said he. He
prices the lot at minimum of 200.
COO. OF course II is fair shares be
tween us. | won't hear Of anything
else. Well. Challenger. what will yon
do with your fifty thousandT
III you really persist in your gen
erous view said the professor. Il
should found private museum. which
has long been one of my dreams"