The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-24
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s8tU. Clare de HaVenol, 10 De neF cOm'
ie4Alon back to the United States. Al
sth4Ngh forming an attachment to the girl,
~ heroine takes 8 dislike to Monsieur az
tRAvenCl. Claire's father, and declines.
CHAPTER lion the boa she nnde
! Claire n q casual acquaintance, Mrs.
iOo}0IiO, whom she hGd met while each
We purchasing a pair Of slippers. exact
~ alike, which figure largely In subse-
QNopt events. When they reach New York,
whore Claire was to have been met by
~ mother the latter does not sPpsar;
house, the heroine carries of one Of Mrs.
1 Dstario's slippers. Throogh that happen
she learns later that some one un-
tknown to her has an entry to her fiat.
! CHAPTER lII.-Calling on Mrf Delario.
that lady shows her some remarkable
I; which are really blood red diamonds, and
; eaeIy worth d million dollars. Mrs. De-
,otlers no other expla nation. While they
Are talking. q suspicious caller throws
! than into CONSERVATION.
! j had Il ask her she meant,
;apd she explained that everything at
Mrs. Delario's was $50 unlike the way
they lived abroad :" that Mrs. Delario
:nsver left her bedroom unlocked for
"a single minute; that all the upstairs
srooms were locked; that she made
iher-Claire-keep her door locked,
~i"because," che said, "you never can
tell - that people, most Of whom we're
;stsangers, were coming to the house
saE day from nine till five. Nrs. Della
rio called them "sitters" and gave
them readings" In an awfully queer
room where the shutters weren't ever
;Opened; and she-C laire-beiieved
that Mrs. Delario took money for
these readings. though she never would
SAY what she read: and II she took
money how could She he a lady!
Though she was very nice n kin
and papa wanted her to keep her
Ualre-tm her mother arrived, and
her work, and what sort of work could
1t possibly be?
I saw by that that Mrs. Delaric
hadn't taken Claire much into her con-
fdence-Claire said ever her father
couldn't guess What Mrs. DelariO did,
exactly, though he thought he knew
q little, only he didn't know that Ia
dies oia if IN America.
While l was considering what I'd
better say the clock struck and /
bounced ont Of my chair In a hurry
1t was the hour Of an appointment.
and here ! was Eve miles away, Cos
siping.
/ told Claire ! had to run, and she
followed ne to my bedroom while /
got my coat, and it was she who ex-
claimed, why, there's Mrs. Delario's
.sllpper, She's hunted everywhere for
1T. You picked II up at the customs
house and put II in your suitcase"
"Tm the thief" ! laughed, slipping
iOn my coat.
; Claire took a couple Of steps toward
the slippers and said, Ell take it back
ito her"
I: "NO, 10y dear-just leave II. i don't
know which is hers-I see Mrs. Jinim-
ison has mixed them all up-and i
haven't time to find out now"
"Oh, ! can soon tell" and Claire was
about to pouDce on them, but ! headed
her of.
'"That's a matter for me 10 attend
to, Claire, and entirely between Mrs.
'DelariO and myself"
! BY this time l had OF my veil and
gloves, and hearing the elevator stop
ping at the floor, i shoOeG Claire and
bOlted for II.
Now I'd looked ct the slippers as
d; Claire spoke, and they were standing
; HEEL TO THE WALL. between q
! paid of oxford ties and q pair of
bHth slippers that were O to the
! wall, as were all the rest but these
three slippers and I noticed this par
ticularIy and remembered 1t later ON
! ing home in the cars when the incident
: REQUIRED to me, and / wondered why
sinceN Claire was NO longer with Mrs.
DelariO-she had been sc anxious to
bake the slipper back. and If she need
ed an excuse-pOssibly-tO her father
for going to the house to see her
friend, and how IL 1t hadn't been for
Hrs. JimmsOn ! could have let her
take the slipper and been glad to have
Aor do II and how Mrs. JimmsOn must
have pleased herself In placing the
slippers just hat way. backs to the
wall, 30 they'd show off to best advan-
tage as works of art and decorate the
room at large with their beauty and
how 1t must have puzzled her 70 find
three slipperssall alike in my room
not two, not four. but three; and why
three? And what would the good
creature say if I told her I'd stolen the
odd one?
These thoughts may seem too trivial
to mention. but the point is that I
thought them and they were 30 obvi-
ously suggested by the way Ummson
placed the slippers, heel to the wall.
But here's the uncanny thing that hap
pened: When I got home n hour
after seeing them that way and turned
on the Hight my eyes fell upon the
slippersHTHEY WE'RE ALL TOEING
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