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CHAPTER II-continued.

1 suppose I'll be set down as per
feet fool. but I actually turned sick all
over, and it required positive courage
on my part to pick up the slippers and
examine them. Which taught me moth
ing. of course, and-I may as well
confess all my folly-I set them back
heel to the wall and actually sat there
and watched to see IL they'd turn
about of their own accord. But moth
ing happened. and there they stayed,
heel to the wall, till morning.
That same evening, however, an
other thing happened that annoyed
though it didn't alarm me. / was
awakened about half past two by the
sound of key in the front door
someone was trying to get in. 1
bounced out of bed and looked to see
that the chain bolt was on-that was
all that worried me for l had neigh
Dor on floor below who came home
frequently at that hour of the night
in so elated condition that he never
stopped ascending stairs until he
reached the top. and as my fiat directly
corresponded with his on the lower
floor he tried to get in with his key,
and sometimes threatened to smash
the door in If Minnie didn't open it.
So hearing the familiar key now
runbling. L looked at the chain-bolt,
and then merely "hollered" through
the door my usual. you're trying to
get in the wrong fiat-yours is down.
stairs.-
The key slid out of the lock and
there wasn't another sound. 1 stood
there shivering in my nightie, waiting
for the usual colloquy that would con-
vince Mr.. Man I wasn't his Minnie, but
as he didn't favor me with so much as
an oath of recognition. went back to
bed after few moments and fell
asleep. 1t never entered my head that
the person at the other end Of the
1atchkey wasn't the high-spirited Mr..
Man that I knew and was prepared
for, but another Mr.. Man I didn't
know anything about.
l went to sleep dreaming about slip
pers; 1 walked up to wonder about
slippers. They were just as I'd left
them--which gave me real disappoint-
ment- I was out nearly all day, and
when came home my first look was
to see If the slippers had been making
any more manifestations"
ALL THREE SLIPPERS WE'RE
CONE.
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fore me. i could as soon have thought
my own sister thief. Nevertheless 1
was soon at loss TO explain the epi-
sodes Mrs. Delario told me.
On the steamer, for instance, she
had twice caught Claire turning over
things in her-Mrs. Delario's-suit-
case. Claire excused 1t once by say
ing she'd accidentally put some of her
own toilet articles in 1t by mistake
while she twas too sick to notice"
But what finally brought about the
crisis was this: A sitter had given
Mrs. Delario a ten-dollar bill in pay
ment for reading, and she had gone
hastily to her room for change, and
returning had left her bedroom door
ajar and quantity of bills lying on
the bureau which she hadn't stopped to
put back into her purse. The moment
she had shown the sitter out she went
back to replace her purse and found
Claire In her room. Claire was In the
act of closing the wardrobe door and
said she was looking for her muff |
And why her muff In Mrs. Delario's
wardrobe?
But did she steal any money!" I
demanded, almost in fear Of the reply.
Mrs. Delario took some time to an
swer, and this is what she said: "You
know I'm SO fond Of the child I'd
rather think made a mistake than
that she robbed me. had two FIVE
dollar bills-a lot Of twos and ones and
several tens-and what I think did
was to take five and two-seven
dollars-and rush downstairs. But
what I might lave done was taken the
two fives-a five instead of a two
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CHAPTER Ill.
Mrs. Deiario's Diamonds.

To say / was astonished when be-
held that neat row of footgear with
three teeth knocked out simply doesn't
express 1t. / was f1abbergasted. 1t
wasn't only the mysteriousness Of that
particular theft-if theft it were-and
why all three slippers had been taken
and not one slipper, or one pair; II
was that nothing so far as could OBJ
serve had been touched In the fiat but
Just the particular objects that the day
before had turned and toed the wall.
Now they had walked off and left me.
Well, the end of all my puzzling was
that I had my choice between two ex-
plantations = ~ that some person,
name, age and sex unknown, motive
impossible to guess, had entered my
fiat with duplicate key and stolen
the slippers; or (2) that Mrs. Delario
had worked physical manifestation"
to get her slipper home and had taken
all three at once to be on the safe side.
One explanation seemed about as
possible as the other. for didn't see
how anyone could have a duplicate
key-even the ianitor does not have a
pass key to the flats in this house-and
! didn't see how magic could carry off
three slippers. But whatever way I
put 1t had still the unpleasant task
of explaining the loss to Mrs. Delarlo.
/ remembered she'd said when we were
buying them that they were more than
she could afford, but she Just must
have them and would go without some
thing else, and I was particularly mys-
tilted because of 1t. If could In any
way have replaced the slipper I'd have
done so and never said word about 1t.
Meantime. 1 remembered that I
hadn't communicated with Mrs. Della
rio since my return-though had the
Upper all that time Then came
letter asking me would 1 do her a
great, a very great favor-would
come to her house that Sunday eve
ming at eight o'clock7 The letter ar
rived on Sunday morning, special de
livery.
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l went, but / never once mentioned
the slippers-slippers were the last
things in my mind as / rang the bell
Mrs. Delario herself admitted me,
apologizing that her maid was away
for her Sunday evening out. and what
between welcoming handshakes and
Mrs. Delario's taking off my coat and
insisting on my taking off my hat and
being comfy" and my declining, and
her leading me into the seance room
Claire had told me about, and my as
tonishment at seeing it, slippers didn't
occur to me and the chance to speak
of them went by.
The seance room was as queer to
my eye as 1t seemed to have been to
Claire's. 1 think the impression upper
most in my mind was the soundless-
ness of the place. It seemed as re-
mote from the bustling life of the
great city in the midst of which it was
as If it had been in the heart of a
desert.
But Mrs. Delario left me but little
time for observation; merely remark
ing that this was the seance room, she
asked If I'd seen Claire and what 1
thought of her.
Well-I thought great deal of her
and many things about her, and while
1 was considering my answer Mrs.
Delario propounded a question that
fairly stunned me: .'Do you think the
girl could be a thief?"'
"Oh, neverAnever in the world.
What--(ylaire y, T cried hotlv and tho
picture Of the high-bred girl came be-
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"Put it in your stocking
and run"
CTo BE coNTINUED.l
MAKING a Garden.

And because the breath of flowers
is far sweeter in the air. where 1t
comes and goes, like the warbling of
music, than in the hand, therefore moth
ing Is more fit for that delight than to
know what be the flowers and plants
that do best perfume the air. :.
That which above all others yields the
sweetest smell In the air is the vio-
let; especially the white doub.s &plet
which comes twice year, AID the
middle Of April and about BafzbIo-
NEW tide. Then wall flowers.
which are very delightful to be set un-
der a parlor or lower chamber win
dow; then pinks and glllifowers, es-
pecially the matted pink and Glove gill
lifiower; then the flowers of the lime
tree; then the honeysuckles. so they
be somewhat far Off. OF beaufiowers
speak not, because they are field
flowers; but those which perfume the
air most delightfully."-, not passed by
rs the rest, but being trodden upon
and crushed. are three; that is. burnet,
Wild thyme and water mints. There
fore you are to set whole alleys of
them. to have the pleasure when you
walk or tread.-Trancis Bacon
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they're worth forty thousand dollars
at the very least"
'Mrs. Delario," I said soberly, ~
can give you only rough estimate, for
those stones are far beyond my range,
but in my honest opinion they are
worth at least a million dollars"
Silence fell on us-my words had
sort of stunned Us both; for until /
had spoken them aloud the full mean
ing of the diamonds hadn't come home
to me. and that / sat there, casually
holding million dollars in my hand.
1t all at once seemed a solemn thing
to be doing-an immense responsible
ity. I dropped them back in their box,
put the lid on and handed them to her.
Her own first words showed the
timid woman. "And I've all this right
here in the house with me u
felt sorry for her. was glad 1
didn't have them in the house with
me. / saw her apprehension when
her eyes roved over the room as IL for
q possible hiding place. When her
eyes returned to the box she muttered
under her breath. "A million dollars
And / asked only little for Lila's
sake. What confidence they must have
had in me! A million dollarsr' She
had evidently taken my word with i'm
plicit trust that was right, though
was almost doubling 1t myself. My
thoughts were chasing one another,
and the silence between us was such
you could have heard pin drop. And
in that silence the front bell pealed
through the house.
Mrs. Delario's hands flew to her bo-
som as though she had been shot.
'My God-it's come - she gasped.
and the color left her face.
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luteiy perfect substance can be con-
eeived. the mind and the tool, work
Ing without variation. might have pro-
duced those seven stones. Yes--I
should say they were matchedl
Il remember you told me once" she
was prattling, ''that the larger the
stones the more Individual they be-
came and the harder they were to
match. II they were worth five thou
sand dollars apiece couldn't l get
say-forty thousand dollars for the
sevenr"
Forty thousand dollarsr" I gasped.
looking at her now for the first time
since I'd looked at the stones.
An expression of disappointment
crossed her face. and of chagrin too.
at having committed herself before
an expert-as she kindly regarded me.
Couldn't l get as much as twenty
thousand for them, don't you think p
she faltered. Aren't rubIes that size
worth even that7"
''RUBIES I must have simply
shouted the word at her.
"And aren't they rubIes1 oh. don't
tell me they're only pastew She
looked ready to cry with disappoint.
ment and modification.
PASTEL" / know I yelled that
word so the wallis echoed. "Why
woman. they're DIAMONDS blood
red diamonds-the most valuable stone
| in the world"
She clasped her hands about my arm
and gave out long "O-o-ohi Then
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1s used to be that. to call II gar
ment practical" was about equivalent
to calling 1t Commonplace" but that
Gay has gone by. More and more the
intangible element OF style is de-
mnnded and commands very tangi-
BILE and substantial return in money.
The two coats shown in the picture
above will first catch the eye because
of their smart style and then will
hear study as thoroughly practical.
The suppleness OF the seasons coat
Ings rhakes 1t easy for designers TO do
unusual things, as In the coat shown
at the left of the picture. where odd
capelike extensions are set In at the
sides and the body of the coat Is
Joined to deep yoke with many rows
of machine stitching. Everything in
the model is on a generous scale. even
the handsome buttons are extra large.
The very wide muffler collar wraps
mbout the throat in the coolest man
DER possible. In less flexible ma
,eriu these ideas could not be carried
,ut
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At the right of the picture there In
very smart bloused model, cut with
kiInono body and sleeves Joined to a
full skirt under wide. crushed belt.
The wide collar is gathered in at the
neck and turns over. The cuffs collar
and bottom of the skirt are embel.
lished with large disks. about the size
of silver dollar. which appear 10
be made of French knots in silk floss.
set thIckiy together. The body blouses
considerably and the entire design
is novel and chic. Any OF the soft
coatings will serve for coats like those
shown here. the velours. bolivias, silver
tones, and similar weaves that have
distinguished this seasons wraps make
garments that are both priciirnl and
stylish.
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"wHY, WOMAN THEY'RE DIAMONDS. sLooDRED DlAMoNos"

the "said
to
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in
confusion the custom house spinster
that's eunknow noh her has mad an nat
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more they find out about this work
the batter. II will do them good.

more they md out about this work
the better. II will do them good.
They will hnd II very difncult--'
yes. impossible to convert to belief
In anarchy men OF the stun that
characterizes our membership. and
they will run grave risk Of being
converted themselves to q belief In
law and order az prerequisite 70
Social and economic Justice and hap
-pinsss.
I'VE welcome in tho legion any
person who has acquired eligibility by
reason Of his service in the great war
and who subscribes to tho constitu-
|uon which specifies In the preamble
the purpose of the legion:
"'To uphold and defend the con-
stitution Of the United States of AM
erica: to maintain law and order: to
foster and perpetuate Q one hundred
per cent Americanism: TO preserve
the memories and Incidents Of our
association In the great war: to in
culcate sense OF Individual obliga-
ton to the community state and ma
ton; to combat the 8utocracy OF
both the classes and the masses; to
make right the master Of might; to
promote peace and good will on
earth: to safeguard and transmit to
posterity the principles Of Justice,
freedom and democracy; to conse-
crate and sanctify our comradeship
by our devotion to mutual helpful
ness"
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LEAGUE ENTRY OPPOSED.
Swedish Factions Saw Pitfalls il
New World League. 5


New World League. 81
By Associated Press
Stockholm, March 20 Sweden's
recent decision to Join the league Of
nations, was not reached without
opposition in Parliament Conserva-
tives fought the proposal to join on
the ground that 1t would mean sur
render Of the country's Independence.
They declared that articles II to II
would compel Sweden to take mill
tary measures against any power
which the league considered to have
opened hostilities without due cause.
The army and navy chiefs assert
ed that adherence to the league
would not contribute to the, country's
military or political safety; but that
It would impose responsibilities and
burdens for which the guaranteed
support Of the league would not COM
pensate. Approximations were ex-
pressed that Sweden's adhesion
would prevent the nation from radi-
cally decreasing it's military budget.
Judge Hellner. the minister OF
foreign affairs. who introduced the
governments bill. said that the
league would considerably diminish
the risk Of wars in Europe and the
rest Of the world. Sweden, he added,
would continue to maintain q policy
of absolute neutrality.
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Iowa News Items

WaterIoo-Mrs. George II. Thomp
son. wife of the harp evangelist"
and Mrs. NJ. L. Patterson, of Sioux
City, will represent Iowa at the world
w. c. r. U. convention In London.
England April 1928. They sail with
delegates from other states on the
Lapland from New York, April 8.
| Des Moires-Tom Fnlrweather is
now Offering for sale the blue uni
forms that the Dies Moines club wore
around the Western League circuit
in previous years. They are too hot
for comfort, says the man with no
rain in his name. They will wear
white uniforms at home and gray
cloth on the road. sa
Mount hyr-Fire destroyed the
electric light plant here at loss OF
$4,000. The engine that operates
tho city waterworks was out of order,
so that tho fremen had no water to
stop the blaze. Light was again
turned on from the Centerville plant,
whose Juice will be In use here until
the company rebuilds in the near flu
ture.
Clinton-Completion of the new
Northwestern railway depot by Con-
tractors Miller & Ladehoff, ready for
occupancy probably by April l, was
forecasted by those in charge of the
construction. Whether Or not the
forecast proves correct depends on
how rapidly the moisture can be OK
tracted from the cement. brick and
Iother materials to permit compile
ton Of the finishing work.
Davenport-The Greater Iowa AS
ISOLATION has issued q circular call
ing attention to an article by Carl
Nelson in the I. w. w. organ, The
New Solidarity, in which he says
the Wobblies now have three 4. w.
w. branches in Sioux City, that two
were organized during the past year
and that another Is about to be or
ganized. Nelson complains because
no hall is available in Sioux City
and bitterly attacks the American
Legion.
Odebolt--A number of the substan-
tial citizens of Odebolt are at the
present time actively engaged in
selling stock in town and the sur
rounding country for tho erection OF
fino new modern hospital, and the
promoters of the enterprise are
meeting with excellent success.
Tnere 10 -: Sc: <: .:e..c:'s
the necessary funds will be raised. It
will be fine thing for the people
OF this community when 1t is an ac-
|cohnplished fact.
Charles city-Earl *. Wyman,
head OF tho commercial department
OF the high school, and George
Pflaurn. head of, the public speaking
department, tho latter Of whom was
recently the victim of n physical at
tack by boys here. have resigned and
the two teachers have left the city.
Mr.. Nyyman will manage a newspa-
lper IN southern Michigan and Mr..
| Pflaum has accepted q position in
1.-THE chemical department 81 a Arm
Lin Milwaukee,, both receive much
Ilar$e Or sala rics tlshli they had receiv-
Cd In t3Hcntnn III 1 N Is
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PUPILS TO CRATE.
Declamatory Contest for Northeast
Iowa to Be Held Next Week.

Special to Times Republican.
Waterloo, March 20.-The declam-
atory contest for northeastern Iowa
public schools will be held in the
east Waterloo high school auditor
ium next Friday evening. Winners
of the subdistrict tournaments VIII
compete for the honor of participat-
ing in the state contest.
John Barnes Of the Iowa state
Teachers College, Cedar Falls; G.. Z.
rColgrove president Of Upper Iowa
University, Fayette. and DR.. A. NJ.
JAYNE. pastor of the Cedar Rapids
NJ. f. church, will act as judges. The
contestants are:2
Observation-Disclosures Baker, Ply
mouth: Vern Hansen, Northwood'
and ]. West Townsend, Traer.
Dramatic-Glen Moon, Cedar
Fails; Marguerite Sexton, West
Waterloo; Cleo Renalds, Iowa Falls,
and Staysa Smith, New Hampton.
Humorous-Fonda Jameson, East
Waterloo; Lillian Kiesan, Postville;
Wcyland Osborne, Walker; MILO
Middleton, Beaman; Anita Strickier'
Eldora. ....
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Warmed to Pay Fines.

Special to Times Republican.
Iowa City, March 20-Six members
of the Oilers and Firemens union OF
Iowa City and Coralville. who were
nned q rev hundred dollars months
ago, for alleged consp'racy--puriiy
successful--to dismantle the Iowa
CITY Light and Power Company's gas
and electric plants, have been warned
by Judge r. @. Popham to pay up"
Neither fines nor costs have been met,
after long delay, and the court in
forms the defendants that they must
begin paying s25 a month, April i,
or stand the consequences. ing
bondsmsn OF the six prisoners VIII
be warned, also. The men arc Fran
els p. Murphy, president of the local
union: Charles Fowler, Gregg Patter-
son, Frank Brand, Joe Shimon, and
Truman Fox The town was plunged
In darkness two nights after the tron-
BILE last fall.
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American League to
Put Ban on Gau,b LIN

Merit brings It's own record--even
in the world OF sport. II. Clay Fol-|
ger, for many years chief OF ths
private police at the Cleveland
American ball park, Is going to ~
sist Ban Johnson to keep the gambs
lers out OF the bali parks this SUM.
mer, and ere long he may have the
title OF Chief of Police OF thd
American League"
Folgcr Is sworn enemy Of sganb !
ling at baseball games. With
force OF less than thitry men. he shaa
almost entirely eliminated the .gamb-
ling evil at the Cleveland ball yard
and when the business of chasing
tho gamtsters became slack heetufn-
ed his attention to muzzllng tho
users OF profane language. had
Johnson says the Cleveland ball
park is the cleanest in the league
with regard to gambling and pro
family. |
AT a recent Chicago meeting. Afte1
peace was declared between Johnsor
and the Frazee- Rupert -ComtskeS|
contingent. Big Ban made . littl@
talk on prospects for the COMING
season. Among other things he fired
a broadside into the gamblers. Id
asked the cooperation OF all th4
magnates and he got It quick with
permission to handle the menace Id
any way ne saw ut to get results
Ban admitted the gambling evi
would probably be no worse thi4
year than in the past, but he advo
Gated keeping after II.
Johnson has had two conte4ence1
with Folger. He had the Cleveland
man explain his system. Foleer a.
clared there was nothing myster1o14
about 1t. He told the AtnsF30As
League executive his crew gets
line on general gamblers. thsI
watches them closely when thoy
visit the ball yard. He says the fac
that the gamblers were watched Ank
knew they were watched haA tho de
sired effect In Cleveland. Less thax
dozen arrests for gambling hsv
been made by F>olger's mon in Glove
land during the past ton years.
Folgar suggests the liberal use q
private detectives in each city to 90
line on baseball gamblers wh@
operate where the tickers hold forth
When the names and identity hav
been secured he advises some piail
clothes men be stationed near then
ut the games. ana arrests promptld
made on the first offense. Eolgo}
may visit all the American Learnt
! s=:!:. era .: :::.::..! s .:!s: :~...:.. saAl
American League parks have prtvAtI
police departments. au9mented q
city police on big days.
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