The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-03-05
Jane Bunker

the uDOT.
"Gee whiz I" he cried, taking the dag
ger from me; and then he demanded.
"WhO?"
'aThat man-De RavenOl."
DE RavenOl?-you mean that man
In Paris who wanted you to bring the
pretty daughter over with you and
you wouldnt?"
"Yes-that's the one. BE was a dia-
mond thief-that's what he was" I
blew of. "He was in the act Of steal
ing a million dollars worth of dia-
mOnds. And 1 foiled him!"
"WOw! You did?'
81 should say 1 did! And what's
more. I've got the diamonds here
there-behind you in those hyacinths."
"Woww he whooped. and before /
knew what he was doing he was out
of his chair, his hand on the glass.
"Don't touch them" I shrieked.
"WOw!" he cried, dropping his hand
and jumping back. d they bitter"
"NO-they sting. They pizen your
very soul. But, Billy-stOp wowing-
I'm watched"
He sat down with the command,
"Divulge the dread secret" and be-
tween bites | told him the whole story
up to Eureka. and brought in the slip
per to prove It.
He was still staring when ] got
through and asked him, "And now how
, am ] going to get those beastly things
! out of the house and where am / go
ing to get them to-? She doesn't dare
to have them at her house"
"Oh. / can take them away and
hide EN-, If that's all you want" he
answered carelessly.
ut isn't ALL" I retOrted, a bit indig-
nant. Its only the beginning of a
new chapter Of misery for the whole
Of us-it's throwing the responsibility
on you without getting me out Of the
nett won't save me from being kid
mapped and searched and maybe muir
dered 10 keep my mouth shut"
Billy nodded at that and said,
"You're right"
He took q cigarette out Of his case
and with a short, "May II" lighted up
and began to blow rings. gazing a
them a~Dstractedly. 7 njbbleu crumbs
After I'd stood his silence for ha!t d
cigarette. | repeated my question and
told him, We've got 10 do something
, right off--now-tOnight."
"Of course" He smoked another
quarter and threw the cigarette with
energy into the empty chicken tin,
bouncing up as he spoke.
What are we going to d0?" he gave
forth masterfuily. Were going to
trap that bold man all by our little
own seives-you and /. And Wen give
him one nice lesson on stealing dia-
monds from defenseless wonderland
threatening you"
"But we've got to hurry" l urged.
II can't live this way much longer
It's simply killing mel"
Sure" Billy agreed, suppressing a
smile at me. "Tm hurrying all / can.
| calculate to have your 'mossOO' In
handouts tomorrow night" And he
unfolded his plot and / entered into 1t
with fervor.. The truth is Billy and
were having the fun of our lives.
The scheme was to decoy monsieur
to he fat by a letter from Mrs. Della
rio indicating where the diamonds
were hidden: we banked on his re-
lmembering the one place he hadn't
s~earched-the hyacinths and if he got
the tip we believed he'd return the mo.
ment / went out.
After some discussion Billy and
decided not to take Mrs. DelariO into
4 our confidence, not knowing how she'd
act in the crisis. which neceSSitated
our initiating her writing. The only
sample of her writing we had was her
address In my notebook and some
titles of books on ~spiritualism she'd
wished me to read. But the sample
did us, and the joint literary efforts of
myself and Billy produced the follow
ing-this %purporting to be from me to
her:
My Dear Mrs. DeIario: Since he searched
everything but the bunch OF hyacinths az l
told you over the telephone Tuesday-(this
~ iNC No OIL Atev
touch, for his detective must have reported
both that I telephOned and the number of
the call)-I thought the same place would
continue safe In case Of a second invasion
/ got a fresh bunch. so you will know where
IL anything happens to me. II so. COM and
get them at once; break in the dat IL you
have to.
am going TO try to see you Saturday
night for fnal arrangements II l can slip
out without being seen. Expect me between
eight and ten. Be sure to b. alone 50 We
can talk. / still hold to mf 6HPmise-one-
third to you X yeu will help me to dispose
Of gum-dropa.
"Gum drops" vas Billy's touch-he
declared that "mOsso0' would read II
diamonds" sure as anything.
And this, purporting to be from her
to him:
Monsieur: l have refused to have anything
to do with this matter since ! know the
truth OF the ownership. ind the circum-
stances. I feel she u foolish to try to hold