The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-04-23
CUT DIAMOND
. Jane Bunker

than I thOught-he must have very
powerful occult influences working
with him, or very remarkable psychics
on the earth plane who a get names
and dates. And 1t all shows how care
full I've got to be. I'm glad you
told me. l see how / must guard my
self"
feeling toward her-her manner of TAX
ing what I'd told her gave me q posi-
| tive shock. I'd wasted both my SYM
pathy and my reasoning powers on
her. And l saw the Vaccinations she'd
be the center of-the wrath of the
Emperor William, that I'd been
! threatened with, bounding her, perhaps
to death. / must save her from her
own fOlly-I must convince her In
spite of herself and for her own good.
If l didn't De Ravenol would before
he got through with her, and | hated
much at stake himself to care what
happened to her.
but wait q minute" l struck ID
boldly; you're forgetting that yot
wore the slippers on the steamer-tha
knocks Paris: the diamonds could not
have been in the slipper when you
bought it-Or while you were in Paris"
why. so / did," she admitted. And
i thought for q second that she wa
vered-that l had given her belief q
serious blow. But if l did it rebound
ed Immediately. And that makes il
only the more wonderful! !" she cried,
and repeated il with delight at the
r%lenching discovery. She did not no.
tice my dry and somewhat Disguised,
at certainly does" but dubbed on
1T only goes TO show their powers
their a~ll-seeing. all-helping powers
They made me the gift in Paris. and
then, seeing it might be discovered toe
SOOn-a a time the knowledge l pos
sessed such wealth and was smuggling
Though l didn't know | was SNUG.
Cling it-but | should have felt ] ought
to say something at the customs house
II l had known it on the steamer"
= Nui III III PoSltiNS "
mean they-whoever they are-put the
box in your slipper in Paris, then took
Ii out on the steamer so you could
yea he lipper-anS then put it back
after you had worn the slipper? You
mean thar|'
Certainly. Why notT' she answered
calmly.
l declare | could almost have sworn
at heri why not !" l gasped.
"Why-nOtf" she repeated, looking
at me darkly. "If they can put il
there they can take 1t Out-that is
simple everyday Why You
yourself gave me the prOOf!-you told
me it was once in the other slipper
the one you carried off
In the face of such arguments. seri-
Ously put, l was helpless.
IF they didn't, who did?' she de-
mande0. Remember - Claire never
told you she did-that's what he says
and he's q consummate scOundrel,
capable of any fabrication of the truth
to gain his ends and rob d d~efenseleSs
wOman."
Her question and her face both chal.
ienged me-demanded the blow direct; |
but l ducked the issue in a general pro- |
test.
But really, Mrs. Delario, you know
"a million dollars worth of dia.
mOnds dOn't-just happen"
That's what makes it SO wonderful |
that it did happen-and to me Ito
humble little me, who never could have
expected It," Her eyes glOwed with
mystic fire. |
ITO suspect would have been to
doubt Gods providence-his prom
ises-everything. How could I? How
dared 1? / had prayed-the prayer
had been answered." she spoke very |
sOlemnly, and added: II would not let |
myself doubt"
But you hadn't prayed for dia.
mOnds."
"God-and the masters who carry
out the supreme plan-answer prayers
In their own way" She said 1t rs II
she were admonishing a child. and
then snatched the next argument out
Of my mouth.
Don't millions Of Christian people
pray every day. IN their Bonded knees,
Give us this day our daily bread
believing they will get 1t from a divine
source, and is 1t any harder for God
to give the diamonds than a crust?"
! was defeated. She went on-in q
rather unsteady voice-and told me
what she'd thus far held back-the
end Of the prophecy, not yet fulfilled
and that she nightly anticipated: the
ultimate revelation and ordination:
one Of the masters was to wing an
invisible fight through the air, straight
from Tibet to the room where we sat,
and to place upon her bosom the mys-
tic seal-seven blo0d-red stains. In
symbol of seven ~bleedings Of the con-
trite heart purging itself Of its seven
Aon AZ ~f--