The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-04-02

CUT DIAMOND
" Jane Bunker


CHAPTER L-while tn The little FrsnoA
Slnstslr. Who tells the story i spsmdin1
,Hrc css,as; ' 3: K k. :aasd t. g a1 10 her = ' So%.
tnough forming an attachment to the girl
&c sy sssSan c,s sir:: Z s. dt:sas .S 10 1 dssiinss' %
CHAPTER LION tho boat she nnds
Claire and . casual acquaintance, MIA
vas purchasing . pair Of slippers. exact
Y alike. which figure largely In subse-
N0ent events. When they reach New York,
her mother. the latter does not appear.
3nd Claire perforce goes to Mre. Delario'S
ss%:; t Ii S ses ssn esslis. al al e ehs OF epf S1a.
4elarto's slippers. Through that happen
PIG she learns later that some ono un-
Known to her has an entry to her fat
.CHAPTER. III.-Calling on Mrs Delario.
that lady. shows her some remarkable
9ems. believing them to be rubies. but
Sasfly worth a million dollars. Mira. De-
!ar1o admits the gems were smuggled. but
o6ers no other explanation. While they
are talking. q suspicious caller throws
them into CONSERVATION
CHAPTER Iv.-The caller asserts b. IL
the arrest Of Mrs. Delario's son on .
charge Of stealing the diamonds. She out
Its th l him and nc P per haaes her hen friend to AXE
CHAPTER Y.-Next morning. realizins
tne responsibility In her possession OF tho
diamonds our heroine takes them back to
Mrs. Delsrio, but while there she learns
that that lady's son has been kidnapped,
agrees to keep them for a while. She
btdes them in . bunch Of hyacinths and
has the lock Of her door changed and Q
Rayenol informs her Mrs. Deiario has met
With an accident and urges her to caN At
ence
CHAPTER vI-Hastening to her friend,
q leaving the gems. the heroine Is met
sIe his. stolen nom Claire on the boat
ee,nster Of the theft. and Demands their
threatens her with a revolver. and es-
oapes.
) CHAPTER vII.-Alarmed for her per-
sonal safety. and almost believing De
RAvenol, the heroine fears to return to
meets NEE sat an and old vh,1s q fnisnd. hi That Ri to DO
newspaper reporter. They spend the eve
ping at . theater Rivers accompanies
Ser ho t%Rerou Thsy' s ss:S a1d s sns f noth has
taken. h does not oonade In Rivers.
CHAPTER vIII.-Next morning Mrs.
taker. comes to do the weekly cleaning.
Au0 aOAh S0S III axe 70 IOph IL dl0
diamonds are safe. and Mrs. Jimmson
throws the faded bunch away. They are
aIescued IN time, but before an investiga-
CHAPTER Ix.-The message purports
fhiisdeiphia, asking her to s"s meet e%e[o hlsn in
that city at once: It Is instantly set down
"a q device OF De Ravenoi to entice her
'h hSa oS See sisy an n. ROB Sisn nen; The n tS Rro S1sr
tective in the hail. She eiudes him. Re-
has an apartment in the building. and
knows at once who had searched her fat
caution to prevent an entry into the
apartment. our heroine writes q message
summoning Billy Rivers. but attempting
i 10 isi' In f HtsS0v the OUTSIDE sas THAT t'i EMIT
De Rayenol attempts to enter the fiat, but
To barred by the chain-bolt.
CHAPTER XI.-An urgent message to
Rivers is confided to George. the elevator
boy. though 1t is evident, he is q spy OF
message. and Rivers brings a supply of
food. She tells him the whole story.
They SEND through George. a note to
and act upon It.
CHAPTER xII.-De Ravenol falls into
" enters to make another search for the
gems. They trap him and bind him Sc
curely. De Ravenol then asserts he is an
agent OF the emperor of Germany, to
whom the diamonds belong, and was sent
to the United States to recover them.
, CHAPTER XIII.-Entrv of the kaiser
INTO the muddle considerably complexities
matters, n the pOssessors Of the dfa-
nonds suggest referring the whole matter
g the state department at Washington.
De Ravenol objects.
LIE rest or what monsieur said Just
then was lost on me. for there had
swoOped on me u lightning stroke of
understanding-the whole nefariOus
scheme of Germany and the emperor
lay bare to my inner eye. MexicO-the
Panama canal-these were the Stra-
tegic points of Il world conquest such
as history had never witnessed. Ger
many In possession of Mexico, with
half a million troops massed on our
border-why, she could flippantly tread
on the lions tail any day and go to
war and say to us: Help England
and lose Texas. Arizona, New Mexico
and California" With half a million
troops in Mexico, Germany could
spank us into almost anything!
And Mexico, with her almost vi |
touched resources with her hot-blood- !
ed troops under German discipline for |
twenty years-for ten-fOr FIVE!
But l could stop it! For the lever |
that was to set the scheme in motion
was thumb-tacked to the bottom Of my
sidebOard drawer-the seven blOOd-red !
diamonds! |
MOnsieur's voice had reached a stop. |
My resolve was taken. |
"Never!" was the one impassioned
word I uttered.
Billy echoed it-"Never!" His
thoughts had flown with mine and had
seen the impending calamity which we
two, out Of the world, could row pre-
vent. Then, drawing himself to bis
full height, he gave forth our ultima
tum to the nation at large: "You just
go back and tell your Emperor WI