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

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sEvery little details important now.
And lordylord-what q story, and my
SCOOP"
The reporter was r0mping around in
| Billy's inside, determined to push the
story to a finish; while r0mping
around in my insides was my natural
caution. Why should we do anything
to warn the Emperor william? He
might deny everything and say he
never even heard of the diamonds |
Yes, one false step would make Billy
and me the laughing.stock Of diplo-
matte circles throughout the world.
We must get all our proof before we
| divulged the secret on which the fate
Of our nation depended.
The net result Of our hurried col
loquy was that we returned to the din
| ing roo and silently relieved the still
sorrowing monsieur Of his handouts.
Which done, Billy presented him with
leave of absence from our society In
the words:
Monsieur, you are free to co. and
added a cOurtly bow.
/ bowed also. Thus we signifed with
all the we possessed that the
interview, pleasing as 1t had been,
was at an end.
Our actiOn-simple enough to us and
in line with the plan we'd just mapped
out for getting at the truth--left mon
sieur as dazed as anything we'd done ;
inexplicably, we had abruptly set him
adrift, without threats or explanations
a1d withOut--the diamonds. l smiled
and said. quite as though he'd been
drinking tea with me "Tll say good
night to you, monsieur" With that, /
held out my hand.
Monsieur did not rise. He did not
take my offered hand. He stared-a
really frightened, childish stare. first
at me, then at Billy. He had been dis
miSsed-every second he longer re-
manned marked him a trespasSer. Yet
he remained. glued to his chair and
dumb. Speech seemed TO have desert
ed him. Twice he essayed it, but the
words stuck in his throat and he
looked to us to help him out.
The clock chimed the four-quarters
to nine and then the hour. Monsieur
spoke.
Il have place myself in your posi-
ton as American and l appreciate
your feeling" he began, and he went
on to tell us as Il man he grieved for
US; how as a wOuld-be friend he
grieved for US; how as the emperor's
messenger he grieved for us; and how
lin the innocent carrying OF Of a
slipper from the customs house-one
Of q pair in which his daughter had, at
bis command, secreted a box of dia-
mOnds belonging to the e~mperOr-had
brought myself within the circle of i'm
placable, ~all-seeing, a~ll-avenging and
never-ending wrath, whether the dia-
mOnds were lost, strayed. stolen from
me. or drowned in the sea wrath that
would follow me and my name for
ever, world without end, amen.
"All right. let it," I replied CURLY.
But would it not be better to con
siderT" urged monsieur. NE wrass Of
&c emperor is terrible. Consider,
madame, l beg you to consider. Zone
diamonds Eat you have found in 2at
slipper you have re misfortune to carr:
off. Consider to give zem back"
"They were not in the slipper I car
ried off,"
Monsieur positively jumped. "Zey
were not in Eat slipper2"
Noon my word of honor as a gen.
tlewoman, monsieur, I tell you those
diamonds were not in the slipper I car
ried off,"
mon Dieu!" he said under his
breath. Madame DelariO must have
zem-in spite Of her denial-in spite OF
Eat I search re entire. house-and her.
self-and find also re slipper In her
wardrobe as she would not leave it II
she find zoze diamonds"
But she may no have found them
they may have fallen out and got
lost"
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" he inter-
rupted. 81 have examine bose zoze
slippers-yOu see it is zis way: Ny
daughter have glue re box in one, safe,
and on an evening you tell Madame
Delario to veal z0ze slippers and
Claire have but just time to remove re
box and she returns it to re uzzer
slipper. 1t is Eat little accident-and
some words from yourself-zat con-
vince me it is yourself who has found
zOZe diamonds"
mo. monsieur. When you accused
me of rObbing Claire of jewelry /
hadn't the least idea what you meant.
l suppose you accused Mrs. Delario
Of the same thing? Didn't you accuse
her Of taking jewels from Claire--just
as you did me-without specifying
what kind Of jewels?"
"Odi-yes. Naturally, / do not
specify, for re reason If she find re
diamonds, she know to what l refer:
hint - uo,, houo And coro r ~ coA an