The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19

l De Rohan wanted to make up with the l Queen. She had been angry with him ever since he had told the Queens mama,
 Maria Theresa that Marie Antoinette was putting on too much dog in Paris. and the straight-laced old Queen had re- l buked her daughter severely. Marie An- 1 toinette had recalled the old "blad-cat 1 from his post at Vienna, and sworn ven- geance on him.
 ! The Prince wanted the job of Prime Minister, and he knew he could never get it without a little private pull. So he hastened to tell Jeanne:
 I'll buy the jewel. and pay three times what it is worth. It will be 8 pa triotic pleasure to let the Queen have money for her charities. Only see that l she learns who furnished the where- l withal."
 The next time the Prince came, Jeanne handed him note written in the Queens s girlish scrawl, saying Marie Antoinette was sorry she had got mad with him, 1 thanking him for buying the diamond, and didn't he want another? l The Prince dug down and gave Jeanne 1 four times what the new diamond was worth. He also invested in long and curly wig that would make him look more | like Prime Minister.
 1 "Aw, this is too soft,' Jeanne con- fided to her la Motte.
 THE QUEENS LETTERS
 B ECAME CHUMMY
 Every day the Prince had a letter, Supposedly from the Queen, duly signed, Marie Antoinette de France and as 1 the money flowed more lusciously the Queens letters became more warmly ! eloquent. till the old Prince imagined himself as potential correspondent in a royal divorce scandal. He wasn't made Prime Minister yet, but Jeanne moved to bigger and outside apart Iments, and she promised things more and more violently. She began to en- certain sumptuously. and those who heard that she called the Queen Net tie" made haste to accept her invita- tons.
 Among those who fell for her vocabu- lary and general eclat were the jewelry firm of Boehmer Bassenge, who had spent years, and all of their capital, collecting perfectly matched stones to | sell to Madame du Barry. But the Du Barry-Louis XIV checking account had been marked mo funds" before the necklace was completed, and the jewell CTS (and the jewlers) had tried to sell lit all over Europe, and had failed. Marie Antoinette wanted it, but she had to Hooverize on diamonds, because the French Treasury was stone" broke
 When BOehm0r x BaSSenSe heard or Jeanne's intimacy with the Queen. they hinted at nice commission if she would sell the necklace to "Nettie.'
 Cash first, and terms afterwards,' replied Mime. la Comptesse, and put your best palm frontward."
 That evening she confided to- de Rohan:
 "Ronie, I've got hunch. The Queens s terribly thrilled over your letters, and the small time remittances you have |been handing out, but she wants one hundred per cent proof before she turns loose that Prime Minister job. She doesn't think you care enough to
 "Sacre bleu de gosh!' screamed the Prince. Haven't I subscribed to the American Indians baseball league and subscribed to the Revolutionary Danes land Widows Sinking Fund?
 Then Jeanne told him about the neck lace that Nettie wanted so bad, and old Louis was too stingy to buy it for liner. and it could be purchased for a few million livres, on the extortion plan. lThe Prince, in desperation. consented to buy the necklace for Nettie if the lQueen would grant him an interview.
 One August night in 17S4 the Prince lhove over the garden wall at Versailles land met Jeanne, who led him to an iarbor where attired in white, stood a ,lady who looked every inch a Queen tThe Prince was near sighted so it went big. The Queen dropped rose, and he kissed her hand. Then up rushed
 Jeanne with a warning that somebody was coming. and the Prince fled.