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= miles of CIinch's: It's the mos
| shameful thing hat ever happened
to me-"
what could anybody do under
that rife?" said Eve holly. ina
beast would have murdered the hrs
person who stirred"
Darragh, exasperated and dread
fully Inundated, looked misearbly
/ at his brand-new wife.
Eve and Stormont also looked at
her. She had come forward IRON
the rear of the stairway wnere
Quintana had brutally driven her
Now she stood with one hand on
the empty leather jewel case, look
ing at everybody out of pretty be-
wild red eyes.
To Darragh, in a p~erplexed' I'M
steady voice: lis it the same bandit
who robbed US b%efore?"
YES; Quintana," he said wretch
edlv. Rage began to redden his
features. "Ricca," he said, Il prom
ised I'd find your jewels. -. 1
promise you again that I'll eve
drop this business until your gems
and the Flaming Jewel-are in
your possession
But, Jim
Il swear it," he exclaimed violent
ly. I'm not such a stupid foo as
1 seem"
"Dear!" she protested ~excitedly,
you have done what you promised.
My gems are in my possession
l believe
She caught up the emblazoned
case, stripped out the first tray, then
the second, and flung them aside.
Then, searching with the delicate
tip of her foreinger in the empty
case, she suddenly pressed the bot
tom hard-thumb, middle finger and
little finger forming the three
apexes of an e~quilateral triangle.
There came a clear, tiny sound
like the ringing of the alarm in a
repeating watch. Very gently the
false bottom of the case detached
itself and came away in the palm of
her hand.
And there, each embedded in its
town shaped compartment of
chamois, lay the Esthonian jewels
the true ones-deep hidden, al
double guarded by two sets of
perfect limitations lining the two
visible trays above.
And, in the center, blazed the
Erosite gem-the magnificent Flam-
ing Jewel, a glory of living, binding
fire.
Nobody stirred or spoke. OAR
ragh blinked at the crystalline
blaze as though stunned.
Then the young girl who had once
been Her Serene Highness Theo-
Grand Duchess of Esthonia,
up at her brand-new hus-
band and laughed. |
Did you really suppose it was
these that brought me across the
Did you suppose it was a
passion for these that filled my
Did you think it was for
these that 1 followed you?
She laughed again, turned to Eve;
You .derstand. Tell him that
if he been in rags 1 would have
followed him like a gypsy. i
They say there is gvspy blood in us,
perhaps there is a little of it in all
wo en- " Still laughing he
placed her hand lightly upon her
all women-p. 'haps-a
Flaming Jewel imbedded here"
Her eyes, tender and knocking,
net his; she lifted the jewel-case,
it and placed it in his hands.
Now" she said, you have every
hing in your possession; and we
safe-we are quite safe, now, my |
and l."
Then she went to Eve and rested
both hands on her shoulders.
Shall we put on u snow-shoes
md go-home?"
Stormont flung open the bullet
;plintered doc. Outside in the snow
ne dropped on both knees to buckle
III Ewes snoW-shoes.
Darragh was performing a liks
)fice for his wife, and the State
Trooper, being ur obser ed. took
Gve's slim hands and kissed them
ooking up at her where he was
lneeling.
Her pale face blushed as it had
hat day in the woods on Owl
so long, so long ago, when
this mans lips first touched her
hands.
As their eyes met both remem
0ered. Then she smiled al her lover
with the shy girls soul of her gas-
ng put at him through eyes as blue
IS the wild blind-gentians that grow
the ferns and MOSES of
star Pond.
Far away in the northwestern
Quintana still dashed his
horses through the primeval pines.
Triumphant, reckless, resource
dangerous, he felt that now