Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1929-10-04

every dress. And emptled the clothes
hamper and even moved the bed and
the davenport"
Lets have dinner and then I'll look
the garden over again." Flip comfort
ed you know Pm a great detective"
he attempted to joke.
Barbara made a brave effort to eat
her dinner Flip must not see that
she cared SO dreadfully. She even
tried to converse about other things
and forced a laugh when Flip told
funny story. But all the time her
thoughts ran wildly. What would
Captain Jameson say when he came
back from Washington The bracelet
guarded by the priests In that old
Chinese temple for centuries she had
not been able to keep longer than a
week The bracelet that had cost him
weeks of work, of effort, to say moth
ing OF money! The bracelet he had
obtained at the risk of his life for her.
No amount Of searching brought
forth the jade bracelet It was as If
the world had swallowed II up and for
some strange reason Flip seemed very
cheerful about It, II Barbara had not
been so unobserving she might have
noticed how every now and then he
smothered chuckle.
Flip suggested going to the mo
vies" and because Barbara thought
she might as well suffer there as at
home. she consented to go. AS they
entered the lobby of the theater, who
should they meet but Mrs Haversilk,
just coming out. TITS wonderful
picture, you'll love I'll" she enthused
"Oh. and by the way, did you find your
bracelet"
"No," answered Flip, for his wife,
"we should worry. I'm going to buy
Barby another"
"Oh, haven't you the incest hubbyf'
cooed the pretty widow. "Good-by,
and waved her hand In little gesture
Of farewell. Barbara's eyes grew sud
denly large her mouth opened, and If
the incoming crowd had not pushed
her along she would have run after
Mrs. Haversilk, for on the pretty wild
owls white wrist Barbara had seen her
Jade bracelet.
Flip had a bad night of It. Bar
bara got up at least a dozen times
to raise or lower the windows, and
when she was not getting a glass Of
water she was adjusting the bed
clothes or turning her pillow foI the
hundredth or so time. Because Of II
all Flip got very little sleep, and nat
urally he was in a bad humor the next
morning.
Barbara's last plan just before she
had fallen asleep at dawn had been
to tell Flip of her discovery, but when
she saw his scewllng face she decided
to surprise him In the evening. She
was quite determined to get her brace
let back, and all through breakfast she
practiced dozen little scathing
speeches she would make to Mrs.
Haversilk.
Directly after Flip had left she be.
gan to dress. She wanted to face Mrs.
Haversik looking her very best, but
no amount Of primping and fusslng
could change the dark circles under
her feverlsh-looking eyes.
II was just when she was adjusting
her new blue felt hat to smart an
gle that the bell rang and little an.
nOyed she snatched up her coat and
gloves and ran downstairs to open the
door.
There stood Mrs. Haversllk in her
pink house dress with the cheerlest
smile on her face. "Good morning !"
she breezed. "0h, you're just going
cut Well. won't keep you min
ute, my DEAR"
With an icy little smile Barbara led
her into the living room.
aust think, found your bracelet
this mOrnlngl"
Barbara cOlored. OF all the nerve,
she thought hers was the most.
"The gardener must have dumped
wheel-barrow Of trash over It yes
terday right at the hedge He put the
manure on the flower bed this morn
Ing and found your bracelet.
Barbara boiled inwardly. Lovely !
Inventing a story about trash on her
precious, century-old Chinese bracelet