The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-03-19
The Opal Ring for
Grace
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS

w town in America TO go far
lcross The sea to the exhibition at
Nembley, he certainly had not ex-
)ected to be in the famous Scot.
and Yard. However. Sammy was
merely in the Lost and Found of
ice of that institution in quest of
MS raincoat. He had left il on the
JUS after a day at Wembley.
He had not supposed so many
.areless people existed in the whole
world and took up his place pa
.iently on the fringe of the crowd
waiting there at the various win
lows to claim lost property.
At least the procedure of claim
ng lost raincoats would have
seemed tedious TO Sammy had he
aot caught sight of her. She was
standing just behind him and seem.
ngly too fragile part of that
pushing crowd Sammy edged aside
and managed to place himself as
kind of buffer. She had looked
up at him and smiled her thanks,
but it had been lengthy and
satisfactory thanks that went most
completely to Sammy's head.
And during that time while others
we drawing nearer the officers in
charge of the windows. Sammy had
plenty of time to note all the lovely
things in connection with her. In
The first place, he felt reasonably
sure that she was an American.
There was that frank interest in
everything lighting her eyes, In
her hand she carried the letter that
Scotland Yard had sent her telling
her that her opal bracelet had been
found
Finally Sammy saw her draw
forth some banknotes to pay the
charge of three shillings on the
| pound on the value of her bracelet
and watched her sign the papers
that the officer placed before her.
Sammy glowered at that officer
simply because he was fortunate
enough to take in at one glance the
name and address she was writing.
After that, she turned, looked
into Sammy's eyes again with q
swift sweet farewell and edged her
way out of the crowd. Sammy was
also quick enough to see that she
had forgotten her umbrella and
brilliant enough to take it swiftly
from the counter as if it were his
own. 1t was still warm from the
grasp of her hand.
IT was his turn now at the WIN
| dow, and he told the tale of his
loss-a brown raincoat left on q
| bus, and all the time he was won
dering if he could possibly catch UP
| with her or whether the vast Lon
don streets would have swallowed
her up. Anyway, he had her adj
dress. Sammy could afford to
wait. He most certainly would re.
turn the umbrella in person rather
than permit her to stand in that
crowd again in Scotland Yard of.
fee and get it back through its
proper channel. In this particu
lar case Sammy felt himself an6
not Scotland Yard to be the proper
channel.
But when he went out to the ad
dress, 10 Norland square, next day
to return that umbrella, the fates
had played him false.
Miss Weller left yesterday" ht
was Informed, "she went to Scot
land to sail this morning for Amer
lea. Yes, she left an address, as
she said she had lost an umbrella.
Sammy failed to hear anything fol
a moment so black had the day
grown, but he rallied and knew
that some way he would manag,
to see that she got her umbrella.
! In Sammy's pocket on his wa,
home was a most lovely opal ring
Sammy had great hopes.
| And out in her garden, when latt
September was hurting all sorts O
wonderful tawny coors about tn,
landscape, Grace Weller sighed int,
the huge bunch of chrysanthemum
she had cut.
"Plans can go very mucl
askew," she informed the flowers
but of course they didn't know any
thing about fine looking youn;
man who had stood beside Grac,
J in the office of Scotland Yard ant
looked protectingly into her eyes.
, "A gentleman to see you, MISS
came swiftly from old Nanny's par
of the house, "shall just show hin
out there-he says it's about al
umbrella"
, Grace blushed and hid her fac,
quickly from Nanny.
When their hands finally did NEE
it seemed as If they never coult
draw them apart.
81 brought your umbrella" saiC
Sammy.
"Oh," said Grace, 81 thank you,
she dropped the dark lashes ant
added softly, Il left ton pur
pose.'
"Darling!" blurted Sammy, ther
flushed. He laughed then and tol(
her all the things he had beer
thinking during the past weeks an(
showed her the lovely opal ring
"And that's for you-when you say
the right word" he said.
Grace's eyes had already said til,
magic word
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