The evening world. Newspaper, June 24, 1905, Page 9

§, . yo ete wage 2 in a dignit Mi oe pee eee pole Veaind oles Ay CHAPTER I, The Belgrade Diamonds. UTSIDE, tho flesh and giitter and unending roar that symbolizes busy roadway; tC double procession of pedestrians, well or 1+ “ dressed; the whirr of automobile and trolley oar; fach and overy sight and sound merging into that at Tilghty note which typilles Amenica's most eafamolis thoroughfare, But none of the noise and garish glare of the afliest penetrated the massive, solidly respectable {te glass and bronze portals of Rother’s jewelry OYéfiporlum. A bird's-eye view of Rother’s on the early March Morning when our story beging revealed little to {Interest the casual observer. 4 till, finely built young girl was leaning over @ poynter at the extreme rear of the place, in tete-n- fete talk with a well-groomed, yellow-haired clerk, 4vho was showing her some comparatively inexpensive damonts. From thelr attitude of familiar conversation it was evident that the man and girl were not merely clerk and cusidines, but also on terms of friendship, “You seo,’ tho girl was saying, “If want it for MHiny mother's birthday. I know {t's horvibiy extrava- » at for a fii-n-week stenographer to buy things re. Still," with a little laugh of | playful ny, “1 ought to feel honored to think that the reat Rex Venner~asslelant manager of his depart- ftiéitt ond maybe future parther in the great hous? of Rother—has deigned to wait on me,’ “Hay that ail over n, ptease,” laughed Venner, “Tt does me good to hoar all those titles, I may for- for the moment that I'm nothing but one tiny “it wheel of Rother's business,” “Why, Rex laimed the girl, noting the under; {iene of bitterness in his laugh; “you speak as if you weren't grateful for holding auch a good position and moted so often, I don't see what more you * he answered, "It's simple enough, ing a begmarly $40. week and forced. the patron: 1 orders of a lot of no bettér In birth Or breeding than I ip that gives these people the right to 1 look me'over superctiiously through ttes and order me about as though I were 2 It's mongy, aeomey!—the god of this town country, ‘Waites. sinking his volce, but K With strange vehemenos, ‘sometimes when I ess treasures here that I handle every ¥ as if hey were eo muah dirt lam terribly tempted (aj take cron of thom to put,me,on an equal with The “snobs whom I have to Wait” on, To be rich ee pect know you don't mean one word you're saying,” [x submit SYSTEM of collections for charity certainly unique ts in operation | tim London. Ten dogs, fitted with eddies containing boxes each having & mot just big enough to admit a coin, } trot through the streets in that olty every day, inviting contributiona for the r an tnstitution founded”twenty years ago, to educate the children of men who, at the time of tholr deaths, were in the employ of the vallway, Within the last year mo less collected: by: the dog the Ptifladelphia North American. some, intelligent and docile, the Farely..tal to attract attention the streets and about the ate- \,_tions of London and it# suburbs. TMPéy'are owned by rultroad men at various points, orebout, a station @ dog will ied manner, and Sneldom fails to lure @ contribution into the placarded box be carries, 1 ROP PIOR: eollector, of them, all iy Men. Best Husbands. AT husbands are the easiest »to,tame, They make the most. docile hueabands in the world, "wellknown authoress, according Shicos Journal, "A fat husband himpelf about the man- He trusts Although Whenever a crowd | ¢o $76, relhRother ian Tn ad Tecting defiance to” Oh Wp other hand, everything seeme tho 1éan husband, He te ‘ex- & interrupted Amy Clare. ‘You are foolishly discon- tented because @ few others are better off than you. The atmosphere of gold has poisoned you, Oh, he onreful! | “Perhaps you'ro right,” he assented, more moved) by the eamest voice and big, pleading eyes than he) mined to own, “Perhaps you are, And now," he! idded, more Iightly and eeeking to change the sub- ject, “I promised to show you the Belgrade dia- nonds, you remember, Come into one of the private salesrooms and I'll bring them to you. We aren't illowed to take them into the outer store. In fact, only three of us have acces@ to them at all,” Amy had read much of the famous Belgrade din- nonds, There were two of theee gems, They were of uniform size, cutting and ihue. ‘Their combined salue was estimated at $95,000. Their name was de- ived from thé fact that they had for centuries formed the chief treasures among the crown jewels of Servia and had sparkled on tho brow’ of the 1 fated Queen Draga the night of her asmasination, Bought by one of the Vanastorgoulds, they had been orought to America and were now kept temporarily) At Rother's unul their new owner could deside on che Beat style for remetting them. | Amy Clare entered one of the emall rooms at the; yack of the store and sat before a little green baixo table awaiting the return of Rex Venner, who had gone to the big safes ior we jewels, | Aa she eat there two people—a man and a woman—| entered the private room. | ‘The woman was of the Venue'de Milo type, song: | | nifloently dressed, atrikingly handsome and with Bpan- igh features and coloring, Her companton, a tall, thin man with drooping yellow mustache, tired blue eyes and blond hair which was fast allvering at the templo was in conventional morning attire and acemed In- tensely bored. | His alr of boredom utterly vanished for the moment as hie gaze fell on Amy Clare, and a tenderer, softer, Ught fled the weary eyes, He masked the expres-| (oe however, n once and atepped forward to greet) “Why, Mies Claret" he sald, gayly, “When you Asked for a morning off I had no iden you intended to spend the time here, You must be able to make your salary go further than most of us can if you ean afford to put in a morning shopping at Rother’s."' “I'm afraid you'll think I’ve been forging your | name or appropriating the firm's funds, Mr, Beck- | with," she anewered, in the same vein, ‘so I'll have to confess," And eho told him briefly the object of her vist to| Rother's, As she talked the other woman was oyeing her somewhat superciliously, She gathered from the con- versation that this girl, who had brought #o wmusual | light into Charles Beckwith's eyes, was merely his lepographer, and that the wealthy society man who | (having exhausted afl tho trivial joys of social 1ifo) | had started a detective agency in order, as he sald, to get some excitement out of existence, was more than casually interested in this slender, brown-eyed employee of his, “I'm here on a somewhat similar errand,” Beckwith was eaying, ‘I came to pay a wager, I lost a bet to Mme. Delorme, Tho bet was—oh, I beg pardon—I forgot you had not met—Mme, Delorme, may I pre- sent Miss Clare?" The women's cyes met as they acknowledged the introduction, and from one to the other passed a tel- qpathic sensation of mutual dislike and distrust, Such Intuitive aversions are not rare among women, as every woman knows, But in few cases does the dts- like bear auch momentous consequences as they were | fated to in this instance, Amy now recallled having read of Mme, Delorme, and even of having seen het photograph in one of the papers, The woman, she remembered, was the widow of the President of a tiny South American re- public, Her husband had been shot in a revolution, Hine, saterder” ‘Eve n “You dee'} The Girl wea Saying, and whe had escaped to New York, whither sho was Benerally supposed to have transported a goodly por- thon. of her Jate husband's {ll-won wealth, Soclety here had taken her up. Her marked beauty, |her romantic history and her suvposed wealth had combined to render her consplousus. Amy had even heard the South American's name vaguely: coupled with Charles Beckwith's, Just then Rex Venner re-entered the little room, carrying a black morocco tray, lined with deep-bluo velvet, As he saw Mme, Delormo his fece flushed and his discontented face brightened. © / Amy, noting his look, felt a strange constriction at her own heart and a thrill of pain swept through | her, Quickly recovering her self-possession, tne girl in- troduced Rex to her employer, and was too much Pre-occupled to notice that Chariie Beckwith's eyes | had never once left her face, that he had read her emotions as though they were written In an open book, and that the reading of them had left his palo face an ashen gray. Venner set down the morocco case on the table and Ufted the upper portion of ft. Within, on a bed of velvet, nestied severat huge diamonds, In the eles irle light's glare the big stones glowed and shim- mered, casting forth innume ie showera of multi- colored fire, a veritable rainbow of dancing, glitter- ing, dasziing sunbegms. They were jewels for which life Itself might seem well lost. “ont” It was a low-breathed exclamation of wondering: delight from Amy Clare that broke the momentary silence of admiration, “put,” sald Mme Delorme, “I were but two Belgrade diamonds. least eix,” Rex laughed. understood there Here there are at ft Went “That js a trick of the trade,’ he replied, “You see, nearly all the wealthy people here who own jJew- 9 have duplicates of those jewels made in paste, They wear these duplicates on ordinary occasions, or at tines when there seems danger of robbery, The average outsider cannot tell the difference, If the duplicates ane stolen, It 1s only @ lows of $100 or #0, Whereas, the real jewels represent a fortune. So Mr. Vanastorgould ordered ts to make duplicates of the Belgrade diamonds, We are making them, but | it 1s harder than you would suppose to get the exact | color, shape, &c, Four of the stones you see hero accurate attempts at ‘t for my Mothers in this case are more or duplication, ‘The two other stones are tho originals, In this lower compartment,'' Hfting the tray on | | which the #lx stones reposed and revealing a second drawer, which held seven or elght apparently similar ‘Mn. this Jower compartment are reveral more gems, of the ‘failures We'll get the right duplicates in) tims, though. to He replaced the lower drawer. Then, potntin; the half-dozen stones In the top tray, he continus “No one but an expert, probably, would be able to tell the real from the false among this half dozen, Without cureful examination even I should be pus- zled to do 80, Seo If any of you can guess which are ho Belgrade diamonds.” " i sey. bil look alike to me,” sald Amy in bewillder- ment. Beckwith did not attempt to pick them out; but stifled a yawn with his bapa WAR Ee He was ently vored by the whole proceedings. Le te Delorme, without an Instant’s healtation, leaned forward and laid the tips of two of ner | gloved fingers upon two of the half dozen shining pebblos. i “Good!” cried Rex in admiring surprise. ‘Not one A heavy impact, a jar, @ hurricane of falling glass hoarse shouts from fitty voices, The four occupants of the private salesroom rushed excitedly to the doorway leading to thé outer ators, A racing automobile had ‘gotten aw: ay" from chauffeur, had rushed up on the sidewalk, scattering tho crowds, and had plunged straight through one oft crowd rurhed tr after tho big plate-glass windows into for the door with # trayful of ring panto and In tho uenally qulot emporium. * \Rex Venner at length recollected he had left the| rushed | trom the confuaton, salesroom ‘hoy found that Bockwith and Mme. Delorme | had olready returned and were talking together near) the table whereon lay the morocco and velvet jewe: ‘The dinmonde still flamed and glittered in their) Eagerly Rex counted them, All six were| With a sigh of relief he locked the case Belgrady diamonds unguarded and arxlonsly back to the little salesroom, whom he had become separated In rejalnod hin and they entered the wether, cane. velvet nest, still there. and carried It away to the safe, he said as he rejoined the others. was full of strangers, gema and the drawerful of pi erelsed over him, tently regarding her. She knew Insti She loved Rex\ Venner! row that ever lurks in the footsteps saw that the ma with Irnemist{d! her sido, ¢ * ¢ her mother engraved that same day, |mother shared. marked on time. “1'4 heard a lot about him, fellow, they @ay, <And’’—— love with you. And''—— what nonsense!'’ “It's no business of mine, the world and—well, I was worried.” eyes were innocent and direct. oulty in explaining, even to himself, | shoulders and answered awkwardly eno person in a thousand could have’ Crash! Delicious Soup. Te the water that happen to ‘have. substituted for large quantity is desired.) very little and season wi pepper and some butter. Marshmallow Filling. Ts easlost way Is ti folled In, strain tt and add one- half to one pint of milk, as you (Water can also be extra milk, if 4 ‘cake with marshmallows and set in the oven long enough for them onions are Thicken a th salt and 0 cover the The Little Buttercup of 1879 | Is Seen in the Same Role in 1905 = ed London Jack 11, who has tiken the place at Watertoo Station held for Several years by London Jack I, the latter ts carrying on his good ‘work, Hi ‘hae been stuffed and mounted: in pa Glass caso in the Waterloo Station, Through @ elot in this onse travellers fast year dropped coins that amounted his foes. still body uccoRs it Bast Rotel, ‘whe eae eour the ie ion, HOR ‘to the ten Cae hd col the others are bet ne “rained for thy Game of Castle-King. OOS your King by some counts Ing-out rhyme, Then he must! stand on a high place and shout He taunts them with abusive epithets, asi.. on, tion of omtnence—and, sioné; he must try to maintain tt. Fate. pulls atid pushes are ‘allowed, but the clothes muwt not be pulled, un- der penalty of being set aside as a prisoner of war, which really means expulsion from the game, saya the Phil- fdelphia No. ‘have an ally, who merely stand: rth American, the King 1s permitted to rules, Reroadt the Kh by to play and to capture any one Nolivad h | ugar. to soften; then smooth them together with a hot knife, lay on the-top laye: and leo It to make a marshmallow fill ing, Dissolve two ounces of gum arabi: in half a cup of warm water, atrain Into @ granite saucepan and stir in three-quarters of a cup of granulated Put the saucepan into another one of boiling water and stir for fifteen minutes; then remove and beat until atife and white, in and blend in the well-beaten whites of two egw. Add one teaspoon of vanilla, and when partly cool spread between your cakes, Jelly Roll. HRB eggs, 5 tablespoons milk, 1 I cup sugar, 112 cups flour, 1 tea- spoon baking pawder, 1 teaspooi lemon, Beat the yolks Nght, add sugar, beat well, add milk, then the fidur anc lemon, Beat well, then beat whites of eggs stiff, Stir It lightly, Bake in large pan from alx to elght minute ‘When done turn out on towel, ‘Take ahanp knife and cut off any hard edge if such there ts. This Js done so it will not dreak in rolling. Stead with Jelly and roll carefully, Wrap up cares futly, in towel to keep its shape, Lace Drapery. LL-OVBR lace, to be had for draping purposes in all the de- sirable tints, muoh used at present for window hangings where womething different is desired, A win dow aeat painted white and cushioned in a rich old blue comuroy looks ox- tremely well with this all-over lace of a lighter shade of blue used for the win- dow above. LADY and gentleman sat in A end seats four’ rows from the front at the New Amsterdam) entre and Gardens Inst even- ee vies “Pinafore” in tabloid form was presented at the end of the Gilbert and Sullivan review, the lady showed considerable interest in Cor- inne, who sang Buttercup, Bhe glanced at the programme. “Cor- innel" she remarked, "Can be the young woman over whom such &) fuss was made yeata ago and who was called ‘Little Corinne?" ME take it that it is she, * was the King of the cast oo % ‘i U opr aged et roadie ; ‘ Big Cities Are Inland. agvailod By the other play- A Delusion. 4 PRARLY all the world’s great claimant for his powl- N ‘itlen-Paris, Beriln, Bt, / Peters- Vienna, Madrid and oth- fer inland, Even London, the twine to deop water of all of Burope's great capitals, 1s over sixty miles dls~ tant from the sea, New York Js the only elty of commanding tmportance tn luny civilized country which 1s in sight oF the ocean, saya Leslie's Weekly: whicago feols ats nome time uaye the same minence tn th aioe that, | Give » rapid, id, strouier mation! to thin | many, i terabur nish it Me ah, ‘and ies Hs wh hea i c a preregl irl mpidly in gad ve or ten yearn, Spel as foe motion. > pass Now York course, but ‘e wil burs. ghd 2h Dir ctneonniar at aR Ve wilt | reply, and the gentleman was right, Tho Corinne at the New Amsterdam Aerial Theatre is the “Little Corinne” of years ago, who made her debut at the Boston Museum, May 9 1879 (twen- ty-six years ago), as Little Buttercup in R, M. Field's juvenile “Pinafore” company. She appeared in 100 perform- ances, Her argoviates in this company were Fritz Willlams, who sang ‘Sir Joseph, and Ida Mulle, Josephine. Ida Cohauest was then Corinne's under- study. Later Mrs. Jennie Kimball or- | ganized a juvenile “Pinafore” company, |in which Corinne was the Buttercup and Frank Danlela the Dick Deadeye. The next year, when six years old, Corinne was a full fledged star In a company called “The Corinne Merry- makers.” Frank Dantels, Bob and Dan |Paly and Tella Farrell were members ‘of the company, From seven to twelve jyeara Corinne was singing the princl- A pal roles in ‘the Mascot,” "Grand Duchess," “Princess Trepizonde” and Jothor noted successes at the head of 4 company manayed by her mother, every lady |¢ I WAN to have a! cake oF the World's great-| est Beauty Soap and to read the, World’s great- Farge Book. eaisica ae Bradsha: ae Mitta hi r ae Vs Fri Mary 68% 2 seoith {2534 naid Cast, AN yan ree ti yer “ON, B's ¥ TREA “Thane “Watites “HRN attly * Bvery, Tuesday and ‘Thureda: BEACH THEATRE VAY JE VILLE BRCES ‘means a good deal to me, and''—~ Rother's, he pollce were summoned; | one pickpocket was caught just as ho was makin and, altogether, coufusion were rife for several ‘minut he Amy, “That was the worst scare I've had ih a year," “Tt was abominably careless of me to leave $05,000 worth of diamonds Knocking about unwatched while the whole store It's no mertt of mine that aome onterprising robber didn't lift both the Bel- te stones Amy notloed that {t was to Mme. Delorme he spoke, and she was quick to see the fascination the South American's doshing, full-blooded type of beauty ex- gain Amy felt that strange pang at her heart and again she wondered at tt, Sha raised her eyos to find Charlie Beckwith tn- that he had read her thoughts, and at the same moment aho realised what that odd constriction of the heart inotively And with the revelation came a thrill of the gor- She she loved was apparently attracted force by the magnificent woman nt of love, Rex had promised to have Amy's birthday gift to and in order that {t might bo on hand jn time for the birthday had oftered to bring it to her in person that same night, Barly that evening Rex Venner called at the little Harlem apartment which Amy and her widowed He brought with him the brooch, which he had with diMculty eucceedid in having "I was glad to meet Beckwith,” he sald, as he and Amy at talking in the tiny drawing-room of the flat, He's an awfully clever “Go on,’ ghe said, somewhat puzzled as Venner ‘Well> after you left Rother’s to-day Beckwith was | Jooking at some rings in another part of the store, and Mme. Delorme told me on the quiet that he's In ‘In love? Mr, Beckwith in love with me? Why, Bist {t worried me, You're his stenographer, and you know ao little of ‘The question and the gaze of the gins clear brewn | Venner found difti- Ho shrugged his | ueh “Oh, for no particular reason, Only your happiness A tos) A flush swept across hor face, and the eyen thet had looked so bravely into hts velled themselves: be- hind their long silky lashes, & He looked at her for a full minutg in unfeigned surprise. ‘Then his heart began to t fest, as he realized what her confusion meant, She had never seemed #0 lovely in his eyes, and he saw now the real reason why the report of Brckwith's love for her had made him so mieerable. “Do you mean?" he began; then estopped, Her eyes were again raised to hie, and in thelr fathomless depths he read their heart-secret. “On, Amy! Amy!" he crled joyously, ‘De yom really care? I never dteamed you could care. It's al) fo sudden; so wonderful"— She was in his arms, and the rest of his sentence was lost, for his lips had found better occupation than mero words. "But I thought,” she said at last, "I thought it was signified, It was jealousy of this beautiful dark| Mme, Delorme you cared for. You looked at her woman, And if Jealousy, then— 80" — With a new feeling of awe and of joy that was “She 18 a beautiful womany and attractive too,” most pain the full truth dawned on her, replied Rex, “and I admire her as I would admire— well, au I might admire the Belgrade diamonds for Instanoe, but it's you, and you only, that I care for or have ever cared for, sweotheart. You must believe that, for it Js true, We've both been foolishly jeale ous—you about Mme, Delorme; I about Charles Beck. with, So now that we see how silly we've been, let's forget them both, They neither of them need enter our Ives again,” Which statement showed how imposstble it és to ave even one inch Into the future, “I'm so sorry T talked In euch an uneratetul way this morning about my envy of rich peopple and my longing for money,” Rex sald as he rose to. go, For I wouldn't change places with the richest man in Now York this night, I'm the happfest man in all Manhattan, and T challenge Fate iteelf to mar my 't!"’ she exclaimed tn protest, “I'm not Biseratleisua, ‘but it seems so rash, so foolhardy He laughed tndulgently at her fear, and as he kissed her good-night he repeated: “It's true just the same. ven Fate cannot harm me now that I have your love," He ran down the steps to the street, the memory of her kiss still bgt in his mind, As he reached the sidewalk two men who had been ‘waiting beside the door stepped’ forward, “Rex Venner? asked one of them, "Yes," replied Rex, angry that his thoughts of Amy should be so roughly broken in on, “what do you want?" ‘ “We want you," ourtly answored the other man, thtowing back ‘his coat and showing a deteotive's shield. | (To Be Coontinued.) made with Napiha Because the soap does most of the work, The pantie cuts and loosens the dirt better the boiling and rubbing you could It’s better for you—better for the clothes, There is one thing about AZiller’s Soap made with Naptha that is different from ordinary soap—you can use 7OT water or COLD and get equally good results. 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