The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 180, Ed. 1 Monday, October 1, 1923 Page: 4 of 10
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! THE GREAT DIAMOND I
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By Thomas L. Masson
"Ah there girl I says "here's
the largest diamond in tbe world just
bn found."
"Tou don't say" JS Hortense
wheeling i round. "Where about S?"
'In Africa of course" I says.
"BiKer than tbe best ver. Weighs
over a pound perfect too they've
taken it to England.
Ilortenee's eyes snapped.
"If you're-any kind of a man" aba
said. "you'll buy it for me."
lo you know I hadu't thought
about that I Just read the item be-
cause it was interesting. But when I
saw Mortens all excited I knew she
meant business.
"Wouldn't It b fraud." she cried
"to bar it! I'd be the most talked of
person In the world. Win ydu ret
it for me?" she aaya coming over and
fastening bar arms about me.
"Tou couldn't wear it" I mid be-
ginning to hedge "Why Horty. the
blamed thing weighs over a pound.
Weren't you listening?"
"That ain't much" said Ilortense.
"It ain't been cut haa it? No
well that'll reduce it soma. My oh.
I saw tnat notnmg wouia ao du
Hortense mast have that diamond.
And so the next day w started lor
London.
Hortense. the tossed night after
night thinking of that atone. And I
must say the idea sort of pieaeea me
too. To hare the bijrgest diamond in
the world! Well. well that meant
something: "It was a great ad for
Hortense. Some of those society
queens we'd ran up against in the
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Being a multimillionaire may be a
pleasant business if . you don't push
it too hard. Sometime I have
thought that Hortense and me haTa
keen pushing it too hard. But then.
It's human nature to take all you can
get eren in emotions -and feelings
and envyings and such like. We're
Just like other folks af ter all. Our
saoney ain't changed us in that re-
spect It might have been worse anyway.
I met Hortense when we were both
poor. And we've stuck to each other.
V"hen 1 rose Hortense. she rose with
sae. Of course being a woman she
fcaa bad ambitions and projects that
kaven't interested me much. But
taen-that'e natural in a woman.
And it's been kind of a pleasure in
entering to her. It's kinder nice be-
ing stuck on one woman and then
firing her what she wants. Being
richer'n mad I could do it in the case
f Hortenae.
Of coureen I'm not that kind myself.
Me for a aimple lift. Luxury palls
n me. Hortenie got a fool notion at
re time that she wanted me to wear
pajamas. And to pleaae her I ringed
myself up in a foolish suit of em.
lot for me again: Hortense laugh-
ed almost into hysterics to see me
tXruttin' around in 'em. Why. when
I was stakin' claims going to bd
with my boots on was tie regular eti-
quette. I'm ready to make some con-
cessions to style and comfort but
not aa far as those la da da pajamas.
But that's a closed incident And a
lot more l;ke it such for instance
s having a Talrt. I fried 'em for six
anonths. but befcre God. I couldn't get
eed to era: 1 wear tie best clothes
pleotT of 'em but I like 1o put 'em
n nmi-lf. That's one thing I admire
hnut Hortenf. Mie likes tnll
he wants me to like 'em.
mhon the finds I don't take to
he don t gu tf and Mi:k. Hut thou
tf she was that kind she'd be liting
en alimony no iustead of me sittmg
op nights to make her happy.
That's the difference between Hor-
tense and the rest of the bunch of
women who strike a bonanza like
nie. .Most of 'em begin to feel thir
eats get ambitious get cra7jr to butt
in to the swell set and scheme to do
It. They can't rest day and night try-
big to make their husbands over to fit
their new lights. Well Horter.se ha-
wanted it bud enough but she's al-
wavs been on the level She think-
of me first and the others after. That's
the difference. The other's don't
eount.
Hortense being the right sort of
course I've done more for her than I
would hare done otherwise even be-
fore she was cured of her ambition
We're been everywhere raddiin'
own the Nile doin" Rome Florenc
and Taris and London and the whole'
bunch of spots on the map.
I bought Hortense a private car for
heme use. and then we motored in
France that's the word. I got a
couple of fmg eaters fresh from the
factory to tinker with the car. One
of 'em held the map in his hand look-
in' for bumps while the other one
scooted the blamed thing ahead a mile
a minute. And me and Hortense sit-
!m' back as large as life holdiu' hands
and swelled up with ourselves.
Yes we're done it all there's not
a blamed thing worth seeing that's
left Hortense knows it all Michaelo
Angelo. Rubens. Turner Shakespeare
Jerusalem the Golden. Chinese crock-
ry. the whole shooting match.
As for me I was glad when w got
lack onoe more in our bungalow in
New York State. It's long on varnish
and swell ehromoa but it's the nearest
thing to home I know. There's so
much of it that's outdoors. And one
ereaicg while I was sirring rading
the mining news and Hortense was
chasing her feet through one of them
piano attachment tunes I saw some-
thing that made me interrupt.
THE HOUSTON POST: MONDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 1 1 923
HOME SWEET HOME-It Was Convenient For George to Rush.
-By H. J. TUTHILL
BOYLE & PENDARVIS
FLORISTS Inc.
Agents for
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course of our travels had snubbed her
But I tuess with that diamond on
there'd be no more of that. They'd
all be nice to het anyway if only to
get a reen at it.
T w.it hiiA nf mrMtmA atMnt If mr
elf. I couldn't wait to get there. It
was sure worth a couple of million to
feel that way for a week. !Sew leel
incs are hard to buy at any price when
you are black with money and hare
Hut : soueesed the globe fairly dry
em e got mere at last. I looaea up
ttie agent At nrst ne would snow me
only a glass fac-aimile. but when be
found out who I was he produced the
genuine stone. We dickered for a
couple of days and finally I got it for
two and a hall million.
It didn't look like much either. It
might hare been any kind of a paper
weight. But Hortense and I were de-
lighted. Of course the papers got
hold of it. and we couldn't go any-
where without being followed by a
mob.
Then came the polishing process.
We had Amsterdam cutters
working on it for a month all of 'em
oonfined in a room where they couldn't
get out and me and Hortense watch-
ing m like cats watch mice.
Xou ought to have seen that stone
when it was done! As big as my fiat
and I hart do birdlike claw either.
It glimmered and gleamed. It waa a
wonder for fair!
Hortense tried it on. all orer. her
to see where it would rest easieat:
She couldn't put it on any lace dress
because it wouldn't hold and as for
bands they all slipped. Finally she
got a gold chain and strung it around
her neck.
And then we started back home.
The duty on that shiner was
(XVI but I paid it without a quiver.
We'd got what we wanted and it was
worth it When you get what you
want in this world never mind the
price. If you've got it. It's worth it
every time.
We had a place on. Riverside Drive.
and we went there and camped out
with that stone. First it was put -on
exhibit in a jeweler's window just
to start the ball rolling.
We had a real nice box at the opera
and I never shall forget the first
night Hortense and I went. Talk
about a lighthouse by the sea! Hor
tense was Sandy Hook and Eddy stone.
all rolled into one.
Some one of her farorite authors
I forget his name but she told me
remarked that Hortense was the ob-
served of all observers.
And that's what she was. Fretty
noon we began to get invites to every
thing. All the women high and low-
wanted to get a peep at that stone.
The papers began to refer to Hor
tense as the sandwich woman. That
was hard wasn't it? But then as
Hortense remarked "Such la fame."
After we d been at it for about
montn we came noma one morning
about three from a swell function
both of us pretty well tuckered out
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Prove it all by buying a package
of Kellogg's Corn Flakes to-day!
Nothing could taste finer right
now. MONEY BACK from the
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that Kellogg's Corn Flakes are the
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on me. I was a phyaleal wreck well
about like the rest of the (mart set-
ters. Mr! but I'd siren good deal
for a couple o' weeks' vacation at
bard work in a mining camp.
Well Hortense looked at me and
I looked at ber both sort of jaded
like.
She took that paper weight off her
bosom and rolled it over on to ' the
pinrtinhion.
"Jim." she says to me "I guest
I've had 'about enough of it.'
"Nonsense!" tmjn I. "You're tired
and sleepy. . Things will look brighter
tomorrow" lay a I glancing airly at
the atone.
"Never again for me!"- said Hor-
tenae. "I'm readr to quit 71m. Hon-
est now I'm getting reand abonldered
carrying that thing about Besides
they're all seen it- they're all tired
of me now. It hasn't brought me a
single real friend. Now they'll drop
ui. i I hate it!" .
And with thij Hertenae blubbered
Well to tell the truth I waa be-
ginning te feel the same way. When
you get rings tinder your eyes and a
table all set with gold and glass makes
you only feel seasick and you begin
to count np your friends on the fingers
of one hand then it'a time to take
to the woods. (
lWt worry Hortenae" aaya I
plunging into my four noter. "We're
been up against it before together.
We still hare each other. And to-
morrow morning it'i back to the
bungalow."
And (ben It seemed aa If I hadn't
gotten well asleep before . I suddenly
opened my eyaa. Some one waa in tbe
room groping about
It only shows what luxury and fine
liring will do fog a man's nerve. Why
in the old days I'd 'a' been np and at
him in no time. Aa it was I lay there
and blinked until he turned his at-
tention to me.
He waa a burglar all right and an
Xpert too. He covered ua with his
revolver while Hortenae grabbed my
abss dscim trag ta ut
bureau arid picked up the diamond.
"Is this the shiner I heered so much
about-?Slhe says.
To tell the truth I didn't care much
whether be took it or not -
"The same" says I.
He looked it over critically. Then
be gave it a tou orer on the sofa
where it stuck in the back crease.
"Didn't you come for that?" says
Hortense
The burglar shook his head while
his bands swept into a bag all the
other things in sight.
"I should say nit" he said.
"What good wud a ting like dat do
me? I couldn't trnn It ln. could I?
Why. if I was caught wid it I'd be
jugged. And Bo one wud buy it off
me. Now you folks don't more aee?"
With this he disappeared.
. I was for chasing him but Hortense
held me back. We notified the police
and that afternoon the papers were
full of th news that the burglar took
$30000 or $40000 of other stuff but
didn't take the famous atone.
Well wt didn't worry about t tWng
like that. v
But a couple of days afterwards
in the bungalow Hortense says "Jim
I guess we've had all we want out
of that stone.. Let'f set rid of it"
Which made me smile.
"Horty" I says. "I wanted to sur-
prise you but I see it's no use. That's
what I've been trying to do." '
She looked at me In despair real
genuine despair.
"I hat it" aha said. "Can't you.
Jim?"
r shook my head.
"No" I said. "I'm afraid It's going
to be bard work. No one wants it
Kven mat ourgiar wouldn't have it.
I've Been taming
offering
ail over.
it at any old price. But I tell.you
Horty that diamond is about tbe
moat useless thing In the world."
"Can't you get some king to take
it off your hands" sni Hortense.
"Kings" I said "ain't what they
used to be. Most of Vn arc gog
around Europe with fringe on their
pants. And th ones tbat have got
money well they don't have to be
advtrtiMd Of course there's always
suckers like you and me who might
buy a stone like that but it'a bard
to find 'em."
Hortense pouted.
"I can understand" she said "of
course. But I Just feel somehow as if
I must get rid of that old stone."
"Ieave it to me." says I. "I can
fix the matter I think if you let me
be away for a while."
Hortense was too much done up
with her recent society efforts to
travel so she stayed home in the
bungalow to rest
I waa gone a month. When I got
back I wouldn't have known ber. She'd
gained 20 pounds.
"Did you Rell it?" sht exclaimed
after we'd said howdy. "Don't tell
me Jim you've brought It back. 1
simply couldn't stJWit" .
with this I opened up my traveling
bNow. Horty" said I "don't be
impatient. I have brought it back
in one sense. That is fve bad the
blamed thing broken up into smaller
stones and this is the result." -With
this I pulled out a necklace
a mile or so long I don't know lust'
now bow ongiut . few hundred felt
more or less don't make an mtTt.
I thought Hortense would jnst eat
me up with joy. Then sbe looked It
me solemn and earnest. n?J
something
moment
troubling HortenseVth::
"Old man." she ld. "Whsf. v-
dJ. fA".? I Why did I hatethet !
when it Is broken up into bits? On!
s. useless a. other.. Aln't 2.
With this I sat down and lht.4
my corncob p pe which t Ka fl
tasted in four weeka. 1 fc4ta t
"Well Horty" I says. "I fl- u
out In this wav Tk..r..'Ln..U
In ita being th biggest dU-.!!mbJ
the world. But .iy'Vumber'eii?
women may have a necklace iii. Xi r
The fact is Hortv? thai 'Ten "ft1
so damned superior to. the oh ..i!1
Pi. that they J.n t compet.wUh Z'
why what's the use? Ami i -'SP
that is. wUt wai ill .Sr.-
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