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The dovo of peace in reported
hovering over Mexico.
iNTKKVRNTION in a word often
heard along tho border these
<days.
It is said ilmt Uncle Sam’s
boys now guarding tho border,
prefer the eaglo to the bird of |
Ip* aoo.
It is about timo for Congress
to appotuta Commission to invos- j
ligate what the U. S. Boundary
i ommiaaion has been doing these |
twenty-five years.
The Cabinet resigned alright,
but Diaz is still holding his job,
and will until auopoened to appear
before the Supreme Court.
THK“Woinan in Politics’ ’ does
uot present to us the picture of a
beautiful home, with Mother as
the guardian angel, leading man
to higher and purer ideals, but—
We are truly a part of all we
see, hear and feel. Without
others man cannot develop either
mentally or spirituiUly. The ego
exists with a perfect knowledge-
of its identi'y oi ly ; h it receives;
from other ogoa a part of their j
identities.
Since the trouble in Mexico,lit- j
tie lias been said concerning the!
different railroads which a few
months ago were heading this!
way. Gold, however, may hide
its coward head at the first call to
arms, but the St. Stephens darn
is being rushed day and night.
One hundred men are now work-
ing there.
The oldest inhabitants of Pre-1
tidio county never before experi-
enced here such a March as the
4me just past. It has rained and
tried to rain nearly all the month.If
the Spi ingsonson should continue
as begun, we shall soon hear on
every side—* ‘How’s yourorap?”
Alpine believes in striking
while the iron i8 hot. Wo surely
admire the advertising and pre-
lecting spirit of our sister city.
The wires were kept red, and al-
though the papers have said
something about “crying wolf,”
yei die troops were ordered out
with instructions to shoot the
armed raiders on siaht.
Some are inclined to blame the
Americans for sympathizing w ith
the Insurrectos, and ark indig-
nantly what business it ia of
theirs! Truly the days of knight
errantry may ba over, but when
any people can quietly sec two
forces contendin *, one fighting
for political lib ‘rty, anil the other
for political b » i l iga, it means
that, such p jo,»I i nr i sslfl to the
c ire, or else they an b!iu I t) the
hi j ijie of t’i» g iver i n *.it u i •
d *i* a bull they t'nme’v n live,
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CHAPTER I.
In the Diamond Horseshoe.
A girl's scream clashed with the
soprano's high note In the Jewel
Fong, and In a moment the Metropoli-
tan Opera House was In confusion.
The cry, half suppressed, broke the
spell peculiar to a "Faint” nigut. The
somewhat portly Marguerite, her
voice roaring like a cage torn bird
suddenly freed, was decking her ma-
ture perron with the g'istening stage
gems left on her scenic doorstep by
the suavest of devils. As the Hing* r
hung about her neck the rope of pearls
with which Mephlsto planned to fet-
ter her soul, Mrs. Missioner, swinging
her Ian with a fretr motion, struck
the slenderest part of her diamond
collarette. The blow was sharp. The
golden thread on which the choicest
of the Mlssiouer Jewels In their per-
forated settings were strung, snapped.
Instantly most of the freed drops of
frozen fire that constituted Mrs. MIs-
Honer's magnificent necklace—the
one with the Maharanee diamond—
were rolling on the floor of the box.
Mrs. MI.-;loner, as the Utt'e scream
broke trom Torothy MaiMh, a debu-
tante i,he had taken under her wing
for the evening clutched at the few
diamonds that fell Into her lap. Miss
March drew her skirts tightly about
her ankles and shrank Into a corner
of the box. making room for the man
who sprang to Mrs. Mlssloner’* aid.
Before another moment sited. Curtis
Griswold was on his knees scooping
together the scattered Jewels with
pnow-gloved hands. Bruxton Sands,
slower of movement, bent with more
dignity to tho task. In the next box,
separated from Mrs. Mlssloner's only
by u low velvet rail, a man of Orien-
tal features and complexion turned
to watch the scramble for the jewels.
Though ho did not stir from his place,
his hawk like faco scented to thrust
Itself Into the center of the excited
group.
"Continue! Continue!'' the singer
urged, as she bent her gaze from tho
box to the conductor.
"What's the matter? Go on! Go
on!" tho stage manager cried In un-
dertones from the wings. Ushers in
the back of the house sought to cover
the confusion with Ill-timed applause.
The moment was big with potential
tragedy. One cry of "Fire!” might
have rent those thousands of startled
•women and men battling along the
aisles In an elemental fury of self-
preservation. Mere prolongation of
the situation without that terri-
ble tocsin might have ended In a
smaller panic. But the liquid tones
of the soprano soaring again in the
pyrotechnics of the Jewel Song re-
claimed the attention of the audience.
The conductor, evidently eager to hldo
his own momentary loss of poise, fair-
ly lifted his men through the intri-
cacies of the accompaniment.
Promptness of action by the stage
manager restored order behind the
zeenes.
Nothing of all those Incidents struck
the sense of anyone in the Mlssloner
box. All four of its occupants were
concerned for the Immediate recovery
of the diamonds that had sprung from
Mrs. Mis-sloner's neck to her lap, and
then stampeded across the floor.
Griswold, still on Ills knees, rescued
the greater number. Sards, a man of
action os well 83 of millions, picked
up the larger gems. Miss March
shrank further Info her corner of the
box, and dragged her petticoats ever
more closely until her immature lorm
ace mod chiseled In tulle.
“Look in nil the corners—look
everywhere,” Mrs. Mlssloner urged.
"There’s one behind the chair,” she
pointed.
"There’s another,” cried Dorothy,
pointing at Griswold’s foet. A glance
from the dark strange* in the next
box directed the searchers toward
still another part of the floor, and
every move was rewarded by the re-
covery of a gleaming stone. One by
one, by twos, by threes, the diamonds
were gathered, and still the search
went on. Fast as they scooped them
up. Sands and Griswold poured the
glittering treasure into Mrs. Mis-
Burner's lap.
"Are they all there?” asked the
millionaire.
"No. no,” answered the widow.
"There are several more. Please look
•gain—look everywhere. Dorothy,
help me count them.”
Griswold and Sands renewed their
search, peering Into the remotest cor-
ners, pushing chairs about, looking,
reaching, gasping with the zeal ot
Klondikers, urged again and again
by the owner of the Jewels.
The glittering horseshoe of the Met-
ropolitan deserves Its name. The
Kaffirs of Kimberly, the pearl divers
of Polynesia, the gold-seekers of the
Klondike, the diggers into earth’s se
crets tho world over toll cease'essly
to maintain the brilliance of that big
Jewel show. They send their dia
trend* sod rubles and evnera'ds and
sapphires, their pearls and opals and
gold, to gleam on the heads and
breasts ,«nd gowns of women whom
the Industry of one generation, or the
stock-market luck of another, has
crowned with riches. A night at the
opera Is a parade of the wonders
gems can work and of that which, toe
mtcti, getns cau buy-
in all that electric sparkle, no
gems outshone the Mlssloner Jewels,
ot which the necklace Mrs. Missioner
wore that night was the masterpiece.
For In Its center blazed the famous
Maharanee diamond.
“I think we’ve found them all,”
said Sands, rising and emptying his
cupped hand into the miniature moun
lain In Mrs. Mlssioner’s lap.
Sands and Griswold returned to
their chairs. Reluctantly realizing
the thrilling little by-rcene was at an
end, the other members of the r::*i 1 -
etice again foeusod the!r attention on
the stage. Mephlsto befooled Dame
Martha, Faust won Marguerite, and
the curtain descended on nn operatic
triumph, only to be raised and lew
ered and raised again as boxes, or-
chestra and balconies recalled the
singers for their meed of praise.
As they passed, bowing and smiling
before the curtain, a low cry came
from Mrs. Mlssloner’s throat
“O-o-ooh!" she exclaimed, half-
rising In her excitement, "the largest
of all is gone! The Maharanee!”
Instantly the turmoil was renewed.
Dorothy sprang to her feet and, be-
fore either of the men could antici-
pate her, began pushing the chairs
about until all save Mrs. Ml: sioner'fl
were grouped In a corner cf the box.
Then the little debutante, regardless
of her fluffy frock, raked the floor with
her fan, with her free hand, her feet,
In almost hysterical quest of the still
missing diamond. Griswold, nearly
as excited as tho women, recom-
menced Ills own search.
All the aeilon In Sands leaped to
the fore. Stretching a long arm across
the bent backs of Griswold and little
Miss March, he thrust a thumb
against an electric button.
“It can’t bo In the box," he said de-
, clelvely, and when a breathless u her
rapped on the door, the millionaire
tore it open and whispered: “Run
down to the orchestra and look every-
where around this box. A diamond
has fallen over the rail.”
“Dorothy Dorothy, I cannot go un-
til we find it,” sobbed Mrs. Mlssicn-
er. The woman who, with a sweep
of her pen, could summon all tho
artists who had sung their souls out
on the stage to sing as coulfully in
her salon, who, with another pen-
sweep, could recompense them be-
yond their most arrogant demands,
was In tears because she had lost a
diamond.
But such a diamond! Its prisoned
fire held the history of an alien race.
“After all,” said Grlswo'd in a swift
aside to Dorothy, "she has recovered
the other gems, and even if she can-
not find this one—”
“Don’t you know?” returned little
Miss March excitedly. "Don't you
really know, Mr. Griswold?”
“Know what, Miss March?” asked
the clubman.
“Why, the history of that 6tone!
Don't you know Mrs. Mlssioner’s hus-
band bought It from a Maharanee,
that they brought It all the way from
India? Don’t, you know it’s the finest
diamond In America?”
Griswold shook his head. He was
pursuing (he search perfunctorily. His
hands were busy, but his eyes roved
over the house. Idly he noted the
slowly ebbing Interest of the audi-
ence, the departure of hundreds by
twos and threes and larger groups, the
thronging toward the lobby for the
usual visits between the acts. It was
with faint interest that he saw sev-
eral swarthy faces weaving through
the crowd. Had his eyes been able
to follow those faces, he would have
seen them converse in the corridor
behind the box—the box In which rat
the Oriental with the face of a hawk.
The hawk watched the Mlssloner
box. So steadily did he direct his
gize at Mrs. Mlssloner that she was
on the point of averting her glance
when the stranger’s flashlight gaze
struck a spark from her memory. She
bowed, coolly, as she began the incli-
nation of her head, but In the end gra-
ciously. Her dark neighbor was sat-
isfied with that dubious encourage-
ment.
"You are fond of your jewels as
ever, I see,” he said, in a low tone,
aa of one claiming a share In intimate
memories.
"Yes,” she answered with an ab-
stracted air. She was harking hack
to days long gone, and evidently tho
recollection was not unpleasant.
‘T cannot blame you," said the Ori-
ental. “Every one knows you have
the njoet wonderful jewels In the
world—one of them, at any rate."
"These," returned Mrs. Mlssloner,
"are among my very finest diamonds.
But they are nothing to the Mahara-
nee, and that Is gone."
A leaping flash in the Oriental’s
eyes soon faded to a gleam of polite
Interest.
“You are brave,” was all he said,
"to wear them In public. Many a
woman, save In her own ballroom,
would content herself with the dupli-
cates.”
“Duplicates!” There was unmis-
takable contempt In Mrs. Missioner’*
tone.
"1 trust,” the Easterner continued,
"you will recover the Mahaianee,
too."
Mrs . tlssloner had no time for
mor* thap another slow bending of
t,<>’ head when * he u.-ae, >. n. . m
Russell & Lovett
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gone to the orchestra hurried Into the
box.
‘‘I’ve looked thoroughly, sir,” he
said to Sands, "and I can’t find the
diamond anywhere.”
The millionaire slipped a banknote
into the man’s hand.
“Try again,” he said quietly.
“There’s a good deal more than this
in it for you if you find it.”
Griswold, as he moved to let the
usher pass, stepped backward with
such abruptness as to drive his heel
sharply down u*on something that
slipped under his tread like a peach
kernel. In the very moment when
Mrs. Missioner, resuming her talk
with the Oriental, said, with empha-
sis, ”1 leave imitations to others,”
that blundering heel crushed Into and
through the velvet carpet, crushed,
against the unyielding hardwood oi
the floor, what had been the most con-
spicuous diamond in all the richly
jeweled collarette—crushed it until
only p tiny heap of pallid powder lay
there, save where a great flake had
slipped from the pressure and remain-
ed to betray what the little pile of
dust had been.
"The Maharanee!” gasped Dorothy.
The widow paled.
The light In the Oriental’s eyes flar-
ed to a flame. With a smile as in-
scrutable as his thoughts, he leaned
across the low partition, picked up a
pinch of the powder and the telltale
flake and laid them deferentially on
Mrs. Missloner’s outspread fan.
“Your maid Is more cautious,” he
said, his smile softening slightly, “or,
it may be, your jeweler has made a
mistake."
Mrs. Missioner did not faint. She
only clutched the eoft hand of little
Miss March so tightly that the de-
butante with difficulty suppressed a
■creim. This time there was silence
in the Missioner box, for Griswold,
even ns he began to stammer an apol-
ogy for his awkwardness, let the
words die on his iips as he saw the
cruel pallor of the widow's face. The
silence of Fands was grim, that of
the Oriental suavely seif effecing.
“Then,” said Mrs. Missioner at last.
In a low, tense tone, "this is—this
is—"
"Not the Maharanee diamond," re-
plied the Oriental.” "In a sense,
madnme. I congratulate yon.”
She stepped him with a look.
"This—this thing is—” She could
eay no more.
"Paste!" thundered Sands.
"I have been robbed,” said Mrs.
Mlssloner in a stifled voice. "Take
iua home, Bruxton.”
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