- a4J 4.x . f , ,O..J THE FLORIDA. STAR, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1SS9.i . ---- I = == from the Lank need not necessarily be rrsr.n with twinkling eyes a self satisfied "Lest he might; have seen the five I Iliad been: made by Dovr ney at Rivets, ri j jt E DETECT IrE DOWNEY made until this Barrington returns you smirk} and he had a fixed idea that at stars in the box" i and at Quorn Lodge it became will asciirtain by telegraph at what date the bottom of every crime and misdemeanor "No, no. I must be a muff if I couldn't j that the house was net onlyi but up,bnt that departs from, or, so to speak have hidden that from such a duffer as ', had changed ownership. Mr. Joseph i 1 he means to reach England, and you can nes above the lowest of the vulgar, Downey! Because the empty case was I was interviewed, and found to be :: Bv MBS. OASHEL HOES carry out the plans already formed, provided co here is a woman! lIe did not he had persuade in the safe, and tha diamonds were securely pletely en regie; purchased connected with the Drax- the nothing himself that his fixed idea was an original packed for traveling in this." a 1 villa and all its contents from Mr. Of course tin two men had theirc"en- ton business turns up before he can possibly one; on the contrary he rendered He held up with a chuckle a small risen; and the fact that the Ilot I snug : here. The chief danger to be little Morrison settled get ing papers. and Mr. ;>inter homage to tb.3 promulgates of it, leather pouch with two loops, made fora place had been Morrison's freehold 1 is from Treherne who either I apprehended pop himself to lii.s Pall Mall immediately, and regarded the distinguished uttererof i! became known to his 1 belt to be passed through them dropped erty ernplovers while 3Ir. Treherae. who would have does not know, as a director, the stake for 1 the: famous phrase "Cherchez kt it back into his breast pocket and said I I the first time. Thin; now looked liked to talk resigned himself to The St. of the bank in Barrington's former property femmo," as a wiser than Solomon, although with his evil smile: serious, and the victims were only tert James'. The of that morning's :i or has forgotten it. If he learns InoJ, r primeur after all he only to thatsase's sustained the gave "What a lot of the ridiculous there al- erately by : the fact is reminded of it he will rfpresenbtio-- World had already lost its freshness and or , conclusions an epigrammatic form. is in everything! The 'U. and D.' of Downey who, having been ways : employ its start: the story of Mr. Barrington, of j want to have the deeds and documents: I Of course his fixed idea led him wildly would give Downey something handsomeby at first merely to "inquire," the and all must was co. Draxton. figured in the columns of both inspected on spot, come i wrong on some occasions but it had and by for a clew to the history of the I called into consultation at the special 13. and out. In the one C3.3e'ou kayo at the . with comments moralizings / l journal r guided him straight enough on others; '\\'abh' diamonds-they were known by stigation of Mr. Treherne ifter the respective fashion of each, and worst six weeks for action, in the other I he had a respectable list of criminal ** Unbounded another although have week. It is for the latter name once. carefully concealed . ha"in3imultmooaslj' one Mr. Morrison! and Mr. Treherne ; you ' convictions to his credit and was "You never told me that story." : was the delight of Downey. Her You feel .' discovered the romance emergency we havetopro'\"ide. 1 1 1no ; probably, as happy a mamas one could "No; but I will, if we pull this was a really good case and he was fl 2 in real life looked at each other on doubt that this man Downey will be & reaching the end of the paragraph."Read employed meet in a day's walk. Whether he aspired ,. through. man to deal with it. lie proposed to ;I ; this-about the fellow n to the immortality of volume of On the following day Mrs. Morrison applied deal! with it on the pessimist side to 4 41 Jut in 3Ielbourne asked Mr.young Treherne.3Iorrison memoirs was known only to himself; it herself to a number: of household take for granted that Morrison Iud so IUe ,} .....-.11r nodded a looked like it, for the invariable occupa- and social duties. The servants were in- reason for believing that the same formed that:Mr. and Mrs. Morrison would was and had absconded "Lucky dog! Seems to have deserved tion of his leisure was the copying and up on tii rl abroad for Mr. Morrison's time of of a trip to the -. __ it, too. Odd sort of experience in a arrangement of a voluminous mass of go pretext continent If noted. : leave, and Louise was instructed to pack this were so, then Downey could safely man's life-to be born to wealth, and I Such was the man, a queer specimenof [sundry trunks in advance and label affirm that Morrison was the coolest haad Jose it throughprecious rascal; then to . a swange class, to whom the elegantly ; them for Paris Mrs. Morrison proposed he had ever met in the whole course of I have it thrust him like this. If I , r upon dressed lady, on whom he waited at the '| to replace her by a Frenchwoman. In his business; for ho had sent for hia were in his shoes I shouldn't encumber , time and not tho afternoon Mrs. Morrison made and employed him in t' appointed gave an agitated several Downey, a personal myself with an old house and a Jot of -I very clear account of her loss of a valuable : calls, during which she talked of thai matter a few days before he left London land in a dreary country, especially now : diamond star. He received the communication i i approaching journey, and said she hardly Downey had also been with him the when wise man's is to very object get _ -I : every ; without comment, but made felt equal to it, but could not allow day day before to arrange for communion i rid of of the kind but each I property ; ,A "'III !! elaborate notes, and complimented the of her husband's precious "leave" to be ing with Mrs Morrison on the subject one to his taste. I know what I should I '' 11' r" i. perturbed lady on her foresight in bringing lost. Her appearance confirmed her the stolen diamond star. The addres t do if I came in for such a good thing; I "tl'l'' I If !( . should," etc., etc. Thus Mr. Treherne : il\ '\tv' t .1 I//' /j' ':;:} i the four remaining stars for him to i I! words: she was looking ill. up to a certain date not yet expired, wa , \\\1 \ : see, although, he added, one would have to be Lucerne; and, Mr. Downey \ ' El- M"I i argued animated strain. Mr. I 1 1 , talked on in an \, -- )lr. Morrison returned in high spirits, I .M'r. : been sufficient for of identifi- why should she not have there Morrison did not interrupt the flow of I I .. i purposes j and before dinner his wife knew that so gone ,even : 1 | cation. Mr. Morrison was present at the supposing Morrison to have pushed his remarks by a single word, ho merely : / ll//UI II Ii 1 far all was well, and Mr. Josephus had onto i interview but took no part in the narrative a safer place? From his experience of fanned himself slightly with his lIt. \ i been as good as his word. While tho very \ i l. ; of the loss of the star, and on its women, Mr. Downey argued that if you Pall Mall, and thought-"He does not / 1)1 j solemn butler was in the room, Mrs. Mor- f I ) / ; conclusion locked the jewel case in calculated one: of them / i \ G up upon stickiaj know. He docs not know. j \, 1 rison suggested to her husband that as his safe at the of Downey almost amount of suggestion through ',r.i any difficulty When Mr. Morrison reached home he : --'i. i!i an alleviation of the fatigue of the start , :;.-- I who inclined to the belief that the robbery and danger to her diamonds or the ghost ( surprised his solemn butler by going into : they should go to the Grosvenor hotel ,; "Let tfJO ovur the points once more." I was a put up affair, and suggested of them, as he might call the chance of the dining room and asking for a little : for a day or two and set out from thence. i "None whatever. He has always that it would be well to inquire into the getting any stolen ones back, you'll fial brandy having drank half a glassful, Mr. Morrison replied that she could do ; worked for the bank, and Treherne hasa antecedents of Mrs. Morrison's maid. j you've started right anyhow. he looked at himself in the mirror, was j' so if she liked, although he did not see great opinion of him; he knew of him : But this theory was impatiently routed "'Vhere er he is,she's at Lucerne,"repeated - apparently reassured, and stopped out on i that she would gain much by it. So this before. i by Mr. Morrison intervening to explain :Mr. Downey "and a ; good the lawn to join his wife, according to I plan was agreed and at noon the very "Have you a great opinion of him? that Louise had not known until she had upon thing it is that I can identify her." custom. ; next day, Mr. Morrison having left home 4i I "I don't think much of any of these to dress her mistress for the ball that "Providential, quite!" murmured Jlr.! "I'm glad we are not going out, and I I at the usual hour, Mrs. Morrison: stepped gentry. But of one thing I am quite M rs. Morrison intended to wear her Treherne. that nobody's coming, he said to himself driven into her brougham and he could not fail to detect in was away 1 sure; me 'diamonds. Downey regretfully accepted II as he made his way to the garden from Quorn Lodge for the last time. disguise. the conclusion that the only .'t '' bench on which lie sat her dress, composed any case was I The of the ."Ihe I repose plrosa.nt"illa remained sooner I start the better, gentlemen - "Then tho sooner Downey knows me one of common "grabbing after all, for I Ii ." of cream colored muslin and lace, i unbroken for some days, but at ,"proceeded the detecti "There'ijust by sight, and I know Downey by sight, i he dearly loved a complication, and was I sweetly but expensively simple, making I the better. So I shall have occasion to especially partial to affairs in which I last a letter, bearing a London postmark, the chance-though the sale of the! s a spot of light against the backgroundof consult Mr. Downey, and arrange to meet household treachery was a leading agent. I was received by the solemn butler and rilla's dead against it-that he may (e dark shrubs. him in at the bank the caused a commotion. The letter was there quite unsuspectingly, and there your private room He took his leave, having laid due j If Mr. Morrison had felt ill or been up- I professional I written by Mr. Morrison, and it simply also the chance that she's keeping bin day after to-morrow. the difficulties set by anything during the day, the ef- : emphasis on instructed the to the like fool for recipient expect arrival hanging on, a ,waiting news curious She cast a lingering look the and went presented by case, fects were not discernible, and the out- away of a Mr. Josephus, who would of the star. She hasn't much head,I around the lu.i irious sho left it II pay room as I wishing that the job were of a higher remaineds of-rule half of brandy a glass all the servants on a liberal scale, indicated should say, judging from the way sha in the dawn the birds be- chilly just as order, that, for instance, Mrs. Morrison secret between himself and the solemn by Mr. Morrison,and dismiss them, told the story of how she'd been robbed 'I to twitter her face from gan ; was pale -like so ladies in fact and fiction many butler. The tete-a-tete dinner was good their services longer stuttering and stammering and cryfag being no required not from fear and she I , fatigue, was I-had stolen her own diamonds, from perfectly served, and its progress was settle all local claims and take possessionof and contradicting herself-she'll wanttba! and limb. steady in nerve A warm ray motives of which it would have beena unmarked by any incident. Mrs. Morri I the house thenceforth his diamonds at It's much the her bedroom windows when own prop- any price. so was striking joy to him to discover and son was not of a sentimental turn, or expose. erty.It. better for this job but if I an absconding she laid her head her she was on pillow; "La femme in the character of a she have remarked that her hus- A. might : is sufficient to record here that all criminal of description I closed her eyes against it and fell asleep, II claimant in of any a case legitimate grievance - band her with unusual atten- regarded this took Mr. shut head place. Josephus up should not like a woman with a with these for her last conscious thoughts: interested Mr. moder- tion. He was, indeed, studying her ap- Downey only for awhile with Quorn Lodge a policeman like Mrs. Morrison's to abscond along "Has it been worth it? I think it has; . ? and after she left him alone ately.In " pearance, in charge. But the villa did not with me. wo have always known the smash must the course of that day 'Mr. :\Iorrison's - for the conventional quarter of an hour, long remain unoccupied. Mr. Josephus "But," said Mr. Treherne, "if 10G and havo made for of the - some, we our game previous morningwas he actually but unconsciously said aloud: message acquired an eligible tenant; the family, found Mrs. Morrison alone at Luces t it. I think we shall win yet. Whatever answered from Melbourne, but not i "She never looked better or strongerin i I however, is of the "serious" kind, and what would you do then?"* I will turn tail Mr. An tele- happens, never on my by Barrington. agent her life. There's no fear of her. Quorn Lodge is now known as Gilead "Watch her. If ho knows he's found convictions. I would rather live sailed first. own graphed, "Barrington on i Mrs. Morrison was reading the current Grove. out, and yet is such a fool as to StOP with clever knave who at all events This the of a startling was news; margin number of London Society by the lightof Mr. Treherne duly returned to town where I've got his address, 111 catch hia; trusts than with tho honestest of When Mr. Mor- me, safety was contracting. a lace shaded lamp, as she reclined in and his directoral duties, but the burstingof but up to the present his record hated fools; and would rather have no life at rison left the bank that afternoon, after fr an easy chair of the very last invented the storm did not ensue immediately. got any folly in it-very much the of s all than life. he had transacted a cheap kind. Her attitude and the disposition some very important The signal for that was given by the arrival way. If he's waiting for her anywhere On the following day an animated con- business, he wired to his wife that he . w of the light would have been favorable of Mr. Barrington at the "U. andD. she will join him." versation the of the should be detained in town and betook I s to a study of her. Her tall,lissom figure on subject romancein I ." in splendid health and spirits, actu- To be ConflJuf 1 real life took in the him in hansom street of place manager'sroom a to a very displayed lines of strength and firmness, I ated by an eager desi* to get through ! at the "U. and D." between the modest pretensions in Pimlico. There he ----------- the full throat was a fitting support for : his business, and full of the happy colonial - directors whose turn of business it dismissed his cab and his inseparable was, carrying - _ the rather largo head, the handsome reg- I delusion, so painful by its dispel- Modjeska's Forgetful Bridegroom. and Mr. Morrison who them black hand he walked gave a suc- bag, on War features, bright complexion, and ment, that what it were well should be Mod jeska tells a about her boofij- cinct account of the complicated rela- to the far end of the street, knockedat story E masses of rich dark hair,not fine enoughto done quickly is quickly to be done "at that Wba tions of the bank with the Draxton estate, the door of a house, bearing a small moon issomewbat3.IDusing. indicate a sensitive organization, but I home. wentffl: the Count and Countess Bozenta I and foretold in the futureto brass inscribed and great profits plate "Josephus, of the texture that bespeaks a pleasure Into the details of tho discovery thereis tD their it was I think t be made out of the colonial Cr sus. I was admitted. From that house Mr. wedding trip, loving made attractive picture no need to enter. The "U. and D., one, up an I ti1Z Paris, I am not sure, it does not ti %t of its kind. This was not an elevated Ho had already telegraphed congratulations Morrison came out only just in time to in its present corporate capacity, and in i i upandtbtcount she and when Bar- the latest train for Riverside. one morning lL'l.djust got to Mr. catch i + an inquiry as g kind. It had once been remarked by a the easier going days when it was a had been for hour or t* out an : rington intended to start for England. "Josephus isn't a bad fellow at all, firm had E cherished in its busi- sylph like creature with flaxen hair and private : to" t Ho had felt all the time as though he I said Mr. Morrison to his wife, after he taking a morning walk. He came t pale eyes, that"if it were not for )Irs.orrison's ness and its bosom as finished a specimenof were standing on a powder mine, but he had run through the narrative of his the kind and appeared to be excited. 1 1i taste in dress there would be "unmitigated viper as ever " "Helen! Helen! Como here 1r i I stood there with the the to of something very barmaidish about her." metaphorically, proceedings subsequent receipt knew a bank, to the detriment of that ' The observation not entirely devoidof coolness and unconcern which only a the startling telegram; _"for that sort of institution. What is itr i truth. When coldly surveyed she martyr, or a gambler, displays when the man, he's a very good fellow. Of courseit Morrison's frauds had been as ingeniousin "Come her, quick. I've broughty0som osfkeL" c hour The that has be made worth his but :lovely fruit the first on the spirit inspired I to while owed her elegance to her clothes; her re- supreme. the beginning of his career as his t finement to her surroundings. Without tho knave was that of the gambler, the I then, it is so well worth ours,now that the thefts were audacious at its close. He CODCO" t vilest spirit of them all and it stood to has The whole disposed "AU right, I'm dressing. I'll these she would hardly have looked like i push come. thing had enjoyed extraordinary luck, never f a lady; but n any guise an observer of him then, true to its damnable pact with of by private contract, the money failing to win at whatever game he as soon as I get ready. out. d ( her unmasked face would have read consenting souls. paid down to-morrow, and nothing played. And yet he must for years have She dressed leisurely and came 3* C therein boldness and readiness.Mr. I That night:Mr.'and: Mrs. Morrison were touched until all is safe. I really don't been frequently within a hair's breadth her room. The count was sitting SI Morrison once more regarded her present at a crowded ball at a house in see how we could have done better." of detection, up to the moment when the ing, deeply> interested in his wort t& r Eaton square. Mrs. Morrison, who look- "The things cost twice the ," looked around. No f tuft was to ba t intently as ho entered the drawing room, money Barriagton incident made it a certainty. Theo 4 seated himself, and took up a book. Ho ed remarkably well wore 'theValsh said Mrs. Morrison ruefully .'The coolness, too, of the really reckless She looked all over tho place. C diamonds" in a becoming fashion, the "More than that, dear; but the looked up."What I r was an inattentive reader, his eyes were I my scoundreir said Mr. Treherne, who always - t constantly directed towards tho table I five stars being sewn upon the bodice of I question is who paid for them?" He boasted and sometimes almost believed are you looking! tor'r"Where's 1C 1t her On her return to smile and chuckled with the smile and that fruit?' clock at his wife's elbow, and when they gown. Quorn ; he had never trusted Morrison: ltd Lodgo she discovered that of the the sound his callousness The count looked on the table, silver chime rang out ten he rose and one came out, ("I have a remarkable faculty of reading f approached her. She put down themagazine stars was missing, whereupon she declared and the full vileness of the man somehow character," he wqpld say-and could not there *. t and smiled-but for a moment her conviction: that tho jewel had revealed itself. "Cheer up, and not quite refrain from a kind of perverse Well," he said, "I'll bo hanged **** C only. He touched her on the shoulder. been stolen from her person. She remembered don't look so melancholy over your admiration of the man who had done havent eaten it."-.San: Francisco& ttt and said: I to have been hustled by the pretty things. You will just have as them all so thoroughly-all except him. icle. ttt : crowd just beyond the awning, when 'in the land were going to,' as the Will you go to your room and tell I many How thoroughly tho victims did not appreciate Why He Can Smile. . t, Louise that she need fiot wait for you, she had walked a little way to her Irish emigrant so sweetly sings,providedwe just at once, for when the first An editorial in the Sauk RapldJ,J!:!* f and will you then come back to me. brougham's place ia the line; she had get there" installment of the truth was discovered, Sentinel : We apologize for tub here? I have something to say, and we nearly lost her light wrap, and althoughshe "What will happen here?" it was fondly believed that Mr. Morrison made in says all former issues and IS' t must not be interrupted. blamed her own foolish impatience, "I can't pretty well guess, but what might be caught by the simple expedientof were inexcusable, as all an editor has " j It was characteristic of her that she she blamed Louise's ineffectual sewingon need we care? We shall either do it or silence on the part of all concerned.If do is to hunt and clean the tom did not ask a question. of tho star much more severely not do it. If we do itt[ don't believe nothing were done, if nothing were and set news and, clean the floor' C "Certainly. I will," was all she said, severely indeed that the indignant maid anything will ever be heard of the 'mat- said, to alarm him, was there not reasonto type items, and foldja J R short , _and in a moment she had left the room. gave her warning on the spot. ter. The bank can stand the racket. It believe that he would come back as write pen_ pa. I r. She returned quickly, and found him Detective Downey had formerly be- isn't a shaky affair, to be knocked over usual, totally unsuspecting? As the bank wrappers, and make the + : still standing by her vacant chair She longed to "the force," but he had retired by a Farquharson; they'll settle it behind authorities knew nothing about his telegram distribute mail the papers, and talk to TIsitOA,4 waUr IIs It ; put. out her hand to him as she saiJ: and set up on his own account, in conse- closed doors, among themselves, and nor did Mr. Barrington, there was type, and carry lO: ..11 .. it of the divergence of his views it with and the saw wood, and read the proofs, ; Ist ::- come: S i MKin1t quence square Barrington others. nothing to suggest to them that anything : .t "1 ff':1T'O. I t'1: !; .vj." from those of his superior officers, and If we don't do it," he paused, and his had occurred to startle Morrison, and he rest the mistakes, and hunt the the bid",. Itzt write \ "An* you |r T,':uirljTY his rooted belief that there existed in this heavy brows contracted "well, you andI might therefore walk into the lion's den dun editorials, and dodge cussing ft ztZ ''' .-*. it I"Now. t. n ,....1 tiHP." country but one real adept in detection, know about that. We are partners in -otherwise his own room in tho "U. delinquents and take 1asN ztIr it'll tuTlit :;.. ;..".:It it." whose name was Richard Downey. The this game, Jane, but I have more to and D.-with fearless confidence. This the whole force, and tell our su Irti "c-..u"!u ttij; !"..:u.-:.A .: of the long man was an enthusiast in his calling,and lose. You will be safe any way." theory was so soothing (especially as we need money. *? tu.:::..rf'.t;'.. !h..tw. 'U :1.h, ...iJ Mr }Iorr'> ho held none, living or dead, in such His wife looked at him for a moment there was every reason to believe that We say that we've no business 2 6'a the8IJ toIUl ::rv '!!H! ttu.t: 1.\ N 1 '... r -.,.-.!x..I I in tl: ij: reverence as its great chiefs, even the with something of terror and repulsionin :Morrison could be made to disgorge mistakes while attending to -g Sr oo i 'plae1'". Tie! wife's lK'!It"flr Ita ::aiilyhtr; l apocryphal ones. For him M. Deooq her face; but the next tIDe conqueredthe freely, that there would be more than matters tail and getting our living fj T 'an flavored with lmagintK 'jusiiti: : t'i:. luisbanu <".u'n.if'ECe i:11 was as authentic as Napoleon Bonaparte, movement. the mere punishment of the criminal to soup colteif. , g good stave ::ud her btrrm:.* ittr\" *. and he would have given the pay of a After a brief silence be said briskly, be attained) that Mr. Treherne began to wearing old shoes and no to s 1. "Let me goI modification when, after cautiojasinquijy! Et . , -. (. '