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Brits learns that duplicates of Mr*. Missloner's diamonds were ms.de in Parle on the order of XSliaor Holcomb. While walking Brltz is Mixed, bound and gagged by Hindoos. He Is imprisoned In a deserted house, but makes his escape. Brlta discovers an In­ sane diamond expert whom he believes was employed by either- Sands or Grls­ wold to make counterfeits of the Mission­ er gems. Two Hindoos burglarise the hotne of Sands and are captured by Brits. On one of them he finds a note signed by "Millicent" and addressed to "Curtis." Srltz locates a woman named Millicent T)elaroche, to whom Grlswold has been paying marked attentions. The Swaml at­ tends a ball at Mrs. Missloner's home, but learns nothing further about the dia­ monds. Brltz disguised as a thief, visits the apartment of Millicent. He finds a box that once contained the missing dia­ monds, but it Is empty. The detective concludes that the Hindoos have antici­ pated him in the recovery of the jewels. He visits their quarters and has an ex­ alting experience with a snake. The Swaml returns all the real diamonds to Mrs. Mlssioner. except the Maharanee, which he insists must be returned to the temple In India, whence It was stolen. Brits pives his theories to the chief of po- lh*>. showing how Grlswold has devised the whole plot, placing the blame on Elinor. CHAPTER XXIV.--Continued. "Oh, that wu only a precaution on their part. They took the chance I might have recovered the Maharanee, I suppose. Maybe they expected to find In my possession something that would give them a clue to the where­ abouts of the stone. Then, once they cot me, they thought they might as well keep me out of the running until they got what they wanted. It was no part of their plan to let me find the Jewels and turn them over to Mrs. Mlssioner." "You had a close call there, lieu­ tenant," observed the physician. "Close enough," said Brltz calmly. "But it's all in the day's work." As Brltz finished there was a timid tap on the door. In response to Man­ ning's curt "Come In!" Donnelly and Carson crossed the threshold, and did their best to stand at ease in front of the lieutenant's desk. "You sent, huh, for us, Chief?" "Yes," said Manning. "Lieutenant Brltz wants you to attend to a little matter for him." "Yes, Donnelly," said Brltz coolly; "if you have nothing better to do just now, suppose you run up to Curtis Oriswold's apartment, and tell him the Chief wants to talk to him." "Suppose he won't come," said Don­ nelly, who evidently did not yet sus­ pect H was desired that the clubman be taken into custody. / "Bring him, then," said Brltz. "You haven't forgotten how to show a gen­ tleman down to Headquarters, have you?" Donnelly winced under the lieuten­ ant's scorn, and Carson turned gray. "And you, Mr. Carson," said Brltz, renewing bis instructions, "be good enough to take a trip to the Hotel Renaissance, and ask Mrs. Delaroche to come down to see us for a little while." Carson, in the crisis, felt he could not be too precise. "Suppose she declines?" he asked. "Bring her!" said Brltz. Fitch laughed aloud at the con­ sternation in the faces of the two de­ tectives. It was manifest both Don­ nelly and Carson were so far from the facts in the mystery that not only had neither of them dreamed of ma­ king a prisoner of Grlswold, that suave society man who had volun­ teered EO much assistance to them in their efforts to weave a web of cir­ cumstantial evidence against Elinor Holcomb, but that they were abso­ lutely ignorant of the existence of such a person as Millicent Delaroche. They shuffled their feet with increas­ ing nervousness as they felt the eyes of their cfcief upon them. Donnelly shot a glance of 111-repressd hatred at Brltz as tfffe^leutenant, at ease In his revolving chair, faced the crestfallen detectives with a satirical smile. Once or twice Donnelly essayed to speak, but each time he caught the frozen expression on the faces of the Chief and Brltz, and the words died In his throat. Nothing remained save for the two brilliant crime-hunters to carry out the lieutenant's orders. As they turned to go their discomfiture was augmented by the real detec­ tive's mock solicitude. "You'll find It an easy Job, boys. Just ask the two of them to come down here quietly, and If they don't want to come, make 'em. Show them your shields, you know, and all that sort of thing." When they had gone, Brltz in­ dulged his amusement to the extent of a laugh; Fitch joined him, and Manning, after a brief attempt to keep his face straight, also laughed heartily. CHAPTER XXV. The Attack, on the Yacht. Brltz, Manniu& <uid Fitch walked briskly around the corner and board­ ed at Bleecker Street a subway train. At Fourteenth Street <hey caught the first uptown Van Cortland t express of the morning, and they made good time to Two Hundred and Twenty- fifth Street. There they left the train, and walked quickly along the edge of a grassy bluff overlooking the government cut that now con­ nects the Harlem and Hudson rivers by a more direct route than the old Spuyten Duyvil creek. A few hun­ dred yards beyond the low fence that separates the meadow from the street they came upon a man standing close behind a large tree. He was screened from the little street and from fhe bridge that spans it by thick under­ brush. When he sighted Brltz he lifted his hand warnlngly and beck­ oned. The three men went within the shelter of the bush. "Anything new, Gordon?" Inquired Brltz. "Yes," said the other detective. "They have gone aboard." "Where's Hicks?" "Down there near the water, piping them off." "Are they on deck?" "No, in the cabin; they seem pret­ ty busy, too." Gordon looked at the sky. It was growing brighter every minute. Stepping with most solicitous ten­ derness on the grass, and avoiding every leaf and twig that might give forth a slight crackle, the four men made their way slowly among the bushes to the spot where Hicks, lying at full length with his head only a little way above the ground, was waiting and* at the same time, watch­ ing a naphtha yacht of more than ordinary size. Not a sound broke the silence of the early morning. The ground was bare of snow, the grass almost as green as in late summer, and only the chill In the air and the nakedness of the trees Indicated the winter season. The sun was just rimming the far shore of the sound. A pioneer ray gilded the Spuyten Duyvil headland, caroming thither from the crest of Marble Hill. After a whispered conference with Hicks, Brltz slipped his hand into a side pocket of his coat, and took 014 something that glittered in the sun­ shine. At a single word from Brltz, Gordon and Hicks wormed their way along the bank until they were at the bow of the yacht. Britz, Fitch and Manning stayed near the stem. Sud­ denly the lieutenant fired a shot over tne yacht mat echoed metallically from the cliffs, and at the signal, all five of the attacking party leaped aboard the yacht, their feet striking the polished deck with a concerted thud that must have made those with­ in the cabin think they were feeling the first shock of a landslide. The five men on the deck gave those below little time for analysis of their sensations. Gordon and Hicks raced around the wheelhouse to the starboard side of the craft, and dashed down the companionway from that direction, while Britz, Manning and Fitch hurled themselves into the port entrance to the cabin, alighting on a richly carpeted floor a dozen feet below the deck. Two shots followed before the police party could seize Prince Kananda and All, who, facing in opposite directions, stood at bay In the center of the cabin. Brltz and Gordon struck upward the revolvers of the Indians as the triggers were pulled. The bullets flew high, harm­ ing no one. Behind Kananda and All, using a table as a breastwork, stood two more Hindoos, both of them strangers to Britz. They were in­ armed save for wicked-looking Malay krises they gripped nervously as they crouched In waiting for an attack. Britz and Manning jammed their pis­ tols Into the faces of the men with the krises; but the Indians, undis­ mayed, made savage slashes at them with their razor-edged long knives. Gordon and Fitch sprang upon the kris-bearers, Hicks with a pistol in each hand standing off Kananda end Ali. Again and again the Hindoos slashed at their assailants, and that they did not split at least one head was due to the wary agility of the four who attacked them. Shots from the detectives' revolvers would have brought them down at such short range, of course; but the policemen seemed bent on capturing them alive, and Fitch was not a man to have re­ course to bloodshed until he could be certain It was inevitable. Britz and Manning waited their chance. After futile swings at the Indians, they closed with them, clubbing their re­ volvers and bringing them down with crashing force on the gaudy turbans of the Orientals. A few seconds of that vicious pounding stunned the Hindoos, and It was then but the work of a moment to slip handcuffs on them. Kananda and All, In the meanwhile, had made no further at­ tempts to use their pistols. They read death in Hicks' eyes as he con­ fronted them with his long, blue gleaming barrels aimed , straight at them. Their hesitation was fatal to their hope of escape. For even as Ali, doubtless at> a whisper or signal from the Prince, swung himself about to Interpose himself between Hicks and the petty potentate's son, while Kananda turued for a dash to the sli! You Sent, huh, for Ui, Chief. SEVEN YEARS OF MISERY How Mrs. Bethune was R#» •tared t© Health by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegeta­ ble Compound. and held powerless by Britz and Man ning. Gripping the Prince's leg firmly, the doctor worked his scalpel gently into the small lump in the flesh--a wound so recent that It had been bound together by pieces of court plaster the color of the skin. Then he triumphantly extracted something which, though ruddied, sparkled In the gleam of the incandescent lamps with which the cabin, despite the daylight, still was illuminated. "The Maharanee diamond!" cried Brltz and Manning together. deck, Britz, Fitch and Manning, leav­ ing Gordon in charge of the captured Indians, surrounded the other two and disarmed them. Breathing heav­ ily from the short but sharp struggle, the captors marched their prisoners to the far end of the cabin and seated themselves between the Hindoos and the doors. They were still on the alert to prevent an attempt to es­ cape on the part of Kananda or All. The other two Indians being hand­ cuffed, it was less likely they would make a spurt for liberty, but the po­ liceman took bo chances. "Now, Mr. Xananda," said Brit* to the Prince cheerily, "I reckon we'll have those diamonds." "Perhaps you will be good enough to explain," parried the Prince with his most blase Cambridge manner. "Explain nothing!" shouted Brltz. "I've fenced with you fellows long enough. We've caught you now and we want the goods." "Since you are resolved to carry this miserable farce farther," said the Prince, "I suppose we shall have to submit." "You'll submit to a search, that's what you'll do!" interrupted Man­ ning. "I don't blame you, Brltz, for losing your temper with this crowd; fresh is no name for It." The Chief nodded to Gordon and Hicks, and they began a search of the four prisoners that left nothing undone to find the diamonds. When they had examined every article of the Indians' apparel, from the Orien­ tal costumes of the low-caste Hin­ doos to the conventional attire of the Prince, they looked to Manning for further instructions, for they had found nothing. Then all four of the detectives, with the Chief and the doctor, ransacked the cabin, fore and aft and from star­ board to port, as thoroughly as the Indian burglars had gone through the apartments of Grlswold and Sands. They even lifted the carpet on all Bides, rolled the heavy furniture about, and prodded every locker. In vain. If the diamonds were on board the yacht, they were not in the saloon. Gordon went to the wheel, while Hicks, who had some knowledge of machinery, watched and regulated the feed of the motor. Silently as a giant swan, and as smoothly, the yacht threaded the cut to the broader stretch beyond the Spuyten Duyvil creek and, passing under the long railroad bridge on which the famous little Dolly Varden train toddled from bank to bank, swung downstream In the Hudson and headed for the Bat­ tery. The yacht was off Grant's Tomb before an Idea occurred to Fitch, for which Brltz not only gave him full credit, but blessed him heartily. "See If any one of those men is wounded, lieutenant." Fitch suggested. Britz and Manning looked the Orien­ tals over, and made them walk up and down the cabin. The Prince halted slightly in his gait for an Instant, then recovered control of his muscles, and strode as steadily as his low-caste compatriots. "That man has^the Maharanee." Fitch declared. "^>u'll find It in the calf of his leg." Brltz seized Kananda by the collar and shook him savagely. "If you don't give up that diamond, your finish will be the operating table," said the detective. Kananda forced another laugh. Britz, Manning, and Fitch seized him, and baring his leg to the knee, searched for marks of a wound. Strangely enough, there was a little lump in the calf. The detectives looked at the doctor. "Here's a slight protuberance, doc­ tor," said Brltz. "I guess the rest is up to you." Fitch took out a pocket Instrument case, and selected a tiny knife. Kar nanda, on the point of beginning an­ other struggle to escape, was choked f The Scowling Orientals Were Penned In a Corner. CHAPTER XXVI. Mutual Explanations. It was breakfast time, and Brltz and Fitch after their exciting night were hungry enough to eat a Hindoo, but they did not stop to show considera­ tion to their inner men. As he expected, Britz found Grls­ wold and Mrs. Delaroche In the big reception room of the Detective Bu­ reau with the detectives who had ar­ rested them waiting ponderously near the door, and an interested desk lieu­ tenant looked up from his work to hear the denouement of what Police Headquarters had come to regard as the "star" case of tne year. Brltz walked slowly to his own room, where the scowling Orientals were penned in a corner, while the chief of the detectives and his two subordinates were taking well-earned rest in the lieutenant's easy-chairs Brltz talked to Manning in whispers, then went to the telephone and called Mrs. Missloner's house. "Good morning, Mrs. Missioner!" he sold over the wire. "This is Lieuten­ ant Brltx--Brits, of Headquarters. I called you up to tell you we had ar- rested the jewel thieves and--beg par­ don? What did you say--your Jewels have been returned to you? That's strange. I have one of them in my pocket now. How's that? You say you have all your Jewels? Then whose la this--the Maharanee? Pardon me, Mrs. Mlssioner, I don't quite understand. We have the thieves here and the big­ gest of the diamonds. What did you say--you don't want the thieves prose­ cuted ? Why, really, Mrs. Missioner-- yes, of course--yes, I anl talking from Poflce Headquarters'--they are here now, all the thieves, lot No. 1 and lot No. 2. You say you dont understand? Well, I tell you, Mrs. Mlssioner, per­ haps you had better run down here. Yes, I know it is a great deal to ask, but I have worked pretty hard to find your diamonds--yes, day and night. The Chief thinks it would be better If you could arrange to come down. It won't take you long; you need not stay more than five minutep. Oh, but you don't know who the thieves are; yes, you have guessed In part--not alto­ gether; but I think you'd better come down, Mrs. Missioner; you will be in­ terested, I am sure. How's that? Bring Mr. Sands? By all means, if you wish. Yes, I will await you--then you'll come? Thank you very much, Mrs. Missioner. Good-by. "Now, what do you think of that?" said Brltz to Manning. "After all our work, Mrs. Mlssioner calmly informs me that her jewels have been re­ turned to her, and that she does not wish to prosecute the thieves. She sayB she is willing to overlook their little deviations from the path of hon­ esty, as she Is BO glad to re­ cover her jewels. I told her I had the Maharanee In my pocket, and she in­ sisted she had all her gems. What do you know about that, anyway?" Mrs. Delaroche was brought in by a private of the detective force, and Britz, with elaborate politeness, bowed her to a chair. She was too angry to acknowledge his courtesy, and she sat looking at the lleutenaift and the Chief with flashing eyes. "Mrs. Delaroche," said Brltx, "I may as well tell you at the outset that the game is up. We know all about your connection with this case, and the best thing for you to do is to tell us everything you know. Your friend, Mr. Grlswold, as you have seen, is un­ der arrest. What do you know about him ?" "I shall answer no questions," said Mrs. Delaroche, "until I shall have had an opportunity to engage coun­ sel." "Mr. Grlswold Is engaged to marry you ?" 'Of course," she replied with an in­ dignant flush. "Now, Mrs. Delaroche," Brltz re­ plied, "I'm going to tell you that you are the most mistaken lady in Man­ hattan Island right now. GrlswohJ Is not engaged to you; at any rate he doesn't understand that he is." "What do you mean, sir?" "I mean, madam," answered Britz, "that Mr. Curtis Grlswold, though he engaged himself to marry you, has been industriously engaged for some time past In attempting to become en­ gaged to another woman." •Who Is she?" "She is the possessor of many mil­ lions," said Brltz, "a woman of ac­ knowledged beauty and of undeniable charm. Of course, I don't undertake to say for a moment, madam, that her attractlvenes equals yours. Doubtless, Mr. Grlswold, being an enterprising young man. has eyes more to her mil­ lions than to her looks. Nevertheless, she is a beauty." He watched closely t words on the high-strung woman facing him, and saw that he had touched a re­ sponsive chord. Her eyes flashed as if her very soul vibrated with jealous rage. Her breath came and went in short gasps. Her fingers twisted <\nd untwisted nervously, and she seemed to be on the point of a violent revela­ tion when the situation was Interrupt­ ed by a knock on the door. Britz, a flash of amusement In his face, walked to the door, opened 1ft, and thrust his head out In the cor­ ridor stood a man from the Detective Bureau who said: "The prisoner, Grlswold, requests as immediate interview with Lieutenant Brltz." Britz hesitated a minute, then said: "Bring him in here," and then returned to Mrs. Delaroche. "I shall not ask you to take my word for it, madam," he said. "I'll soon give you proof of the very best kind that what I have told you about Mr. Grlswold Is true. Just sit over here in this alcove where you cannot be seen from the middle of the room, and pay attention to what goes on." Shortly after that, Grlswold was brought into the room, and the lieu­ tenant, his hands in his pockets, hli shoulders squared, his features cast in an iron mold, confronted the club­ man. "How long Is this farce going to be kept up?" Grlswold demanded. "None of that now, Grlswold. I've got the goods on you. The less of that kind of talk you indulge In. the better for all concerned. Mrs. Delaroche has told everything!" Grlswold inquired sarcastically. "And what, pray, had she to tell?" "A great deal more than Mrs. Mls­ sioner knows," answered Brits craft fly "Don't you mention that lady's name In such a place as this!" exclaimed Qriswold with a show of chivalry that would have gone very well before a Jury, but which was lost on such hard­ ened thief-takers as Brits and Man­ ning. "No harm in mentioning her name, Is there, when the lady herself will be here in a few minutes?" This time there was no simulation In the start Grlswold gave. He stared at the detective as if he doubted his own hearing. "Why--why--you simply must not let her come here," said Grlswold again. "I would not have her see ms here for anything in the world. Can't this be arranged somehow? 8ay, you know I am not a poor man--" Brltz grinned at him. "Oh, I know you can't be bought." said Grlswold. "But this is a serious matter to me. It means my who!.e future. I don't want Mrs. Missioner to come here and see me a prisoner. It will be different when the case comes to trial. I will have counsel then, and I can take care of myself, but Just now I'm helpless. Don't bring the woman here to make her lose all respect for me; oh, man, dont queer me!" Millicent Delaroche from the alcove heard and saw all that passed b» tween the men. She gripped the slen­ der arm of her chair until her taper* lng fingers curving around It bit into her pink palm. She watched the un­ mistakable agitation of the prlsonei until no doubt remained In her mind of his attitude toward Mrs. Mlssioner. Then her rage broke through all re­ straint. Casting the detective's cau­ tion to the winds, she strode to the center of the room and towered above Grlswold, as, thunderstruck at sight of her--In his self-centered pride of what might happen, he had utterly for* gotten for awhile ber presence In Po» lice Headquarters--he moved uneas­ ily In his chair. (TO BE CONTINUED.) times, have an operation. Louis Napoleon In America. It is noticeable that Princess Car» line, who subsequently knew the em­ peror so intimately, makes no refer­ ence to the visit of Louis Napoleon to America in 1837. He was for two months in New York, where he lived at the Washing­ ton hotel, Broadway. It is interesting to know that he made the acquaintance of Washington Irving, whom he visited at Sunnyside. Irving had also met Mile. Montijo. On the occasion of the emperor's marriage, in 1853, he wrote: "Louis Napoleon and Eugenie de Montijo. emperor and empress of France; one I of whom I have had as a guest at my ( cottage on the Hudson; and the other of whom, when a child. I have had on my knee at Grenada."--Footnote to Princess Murat's Memoirs. Sikestan, Mo. -- "For seven yean T suffered everything. I was in bed fflt four or five days at* „ time every month, and so weak I could hardly walk. I had cramps, backache and headache, and was so nervous and weak that I dreaded to see anyone or have anyone move in the room. The doe* tors gave me medi­ cine to ease me at aid that I onght to I would not listen to that, and when a friend of my husband's told him about Lydia F,. Pinkhem's Veg­ etable Compound and what it had done for his wife, I was willing to take it. Now I look the picture of health and feel like it, too. I can do all my own house­ work, work in the garden aai entertain company and enjoy them, and can walk as far as any ordinary woman, any day in the week. I wish I could talk to every suffering woman and girl, and tell them what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me." Mrs* Dema Bethune, Sikeston, Mo. Remember, the remedy which did this was Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It has helped thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation,, ulceration, tt.im.ors,. irreg­ ularities, periodic pains, backache;,, that bearing down feeling, indigestion, and ervous prostration, after all other metH have failed. 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" I've been to the Primrose social dance.' " Indeed.' "Then, after a pause, she added: " 'It's a wonder, Mr. Jinks, jroo wouldn't offer me your seat!* "Jinks then got up. He was verf angry. He said, aa he hooked himself to a strap: " 1 thought you wouldn't want tt; for as you said you'd been to a danoa, 1 knew you must have been silting all the evening.'" Carter STILE SVER, PILLS, Useless. "Why don't you make up your mind to cease permitting your wife to hen- peck you?" "I have made it up half a dosen times, but it doesn't seem to do any good at all. She refuses to concede that I have a mind." When a man has occasion to ap­ pear before a police magistrate he Is apt to forget his own name. How She Hurt Her Finger. "What's de mattah. Miss Clara?" asked Rosa, the Browns' colored laun­ dress. seeing Miss Clara nursing her finger with a pained look on her face. "I bruised my finger with the hammer the other day and It hurts still." was the reply. "I has dat. too!" exclaimed Rosa, eagerly, "feels like a tinglin' all down de palm of my han', but mine jes' comes from slappln' de chulluns on de haid." The man who stands on the truth has God's hand under him -- Indiana^ oils News. Everyone Wants to Travel ^Various Motives Thai Actuate piffer- ent People to Roam About the Wide World. Travel Is a popular mania which Impels the victim to seek the solace of crowds, jams, ruins, smells, master­ pieces. glaciers and donkey boys in preference to home, creditors or con­ science. Travel Is a universal tailing. overworked go to put in nineteen hours a day catching trains and climbing Matterhorns; the gouty to sample the cobwebbed vintages of the leading spas: the blase to make Monte Carlo without doing the Casino and Venice without seeing the Hons. The suddenly rich travel In order to be miserable under strange conditions. The New England schoolma'am goes abroad to proclaim the superiority of the Singer building over that leaning thing at Pisa. The Cornvllle editor goes to Impresslonize the first page of the Clarion back home. The self- proclaimed self-made go for the avowed purpose of giving no tips. The "wanted!" go to be forgotten, the lovelorn to forget. Life. Deaf and Dumb Printers. Manual training Is an Important part of the education Imparted at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf ml Dumb at Mount Airy. One notable feature is a well equipped printing of­ fice. where boys who show a prefer­ ence for this trade become proficient In It. This office prints the stationery of the institution and also lssuea a bi­ weekly magazine. An official of the Institution says that printing Is a de­ sirable occupation for the deaf and dumb. It is an old adage of the craft that "A silent tongue maketh a full stick." Some employing printers show a preference for deaf and dumb compositors, and thus the great ma­ jority of the graduates of the Mount Airy printing office obtain lucrative positions. Even some of those who after leaving Mount Airy take a col­ lege course subsequently i go back to printing.--Philadelphia Record. Medical Genius. An old doctor, seeing a young one who was going along the street with half a dozen shabby-looking men and women, called him aside and asked: "Who are all those people, and where are you going with them?" "I will tell you In oonfldenoe," was the reply, "that I've hired them to come and sit In my reception room. I expect a rich patient this morning, and I want to make an Impression on him." --J udge. Too Busy to Notice. "What was the minister's text, mf dear?" "I don't know. 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