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They were headed by two fellows of commanding stature and appearance; though little differing from the others, except that one wore a necklace of small bones; and the other, suspended from his neck by a cord and resting on his breast, a small brass-plate of a crescent shape, on which his name was engraved.
"I winked at the Chief, and the Chief smiled at me, and we went to Nice together in a saloon-car with a guard of twelve carabineers and twelve plain-clothes men, and the Chief and I drank champagne all the way. We marched together up to the hotel where the Russian Ambassador was stopping, closely surrounded by our escort of carabineers, and delivered the necklace with the most profound ceremony.
He was not niggardly, and if this and this and he displayed the sparkling necklace and laid the purse on her pillow could please her she might regard them as an earnest of more, as much more as she chose, for his pockets were deep. Dada did not interrupt him, for the growing indignation with which she heard him took away her breath.
She leaned towards me, and beauty breathed about her as a spell. I bent till my lips caressed her perfumed hair; and then I saw among the rubbish on her desk something that made me interrupt the words we might have spoken. "What's that?" I asked. "Not pawn tickets?" "For a necklace," she said; "and this this must be my diamond " "Pawned and not paid for!"
"Well, let me see for myself." "As you like." "My dear Bunny, this one must have contained the necklace you boasted about." "Very likely." "And this one the tiara." "I dare say." "Yet she was wearing neither, as you prophesied, and as we both saw for ourselves." I had not taken my eyes from his. "Raffles," I said, "I'll be frank with you after all.
"At any rate, her folks have splendid things. Why! don't you remember about her aunt losing that be-a-utiful necklace last spring?" "Necklace?" repeated Ruth. "What sort of a necklace?" "One of the finest pearl collars in the world, they say. Worth maybe fifty thousand dollars. Wonderful!" "A pearl necklace?" queried the girl from the Red Mill, her interest growing. "Yes, indeed."
She would examine the false gems with a passionate attention, as though they imparted some deep and secret joy; and she often persisted in passing a necklace around her husband's neck, and, laughing heartily, would exclaim: "How droll you look!" Then she would throw herself into his arms, and kiss him affectionately.
The salesman, at last losing patience, said, "Well, if it should happen to interest you, I can let you have a look at the most magnificent necklace that money could buy in New York City to-day. The price of that necklace is fifty thousand pounds." He turned to put it away, but the weather-beaten man stopped him.
"It is the necklace!" said Cornelia after a pause, "It is the pearl necklace, which gives you such an air of mystery and romance, and changes you from an everyday maiden into an old-time princess." "No doubt, it is the necklace," answered Arenta. "It is my Aunt Angelica's, but she permits me to wear it.
The wedding festivities really began the next evening with a family dinner to celebrate Sissie's betrothal. The girl arrived magnificent from the Grand Babylon, escorted by her lover, and found Mrs. Prohack equally magnificent indeed more magnificent by reason of the pearl necklace. It seemed to Mr.
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