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When he last looked at it he noticed that the fastening was a trifle slack and, though he handed the trinket back, he told her distinctly that she was not to wear it till it had been either to Tiffany's or Starr's. But she considered it safe enough, and put it on to please the boys, and lost it. Senator Burton is a hard man and, in short, the jewel must be found.
His new street suit he put on in the fitting room; the frock coat and dress clothes he had bundled into the cab with his linen. Then he drove to a hatter's and a shoe house. His next errand was at Tiffany's, where he selected his silver and a new scarf pin. He would not wait to have his silver marked, he said.
Ramsdell's ball had been acted upon and, the proper tests having been made, the stone, for which so many believed a life to have been risked and another taken, was declared to be an imitation, fine and successful beyond all parallel, but still an imitation, of the great and renowned gem which had passed through Tiffany's hands a twelve-month before: a decision which fell like a thunderbolt on all such as had seen the diamond blazing in unapproachable brilliancy on the breast of the unhappy Mrs.
"He knows me well," said Paul. "I think he will be willing to stand security for me. I will come back in a day or two." Paul took the ring, and left the store. He determined to call that evening on Mr. Preston, and ask the favor indicated. Paul had an errand farther uptown, and, on leaving Tiffany's walked up as far as Twenty-third street.
All the great firms were represented, commending the abnormal variety of domestic industries. It was, indeed, a matter of difficulty to decide which of them was paramount. Tiffany's costly exhibits in jewels, especially diamonds, housed in a beautiful pavilion, attracted the visitor's eyes. Opposite this structure, Germany had a stately building.
Though naturally hopeful Rodney became despondent. "There seems to be no place for me," he said to himself. "When I was at boarding school I had no idea how difficult it is for a boy to earn a living." He had one resource. He could withdraw the box of jewels from Tiffany's, and sell some article that it contained. But this he had a great objection to doing.
Sargent read it attentively. "My sister recommends you as tutor for my little son, Arthur," he said, as he folded up the letter. "Yes, sir; she suggested that I might perhaps suit you in that capacity." "She also says that you found and restored to her a valuable box of jewelry which she was careless enough to drop near Tiffany's." "Yes, sir."
There was no mark of identification upon him except a cigarette case graven with an undecipherable monogram in Tiffany's most illegible style of arrow-headed inscription. This I buried with him, and staked the grave with a headboard.
"I only said I was at a boarding house on West Fourteenth Street, but didn't mention the number." "He thinks you have the casket with you, and that he may get possession of it. It is well that you stored it at Tiffany's." "I think so. Now I have no anxiety about it. Do you think he will find out where we live?" "Probably, as you gave him a clew.
They made, in fact, a masked battery behind the decorous office blinds, and there lay in wait as simply excited as children until at last the stem of the luckless Wetterhorn appeared, beating and rolling at quarter speed over the recently reconstructed pinnacles of Tiffany's. Promptly that one-gun battery unmasked.
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