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I should judge that they had been submitted to a certain solution or varnish, which has recently been discovered, and is used to simulate the brilliancy of diamonds, but which, if the stones are dropped in alcohol, will dissolve and vanish." "Impossible!" Mrs. Vanderheck protested, with some warmth.
Vanderbeck, I am still confident, is none other than the Widow Bently, who did Justin Cutler and Mrs. Vanderheck out of their money. I'd just like to get hold of all three! Tom Rider, if you only could, it would be a feather in your cap such as doesn't often wave over the head of an ordinary detective, not to mention the good round sum that would swell your pocket-book!
"I hope the lady has not been a victim to the same cunning scheme that served to defraud the gentleman from Chicago," he gravely observed. "You do not mean to imply that my stones are not genuine!" exclaimed Mrs. Vanderheck, with sudden dismay. "I am not able to say, madame," his honor courteously replied, "but I should like to have them examined by an expert and proved." Mr.
Richmond Montague, who has figured so conspicuously in New York society, was his discarded wife; that she robbed me of my fortune, and why; that she the woman bearing his name was the unprincipled schemer who defrauded Mr. Justin Cutler and Mrs. Vanderheck, and robbed Mr. Palmer of valuable diamonds.
But," with a sigh, "I'm afraid it is too late now to put your theory to the test, and perhaps I have brushed against its folds on the street a dozen times since in a different color. Well, I suppose I must try to reconcile myself to the inevitable and make up my mind that the stones are gone beyond recovery, unless this Mrs. Vanderheck should prove to be the thief.
Vanderheck appeared at a select ball, wearing more diamonds than any one had ever before seen upon her at once; but after that one brilliant appearance it was remarked that she was becoming more subdued in her tastes, for she was never again seen in New York with such an expensive display of gems. After their return from Hazeldean, Mrs. Montague seemed to forget her spite against Mona.
The next morning early Ray and his father were on their way to New York, and ten o'clock found them seated in the private court-room, where Mrs. Vanderheck was to answer the charges against her.
"But I cannot submit to an arrest; you surely do not mean that I a woman in my position am to be imprisoned on the charge of theft!" exclaimed the woman, growing deadly white. "The law is no respecter of persons or position, madame," laconically responded the detective. "What can I do?" Mrs. Vanderheck cried, in a tone of despair.
Rider is confident that Mrs. Bently, of the Chicago affair, and Mrs. Vanderbeck, or 'heck' whatever her name may be are one and the same person." "Well, it is certain that Mrs. Vanderheck, of New York, who figures so conspicuously in society, has an enormous store of diamonds, however she came by them," Louis Hamblin remarked.
Vanderheck with them in her ears, and a cross like one that we lost, so he arrested her upon suspicion of both robberies, but somehow I am not very sanguine that we shall recover the stones." "Did you not see the cross?" Mona asked. "No; Mr. Rider had deposited it somewhere for safe keeping. It will be produced at the examination to-morrow.
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