I doubt if you ever see the jewels
again. But no matter; it will all come right. Tell your wife not to
fret,'
The next morning when Mrs. Tracy went to her room after breakfast she
was astonished to find upon her dressing bureau a velvet box with
Tiffany's name upon it, and inside an exquisite set of diamonds; not as
fine as those she had lost, or quite as large, but white, and clear, and
sparkling as she took them in her hand with a cry of delight, and ran
with them to her husband. Both knew from whence they came, and both went
at once to Arthur, who, to his sister-in-law's profuse expressions of
gratitude, replied indifferently:
'Don't bother me with thanks; it worries me. I bought them to please
the little girl, who talks about them all the time. She will yet well
now, I am going to tell her.'
He found Jerry better, and perfectly sane. She was very glad to see him,
though she seemed somewhat constrained, and shrank from him a little,
when he sat down beside her. Her first rational question had been for
him, and her second for the diamonds; were they found, and if not, were
they still looking for them.
'No, they have not found them,' Harold had said, 'and the officers are
still hunting for the thief, while the papers are full of the reward
offered to any one who will return them.
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