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“at rst, It consisted of four; himeelf, acity pawnt known as Ezras, who mceived and negotiated the sale of the golen goods, and who is as keen a rascal asever escaped justice, and two noted cracksmen, who had headquarters in the dty, and were famous in their day, but gho were compelled to withdraw in the midst of their high career, one dying of 3 malignant fever, the other being killed by &@ worman. To replace these departed warthies, frras, Who was always on the alert for pals, and who had had various crooked dealings with Jerry Belknap, broughs
gis gemtieman and Lucky Jim together.
“Belknap proved the right man in the fight place, and was soon admitted Sito the Coterie. Next to come under the favorable notice of Ezras, was John Bur- fll, who had come over from England. bringing with him some ill-gotten gains,
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Mr. Lamotte, or
ami who set himself up in New York as aswell cracksman.
“Now, Burrill, the English boor, had an ambition. In this easy-going America, he hoped in some way to build himself into an aristocrat, and to shine as one of the lords of the land. To this end he
hoarded his share of all the spoils, and, adding it to the sum brought from Eng- land, he began to find himself a rich man.
“Meantime, Mr. Lamotte had lated a little too freely; he had built a mansion, and buiit his factories. He had been living like a prince, and some of his late ventures had failed. Something must be done. And then his eye fell upon Burrill; he coveted the English- man’s hoarded dollars.
“He found it easy to persuade Burrill tocome to W—, ostensibly to take the position of overseer at the factories; really to be more readily duped by Lucky Jim. Burrill came; he saw how his com- rade was respected and bowed down to
specu-
by all. W-—-. He had always admired Lucky Jim for his gentler nanly polish and his artstocratic manners; and he
a scheme for his own TheLamottes had made they should make
now concocted aggrandisement. themselves aristocrats, an aristocrat of him.
“You ail know the result; John Bur- ril-diverced his wife; Jasper Lamotte sold his daughter.
“While Frank Lamotte felt tolerably sanguine of winning the heiress of War- dour, the Wardour jewels were left un- ' molested. But when a rival came into the feld, they determined to have the jewels, even if they lost the heiress.
“Accordingly they planned the robbery and the elopement, and you all know the afterpart.
“Miss Wardour, you reward for the arrest of the invaded Wardour Place, not to recover your diamonds, but for the sake of jus- tee. It is for the sake of justice and for the future safety of peaceable citizens that I haye run the Diamond Coterie to earth. For, be it known to you, ladies and gentlemen, that Miss Constance Wardour, like the wise young lady she is, took her jewels to an expert, one fine
once offered a robbers who
day long ago, and had them all dupli- cated in paste; = while Jasper i.s- motte and his clique were incustrieusiy
carrying into saf monds, the posing safely and they ret “When Jusper city, two days 1 rill, ! t to dispose paste jewels; and, not
» hiding these paste ciu real Wardour jewels were re- in the vaults of a city hank,
se there safely stili! Lamotte wens to the efoge the killing of Bur- of some of those
until then, did he
learn how the heiress of Wardour had outwitted him.
**Miss Wardour, the career of the Dia- mond Coterie is at an end.
Old Ezras has long been under our eye. Last night I sent a telegram which will cause his instant arrest; and there are enough charges against him to in-
sure him a life sentence, had he enty years to live.
‘John Burrill has passed
yet sey-
beyond our
reach. Frank Lamotte, too, with all his sin and selfishness, has passed before a higher tribunal. There remains only Jerry Belknap and Jasper Lamctte.
‘To Jerry Belknap I have promised protection—not because he deserves the fame, but because in no other way could
of his: evidence
services; and to complete I
I avail myself make my chain of
Needed his testimony. He will go out to the frontier, and never appear in New York
“And now, perhaps, you can compre- hend why I brought that charge of per- jery against Jasper Lamotte. For his wife’s sake, for his unhappy daughter’s
sake, for the sake of Evan Lamotte, whe implored me, while going to give him- self up to save ancther, that I would not let further disgrace bow his mother’s head to the dust:—for the sake of these unfortunate victims, I would let Jasper Lamotte go free, so far as we are con- cerned. I have seen him, and I gave him two alternatives to from. He
could remain and be arrested as the head and front of the Diamond Coterie, or he could take passage on board the first ship hound for Australia, to remain there the rest of his natural life. He chose the latter, and I have appointed my agent, : book peddler,’ as his guard- ian, that he carries out his con- tract to the letter.
‘Ar ud now there is one After Burrili’s death Jasper and Frank La motte made a search for certain papers supposed to have been upon the person of the cead man. They never found
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CHAPTER XLVII. *
““Clifford,’’ says the heiress of Wardour, standing beside her lover, one winter day, not long after the extinction of the Diamond Coterie, ‘‘Clifford, I have been to Mapleton to-day, for the first time since—’’
She pauses abruptly, and draws her closer to his side.
**Since the drama ended,’’ he Mapleton,
her lover
finishes. beloved ! Tell me about it."’
‘There's something I wish to tell you, Clifford; something that, in full, Mr. Bathurst generously kept out of his story when he told us the rest; something that Mrs. Lamotte, Sybil, Evan, Mr. Belknap, Mr. Bathurst, and myself, but which 1 think I had better tell you now.”’
“‘T am listening, Conny.’’
‘*Well, when the robbers mace off with my paste diamonds, I made up my mind to make the most of the business, and Jet everybody think me a loser, hoping thus to possess myself -and my diamonds in peace and safety. But when Mr. Bathurst had talked to me a second time—I_ be- lieve that man can see straight through people—he had my secret at his tongue’s end asd he warned me to be very cautious and not to tell any one the truth concerning the diamonds. In spite of
this, one evening, when some imp pos- sessed me I told Sybil Lamotte. I shall never forget her strange manner nor her wild words. Clifford, that awful mistake of mine almost made Sybil a »purderess.”’ **Constance !’’
‘*Liseten, dear! Sybil had brooded over what 1 had told her. Treuble was unset- tling her mind. She had seme valuable
| Jewels; she went with her mother to the
city, and while there, had the real stones replaced by paste, as I had done, and re- ceived two thousand dollars for her dia- monds. In some way she had found out that Jerry Belknap wes # man to be bought; she obtained an interview with him, and offered him two thousand dol- lars if he would get John Eurzill out of her way!"’
**Good heavens!”’ ‘Don’t interrupt me.
Belknap agreed
' to remove Burrill, and received five hun-
| Evan's
dred dollars in advance. He sent to the city for a ruffian, one of hia tools. The man came, but Mr. Bathurst had his eye upon him. On the night of the murder thie ruffian was hidden outside of the saloon. waiting to follow and waylay John Burrill when he should go home. The boy detective, George, was hidden and watching the ruffian. When Burrill came out of hi saloon, the ruffian, sup- posing of course that he was going home, hurried on ahead, crossed the bridge, nnd secreted himself in the hedge. The boy, George, was far erough behind to see that Burrill was not going home, but he'was acting as cCirccted by Mr. Bathurst, and so followed the rufian. Think of it, Clifford! While Sybil’s paid assassin ley in wait for his victim, Sybil’s brother was gaving her soul from guilt, by taking a crime upon his own. But for aan peor half erazed Sybil would have been a murderess, and this I knew in part from the first, and that is why I said that the true slayer must not be punished. Until they brought E Lamotte into court, I believed that Sybil was the guilty one.”’ ‘And you could not
betray your un-
fortunate friend? My true hearted Con- stance !”’ ‘‘T hed promised Mrs. Lamotte not to
betray her, but was nerving myself to dare 23] and save you, when poor Evan threw himself into the breach, and saved us all three. You must know, Clifford, that Mr. Belknap made a full confession to Mr. Bathurst, when he found he could do no better. And Mr. Bathurst, know- ing that I was aware of Sybil’s dealings with Belknap, told me eversthing.”’
‘‘And this is what Bathurst meant when he said that Sybil believed herself guilty. 1 thought he referred to some of her insane ravings.”’
‘So they all thought. But it is best as tis. There is no need to tell this sad story, unless it seems best that Ray Vandyck should know it.”’
‘*Poor Ray. Conny, if the time ever comes when Ray «and Sybil meet again, she will tell him her own story.”’
Constance bent over the glowing coals &® moment, and then ae her face che said in a hushed voice
‘“‘T saw Evan. He is ra fad ing out of life. Oh! it was so fortunate that there was no resi€tance to the humane ones who sought to help him out of that gloomy prison. Sybil never leaves him for a moment. What must her feclings have been when she learned that Mvan hed saved her from a life time of re- morse! I could see by her face—such a yoor, pale, sad, utterly changed face— everything. But Mrs wonderful. Old Mr. Sybil’s grandfather, is dead, his prop-
that she knew all; Lamotte’s courage is Schuyler, and he has left Mrs. Lamotte
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coula never touch adoliar. Mrs. Lamotte says that when it is over—Evan’s life, you know--she shall take Sybil and go to live in her old Maryland home. They will not touch a penny of John Burrill’s money; it is all to be transferred to his wife, to be held in trust for her little boy. The woman is going back to Eng- land as scon as the transfer is made. And now do you know what [ sce in the future? I see poor Evan laid away under the snows. I see the memiory of John Burrill sunk in oblivion. I see Sybil La- motte coming slowly back to life and hope and happiness, under the kind blue Maryland skies. I see Mrs. Lamotte, her pride softened and chastened, and a look of serene content upon her face. And I see Ray Vandyck making his way south ward some day, and standing before Sybil with his heart in his eyes. I see—’’
‘*You see enough. Leave Ray and Sybil face to face; you and I can _ guess the rest. Do you also Doctor Clifford Heathercliffe resuming his practice in W—, as if nothing had happened? For that’s what his newly appointed tyrant has bidden him do. Do you see a certain fair lady, transformed into Lady Heather- cliffe by and oy and sailing away over the seas to bewilder the dwellers of Heatherclifie Towers with the brightness of her eyes, and, in spite of the Dia- mond Coterie, to blaze forth upon the ‘nobility and gentry’ of Hampshire in
all the splendor of the Wardour diamonds?
All this shall come to pass beloved; and, since it has gained me the fairest, bray- est, truest wife in Christendom, I can even rejoice in the persecutions and the hatred of the Diamond Coterie. If John Lurrill had not mistaken me for Herbert, on the night when the feud began, he might now be living, perhaps, and you and I be far apart; so, at the last, Her- bert Heathercliffe, in his grave, has done me a service. I do look like him, Conny, and it’s small wonder Burrill Knew me for a Heathercliffe, and made capital out of my altered name. But all that is past, My darling, we have learned our hard lessson, now we have only to forgive the dead and the erring, to forget the sha- dows and sorrows of the past, and to say, ‘God bless our friends in need; —God bless Bathurst, king of his kind God bless the O’Mearas; God bless the bean- tiful darling who outwitted the Dismond Coterie, and who wears the Wardour dia- monds and the Wardour honor with regal grace !’
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