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“It must be saved for my brother’s sake,” Ruby said, with great agitation, ‘I cannot bear to appear against her. I would rather that the villain should vo unpunished, and I am sure Walter would agree with me, than to have all this miserable story come out. Don’t you think it can be arranged in some way?” she concluded anxiously. “Yes, very easily, if Mrs. Gordon will agree to do the right thing, though Iam not sure that you are not letting her off altogether too easily.” “Butit was not so much her fault, after all, she was almost forced into it, you know," pleaded Ruby. | “That is true, but it will all depend upon herselt ; she will have to keep the particulars from the prose- cuting attorney, and be governed entirely by me,’ returned the lawyer, thoughtfully. — “But,” he added, *‘we must first find the diamonds; we can do nothing without them.” Mr, Conant went to Walter and made him exchange his clothing for a suit of his, and carried to the other room the three garments Walter had just taken off. Then there was an exciting search after the missing diamonds. Ruby herself was the successful one, and with a nervous laugh she proclaimed : “T have found them! I have found them! bring me a pair of scissors, quick !” The missing gems had been sewed into the thick padding at the top of the sleeves of the coat—one into each—and so carefully imbedded in it, and so neatly done that no one would ever have suspected their | existence, without some previous knowledge, or that the coat had ever been tampered with, “Tet me rip them out for you, dear,” said Mr. Co- nant, vently, and trying to take the garment from the youny girl, for she was very much excited. “No! no! I must bring them to the light. Ob! to think what a vile plotit was!” They let her have her way, though her little hands shook like er gas vo as ae Moped ya Tinie away, drew forth Mrs. Gordon’s jewels, a anded | Nie Ae pis lawyer, : se edi ndeaesin