The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 32: what you’re looking at

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THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY, 23 sorcery as this. Probably much wickedness was done under the name of witchcraft in those days, and I have no doubt that if innocent parties suffered, the guilty were occasionally brought up with a round turn. What is it he takes from his satchel? Iam deeply interested in my paper, but through a hole in its center I see the object he lays on the seat tempo- rarily while closing his valise. It looks like a box from a jeweler’s, and I'manage - to glance in the direction of the fair adventuress when he hands it to her. Almost immediately she utters a decidedly femin- ine ejaculation of delight, and I almost hold my breath as I see the diamonds in her hand, for they are royally magnificent. At her exclamation, the handsome retired Eng- lish officer tears his attention from the novel he is reading, and surveys the sparkling gems with an interest he tries in vain to subdue. Iam not an expert in such matters, but I know something about diamonds, and feel quite confident the gems Robert Hammond thus nonchalantly pre- sents to the girl he is so madly infatuated with, on the Limited Chicago express, must be worth a couple of thousand dollars at least. Given time, the young man will probably spend his whole fortune on the beautiful adventuress. There is no limit to a man’s course when under such a spell—the wisest may become a fool—even Samson of old found his Delilah. Once more the doughty colonel of hussars resumes his novel, hiding himself behind its pages, but I can see him smile in a peculiar fashion, thanks to the cS:. m Gomicboo