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Two s later the newspapers announced the ione to Bar Harbor for the week, and that the

fa-or-other-apur had

been stolen; nothing co-relative in the departure of Kitty and the

green stones, coincidence only

The Indian prince was known the world over as geeave away

His various hosts and hostesses lived ina sojourn

of his; for he carried his jeith him always; and often, whenever

the fancy seized hio abruptly to his room, spread a square

of cobalt-blue velvet on the floor, squat in his native fashion beside

it, and es of diamonds and rubies and pearls and sapphires

and emeralds and turquoises To hiry, they soothed him; whenever he was happy, they

rounded out this happiness; they were his variant ame Round the diamonds he would make a

circle of the palest turquoises Upon this pyrareat ruby, sapphire, or emerald Then his servants

were commanded to raise and lower the -curtains alternately

These shifting contra-lights put a strange life into the gems; they not

only scintillated, they breathed Or, perhaps the pyramid would be of

ereen depths as he ht