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He laughed loudly at my pcr- plexity—so loudly that several people stared at us, which as a staid city man, hating to be conspicuous, I very much disliked. Consequently it was in no friendly fashion that I eyed the stranger who thus noisily claimed acquaintance. “Don’t you remember Harry Down- ham,” he said, at last, “who worked under you in that dug-hole of an office long ago—whore I suppose you’re still grinding on in 'the same old way? Shake l ” he. added, peremptorily, thrust- ing out a huge sunburnt hand with which he grasped mine. till my fingers were crushed. “Now you must. come and dine with me. Your wife? Oh! she won’t mind your playing truant for once;” and in a short time my master- ful acquaintance and I were seated op- posite each other in a well-known restaurant. Yes, I did now remember him. But he was changed indeed from the slim young fellow whohad been the ii i ghtiest clerk in the. office, and whose short.- comings had, after innumerable grumb- lings on the part of the firm, led to his dismissal. Occasional surmiscs had since been indulged in by his former comrades as to his career, none of them of a. complimentary kind, as I candid- ly remarked. . “They weren’t so far wrong,” he an- swered, careless-1y. “I was never fit for humdrum life and bricks and mortar. The wild freedom of uncivilized regions was my ideal. ll’ould you like to hear my adventures? though your rigid re- spectability may be somewhat rudely shocked.” Of course I assented. One always has a certain curiosity about an acquaint/A once who disappears in impecunious guise, and turns up years afterwards with all the external signs of wealth which Downhanll showed in rather too pronounced a fashion for good taste. _ “Where have you come from?” Isaid, looking at his bronzed face curiously. “From South Africa. Landed at Southampton two days ago. Am I go- ing back? No, sir, not much. It wouldn’t be healthy. he country’s too hot—in all senses. I’ve. made my pile, and am going to settle down in the south of France, where my sistcr‘s been living as a governess for years. l’oor girl, she’ll know what leisure and lux— ury are now; and there's a charming place I’ve bought there. Climate and surroundings just suit me; for my chest, big as I look, sometimes gets w tong. “What have I done in South Africa? All sorts of things. But, my last and most, or rather sole, successful part was that of an I. l). B.” I looked at him in some perplexity, for what he meant I could not guess. He watched me with an amused smile. “You seem puzzled, old man,” he said. “It’s nothing to do with dynamite (I started—being a nervous man). Not but what explosions of a sort are some- times its consequence. I thought you knew what those mysterious initials meant. They’re as plain. in South Africa. as A B C in your foggy island. I. D. B. means an illicit diamond buyer. An illicit diamond is one which has been conveyed—good word that, Shakespearean, isn’t it?-—from the mine in other than legal fashion. And there’s a. deal of legality, let me tell you, in diamond digging. There’s abig staff of officials to look after it. Illicit diamonds are usually found and dis- posed of by the Kaflirs employed in the mines—though by no means only by them—and sold much below their value to——well——specullators like myself, who take their chance in view of the big profit.” “What?” I gasped. “Then you have actually bought—stolen property!” “Well,” he. said, coolly refilling our glasses, “that’s perhaps your way of putting it here. It’s not. ours in South Africa. Besides, I think I've heard even in this respectable city of money lend- er.s buying revensions for a mere song, and speculators purchasing stocks and shares from dcspondcnt holdens, know- ing secretly that those stocks and shares were going up in a day or two with a bound. Also of houses and land bought, from private knowledge of a speedy demand for them, for a trifle, the sellers being quite ignorant of it. I-lavent you heard of such things?” I did not reply. ‘ I was too much upset. Ilcre was I, a head clerk of many years’ standing, dining and drinking cham— pagne at the cost of an illicit diamond buyer. “However,” he resumed, somewhat turtl y, “I don’t ask for your approval; I simply wanted to amuse you with the story of my adventures; so you may imagine I’m soliloquizing. “Why should the mining companies have the monopoly of all the diamond yielding districts?” he continued, in a fierce tone (and I thought it. best to drink my champagne since the bottle was opened, and say nothing these adventurers sometimes carry revolvers, I believe). “There’s abigprofitin these things. The law is very stringent, and there’s great/difficulty in passing the st-Wnes from the finder to the I. D. B. But the profit tempts people—and in all classes, too, let me tell you—to engage directly or indirectly in the traffic. “I began very modestly, and as cap- ital increased I increased my specula- tions. At last. suspicion was awakened, and I was searched when leaving the fields. But the searcher, though very pertinacious and clever, had been seen by me before I saw him. I was smok- ing a. big Dutch pipe. and this gave me an idea. ‘Sublime tobacco'that from the east ,to west!’ You don’t smoke No! Oh, you’ve .«7,7run“EvEN1NG9QAZE missed a good deal of life’s, pleasures? ll‘v'ell, I popped my four diamonds into the big bowl, covered it with ’baccy, and went on pufling and chaffing the search or, who was burning to distinguish him- self. I knew that this defeat would make him more pertinacious than. ever. And so it was. Now I had bought of a * Kafiir some stones of great value, and how to get them out. safely puzzled me not a. little. Some fellows under similar circumstances .had recently tried vari- ous. dodges which had long been popu— iur. falsehoot heels, hollow riding whips, and so on, and in each case the dia- monds had been discovered with very unpleasant consequences. For years of compulsory working at the breakwater, for instance, may be the result, and yet I was determined to chance it rather than lose these stones, which I shall never forget for the trouble they cost me. ‘ ' ' “After perplexing myself day and night—my enemy X always lmvering about near me—a sudden idea flashed into my brain. I had a particularly ugly bulldog who was of asurly disposi- tion, and was much laughed at on ac- count of' my fondness for him. The dog wore a thick collar which was a neces- sity, and that collar gave me- the “tip.’ I removed it, cut slipsin the inside and put the diamonds in them. As I was leaving the fields, X, of course, pounced on me, and I affected a. certain amount of uneasiness, which produced on his mind corresponding glee.” Here Downham paused and opened his pocketbook, and from it he took the photo of about as ugly,'fcrocious and disreputable a bulldog as was ever asso- ciated with heroes of the Bill Sykes class. “Isn’t he a beauty?” he said, fondly, as he handed me‘ the photo. “I shall al- ways love that poor dog; he died on the voyage home from the absurd preju— dices of some of the passengers who didn’t appreciate his playful 1181,11)?me I'm pretty sure—and pushed him over- board; at any rate he disappeared. Yes. sir, that dog got my best haul through! ” "Didn’t X search him?” I timidly queried. “Search him! Everybody gave him as wide a berth—as they could-«they were under delusions about him, pretty creature! No—poor Grip lay down. while the clever X was fussing about me, and growled at him. ‘Send that in- fernal dog of yours off,’ he said, irri-. tably, and little did he think when I o'cedicntly did so that he was sending off the biggest haul of I. D.’s he. was ever likely to nd. Of course he found nothing on me, and his rage was a can- tion. However, he went off, and some days later I started home'wards by leis— urely stages. “I felt pretty secure by this time, and carried the. diamonds in my pocket. However, as the train left the. station for Capetown, I chanced to see one of the diamond fields’ detectives jump in- to the guard van. That was asufflcient hint to me to make things snug, but how to get-rid of the diamonds this time I could not see, as Grip wasn’t accom- panying me that journey. Looking round the carriage, I saw a. broken black bottle under the‘ seat. There was my cache, as the Indians say." “But surely the detective,” I mildly interposed, “would have looked under the seat?” “Well, I suppose he. would,” duly re- ' marked Downham, “unless he were as bi g an idiot its—some people. Just wait, my good friend, before you credit :1. man with congenital idiocy.” ' I shrank back silent. He looked fierce and dagger-like, and on the whole I began to wish I’d gone to Liverpool street for some other train. “What I did,” he resumed, “was this: I wrapped up all the stones in pieces of newspaper. and carefully put. them into the bottle, filling up thespaces by more paper as tightly as possible. Then I looked carelessly out of the window, smoking, but my eye always on the guards vain. When I saw nobody look- ing outr—of course the. chap thought I hadn’t seen him. and was probably tell~ ing the guard what a fine haul he was going to make—I quietly dropped the broken bottle clear of the line. marking the spot—one’s eye gets well trained out on the vcldt, you know.” “At the next. station up came the de- tective. They have power to search sus- pects, you know, and I was accordingly rummaged again. But. this chap. Z. let‘s say, was as unsuccessful and as riled as X. Of course, I hadn’t 3. dia- mond about me. And much indignation did I display. Some days later I went back to the place where I dropped my black bot-tic, found it. and its contents intact. After that I had no more adven- tures with those stones, and they— part1 y~—"bou ght my place in the south of I-‘rance. , “Yes, they’re very clever, those D. F. D.'s, and have many people in their pay, both black hnd White, called ‘tra-ps.’ They don’t usually make. mistakes, but they did in my case. think?” concluded Downham, empty- ing his glass. What I thought I certainly was not going to say, and, indeed, I hairdlv knew where I was. It was an awful ex”- pericnce for a. steady-going man of business whose career has been as un- ruffled as a duck pond. I parted from him. however, with much outward cordiality, butI have not seen him since. I sincerely hope he will remain at his place in the south of France, which I shall carefully avoid if I ever visit the continent.—Chambers’ Journal. Education in Old Peru. Education was monopolized by the Incas and the nobility. The teachers were called “amauta.” The “quipu” were the books. The quipu was a small cord from one to two feet long, made of variously colored threads twisted together. From this other and thinner cords were hung, 'forming a fringe; all the cords were of different colors. The colors represented objects, such as gold, silver; sometimes "white signified peace; red, war; but. they were chiefly used for calculotion—ChambersJour- 1 mil. What do you ' ' a *THE'MUTUAL'. _ rusuuuuouoo, OF NEW YORK. RICHARD A. McCURDY President. :66 on 5 fo 6 our ndingflo’o 31. iii. $221,213,721 33 194,347,157 58 $26,866,563 75 $48,597,430 '51 $23,126,728 45 Assets. - . . . Liabilities \. . ‘ Surplus Total Income . . rooai’raio Policyvholders in 1895. . . Insurance and Annuities in force. .. $899,074,453 78 Net gain in 1895 ~ . $61,647,645 36 NOTE—Insurance merely written, Is discarded from this Statement as wholly misleading, and only insurance actually issued and paid for in cash ls Included. I have carefully examined the foregoing Etatement and find the same to be correct. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. a From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual. . Report. of the} Examiningtlommittee. lltlioe oi the Mutual Lite Insurance company of New You, February 11, 1896. At a meeting of the Bond of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18th day of December last, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual Statement for the year ending“ December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com- parison with the assets of the Company. The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified therein are in possession of the Company. In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony to the high character of " the investments cf the Company and express their approval of the system, order and accuracy -with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business iii general transacted. H. 0. Von Post, (harles It. Henderson, James C. Holden, Robert Clyphant, Wm, P. Dixon, J. H. Herrick. Committee ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLE' ‘TE, General Manager. HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Secy. ALBERT KLAMRO'I‘H, Asst. Secy. ISAAC F. LLorD, Second Vice-President, WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Trees EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier... IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier EMORY MoCLINTOCK' LL.D.,. F. I. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, J 3., Asst. Actuary. ‘ WM. \V. RICHARDS. comptroller. CHARLES A. PBELLER, Auditor, unxnv s. BROWN, Asst. Comp. JOHN C. ELLIO l‘l‘, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, ED WARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. MEDICAL Drnucrons ELIAS J. MARSH, M. I). GRANVILLE M. WHITE, in. EL: } _ GUS'l'AVUS s. wrssrox, u. n. JGEN W. 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