CHAPTER XI.
THE JEWEL CABINET.
Alas for the diamond and the ruby rings! New York is "a city of magnificent distances," and by the time the children were safely at home, there was a great stir through the house.

Colonel Allen and wife had come.

Too late now to think of hunting for anything.
"Where are my little folks ?" rang Uncle Augustus's cheery voice through the hall; and in he came, not looking ill in the least.

His eyes were as black as ever, and he carried just as much flesh on his tall, large frame.

Somehow, he cheered one's heart like an open fire.