a leather lined envelope
with three long compartments. The rubies were at the bottom of the
envelope."

"Then," said Johnny, "you are not so far from your treasure after all. A
few of the stones are gone, but most of them are safe."

He drew from his pocket the envelope which he had carried so far and at
such great peril.

Had he needed any reward, other than the consciousness of having done an
honest deed, he would have received it then and there in the glad cry
that escaped from the Japanese girl's lips.

When she had wept for joy, she opened the envelope and shaking out the
three loose stones dropped them into Johnny's hand.

"What's that?" he asked.

"A little reward. A present."

Taking the smallest of the three between finger and thumb he gave her
back the others.

"One is enough," he told her. "I'll give it to Mazie."

"Ah, yes, to Mazie, your so beautiful, so wonderful friend," she
murmured. Then, after a moment, "As for me, I go back to my own people.
I shall spend my life and my fortune helping those very much to be
pitied ones who have lost all in that so terrible Russia."

As Johnny left that room, he thought he was going to have that diamond
set in a ring and present it to Mazie the very next day. But he was not.
That interview with one of Chicago's leading bankers at five o'clock was
destined to change the course of his whole life; for though the Big Five
had never decided to act in unison with Hanada in his wild dream of a
Kamchatkan Republic--the plan which had brought his arrest as a
conspirator--they did propose to work those Kamchatkan gold mines on an
old concession, given them by the former Czar, and they did propose that
Johnny take charge of the expedition.

THE END

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