Manning Clark

Clark had few birds in his garden, a couple of magpies that were trained especially to steal red shining jewellery pieces. He was training them every day by putting on a white robe few drops of Priscilla’s blood. The magpies in spite of the hard training they received always got back with something wrong.

Once they took back a piece of jewellery and the hand it belonged to. After this incident, Clark realised that something drastic had to be done and so he hired the most famous Schmuck thief in town. Clark loved in a very sick way what his bird were doing for him. He had always some quirky jewellery presents for the ladies when invited for teas and dinners. He was never seen as a thief or related but more like a connoisseur. His taste in jewellery was something quite spectacular and he was always well informed on the most up to date fashions. So much so, in fact that he was invited to write a monthly article in the famous jewellery magazine: Jealous of our Jewellery? The editor of the magazine was madly in love with Clark and soon began to follow him everywhere that he went. She became so obsessed that she started to design all of her jewellery in the theme of Clark’s face. Clark rejected her as by this time he was already married and also had his mistress, Priscilla.  After Clark was named a red jewellery piece made by a famous Australian artist in 1945.