Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-05-24

FROM THE DIARY OF A LAWYER AND THE
NOTE BOOK OF A REPORTER.
By BARCLAY NORTH.

lCopywrighted 1889, by o. NJ. Dunham. Pub
lisbed by special arrangement through the
American Press Association.
When they were once on their way
Tom said
"Pm not sure that the best way is not
to tell the police. want to discuss it.
I fear it is not. The result Of giving the
matter to the police would be that gen.
eral alarm would be given and the bird
take fight. l am positive we are fol
lowed. If we were to 60 to the police,
in ten minutes the party would know OF
it. If, on the contrary, we go quietly
to your office, they will be thrown of
and suppose that we have not yet walked
up to the affair To lull their suspicious
is to make a great gain. Believe me,
this is the surer way. Be guided by me,
thus far at all events"
"Well. suppose | submit, what them
What is gained? Time will have been
lost-precious time"
81 have gained something when l have
got you to a point that you will argue
with me-"
"What do you mean?"
"That your reason Is restored-we
want cool thought on this subject"
Thus Tom. who was fighting for time.
succeeded in gaining it. The truth was,
the reporter was not altogether disin-
genuous or disinterested in the policy he
was pursuing He quickly realized that
any application to the police for assist
ance must result in telling to the author
tiles everything they knew. Convinced
as he was that the same hand that
struck down the brother had seized the
sister, he felt that the discovery of the
girl would lead straightway to the dis
covery of the murderer.
To give this matter into the hands of
the police would be 20 give them the
means to unravei the crime or Union
square, and they, not he, would have the
credit of the detection and arrest.
He was in momentary fear that Hol-
brook would detect his purpose, and he
was at his wits end to furnish argument
in favor of the position he had taken
His great trouble was that he could not
suggest to himself. let alone Holbrook, a
feasible plan Of procedure if the matter
were not given to the police, nor indeed
even invent plausible one.
Time was the great desideratum, and
this, by all the ingenuity he could exer-
else, he endeavored to gain. His task
was made not an easy one by the impa-
tience of Holbrook.
While thus arguing, talking, declaim-
ing and lecturing with Holbrook, Tom
caught a glimpse of the Shadow stand
ing upon the curbstone, and perceived
that the Shadow had seen him.
He gave him hasty signal to follow,
and was pleased to observe that it was
recognized.
This incident afforded Tom another
pretext, and thus, by dint of one device
and another, he succeeded in getting
Holbrook to his office.
They both entered together. AS they
did so clerk said:
There is Mr. Holbrook."
Upon this a very dirty, very ragged
and a very small boy came up to Hol-
brook and asked:
"Be you Mr.. Holebook?"
yes" replied the lawyer. I'm Mr..
Holbrook"
Den dis here's for you" handing a
dirty slip of paper nearly rolled into a
ball
Before either Tom or Holbrook could
realize what had taken place the boy
had shot through the half open door and
scampered off.
1t was with difficulty that Holbrook
could decipher it, for it was written
with lead pencil upon the margin of a
newspaper.
When he did he uttered cry of joy.