Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-11-25
y The King of Diamonds. ~
A TALE OF MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE.
By
CHAPTER XL-lContinued. J
! TALE OF MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE
BY LOUIS TRACY

I nrOLllSeu ny =.
.;tber until / am 81, and will keep my
think would like some cafe au
lait," - .o. ,.;I ho
ma in ten minutes. By the time you
6nished, l viii have people here
NV tyyn or three establishments who
ng m meet all your requirements in the
, g-, al clothes and the rest"
sHaP1 hours talk and the payment of
a. an account worked wonders. Be
cue many days had passed, Philip was
lo.r III. provided with saiment. His pres
a a.o n the hotel, too, attracted no com
en- whatever. People who saw him
n .on1inp or going, instantly assumed that
~ was STAYING with his people, while the
~ took care that gossip among the
.n,nIoyes was promptly stopped.
r for the ragged youth with the dia
nonds he was forgotten, apparently.
The newspapers dropped him, believing,
;nJaed that Isaacstein had worked some
;n@enious advertising dodge on his own
aeeount. and Messrs. Sharpe & Smith
~ayor dreamed of looking for the lost
pb;lin Arson, the derelict from John
CONS News. in the Pail Mall hotel, the
most luxurious and expensive establish
ment in London,
That afternoon, Philip visited the Safe
Deposit company. He had little diff
cnItv. of course, in securing a small
strong room. He encountered the wonted
surprise at his youth, but the excellent
argument of banking account and the
nayment of years rent in advance soon
cleared the air.
He transferred four of his portmaH-
.tesux to this secure environment-th
fifth was sent to his hotel. When the
light failed, he drove to the East End,
and made a round of pawnbrokers' shops.
Although some of the tickets were time
expired, he recovered nearly all his
mothers belongings, excepting her watch.
The odd coincidence recalled the inspec
tors implied promise that he should re-
ceiye one as recognition of his gal
lantry,
How remote, how far removed from
each other. the main events in his life
seemed to be at this eventful epoch. As
he went westward in a hanson, he could
hardly bring himself to believe that bare
" twenty -four hours had elapsed since
he travelled to the Mile End road in com
pany with Mrs. Wrigley.
And the curious thing was that he felt
in no sense awed by the possession of
thousands of pounds and the tenancy of
palatial chambers in a great hotel. His
career had been too checkered, its recent
developments too stupendous, to cause
him any undue emotion. Existence. for
the hour, was a species of we'll ordered
Dream in which imagination was I'M
uammeled save by the need to exercise
his wits in order to keep the phantasy
Fithin the bounds, not of his own brain,
but Of other mems
At the hotel he found the French valet
setting forth shirt The man explained
that he required a spare set of studs and
links
This reminded Philip that there was
still good deal of shopping to be done.
he was about to leave the room for the
purpose, when the valet said
Another portmanteau has arrived for
monsieur viii you be pleased to unlock
it,"
NO" said Philip. It must remain I'M
touched" He smiled at the thought of
the sensation his tatteEed rags and worn
boots would make in that place. Yet,
Just a week ago, he passed through the
street outside, bound in the pitiless rain
ior Johnson's News, and bent on suicide
he walked into Regent street and
made number of purchases, not forget
ing some books. A double silver mount
ed photograph stand caught his eye 1t
no fxxrA mot H.
sessed OF his father and mother. so he
bought it. He also acquired a dispatch
ooX IN which he could store his valuables
0oth lewelry and documents. for he had
qalte number of receipts, letters and
otner things to safeguard now, and he
uld not wish servants prying eyes to
examine everything belonging to him.
"hen alone in his room, he secured the
aioum and locked that special portman-
yeau again, after slowing therein the let
teIs found beneath Mrs. Anson's pillow.
soon bis mothers dear face smiled at him
III 1-ohi beautiful border of filigree silver
inc slght was pleasant to him, soothing
10 ms tull mind. In her eyes was "a mes
sase Of faith, of trust, of absolute con
hasnce IN the future.
IT. was strange that he thought so lit
ne OF his father at this time, but the
rum was that his childhood was passed
N much in his mohers company. and
.nsy were so inseparable during the last
WV Years, that memories of his father
We're shadowy.
al l'f the physiognomist would have seen
. ..,1l The boy owed great deal of his
. length Of character and well knit frame
- nc handsome, stalwart man whose
Aare he bore.
IaLlP loved his mother on the com
5 t'..@1ihg principle that persons of OPP
,e natures often have an overpower-
tI7 aIhmty for each other. He resem-
sl her neither in features nor in the
subtle traits of character.
Ter a dinner the excellence of which
Va va IN nowise diminished by lack of ap
t-sg'l1'on on his part, he undertook a pil
sc OF curiosity to which he had
s, ,s,ilo1Sly determined to devote the
w.. he wondered increasingly to whom he
s ,,;e indebted for the good meals he had
81 IN prison. Now he would en-