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disconnected the manager greatly. I'm
doubleday the boy was a puzzle. New
er had this experienced man of the
world met any one more self pos
sessed, more direct and yet with 1t all.
exceedingly polite.
II take 1t that you want the best?'
he inquired pleasantly.
eyes"
"Are you lunching In the hotel?"
81 would like something sent here, II
you please, and there again your ad-
vice will be most gratefully accepted"
The manager felt that a generation
was growing up of which he knew
nothing, but he simply answered.:
81 will see to 1t. Do you--er-take
wine?"
Philip laughed that pleasant whole
Iouled laugh of his which instantly Sc
cured him friends.
"Not yet, monsieur
"Foret is my name"
"Well, NJ. Foret, am far too young
rs yet for either wine or tobacco.
promised my mother l would touch
neither until / am twenty-one, and 1
will keep my word. think would
like some cafe au lait."
II understand. Your dejeuner will
be sent up in ten minutes. BY the
time you have finished / will have
people here from two or three estab-
lishments who will meet all your re-
qulrements in the shape of clothes and
the rest"
An hours talk and the payment Of
checks on account worked wonders.
Before many days had passed Philip
was amply provided with raiment. His
presence In the hotel, too. attracted
no comment whatever. People who
saw him coming or going instantly as
sumed that he was staying with his
people, while the manager took care
that gossip among the employees was
promptly stopped.
AS for the ragged youth with the
diamonds, he was forgotten apparent
~. The newspapers dropped him, be-
lieving, indeed, that Isaacstein had
worked some ingenious advertising
dodge on his own account, and Messrs.
Sharpe & Smith never dreamed OF
looking for the lost Philip Arson, the
derelict from Johnson's News, In the
Pail Mall hotel, the most luxurious and
expensive establishment in London.
That afternoon Philip visited the
Safe Deposit company. He had little
difficulty, of course, in securing q
small strong room. He encountered
the wonted surprise at his youth, but
the excellent argument of a banking
account and the payment of years
rent in advance soon cleared the air.
He transferred four of his portman-
teaus to this secure environment. The
fifth was sent to his hotel. When the
light failed he drove to the East End
and made round of pawnbrokers'
shops. Although some of the tickets
were time expired, he recovered near
ly all his mothers belongings except
ing her watch.
The odd coincidence recalled the in
spector's implied promise that he
should receive one as recognition Of
his gallantry.
How remote, how far removed from
each other, the main events in his life
seemed to be at this eventful epochi
As he went westward in a hanson he
could hardly bring himself to believe
that barely twenty-four hours had
elapsed since he travelled to the Mile
End road in company with Mrs. Wrig-
ley.
And the curious thing was that he
felt in no sense awed by the possession
of thousands of pounds and the ten
ancy of nslatial chambers in a great
hotel. His career had been too check
cred, its recent developments too stu
pendous, to cause him any undue emo
ton. Existence for the hour was q
species of well ordered dream In which
Imagination was untrammeled save by
the need to exercise his wits in order
to keep the phantasy within 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 a 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. Will you be pleased to
unlock it?"
mo-" said Philip "It must remain
untouched" He smiled at the thought
of the sensation his tattered rags and
worn boots would make in that place.
Yet Just week ago he passed through
the street outside bound In the pitiless
rain for Johnson's News and bent on
suicide.
He walked into Regent street and
made q number of purchases, not for
getting some books. A double silver
mounted photograph stand caught his
eye. 1t would hold the two best pic
lures he possessed Of his father and
mother, so he bought it. He also ac-
qured dispatch box in which he
could store his valuables, both jewelry
and documents, for he had quite a
number Of receipts, letters and other
things to safeguard now, and he did
not wish servants prying eyes to ex-
anime everything belonging to him.
When alone in his room he secured
the album and locked that special port.
manteau again, after slowing therein