The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-15

Certainly. Tomorrow is a half holi-
day, and. anyhow, I shall be there"
the tutor replied. And then, coming
closer, he whispered, Did you get your
inspiration from what Allanton Incl
dentaliy remarked"
What remark, sir7" 1 asked in my
most innocent manner.
That for the past week Harry Law
son hadn't seemed like the same boy"
Discretion forbade words; but.
though the worthy master was the en-
ployer of Shone and ostensibly in the
opposite camp from mine, he was so
obviously sympathetic to my point OF
view that l could not resist giving him
d token. For the first, and probably for
the last time in my life, I enjoyed the
privilege of winking. unrebuked, at an
Eton master.
At the appointed time next day was
seated in the library of the Park lane
mansion with the owner thereof, who,
after half an hours talk. looked neither
tired nor henpecked. On the floor be-
tween us lay some fragments OF pink
paper at which he kept glancing re-
| gretfully in the intervals Of consulting
| the clock on the mantelpiece.
To us was admitted. by the blanSi
butler, Mr. Pryme, fully charged with
| nervous curiosity as to the nature OF
| ~ ended by warmly shaking his hand.
Mr.. Lawson would have plunged into
! explanations had not Mr. Radford
-Shone followed hot on the heels OF
Harry's tutor. The great investigator
wore an amused smile.
Il trust I am not too late for a front
seat at the play which I presume re
owe to Inspector Timpany?" he said,
goggling his eyes.
Not a bit Of it, and you're not IN
front-you're on the stage" cried the
little millionaire. skipping round to
find him chair. We're all on the
stage, but it would be Hamlet minus
Hamlet without you. Mr.. Radford
Shone."
Shone, though puzzled, accepted the
remark as a compliment and sat down
with smirk- 1 think that the chief
feeling in his mind was one of regret
that the wealthy financier was not his
client instead of the more moderately
lowered Eton master. Possibly it was
induced by the litter of pink paper on
the floor, at which he kept shooting
furtiye glanCes, and which were oh
viOusly the fragments Of g torn up
check
Shall I tell them. or will you. in
spectOr, what a debt Of gratitude We
owe to Mr.. ShOne for unwittingly help
the blackguard nor the lying little
fool he labored to make him out?" said
Mr.. Lawson.
"Sir!" ShOne protested, tapping his
chest. 'T never do anything, least OF
all help a policeman, unwittingly As
to your son not being what the frrefu-
table testimony I collected among his
school fellows shOws-nOblemen, sir
some of them with the stamp of truth
-
playing on your paternal fondness if
he has induced you to believe that"
THE noble school fellows with the
stamp of truth, my dear Mr.. Shone.
having been misled themselves. misled
YOU" Mr.. Lawson laughed. But there.
you tell him. Timpany. The fellow
makes me want to giggle, and I should
be incoherent."
This is it, then, gentlemen" I be-
gan. Harry Lawson's story Of having
been carried off and shut up in South
London is true i'm substance and i'm
fact. the motive of his abductors being
to introduce a substitute into Mr.
Pryme's house, who shOuA1 accom-
pany Lord AliantOn to Chievely castle
and assist in a well-planned scheme for
stealing the Sunderland family jew
els
Good gracious The mild expletive
escaped Mr.. Pryme
Yes. it sounds Incredible" I pro-
ceeded, enjoying the dismay that was
beginning to spread over ShOnes face.
Though the idea Of a substitute oc-
| CURED to me from the first. 1 dis
missed it as too far fetched till you,
Mr.. Pryme, took me a step farther in
| the right direction by mentioning that
Mr.. Lawson had changed his name
from Levisohn- That is where we Of
| the regular force score over irregpon-
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