The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-27

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II was the magistrates turn 10 loo
slightly confused There was som
asperity IN his reply.
Il am not eadeavOrIng TO trip yO1
but rather TO help you TO free yOuFsel
from a difficult position However. d
understand that you refuse to answe
my questionsT'
Il do The Young voice ran;
through the building with amaZin:
nerceness.
Mr.. Abingdon bent over the big boo
In front OF him and scrubbed some
thing.
demanded for a week" he NUT
tered.
Downstairs" growIed the eOurt
jailer, and Philip disappeared frc;r
sight The magistrate was left gain
at the packet OF diamonds. and he CO
ed Isaacstein. the clerk Of the court
and two police inspectors into his pri-
vate once for a consultation.
Meanwhile London was placartlc'l
with Philips adventures that Saturday
evening Contents bills howled In their
blacklist and biggest type. news vend-
ers bawled themselves hoarse over thi;
latest sensation, journalistic ferrets
combined theory and imagination In
the effort to spin out more copy"
Scotland Yard set its keenest detec-
tives at work to reveal the secret Of
Philips identity, while Isaacstein. ACT
Ing on the magistrates instruction.
wrote to every possible source of in
formation In the effort to obtain some
clew as to recent meteOric showers
No one thought of connecting the
great storm with the diamond mys-
terry" Meteors usually fall from a
clear sky and are In no way affected
by atmospheric disturbances. their
normal habitat being far beyond the
influence Of the earth's envelope Of air.
And so the hunt for the meteor
commenced and was kept up with zeet
for many days Have you found IT,
became the stock question of the hui
morist and might be addressed with
impunity to any stranger. particularly
II the stranger were a nice looking girl
No one answered "WhatT' because Of
the weird replies that were forthcom-
Ing
The police failed utterly in their ef-
forts to discover Philips identity or
residence Jchnson's News. Mile End
road, might as well be in Timbuktr
for all the relation 1t bore to Ludgate
Hill or Hatton Garden. An East Enc
policeman might have recognized Phil
lp had he seen him. but the ofIlcial de
scription Of his clothing and personal
appearance appiIed 10 thousands or
hobbledehoys In every district in Lon
don.
the metropolis alone possessed the
knowledge that would have led the in
quirers along the right track. The doctor
who attended Mrs. Arson In her last
illness, had he read the newspaper
comment on the boys speech and man
nerisms, might have seen the coinci-
dence supplied by the Christian name
and thus been led to make some fur
ther investigation. But his hands were
full Of trouble of his own account A |
dispenser mixed prescription wrong |
ly and dosed q patient with half an
ounce Of arsenic instead OF half an |
ounce Of cream of tartar. The sukse- I
Quent inquest gave the doctor enough
10 do. and the first paper he had lei
Sure to peruse contained a bare refer
ence to the diamond mystery" as re
Vealing no further developments. He
passed the paragraph unread.
The remaining uncertain element
.entered In old OBrien, the pensioner.
Now it CHANGED that the treasury had
discovered that by a clerical mistake
n warrant the old man had been
lrawtng twopence a day in excess of
his rightful pension for thirty-three
years. Some humorist In whitehall
hereupon sent him a demand for f1O3
md Is shillings, and the member of
he Whitechapel division was com
,elled to adopt stern tactics In the
ouse before the matter was adjusted.
nd O'Brien was allowed to receive
he reduced quarterly stipend then
ne. During that awful crisis the poor
Id fellow hardly ate or slept Even
Vhen It had ended the notion remain
firmly fixed In his mind that the
government had robbed
Inn of hundred gowlden sovereigns
n more"
As for newspapers, the only item he =
Fad during many days was the ques- ,
on addressed by his ''mimber' TO the a
hancellor of the exchequer and the g
rief reply thereto, both of which were r
xed beforehand by mutual arrange '
Ient n
In one instance the name given and
repudiated by the boy did n
tract some attention. On the Mon O
~ following the remand a lady sat G.
breakfast In a select West End no n
] and languidly perused the record of G.
Ie case until her eye caught the a.
ords philip Morland." Then her air b
delicate hauteur vanished, and she n
It her breakfast untouched until. n
It'll hawklike curving of neck and b.
,rvous clutching Of hands, she had ci
ad every line Of the police court ro- hi
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