The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-06

contempt in voice and manner. He
giared at Philip in silent wrath for an
instant.
The boy smiled. He took from his
pocket the paper of diamonds and be-
gan to count them. The action said
plainly:
You know you cannot send me
away. IL I go to your trade rivals
you will lose a magnificent opportunity.
You are in my hands. No matter how
rude ! am to you. you must put up
with it,
Nevertheless, the Jew made IN effort
to preserve his lettering dignity.
DO you think" he said, that you
are behaving properly in treating a
man of my position in such a way in
his own office"
In his own office-that was the sting
of IT.
The head Of the firm of Isaacstein &
Co., OF London, Amsterdam and Kim
berley, to be bearded in such fashion in
his own particular shrine, Why, the
thing was monstrous,
Philip looked him squarely in the
eyes.
Mr.. Isaacstein," he said. calmly,
have you forgotten that you caused
me to De arrested as thief.
and dragged, handcuffed. through the
open streets by a policeman? 1 have
spent five days in jail because OF you.
At the moment when / was praising
your honesty you were conveying secret
signals to your clerks in the belief
that I was something worse than pick
Iocket Was your treatment of me
so free from blame at our first meet
ing as TO serve as a model at the sec
cnd?"
The chair was creaking now contin-
| uously: the Jew swung from side to
side during this lecture. He strove
hard to restrain himself. but the few
erish excitement of Saturday returned
with greater intensity than ever. He
| jumped up. and Philip imagined for a
second that robbery with violence was
| imminent
"Confound il all. boy" yelled the
| merchant, what was l to do when a
ragged loafer like you came in and
showed me diamond worth a thou
sand pounds and told me he had doz-
ems, hundreds. more like II? Did you
expect me to risk standing in the dock
| by your side? Who could have given
fairer evidence i'm your behalf than ]
| Old? Who proved that you could not
| have stolen the stones? Whom have
you to thank for being at liberty now.
| but the expert who swore that no such
| diamonds had been seen before in this
world?"
Philip waited until the mans pas
! sion had exhausted itself. Then he
| went on coolly:
| THAT is your point of view. 1 sup
pose. Mine is that you could have sat =
| isfied yourself concerning all those
points without sending me to prison.
However. this discussion is beside the
present question. Will you buy my
diamonds"
Isaacstein recovered his seat He
wiped his face vigorously. but the trad
ing instinct conquered his fury.
| Yes" he snapped. How much do
you want for them?"
II notice that their value steadily
increases. The first time you saw this
| diamond"-and he held up the stone
| originally exhibited 10 the Jew-'you
said it was worth six or seven hundred
pounds. Today you name a thousand.
However. I will take your own valua-
ton for this unimportant collection, and
accept fifty thousand pounds
"Oh. you WILL Will you, And how
VIII you have IL. in notes or gold?"
He could not help this display of
cheap sarcasm. The situation was los
ing its annoyance; the hurnor of it was
beginning to dawn on him. When his
glance rested more critically on Philip.
the bows age. the poverty Of his cir
cumstances. the whole fantastic incon-
gruity of the affair, forced his recog-
| milton.
| Not unprepared for such retort.
Philip gathere the stones together, and
| twisted the ends of the paper. Evil
IDENTIFY the parcel was going back into
| his pocket. He glanced at a clock, too.
which licked solennly over the office
door.
| Here. what are you doing7" cried
Isaacstein.
Going to some one who will deal
with me in a reasonable manner. It
| is not very late yet. l suppose there
are plenty of firms like yours I'm Hat