The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-18
The King of Diamonds

Gle, reQ-IdceQ Win eXSrIlOns peudleu
manfully up the hill, and through the
gate.
Il hope he's here" thought he It's
a long way to COON for nothin'."
Around his waise was a strap with a
pouch bearing the kings monogram.
He ran UP to the door and gave a cOu-
pie Of thunderous knocks the privil-
eyed rat-tat of a telegraph messenger,
There was a long delay. Then a
heavy step approached, and a man
opened the door, a big, heavy-faced
man, with eyes that stared dreadfully,
and a nose damaged in ife's transit.
Phillip Arson. Esquire" said the
boy, briskly, producing a buff-coiOred
envelope.
The man seemed to swallow some
thing.
Yes: he's here. Is that Dor him ,"
Yes, sir. Any reply?"
The man took the telegram, closed
the door. and the boy heard his re-
treating footsteps. After some minutes
he returned.
IT'S too late TO reply tonight, isn't
it?" he inquired.
Yes, sir. 1t coom'd after hours. but
they'd paid L porterage il LunnOn. so
t pOstmistress said ye'd mebbe like TO
hev it at ance. I've ridden all L way
frae Scarsdale."
Late that evening, when the pro-
tracted cleaning of the north was fast
yielding to the shadows of a cloudy
night the big man from the Grange
House drove into Scarsdale. He pulled
up at the Fox and Hounds public
house. He wanted Mr.. Green.
AnsOn's valet came.
Your master says you are to bring
his portmanteau to the Grange House
tonight. He intends remaining there.
You must get the landlord to sit up
until you return. 1t will take you an
hour and a half to drive both ways"
Green was ready in five minuteI- He
learned that a stable boy must crouch
at their feet to bring the dogcart back.
II was the property of the Fox and
Hounds proprietor.
Very unwillingly the horse swung off
again toward the moor. There was lit
tie conversation. The driver was tact
turn, the Londoner somewhat scared
by the dark loneliness.
At the Grange House they were met
by Philip Arson. He stood in the open
doorway. He held a handkerchief TO
his lips and spoke in a husky voice, the
voice of one under the stress of great
agitation;
THAT you. Green? Just give my bag
to the driver and return to the village.
Here is a five-pound note, Pay your
bill and go back to London by the first
train tomorrow. I stop here some few
days"
The astonished servant took the note
Before he could reply, his master
turned. crossed a room feebly lighted
by a dull lamp, and passed through a
curtained doorway.
Green was staring perpleXedly at the
house, the kitchen. his ill-favored COM
panion carrying Philips pOrtmanteau
within, when he heard his master 5
voice again, and saw him standing be-
tween the partly drawn curtains. with
his face quite visible in the dim rays
of the lamp.
"Green?"
Yes, sir"
Here are my keys. Unlock the bag
and take the keys with you. You re-
member the small portmanteau in my
safe at Park Lane?"
Yes, sir"
open the safe. get that bag. and
send it to me tomorrow night by train
to the Station Hotel York
Tomorrow night. sir?"
Yes"
The keys We're thrown with a rattle
onto a broad kitchen table. Evidently
Mr. Arson would not brook questions
as to his movements. though his few
words sounded contradictory. Green
got down, unfastened the pOrtmanteau
and went back to the dOgcart.
They're queer folk l. L grange. -
said the stable boy. as they drove
away. There's a barrow-night and a
lady as nobody ever sees. an a doch-
tor. an a man-him as KEN for We"
Surely they are we'll known here?'
Not a bit of it. On'y bin here about
a week. T. doctor chaps very chirpy,
but yOn luther is a rum UNI
Green was certainly puzzled very
greatly by the unexpected develop
ments of the last few minutes but he
was discreet and well trained.
He liked his young master, and
would do anything to serve his inter-
ests. Moreover. the ways of million
aires were not the ways of other men.
All he could do was to hear and obey.
He slept none the less soundly be-
cause his master chose voluntarily to
bury himself. even for a little while, in
such a weirdly tumbledown, old man.
sion as the Grange House.