Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-03

ana plunueTeQ, Out L nave De6n the means
Of sending innocent people to prison
You had better be the means of get
ting them out again as soon as possible
said Logotheti. You know what to do
here in England far better than l. In
my country stroke of the pen would
free Baraka-and perhaps another would
exile YOU to Bagdad. Mr. Pinney."
He spoke lightly, to cheer the old man;
but Pinney shook his head.
This is no testing matter, SIR he
said II feel deeply humiliated.' He
really did, and it was evidently sort of
relief to him to repeat the words.
Il suppose said Logotheti. that we
shall have to rake some kind of sworn
deposition, or whatever you call it. to-
gether, and we will go and do It at once,
if you please Lock up the ruby in the
safe again, Mr.. Pinney, and we will start
directly. | shall not 60 back to my lodg-
ings till we have done everything we can
possibly do tonight. You must also
make an effort to trace those two young
men who stole the ruby said Logothetl.
Il most certainly will, replied the
ieweler and if it is not found we shall
make it good to YOU, sir, whatever price
YOU set upon it. l am deeply humll1-
ated; but nobody shall say that Pinney
& Son do not make good any loss their
customers sustain through them.
Don't worry about that, Mr.. Pinney,
said Logotheti, who saw how much dis
tressed the old ieweler really was.
So they went out and hailed hanson,
and drove away.
TT would be tiresome to give a detailed
1 account of what they did. Pinney had
not been one of the principal jewelers. In
London for forty years without having
been sometimes in need OF the law; and
occasionally also the law had been In
need of him as an expert IN very grave
cases. some of which required the utmost
secrecy as we'll as the greatest possible
tact. He knew his way about places
where Logotheti had never been, and
lost no time.
Moreover, as the fact that -Baraka and
Spiro were really innocent has been kept
in view, the manner IN which they were
proved so is of little importance, nor the
circumstances of their being let out of
Holloway jail with many apologies on
the part of the law for having placed
faith in what Pinney had testified to
the best of his belief" instead of accept
ing a fairy story which a Tartar girl;
caught going about in mems Clothes told
through the broken English of a STEAMBOAT
Interpreter. The law was extremely sorry,
and. being good English law, it did not
make a fuss about owning that 1t had
been mistaken, though it reprimanded
Pinney openly for his haste and he con-
tinued to feel deeply Inundated 1t
was also quite ready to help him to find
the real thieves, though that looked
rather difficult.
For law and order. in their private
study, with no one looking on, had felt
that there was something very odd about
the case. 1t was strange, for instance,
that the committed person should have
a large bank account in Paris in his, or
her, own name, and should have made no
attempt to conceal the latter when ar
rested 1t was queer that Barak
should be known to number OF homer
able Paris jewelers. as having sold them
rubies of excellent quality; but that
there should never have been the least
suspicion that he, or she, took any that
belonged to other people 1t was still
more extraordinary that Barak" should
have offered an enormous ruby, of which
the description correspondent remarkably
we'll with the one that had appeared in
evidence at the police court, to two
French dealers in precious stones, who
had not bought it, but were bearing it in
mind for DOSSible customers and were