The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-30
BY LOUIS TRACY,
Author of 1.-THE Wings of the Morning" "The
Pillar OF Light" etc.
Copyright. 1904. by Edward J. Clode.
ODE King Of Diamonds

Meanwhile London was placarded
with Philips adventures that Saturday
evening. Contents bills hoWled in their
blacklist and biggest type, newsven-
ders bawled themselves hoarse over this
latest sensation, journalistic ferrets
combined theory and ina gination i'm the
effort to spin out more copy" Scotland
Yard set its keenest detectives at work
to reveal the secret of Philips identity.
while Isaacstein, acting on the magis-
trate's instructions. wrote TO every pos
sible source of information in the effort
to obtain some clew as to recent me
teoric 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 at
mospheric 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 Zest
for many days. Have you found il -
became the stock question of the hui
morist, and might be addressed with
impunity, particularly if the stranger
We're nice-looking girl. No one an
swered 'What?" because of the weird
replies that were forthcoming.
The police failed utterly in their eff
forts to discover Philips identity or res
idence. Johnson's News. Mile End
Road, might as we'll be in Timbuctoo
for all the relation it bore to Ludgate
Hill or Hatton Garden. An East End
policeman might have recognized Phil
ip had he seen him, but the official de-
scription of his clothing and personal
appearance applied to thousands of hob
bledehoys in every district of London.
Two persons among six millions of
the metropolis alone possessed the
knowledge that would have led the in
quirers along the right track. The doc
tor who attended Mrs. Arson in her last
illness, had he read the newspaper COM
ments on the boys speech and mnn-
rerisms. might have seen the obedience
supplied by the Christian name, and
thus been led TO make some further in
vestigation. But his hands were full of
trouble on his own account. "a dis
penser mixed a prescription wrongly.
and dosed a patient with half an ounce
of arsenic instead of half an ounce of
cream of tartar. The subsequent in
quest gave the doctor enough to do, an-s
the first paper he had leisure TO peruse
contained a bare reference to the ''Dia-
mOnd Mystery as revealing no further
developments. He passed the para.
graph unread.
tered in old O'Brien, the pensioner
Now it CHANGED that the treasury had
discovered that by a clerical mistake in
warrant. the old man had been draw
ing twopence a day in excess of his
rightful pension for thirty-three years.
Some humoriSt in Whitehall thereupon
sent him a demand for one hundred and
three pounds and fifteen shillingS and
the member of the Whitechapel DiVi-
sion was compelled to adopt stern tao
tics in the house before the matter was
adjusted, and O'Brien was allowed to
receive the reduced quarterly stipend
then due. During that awful crisis the
poor. old fellow hardly ate or slept.
Even when it had ended, the notion re
manned firmly in his mind that the
"murdherin' government had robbed
him of hundred gowlden sovereigns,
~ more"
As for newspapers, the only item he
read during many days was the ques-
ton addressed by his ''mimber'' to the
chancellor of the EXchequer and the
brief reply thereto, both of which We're
fixed beforehand by mutual arrange
ment.
In one instance the name given and
afterward repudiated by the boy did at
tract some attention. On the Monday
following the remand, a lady sat at
breakfast in a select West End hotel,
and languidly perused the record of the
case until her eye caught the words
Philip MoTiand." Then her air of del
icate hauteur vanished, and she left her