The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-27
A TALE OF MYSTERY
AND ADVENTURE

pounds. The legal and other charges
viii not exceed one hundred and fifty
pounds. We trust ETC."
Philip Immediately wrote:
II am greatly obliged by your promp-
titude in the matter of Johnson's News
and the shop. 1 inclose check here
with for two thousand eight hundred
| pounds. The purchase of the other
houses can stand over for few days"
| This he dispatched by special mes
senger. and in a few minutes he held
formal receipt.
| A telegram came for him. 1t was
| from Mr. Abingdon.
"Can see you after six at my house."
| Then Philip enjoyed his first real
breathing space during hours of day.
light He went by train to the ceme-
terry In which his mother was buried,
carrying with him a beautiful wreath.
| 1t was a remarkable fact that this
was the first visit he had paid to her
grave. During the days of misery and
partial madness which followed her
death he never lost the delusion that
her spirit abided with him in the poor
| dwelling they called home"
Hence, the narrow resting place be-
meath the green turf In no way ap-
pealed to him. But now, that a sue
/ cession of extraordinary external events
| had restored the balance of his mind
he realized that she was really dead
and buried: that what he revered as
her spirit was in truth a fragrant
memory; that he would be nearest to
her mortal remains when standing in
the remote corner OF the burial ground
allotted to the poorest of the poor
those removed by one degree from pau
| perdom and parish grave.
1t happened, by mere chance that
since Mrs. Anson's funeral no one had
been inferred on one side of the small
space purchased for her. There were
three vacant plots here. and a sur
prised official told Philip there would
be no difficulty in acquiring these for
the purpose of erecting a suitable mon
ument.
The boy filled IN the necessary forms
there and then. 1t was some consola-
ton to know that he could perpetu-
ate her memory in this way though
he had formulated another project
which should keep her name revered
through the ages.
] On the site of Johnson's News should
arise the Mary Arson Home for Desti-
tute Boys. He would build a place
| where those who We're willing to work
and learn would be given chance. and
not driven, starving and desperate to
pick up an existence in the gutter.
He was too young to devise all the
details of such a splendid institution,
but he had got the idea and would pos
sess the money. He would leave the
practical part of the undertaking to
older heads.
| The one essential feature was that
| generations yet unborn should learn to
love and honor the name of Mary An
son. Provided that were achieved, he
knew the work would be successful.
Soon after leaving the cemetery he
came face to face with Bradley, the
policeman, who was in plain clothes.
and walking with a lady, obviously Mrs.
Bradley, judging by the matronly man.
ner in which she wheeled a perambula-
tor containing chubby infant.
''Well. I'm blowedr cried the police
man, who would have thought of meet
ing you! I looked in at the news last
night. but you had gone. Some one is
looking after you pretty well. eh?"
He cast a patrenizing eye over Phil
ip's garments, which We're, of course,
considerably smarter in appearance
than those in which the constable had
seen him on Thursday evening
Yes" said Philip. II am in good
hands now
They haven't given you a watch p"
This anxiously.
mo. 1 am watchless."
That's right. You'll have one soon
The inspector has your address. By
the way. he wants to know your Chris
| tian name"
Philip"
Thanks. I won't forget"
Philip raised his hat and took the
:. quickest route westward. He did not
count on being recognized so easily.
| Mr.. Abingdon received him with some
degree of reserve. The magistrate could
not understand the receipt of a letter
bearing the address of the Pail Mall
hotel, place where he had been en-
tertained at dinner occasionally by one
of his wealthy friends. but which was
far removed from the limit imposed on
| the pocket of any man whose resources
depended on the exercise of an ordinary
profession.
But Philip still figured In his mind
as ragged urchin. Not even the skill
ed police magistrate could picture him
as the actual owner of millions of
pounds worth of portable property
Hence, the boys appearance now told
in his favor. Cursory impressions soon
yielded to positive bewilderment when
Philip began to relate his story faith
fully from beginning to end, neither ex-
aggerating nor suppressing any salient
detail save the actual locality where his
| astounding adventures found their CEN
ter and genesis.
Mr.. Abingdon did not doubt for one
moment that the boy was telling the
| truth. The romance of his narrative
was far beyond fiction.
Philip himself grew enthusiastic as
he, went on. His brown eyes blazed
again with the memory of his wrath
| and shame at the arrest. He told the
magistrate exactly how the proceedings
in court had affected him, and gave a
vivid picture Of his bargaining with
Isaacstein, the packing of the diamonds,
the fight between the policeman and a
burglar. his interviews with all sorts
and conditions of men. and the ruses
he had adopted to preserve his secret
| At last he came to the transaction
which secured for him the ownership
of the news itself. He read copies of
his letters TO the solicitors. and their
replies, and then. of course. the mag
istrate knew where the meteor had
| fallen
THAT is a very clever move on your
part" he said. smiling. at invests you
with ali the rights and usages of that
particular piece of earth, and effectu-
ally stops any one from disputing your
possession of the meteor. How did you
come TO think of it?"
"You put the idea into my mind, sir,