The San Francisco call., 1913-11-12
Continued from Yesterday

Continued from Yesterday
No one thought of connecting the
great storm with the Diamond
Mystery" Meteors usually fall from
a clear sky and are in no way affected
by atmospheric disturbances. their
normal habitat being far beyond the
influence of the earths envelope of
air.
And so the hunt for the meteor"
commenced, and was kept up with
zest for many days. Have you found
it?" became the stock question of the
humorist, and might be addressed
with impunity to any stranger, par
ticularly If the stranger were a nice
looking girl. No one answered
"What?'' because of the weird replies
that were forthcoming.
The police failed utterly in their
efforts to discover Philips identity or
residence Johnson's News, Mile End
road, might as well be in Timbuctoo
for all the relations it bore DO Lud-
gate Hill or Hatton Garden. An East
End policeman might have recognized
Philip had he seen him, but the Off
cial description of his clothing and
personal appearance applied to thou
sands of hobbledehoys in every dis
trict in London.
Two persons among the six millions
of the metropolis alone possessed the
knowledge that would have led the
inquirers along the right track. The
doctor who attended Mrs Anson in
her last illness, had he read the news
paper comments on the boys speech
and mannerisms. might have seen the
coincidence supplied by the Christian
name, and thus been led to make
some further investigation. But his
hands were full Of trouble on his own
account. A dispenser mixed a pre-
scription wrongly, and dosed a patient
with half an ounce Of arsenic instead
of half an ounce of cream of tar
tar. The subsequent inquest gave the
doctor enough to do, and the first
paper he had leisure TO peruse con-
tained a bare reference to the 'Dia-
mond Mystery" as revealing no fur
ther developments. He passed the
paragraph unread.
O'BRIEN IN TROUBLE
The remaining uncertain element
centered in old O'Brien. the pensioner.
Now it CHANGED that the treasury had
discovered that by a clerical mistake
in a warrant the old man had been
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his rightful pension for 33 years.
Some hunorist in Whitehall there
upon sent him a demand 70 f103 15s,
and the member of the Whitehall divi-
sion was compelled TO adopt stern
tactics in the house before the matter
was adjusted and O'Brien was allowed
to receive the reduced quarterly sti-
pend then due. During that awful
crisis the poor old fellow hardly ate
or slept. Even when it had ended
the notion remained firmly fixed in
his mind that the murdherin' govern
ment had robbed him of a hundred
gowlden sovereigns, an more
AS for newspapers, the only item he
read during many days was the ques-
tion addressed by his ''mimber" to
the chancellor of the exchequer and
the brief reply thereto. both of which
were fixed beforehand by mutual ar
rangement-
In one instance the name given and
after repudiated by the boy did
attract some attention. On the
Monday following the remand
lady sat at breakfast in a select
West End hotel and languidly pc
rused the record of the case until
her eye caught the words of Philip
Morland." Then her air of delicate
hauteur vanished and she left her
DTedkIdSL lHIOuCicQ Win
hawklike curving of neck and nerv-
Gus clutching of hands. she had read
every line of the police court romance.
She was a tall, thin, aristocratic
looking woman, with eyes set too
closely together, a curved nose. like
the beak of a bird Of prey. and hands
covered with a leathery skin suggest
ing talons. Her attire and pose were
elegant, but she did not seem to be
a NIL of Iar fr1c
parted IN a vinegary smile as she
read. She evidently did not believe
one word of the newspaper report in
SO far as the diamonds were con-
cerned.
"A vulgar swindlei" she murmured
to herself. How is it possible for a
police magistrate TO be taken in in
such manner I suppose the Jew per-
son knows more about it than ap-
pears on the surface. But how came
the boy to give that name? 1t is
sufficiently uncommon to be remark
able. How stupid it was of Julie to
mislay my dressing case. IT would
be really interesting to know what
has become of those people. and now
! may have to leave town before
car find out"
How much further her disjointed
comments might have gone it is i'm
possible to say, but at that moment
a French maid entered the room and
gazed inquiringly around the various
small tables with which it was filled.
At last she found the lady. who was
breakfasting alone. and sped swiftly
toward her.
Il am so glad, milady," she said.
speaking in French. The bag has
found itself at the police station The
cabman brought it here and, If you
please, milady, as the value was
given as eight pounds. he claimed a
reward of one pound"
(which you will pay yourself. You
lost the bag was the curt reply.
where is it,
The maids voice was somewhat
fearful as she answered.:
I'm milady's room. I paid the SOW
ereign.'
Her ladyship rose and glided grace
fully toward the door. followed by the
maid, who whispered TO French
waiter-bowing most differentially to
the guest as he held the door-that
her mistress was a cat He confded
his own opinion that her ladyship
was holy pig, and the two passed
along a corridor.
HIS ADDRESS
Lady Moreland hastily tore open the
recovered dressing case, and consulted
an address book.
"Oh. here is it." she cried. triumph-
antly Number three, Johnson's
News, Mile End road. E. What a
horrid smelling place. However,
Messrs. sharpe & Smith will now be
gence for me. juliet My carriage in
IN minutes