The San Francisco call., 1913-11-14

Continued from Yesterday
But he had suffered much since
then, and suffering had strengthened
him. Moreover. he had taken the
measure of Isaacstein. There was a
score to be wiped off before that
worthy and he entered into amicable
business relations,
The instant the immature Jew be-
hind the grille Set eyes on Phillip. he
bounded back from the window and
Eazed at him with frightened look
Had this young desperate broken out
of prison and come to murder them
all?
Help! Heipe' he shouted Muir
DER
Clerks came running from the IN
ner office. among them the elderly
man who interfered in Philips be-
half on the last occasion
IsAACsTEN AGAIN
Make that idiot shut up. said
Philip. calmly, and tell Mr.. Isaac
stein 1 am here
The Office boy was silenced. and
the excitement calmed down Yes,
the diamond merchant was in. II
Philip would walk upstairs to the
waiting room. his presence would be
announced.
THANK you" he said; but kindly
see that this urchin does not let
others know I am here. / don't want
a crowd TO be gathered in the street
when l come OUT
. n Such cool impudence from a raga-
muffin was intoIerable. or nearly so.
But Isaacstein ruled his miniens with
a rod of iron. and they would fain
wait the little mans pleasure ere
they ventured their wrath on the boy.
Besides, they were afraid of Philip.
Like most people in London. they had
read the newspaper reports of the
police court proceedings, and they
were awed by his strangely fncom-
prehensible surroundings
So he was silently ushered upstairs.
and soon he caught the thickvoiced
order of Isaacstein:
SHOW him in"
The Jew. however. dived into his
private sanctum before Philip entered
the general Office. The boy found
him there, seated at his table.
The duel began with questions
How did you get out so soon? You
were remanded for a week
Are you going to send for police
MANI"
Don't be rude, boy, but answer
me-"
i am not here to satisfy your Curl
osity. Mr. Isaacstein. 1 have called
simply on A matter of business. 1t
is sufficient for you to know that Mr..
Abingdon has set me at liberty and
restored my property TO me. DO you
wish TO deal with me or not2"
The diamond merchant tingled with
anger. He was not accustomed to
being browbeaten even by the repre-
sentatives of the De Beers company.
vet there was callow youngster
addressing him in this outrageous
fashion. betraying, too, an insuffer-
able air of contempt in voice and
manner. He glared at Philip in silent
wrath for an instant.
The boy smiled. He took from his
pocket the paper of diamonds and be-
gan to count them. The action said
plainly:
you know you can not send me
away. If / go TO your trade rivals
you will lose a magnificent oppor-
tunity. You are in my. hands. No
matter how rude j am to you, you
must put up with it."
Nevertheless, the Jew made an eff
fort to preserve his totterfng dignity.
GO YOU lltlIiks he SdIQs lHdI you
are behaving properly in treating a
man of my position in such a way in
his own Officer"
In his own office-that was the
sting of il.
The head of the firm of Isaacstein &
Co. of London. Amsterdam and Kim
berley. TO be bearded in such a fash
ion in his own particular shrine,
Why. the thing was monstrous
Philip looked him squarely in the
eyes.
MIR. Isaacstein." he said. calmly.
~have you forgotten that you caused
me to be arrested as a thief and
dragged. handcuffed, through the open
streets by policeman? 1 have spent
FIVE days in Jail because of you AT
the moment when l was praising your
honesty you were conveying secret
signals to your clerks in the belief
that ] was something worse than a
pickpocket. Was your treatment OF
me so free from blame at our first
meeting as to serve as a model at the
second?v
The chair was creaking now con-
tinuously; the dealer swung from side
to side during this lecture He strove
hard to restrain himself, but the
feverish excitement of Saturday re-
turned with greater intensity than
ever. He jumped up, and Philip imag-
ined for a second that robbery with
violence was imminent
THE DEALER RACES
"Confound it all, boy," yelled the
merchant, what was I 10 do when q
ragged loafer like you came In ano
showed me a diamond worth a thou.
sand pounds and told me he had doz.
ems, hundreds, more like It? Did yor
expect me to risk standing iE the docl
by your side? Who could have giveF
fairer evidence in your behalf than
did? Who proved that YOU could no'
have stolen the stones7 Whom have
you TO thank for being at liberty now
but the expert who swore' that ne
Z stcla diamonds had been seen before
In this world?'
Philip waited until the mans pas