Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-09

the litigation which she had started
against her father was settled. Mr.. Dos
key needn't have any fear about Mrs. Glib.
son going away though. She had taken q
hve-year lease on house at No. 159 East
S'EtJ-third street, New York Mr.. Free
man was very discouraging about service.
Mrs. Gibson didn't want to he ANNOYED by
service. he said; there wasn't any use try
Ing. for she wouldn't permit herself to DO
served or allow anybody to enter her
apartments, or stick around the hotel; in
fact. she had given strict instructions to
this effect TO tho management.
Mr.. Boskey thought all this over. II
Mrs. Gibson had money enough to take an
expensive house up In the Sixty-thrds sho
certainly had enough TO pay that jewelers.
bill! But, also, Mr.. Freeman had Como
quite fully into tho details OF the litigation
between Mrs. Gibson and her father. Mr.
ljoskey did q little detective work OF his
own. He had the various complaints and
ahidnvits on file looked up and their dates
'ecoraed. And what Mr.. Boskcy said and
thought when he saw that day after day
when his Iroor process had been travel
ling from Newport 10 New York and back
again and to California and Palm Beach,
AIRS. Gibson had been right in New York
RiGning those papers! .,........,,.s
This was too much! He sought ,Ie uln
OF the Sheriff Of New York Assistant
Sheriff Lee started out TO serve the sum.
mons. He met suave Mr.. Gibson. MIR.
Gibson promised to let him meet Mrs.
Gibson. Time after time he promised.
After while tho shcrin's goat. figura-
lively speaking. began blcating loudly, Join
Ing the lus,y chorus OF thosc others who
had tried before him. He sent a perempt
ory demand for show down. and 1t was in
answer to IT that he received that sweetly
mild letter from Mr.. Gibson quoted at tho
beginning. 1t was good letter and It
touched everybody. All tho officers from
the Sheriff down had n clear mental image
of poor. pallitl woman being carried out
OF hospital into an automobile and CO.
ing TO some quiet, rcstful shelter to try to
recover strength enough to como to town
on Friday and accept at last that sum.
mons. They wouldn't disturb her, no.
They came down to their Offices next
morning with strong sense OF virtue and
approving consc.e1ces. They had with
held tho club OF the law from the head OF
the weak. they had tempered Justice with
mercy and had succored the suffering
Reading over the society columns had
by this time become habit, however, and
quite naturally they turned to accounts of
the Venetian ball, dazzling, gorgeous
colorlul and noisy rout which had begun
early the night before and ended late that
morning. All the beauty and chvalry of
NC" Ioih society mad been
there and the newspapers had given quito
a lot of space 10 1t. They skinned over
tho details and then suddenly their atten.
tioh was riveted. one by one They had
come across name!
Mrs. Preston Gibson,
Yes-Mrs. Preston Gibson had been at
the Venetian ball!
Mrs. Gibson, whose husband had written
that she has been quite i'll in the hospital
and went to the country Sat for a
rest" had not only been there, but IL re-
ports were true had been one of the jol.
liest. gayest, happiest of them all.
And to clinch the reports there were
actually pictures of her as she had looked
at the. ball. They scanned the photographs
nllnuteIy.. Mrs. Gibson appeared plump
and we'll fed, almost buxom. No trace of
illness in her figure. And no trace of 1t or
need Of rest In the dazzling smile the
camera had caught! Very we'll and At
indeed, did Mrs. Gibson look in her Goa.
tune; while the costume itself bore ey.
dence Of costing we'll nigh as much as was
called for by the suit the weary and wnrn
subpoena was to institute.
Down with mercy! Let justice BIO done
and the chips fall where they might!
Attorney Boskey sent to the Supreme
Court of New York an affidavit in which
he set forth the various moves in Mrs
Gihson's game of hide and seek with the
subpoena and ended 1t with the exhihIts
CT Mr.. Gibson's letter TO the Sheriff. the
newspaper clippings of the Venetian ball
and Mrs. Gbson's published photographs
in connection with 1t. He asked that the
Supreme Court put en- end to this ode.
libcrate evasion" of service by allowing ser.
vice of the summons simply by leaving It
at Mrs. Gibson's home.
And Justice Geigerich promptly issued
an order allowing such service.
Now Mrs. Gibson will have to come into
court or settle.