San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08
Sherlock Holmes
Himself v.Vould
Haze Been
Puzzled By This
Strange Jewel
Robbery at the
Fashionable
Hotel

1NNERIONE felt at the Hotel hlato tnat IL was an
I unfortunate moment for any with jewelry
- of the obvious value of that possessed by Mrs
Deepling choose for arriving there as a guest
There had been a perfect epidemic of jewel thefts
all London, and the Rialto had already been hit
twice-rather heavily!
The manager had stormed and his hair
and offered big reward any who discovered the
thief The insurance company did the they
paid notwithstanding black marks against the
hotel and doubling the percentage charged on the
policy.
The wanton careessness displayed by of
valuable jewelry is amazing to the ordinary mind
Gems worth kings left in taxicabs in
trains, the seat at railway sations-grps contain
ing priceless heirlooms entrusted to casual porers
as if nothing of greater value than secondhand suit
of clothes were inside
There had admittedly been careessness in
the which had occurred at the Rialto, and
large pacards were placed in every room calling at
tenon to the fact that the management would not be
responsible for any articles lost stolen which had
been placed in the hotel safe, which existed prn-
cipaly for the benefit of its patrons.
And just at that strained moment Mrs. Deepling
arrived with her ten trunks, her rolls of banknotes
and her welladvertised vulgar profuson of diamonds
Everyone knew-or knew of-Mrs. Deepling! If
they didn't it wasn't the fault of the penny a-ners
who had dug up her antecedents from their Chicago
pork obscury, and forth in the daily papers her
triumphant progress up the ladder of wealth from the
hour her late husband started errand boy at a
few dollars week the day when he could count his
first Million They had their facts from his lips,
they be correct! Her the Ralto
had been engaged by cable, and everyone connected
with the hotel from pantry boy the important
guest within its walls, the qu vive her.
She did not disappoint them in any one particular.
She dned at table dhote-n a pale silk decolete
evening dress-was fat, fair and forty-and simply
tmothered in diamonds
They were diamonds too! The real thing-nothing shan
imitation about them duchess the next table bit he
lips with envy and than idle society drer on tn,
lookout mend his fortunes by marrying money cursed
with despair that he must either abandon his chance before
trying for tor sacrifice his fe happiness exchanged
For in spite of her wealth, Mrs. Deeplng was
impossible" for of education and refinement who re
qured his wife to be liked and respected by relatives anc
friends
As pork butchers wife Mrs Deepling have beer
admirable! Shrewd, clean, cheerful, hard-workng
As candidate for society and patron Londons mos
expensive hotel, she hopeless failure!
Very politely and actfuly without refectng on the repu
aton Of the house. did the try convey her
wisdom Of entrustng her wonderful diamonds his keeping
With vulgar good humor Mrs Deeplng laughed the idea L
Don't you worry about my dimonds she told him
There's nobody living I'D take good of as me
If KEEP EN- crossing the Herring Pond with
al elbow all the guess best the swell owe
ERE. Think don't your lot peeaters eyeing of me
time sit down? Think don't know that they're reckoning
their chances Of getting en- with without their legal
Then, with an abrupt change Of tone, she asked:
Who's that teller with the glass is as sits at III
little table making sleeps eyes me? Big SWELL reckon
Now It just happened that that particular guest