Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 8, 1914, Page 6

e e PAGE SIX LYON'S SHORT STORY 3 By FRANK CONDON. (Copyright.) | We were sitting around the big, | shining table in the famous billiard- | room off Broadway. Scores of men | were clicking ivory balls within hpur-i ing, and Lyon, the man who writes, | was talking about something or other. | There sat at the table, beside Lyon, Chick Miller, the general advertising man; Bill Miller, the street-car adver- | tising man; Frank Walton, the com- poser, and the transmitter of this mys- tery. “I'll tell you a story,” said Lyon, without preface. “You can write iri or not. It comes straight from a dia- | mond salesman.” “Go ahead,” rejoined the crowd in a critical tone “This diamond salesman,” Lyon continued, “was brought up with Gib boney's. You know Gibboney’s. Every diamond ring in the world tries to! pretend that it once came from Gib- boney’s. “Well, this boy—mind you, his| name is Ellis—told me the story him- self, having witnessed it with his own | eyes. On a sunny afternoon a motor- car drives up to the front door and out | steps a dignified woman of great | wealth, judging from her appearance. “Her demands were simple. She wanted to select a diamond or two, and Ellis brought forth a tray of vel- vet containing a dozen or more spark- lers. Not a stone in the tray was worth less than a thousand, but the dowager duchess looked them over somewhat haughtily and pronounced it as her opinion that they were a somewhat in- ferior cluster of gems. “With a sigh of disappointment he prepared to put the tray back in the case, and, in doing so, he noticed that one of the diamonds was missing. “Ellis wriggled his left ear, which s the house signal summoning the head detective, and in a few moments a conference began which included | young Ellis, the detective, and the! strange lady in black silk. “Ellis explained the circumstances briefly, being withered meanwhile by the glances of the outraged queen. There were eighteen expensive and un- set diamonds in the tray before the lady pawed them over, and at the con- clusion of her examination there were seventeen. “Therefore, it followed that sghe must have been perniciously active. The strange lady called young Ellis al low person and froze him into a state | of speechlessness; but it is somewhat difficult to freeze a head detective at | Gibboney’s. This latter person, who | was of Irish descent, and whose jaw protruded some distance, decided that the society leader must be searched, and, without further formalities, she was led away to the ladies’ searching | department. “In an hour the lady searchers opened the door and announced to the officials that if the lady had a dlamond about her it must be burled in her, “There was nothing to do but re: lease the strange lady in black sflk. Gibboney Company sent down-town to | a detective agency for a man, I)etpc-‘I tive Ratty listened gravely, and finally gave orders, [ “He explained that no person should be permitted to enter the aisle upon | which the case of jewels was located. “For three days nothing happened. | Detective Ratty stood guard, in r‘om-; pany with the head store detective. | On the third day a dapper young man | in a light blue suit wearing gray spats | and carrying a white cane, pushed opent the swinging door and entered. He walked straight down the forbid- den aisle and paused to converse with young Ellis | “Five minutes later Detective Ratty walked up to the newcomer, placed his hand on his shoulder, and arrested him. The stranger was instantly searched, and immediately the expen- | sive diamond was found! “Now!" said Lyon, pausing and casting a triumphant glance upon the group of cynical listeners, “how did the detective know that this strange young man had the diamond?” All of the crowd, except Chick Mil ler. looked mystified and inquiring During the latter part of Lyon's ket recital Chick Miller had v newspaper and 1ad seribbled upon the m two rds in pencil writin He tore off bit ¢f margin and handed it to Walton, who read it uncompre- rendingly You don't knov a story,” ifter ht pause the black silk lifted Iled it up in a piece of che ind stuck Iry-case. The young retrieve the piece of valuable kernel. 1s that r not? on held up the piece of which Chick Miller had serib- gum.” he read " Chick Miller said. “I nswer when you got half- 120, and to prove it I wrote down the nd 1 1 Frank Wal But this man Ellis told me that it happened to him,” Lyon agrued “And I tell you I read it some- where,” Chick Miller answered “Well,” Lyon replied, “it you read it somewhere suppose it i{sn't a story.” EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., JULY 8, 1914, MILITANT SUFFRAGISTS EXASPERATE THE BRITISH Militant suffragists of England have renewed their activilios‘und the out- rages they are committing are exasperating the people to t_hv point .of f]ll‘(‘k'lt- ening to lynch the women. Our illustration shows the police breaking up an outdoor demonstration of the militants and, at the left, Mrs. Pankhurst being carried bodily to jall by Chief Inspector Rolfe. i Within tile last few weeks the militants have destroyed a numberl of in- valuable paintings in the London galleries, and one of lthe br'm'het wwld’efs seriously injured a guard who interfered with her vandalism. They also have stru u various parts of the country. Then they managnd to get past the g s of Buckingham palace and broke some of the windows pf that royal residence, and to cap the climax, a few days ago one of these fearless women galned admittance to a court reception, fell to her knees Defore the king and began shrieking a plea to him. -~ » g oy o i P e & %, burned one of the ancient London churches and several houses and other ' ! Above is the American team, left to right | are the British challengers, left to right: | Larry Waterbury, Milburn, Monty Waterbury, Montague. 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