A Daughter of Delilah — page 44: what you’re looking at

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a = _ = a = * . oe. a “GILBERT ROSEBERRY, YOU ARE MY PRISONER!” = 35 are wasting valuable time. Gilbert Roseberry, your es- caped convict, is traveling away from you witha roll of my bills in his pocket.’’ ‘Tam convinced,’’ Nat said, at last. ‘‘And just when I felt cock-sure! Will you oblige by showing me that tele- gram ?”’ “T would rather not.’’ “T think that you had better do so, sir. It will release you from a good deal of suspicion.’’ ‘Suspicion?”’ “Yes. Don’t you see that all this might be construed into a trick to help Roseberry off?’’ “But the telegram had nothing to do with the convict. My walking in the tunnel was the merest chance. It was a silly hoax on the part of some of my friends. ”’ “Still, I.should like to see it,’” Nat Hawkley persisted. “Tt involves the name of a lady friend,”’ objected Edgar. “But 1 respect your reasons. The exhibit of that slip of paper proves the truth of mystory. You shall see it if you promise to hold your tongue. If the other part of the story gets out, I cannot help it, though my life will be hell on earth for months afterward. Reporters and sensational newspaper men have no respect for even the most sacred privacy of men’s lives in their efforts to obtain reading that panders to the depraved appetites of the mob. Under the canting cry of public interest, the innocent and guilty are lashed into frenzy by exposures which demoralize even those who ever crave for more The detective smiled. “True, sir—too true!’’ he replied. ‘‘And the higher the !?? - victims move in the social scale, the better the papers like CS (E(0) m Eomichboo