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Carruthers laughed and then glanced ludicrously at Jimmie Dale, as the door, ajar, was pushed open, and a man entered. "Speaking of angels," murmured Jimmie Dale and sat up in his chair. "Hello, Markel!" he observed casually, "You've met Carruthers, of the NEWS-ARGUS, haven't you?" Markel was fat and important; he had beady black eyes, fastidiously trimmed whiskers and a pronounced smirk.
"Going to print a nice little story for him about the 'costliest and most beautiful necklace in America'?" he inquired innocently. Carruthers scowled. "No," he said bluntly. "I am not. He'll read the NEWS-ARGUS a long time before he reads anything about that, Jimmie."
Larry the Bat, disreputable denizen of the underworld, alias Jimmie Dale, millionaires' clubman, alias the Gray Seal, whom Carruthers of the MORNING NEWS-ARGUS called the master criminal of the age, shuffled along in the direction of the Bowery, his hands plunged deep in the pockets of his frayed and tattered trousers, where his fingers, in a curious, wistful way, fondled the keys of his own magnificent residence on Riverside Drive.
He left the house that night by the back entrance in an old servant's suit, which I found for him and I never heard from him again until a month ago in the 'personal' column of the MORNING NEWS-ARGUS, through which we had agreed to communicate. "As for myself, I left the house the next morning, telling my pseudo uncle that I was going to spend a few days with a friend.
James is. Couldn't I be Merideth Stanley Annstruther, or something like that, one of your new reporters, or something like that, you know?" Carruthers chuckled. "Sure, Jimmie," he said. "You're the latest addition to the staff of the NEWS-ARGUS. Don't worry; the incomparable Jimmie Dale won't figure publicly in this." "It's awfully good of you," said Jimmie gratefully.
James Club Jimmie Dale, and Carruthers of the MORNING NEWS-ARGUS. From Clayton and a discussion of the Metzer murder, the conversation had turned, not illogically, upon the physiognomy of criminals in general.
"It's too bad I can't let old Carruthers in on this for a scoop with his precious MORNING NEWS-ARGUS but if I get out of it alive myself, I'll do well!
There was a way, too, to arouse the citizens, that was both good business from the newspaper standpoint, and efficacious as a method. Carruthers, of the MORNING NEWS-ARGUS, had initiated it. The MORNING NEWS-ARGUS offered twenty-five thousand dollars' reward for the capture of the Gray Seal! Other papers immediately followed suit in varying amounts.
James Club dining room. Opposite him sat Herman Carruthers, a young man of his own age, about twenty-six, a leading figure in the newspaper world, whose rise from reporter to managing editor of the morning NEWS-ARGUS within the short space of a few years had been almost meteoric.
But therein Carruthers was wrong the NEWS-ARGUS carried the "story" of Markel's diamond necklace in three-inch "caps" in red ink on the front page in the next morning's edition and Carruthers gloated over it because the morning NEWS-ARGUS was the ONLY paper in New York that did.
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