T-S's automobile. Of course T-S's
secretary, who answered the phone, lied valiantly; but here again,
we knew the truth would leak. There were servants and chauffeurs and
gardeners, and all of them knew that the white robed mystery was
somewhere on the place. They would be offered endless bribes--and
some of them would accept!
In the course of the next hour or two there were a dozen newspaper
reporters besieging the mansion, and camera men taking pictures of
it, and even spying with opera glasses from a distance. Before my
mind's eye flashed new headlines:
MOVIE MAGNATE HIDES MOB PROPHET FROM LAW
This was an aspect of the matter which we had at first overlooked.
Carpenter was due at Judge Ponty's police-court at nine o'clock that
morning. Was he going? demanded the reporters, and if not, why not?
Mary Magna no doubt would be willing to sacrifice the two hundred
dollars bail that she had put up; but the judge had a right to issue
a bench warrant and send a deputy for the prisoner. Would he do it?
Behind the scenes of Western City's government there began forthwith
a tremendous diplomatic duel.
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