intimate, a description of Senator Dilworthy's residence and of his

family, and of Laura's room in his house, and a sketch of the Senator's

appearance and what he said. There was a great deal about her beauty,

her accomplishments and her brilliant position in society, and her

doubtful position in society. There was also an interview with Col.

Sellers and another with Washington Hawkins, the brother of the

murderess. One journal had a long dispatch from Hawkeye, reporting the

excitement in that quiet village and the reception of the awful

intelligence.

All the parties had been "interviewed." There were reports of

conversations with the clerk at the hotel; with the call-boy; with the

waiter at table with all the witnesses, with the policeman, with the

landlord (who wanted it understood that nothing of that sort had ever

happened in his house before, although it had always been frequented by

the best Southern society,) and with Mrs. Col. Selby. There were

diagrams illustrating the scene of the shooting, and views of the hotel

and street, and portraits of the parties. There were three minute and

different statements from the doctors about the wounds, so technically

worded that nobody could understand them. Harry and Laura had also

been

"interviewed" and there was a statement from Philip himself, which a

reporter had knocked him up out of bed at midnight to give, though how he

found him, Philip never could conjecture.

What some of the journals lacked in suitable length for the occasion,

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