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Sergeant Jurney decided to beat one more covert before quitting for the day. The motorcade drove back to Washington to the Hotel Shoreham to ask Bernard B. Robinson, Hopson's "Washington representative", whether he knew where his boss was. At the desk of the Shoreham whom should Mr. Jurney bump into but beefy, bad-tempered Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, who captured "Pimpernel" Hopson fortnight...
...news services asking them not to send out the story. Associated Press did suppress it. The others sent out abbreviated accounts by wire. Next morning not a word was printed in any Washington paper about what Sleuth Jurney and his party found on the eighth floor of the Shoreham Hotel. By afternoon, however, AP had had a change of heart, picked up the story from the version printed by the New York Post. At last Washington heard how Sergeant Jurney failed to find a 225-lb. needle in the Washington haystack but stumbled into a mare's nest...
...stand, he found him just as affable as at the first hearing and just as uncommunicative. The chief treasure dug out of him was a laugh at the expense of the Senate which had been hunting for him all over Washington while he had been staying at the Shoreham Hotel registered under the name of his chauffeur, Thomas McCarthy...
...What kind of a looking man is Hopson?" asked Chairman O'Connor, who lives at the Shoreham...
Chairman O'Connor's agents, joined by Chairman Black's and the Washington police, swarmed over the Shoreham, rapped at doors, questioned employes. The girl at the cigar counter had sold a cigar to a short, fat man with a fine disposition. Some bellboys thought they remembered such a man. The hunters looked in the Hopson closets, bathroom, under the Hopson bed. But "Pimpernel" Hopson had vanished once more...