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main doorway an American Consulate sign I entered, having nothing else to do, and met our consul, a Mr. Jackson, from Paulding, Ohio, who has a brother, a printer, in Detroit. 

He is a nice fellow, keen and interesting, and as he learned I had been at Aleppo where his office is soon to be moved, he asked me many questions about the place, which he has never visited.  Our little call ended and I leaving his office, he suddenly remembered that he had a message one day old, addressed to me.

It had been handed into his office without an envelope and is worded in English "Stones seized at Haiffa." and bears the sellers signature. 

I told the full story to Mr. Jackson