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C. C. Bell was at Monroe Mon
day on business.
A furnished room for rent. Ap
ply to C. A. Berry.
Everybody has a hobby, doing
the right kir.d of job work is ours
Mrs. Joe Moore and children ar
rived in Huttig last Friday and will
make this their hom3.
Miss Ada Harrell arrived home
Monday afternoon from a visit with
relatives at Haile. La.
Mrs. T. P. Millstead is home
from a week’s visit with relatives
and friends at Rayyille. La.
Lon Porter, an old time Huttig
boy. is back again and is working
w.th the Huttig Logging Co.
Mrs. Geo. Moore snd children
arrived back in Huttig Sunday af
ternoon to again make their home.
T. M. Overton, the tie contractor
who moved from Felsenthal to
Haile. La., has recently moved to
M onroe.
G. R. and Arthur Saxe of Albion.
111., and Mrs. Henry Saxe of Bald
Knob, Ark., were here this week
visiting Chas. Saxe and family.
Misses Ada Thompson of Wes
son and Maud Channer of Lapile.
who were the guests of Mrs. W. C.
Thomson, returned to their homes
last Saturday morning.
Miss S. Barreiras of St. Louis,
who was manager of the Union
hotel here for several years, was
the guest of Mrs. C. T. Thompson
and other Huttig friends this week.
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The rainfall in this vicinity last
Friday and Saturday was four
and one quarter inches, making the
total for the month up to Wednes
day night 10 inches and 15 one
hundredths.
Mrs. Fred Schneiter, nee Alma
Bershen. has opened up a first
class millinery store in El Dorado
and carries a large line of the latest
things in that line.
At a meeting of the Republican
County Central Committee held in
El Dorado on March 21 C. LJones
postmaster at Junction City was
recommended for re-appointment
over Dr. Hale his only opponent.
You will find on sale at the
Union Saw Mill company store,
tb 3 Union hotel and Bell's cream
parlor four different local post card
views in colors. If these sell well
the publisher expects to add sev
eral other views to the list. They
will be sold at two for five cents.
Rev. 0. E. Bryan, the Baptist
evangelist who held a very suc
cessful revival meeting here sev
eral years ago, opened another
meeting at the Union church
Thursday night. Everybody is
cordially invited and urged to come
out to these services as Rev.Bryan
is a good preacher.
The grand jury empanelled by
Judge Geo. W. Hays on Monday,
March 1 8. at the opening of the
Union Circuit Court, completed
their labors at noon last Friday and
were discharged. They returned
30 true bills and we believe hold
the record for having completed
their labors in less time than any
grand jury for a number of years.
Now that the initiative of the
State-wide prohibition bill is a cer
tainty, plans are already being laid
for the campaign that is to be
prosecuted until the September
election for its adoption. Among
the plans proposed is the division
of the state into five districts, with
a superintendent in charge of each,
! for the thorough canvassing of the
j state. The petitions are now be
| ing circulated systematically in ev
|ery county in the state, under the
. direction of a chairman, who is de
ivoted to the cause.
Once again we find in almost ev
; ery neighborhood some blackened
I field where the foolish farmer has
burnt off the grass and vegetable
matter with which nature was
seeking to enrich his famished
fields. When will our people learn
that only through this humus this
decaying vegetable matter- land
can be enriched without expense
to the owner? And yet hundred':
of thousands of dollars worth oi
this invaluable form of fertilizer
will be converted into smoke _and
! ashes before planting time. Wei!
did the late Dr. Knapp declare that
the time has come when Southern
farmers should "use less fire anc
more sense" in dealing with their
fields. The Progressive Farmer.
Read The Huttig News.
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Idvertised letter list.
The fol'.Gw'ng letters remain un
! claimed in the Huttig postofifice for
the week ending March 18, 1912:
Gents.
Otis Rouse (2)
James Sumbes
N B Morton
Rana Turner
! I E Lleischman
: Henry Loftm
j V M Howland
Mitie Saeten
J S H Randolph
I Elsie Roberson
! Mae Smith
Mary Dickens
Lire Greer
Jessie Jones
Nannie Kerfoot
Mack Rucks
Jesse Stinson
S E Williams
J B Da* son
George Hunter
Percy Burrell
John H E ees
Ladies.
Mittie McCuffy
Martha Honeycutt
Ruby Ward
Mary Davis
Laura Hall
Fannie Long
Willie Boyd
Lizzie McHenry
When calling for above letters
please say advertised.
E. N. Collett. P. M.
Notice.
The Union Saw Mill Company
will pav $50.00 as a reward to any
one. not in its employ, who will fur
nish information from which any
person shall be convicted of depre
dating or trespassing upon the tim
ber of said Company.
This let. day of February. 1906
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott.
Secy, and Treas
To got the news read The News
Ihe log Train Man.
The following was written by F,
M. Bridewell, one of the conduct
ors running log trains for the Hut
tig Logging Co:
At four a. m. the train must ro'l.
Wet or dry, hot or cold.
So you see we must rise by our little
lamps,
; To get the dollies to the camps.
On the frst trip to Farmerville,
The distance, sixty miles,
This trip alone you see:
It takes us quite a while.
At 1 p. m. the first trip is made.
And the train master asks us where we
were delayed;
We tel! him the same story wa tell ever
time
And he says “boys, no excuses, you must
bring in the pine."
Come to the store, says Mr. Mcc-re,
I have a car of merchandise,
It want toki you long to handle it and
will bd good exercise.
At 2 p. m. we are off again, some what
behind time.
Though, we make it back to Marion, tc
get stuck for No. 539.
At Marion, we ask for help on 539.
The operator tells us she is on time,
We stay there until 5:54.
Then get five minutes to make Utroe.
About 6:1 5 No. 539 has coma.
! The log train pr oceeds on the hum;
At 9 p. m we are on the spot,
Go to bed dreaming of the next day's trot.
One meal a day and it is cold,
You know is enough to make a man lose
his soul.
Tell me if you think I am right.
When I say we are working day and
night.
At last my friend, this story is told.
To us log train men its nothing old.
And for information about merchandise
from the store,
I respectfully refer you to Wm. Henry
i Moure.
SYKOFSIS.
CHAPTER I—The story opens with a
■cream from Dorothy Marche, a charm
ing debutante, in the op* ra box of the
wealthy widow, Mr.-. Doris M ssioncr, at
the Metropolitan Opera House in New
York City. It is occasioned by Mrs. Mis
sioner’s diamond necklace breaking and
scattering the string of rare and costly
gems all over the floor. Curtis Griswold
and Bruxton Sands, two society men,
both of whom love Mrs Mlssioner, gather
up some of the diamonds, but the gem
of the collection, the celebrated Mahar
anee, is missing. Griswold steps on tiie
apparent missing diamond and it crushes
under his he'd. A Hindoo comes front an
adjoining box. and picking up a flake of
the crushed gem pronounces it a fraud,
not the genuine Maharanee, but—paste.
CHAPTER II—The entire party proceed
to tlie elegant mansion of Mrs. Missioner
where she takes them to a room having
a s-tv containing other diamonds. Sh
atter wards sends for a Mr. Rascome. an
e.vp i* vcho pronounces the stones ai!
cop.es. substitutions, of the original gems
t HAi’ThK III Bruxton Sands tele
phones police l.ea h juc.rters and two de
tectives, Donnelly and Carson. arrive on
the scene. They examine the safe and
decide that the theft of the original dia
morals was accomplished by some one in
the house The servants are questioned,
hu; whhout t. Then they learn tha
Miss Hlinor Holcomb, the oonfbientia
• oinpanion of Mrs Missioner, iias a dupli
e * !• key to Uic safe and they st ud for
CHAPTER IV—The detectives Incline to
j th<- h-Ii’f i hat M..s Holcomb Is Involved
In th* robbery. They search her room
! and iii a cabinet, wrapped In tissue pa- i
| 1 hey llnd * * 11 e ->f : he ordinal da j
moi.ds. Mrs. Missioner prou-sts that
Elinor is guiltless, hut tiie delicate girl
is marched oft to prison.
CHAPTER y Meantime, in an up town
mansion, tin-* H.ndoo of the theater episode
who is known as the Swanll. and a Hindo •
piince Kananda, discuss the arrest. Thev
ar*1 in tiie Lnsted States to recover the
Mahai 'nee, which is a sacred relic of
India, and are puzzled at the discovery
of the imitation
( HAPTER VI—Detective Brltz. an ex
p*rt of the police for* e, now takes up the
• b. e. He interviews Elinor who is pros
trated by the cloud resting on her. Tiie
detective evidently believes the girl inno
cent.
; CHAPTER VTI—Dr. Rawrence Fitch
1 Eie fu n *• of Elinor, visits her in prison.
I khe is rem i ded for trial on suspicion of
; be!the thief. Rritz talks em ouragingh
to hitch and asks 1 i is co-operation in
running down the real criminal.
C HAPTER VIII The detective advises
; that Elinor do. s not seek bail mull they
I have located tiie real culprit. He makes
a .lose investigation of affairs at the
home of Mrs. Missioner.
CHAPTER IX Brltz learns that Mrs
Miss >ner while visiting Peris had the
d amonds with her. He cables the polio
there ami they ascertain that the dupli
cates were made from drawings of the
original stones. The person ordering the
substitutes gave tiie name of Elinor Hoi
comb.
CHAPTER X—The detective has an In
terview with Miss Marche. He learns
who of Elinor’s friends can draw. He
clumsily draws a picture of the safe.
Griswold offers to assist him, showing
skill a.* an artist. Eater as the detective
is walking through Central Park he is
puddently seized and thrown into a closed
automobile.
CHAPTER XI—A wild ride ensue* and
Brltz finds he has been made captive by
| three Hindoos. He endeavors to escape
i but is bound and drugged.
CHAPTER XII- His captors imprison
Britz in a deserted house. He flnallv
manages to get free .from his bonds, es
capes and reports* nt headquarters now
convinced that the Hindoos ure materially
interested in the case.
CHAPTER XIII Pretending to be a
newspaper reporter. Britz interviews flu
Sv. ami us to tiie rare diamonds of India
! After he leaves the Swami inform
Prin . Kanamhi that he has penetrated
! ihe disguise of the detective.
CHAPTER XIV Mrs. Missioner visits
Eifnor in prison but is dissuaded fron
bailing her out tinti 1 her innocence b i
I proven. Britz learns of an insan*» din- :
n.ond expert on Ward’s Island and asks j
Fitch to go with him and interview th* j
man.
CH AFTER XV—The Insane diamond ex j
i pert tells enough to lead the detective t
believe t! at cither Griswold or Sands em I
pioy.-d him to make counterfeits of the i
| Missioner gems.
CHAPTER XVI—Griswold, interviewed
by Britz intimates that Sands is on the
verge of failure. He evidently wishes the
detective to believe that his rival in love
may have something to do with the dia
mnnd robbery.
CH \PTER XVII Two Hindoos burglar
ize tiie home of Sands, evidently thinking
that he may have the Maharanee dia
mond. Britz captures them and on one
discovers a note addressed to “Curtis”
and signed “Millicent” which they have
found somewhere in their wandering
search for the gems.
Hardly had Rritz begun to let the
air seep out of his lungs, and before
he had indulged in the luxury of an
intake of breath, when he became an
nterested spectator in the gentleman
y art of searching a gentleman’*
j room. The Central office man was m
vTldocq. It is doubtful if he had even
| read Poe's story of “The Mis ing Ef t
I ter," and had he done so, it is by no
means certain he would have adapted
! the methods of the French police to
metropolitan detective work. Never
j theless, he had flattered himself that
he usually made a pretty thorough
search for anything be wanted; but
1 what he saw through that tiny pin
hole In the learner poriere snowed
him that he was the'veriest tyro in
I that sort of thing. The two visitors
went through the millionaire's furni
ture and oilier possessions with a min
uteness that would have made a fine
tooth comb look like a garden rake.
There could not have remained any
thing—any nook or corner, any crack
or crevice, not anything larger than
a bacillus which they happened to
covet. If an article no bigger than a
pinhead had been the object of their
hunt, their untiring scrutiny would
have brought it to light. Yet so deftly
had they searched that, granting them
a minute's respite, they cou!d have le t
the room without any traces of their
activity.
Their search seemed fruitless until :
they arrived at a desk under a hang
ing incandescent lamp, at which Rritz
assumed Sands was In the habit of
writing his more personal letters.
From one of the pigeon holes, one of
the intruders drew something that
crackled slightly as the man stuffed it
I Into the folds of his tunic. From a
I neighboring compartment of the desk,
■ he second stranger drew anoiher find,
which he in turn hastily hid in the
tame way. With lightning rapidity,
they went through every part of the
dc-k. In that same instant liritz felt
rather than heard a foot1 tep behind
hint, and, jerking a glance over his
shoulders, saw Sands n v tiring upon
him angrily. With a qi.i-'t untift of
his hund. the detective sn.i ! *he
millionaire in his tracks, and u
drew liim quietly toward the porn-re
and motioned for him to took through
the hole in the leather. Sands be I a
little, and then glanced wondering ly
Into the bedroom. He raised a free
of astonished inquiry to ftt it z He w;.s
answered by another silencing ges
ture from the si* nth. He looked once
more through the tir.v Jioie just in
time to see the Hindoos straight' n
themeelves from their crouching at
tltude over the desk and turn toward
the window. His hand thrust Itself
into his coat pocket, he slipped Into
•he opening in the portieres with a
ing’e stride, and, leveling an auto
tnatic pistol that looked more like a
block of steel than anything else, he
cried: ‘'Hands up!”
The men did not turn: instead, they
eaped for the window, fol owed by
Brltz and .Sands. Quick as they were,
they were not quick enough for the
Headquarters man. launching his
wiry form as a tiger springs. Bri'z,
pistol In hand, hurled himself between
the foremost Indian and the open win
dow and seized him In his strong
graep. Sands, almost as rapid In his
movements In spite of his bulk, flung
a powerful Rrm about the throat of
the other intruder, and with his other
hand closed the window with a crash
Fritz 8nd Sands dragged their pris
oners to the other side of the loom
and forced them down upon a couch.
Then the sleuth, slipping his pistol
back Into his pocket, seized the Indian
Sands was holding by the thioat, and,
more as an order than a request, ask
ed the millionaire to bind the cap
tives.
“I think I recognize you. my dear
young friends," he said. "You are
two of the dark jugg’ers who had fun
with me in Centra! Park and River
side Drive last evening. I think it's
about time for me to return the com
pliment with a merry little jest of my
own.” Turning his head to the mil
lionaire. he said again: “If you have
any silk handkerchiefs to spare, Mr.
Rands, please use them as handcuffs.
These gentlemen are accustomed to
silk, and I would not like to use any
thing cheaper on them than they used
on me. I suppose tf we trussed them
up with cotton or hemp, they'd die or
mortification."
The detective's sarcasm was lo t
on Rands until he thought to recount
in a few brief words his abduct'on In
tlie park and the struggle for Iho tha
had followed it. [1 was evident that,
in spite of the dotpcHte's coo ness, he
had some feeling on the subject. In
act, his manner toward the now cow
ering Hindoos was more or less re
vengeful. Sands fell in with the hu
tnor of the situation, and In a very
few minutes the Easterners were
bound with silk handkerchiefs as solt.
yet strong as any scarf they could
have produced in the bazaars ot Cal
cutta or Cawnpore. When the task
was done, and it was done pretty neat
Iv. Brltz relaxed his hold on the half
struggiing men’s throats and pushed
them against the back of the sofa un
til they half-sat, half-lay there, head
to head. Then he stepped back, rest
ed his hands on his hips, and eyed
them mockingly.
"You are not very clever.” he said
but anyway, you’re a fine looking
body of moil. What do you think ot
yourselves, anyhow? Think you'll cut
out this ‘second story’ game? Or
will you content yourselves with the
safer occupation of dips? My private
advice to you Is to try hencoops for a
while. Cut out the hig circuit, and go
and get a reputation."
How much of h’s hltlrg Irony, If
any, the Orientals understood they
did not indicate. They only gazed at
him In dumb misery, evidently In py
peotatlon of an Ignoble end They fol
lowed Brltz with their Joint gaze e*
he paced up and down the room, both
pitifully watchful. and manifestly
moat wholesomely afraid
“You saw part of what these chap'
were doing. Mr. Sards,” sa'd Brltz,
“but what you saw was only the last
of it, I w ant to tell you the way they
ent through this room was amazing.
1 hope you didn’t lose many valu
ables.’’
Sands, in his slov way. assured the
detective that It was not likely the
searchers had found anything he
would miss very greatly; but the
Headquarters man was not satisfied.
The mystery of the proceeding, he
was inclined to think, did not begin
and end with the Orlenta's. It was
possible, of course, they had searched
bands’ room simply as a matter of
routine in the same way that at the
first opportunity they probably wou’d
seereh the home of everyone who
might be connected In any way with
the Missioner Jewel robbery. Yet
something stirred uneasily In P.rllz's
irlr.d as he reflected on the possibility
that the coming of the Orientals he'd
a deeper significance. What If they
had reason to believe they would sure
ly find what they sought in that room?
If. Sands did not know there wag jus
MfiraTloii for the search why dirt Tip
lake it so calmly? It dirt not seem
natural for a man to keep his temper
whote apartments had keen Invaded
o thoroughly If the millionaire had
expressed any Indignation he Hrltz,
would have fplt better satisfied. He
sides, what was it the Hindoos had
tal;en front Sands' desk? Sands had
not seen them take anything, as they
were ending their search w hen he got
| the first glimpse of them. 11 Itz
watched Sands closely to see If the
millionaire's eyes would turn anxl
otislj toward that part of his furni
ture He almost started when the first
move Sands made, after finishing his
tas'k of finding I he prison 'ts. was to
saunter with a car less air across ihe
room and. In passing, glance swiftly
and pups t inninglv into llie pigeon
ho'es whence the thieves had ab
stracted the mysterious articles that
so actively engaged Hritzs always ac
tive curio: Ity
"It’s about up to us to do a little
searching now. Isn't It0" asked Hritz.
“These bright voting men have had
their innings, and I believe it’s our
turn at bat. What do you say. Mr.
Sands?”
head in absent, however, and Fritz tie
gen a search of the Orientals fully as
exhaustive as that they had performed
on tlie room. Before he had gone tar
In his quest, Sands volunteered as
sbtsncp. and each explored the folds
of the Hindoos’ raiment with the
clum.'iitess that might be expected of
men not accustomed to that sort of
work.
Brtz, working more swiftly then the
J millionaire, made his first find. It was
a sl eet of notepaper of fashionable
size and tint, on which had been writ
| ten a few lines In a feminine hand
Hritz had not the slightest compunc
, ion of consclonce about reading it.
I Chivalry was all very well in its wav,
1 but it played no part in detective
work, especially when the lady most
concerned was not present to make a
protest. He moved to the ernter ol
j the room, and in the light of a cluster
i of Incandescent lamps read aloud to
| -lands the following enigmatical mis
sive:
"Curtis Dear: When are you com
ing up to thp hotel? If you do not
| come or sehd me a check quickly, I
1 shall have to sell some of the jewels.
“MIBLICENT."
That was all. Whether that 'all"
was much or little. Fritz offhand, tuts
! not prepared to say. The use of (ins
wold's given name at the beginning
of the note apparently meant a good
deal. But who was Miilicent? In the
course of his probing of the Missioner
diamond mystery, Fritz had canvassed
the complete visiting ilst of evtvyom
who was in the opera l ot on the night
when the falsity of the Maharanee
diamond was discovered. He had had
compiled a social register of everyone
Interested in the case—everyone that
r—
1W ir.ftrr
Half Sat, Half-Lay Then.
; Mrs. Missioner. Sands, ft. i-wold. Mist.
Holcomb, .Miss March, and the Swan.i
[ knew In all that long roster there
i was no one named "Mtlileent " Neither
! for that matter, was there a ‘Mil
dred " There the signature was. too
clear to admit of any mistake. The
writing was exre' ent, and while il did
not go to the extreme of the current
fashion in chirograpby. it was what
Brit/, called In his vivid vernacular
“eia? '."
“Kver seen that fist before?” asked
he detective as he handed the note to
Panda.
The millionaire shook his head
While It was true. Brit/ reflected, that
he big man was known as "Silent”
l sands in Mall Street society, he was
•erti lnly more economies I of w ords
hail anyone he had evei known It) his
life. Aloud, he continued:
"Are you sure you have never seen
any writing at all like that before?”
Another shake of the head was
! Sands’ only concession to the de
detective's right to question him. lie
gave the note back to the Headquar
rers man, who returned to the circle
of light under the incandescent lamp
and studied it again. Meanwhi’e,
Sands went on with his search ol the
second Oriental. Up was not as o'ever
1 in his movements as li.lt/. and wie-n
he tried to conceal something, he sig
nally failed. For the detective, though
his eyes seemingly were fastened <u
| ihe note addressed to Griswold, sawr
the millionaire take something out of
the Oriental's tunic and then slip it
into his waistcoat pocket.
“Something eke, eh?" asked Brils.
Sands nodded.
"Mind letting me see what it Is?"
Sar.ds shook his head slowly, de
cisively
"What’s the objection?"
"It Is not anything that can pos=lb'y
Interest you," returned the million
aire.
"How do you know that, Mr.
, Sands?" asked the detec.ive,
I “I do know it,” said Lauds emphat
Ically.
“Well, I flnti's know about thst,'*
Brit?, returned. I think I’m Ihe b»rt
judjte of what Interest* me; arid as i
! have played a pretty active part in
this IItt e incident, it seems to me the
least you can do is to gratify my run
osily.''
"Well, I v ill not," was Sends de
fiant answer. “And whi e we are on
the subject, Lieutenant Itritz. lei me
say I should like o understand tne
purpose of tour visit lo my rooms. '
'Oh, you wo , d, would you?”
! snapped lit Itz
I certainly shcu’d." Sends replied.
I come home lo find you pi ej i {
' through a hole in my portiere, an 1
i two Ka.-ternors, with whom appvrent
I iy you have had nothing to do. go t g
through my desk and other belong
ings. I rather think i hri entitled to
know the why and the wherefme
I rather think you are, Mr. Sands.'*
said Brit*, and I don't mind telling
you 1 came here to see you privately,
and arrived just In time to see these
gentlemen drop to that fire escape and
come In by that window. After that
I had the peasure of witnessing the
dexterity with which they ransacked
you chiffonier, your desk, your txd
side table, your bed, your chairs, your
rugs, and everything else In the room.
Maybe you will explain to me the rea
son they have such a deep interest in
your housekeeping arrangements','"
Maybe you will do a little more ( x
plaining Lieutenant Brltz," said the
millionaire. “You will observe that
when 1 said these fellows had no con
nection with you, 1 qualified the asser
tion?"
"Oh. that was very good of you,"
said Brit*.
Sands continued.
"I should like to know right here
and now just how far tills qualified^
tfon extends.”
"Well, Mr. Sands," answered the de
tective as he relighted his cigar
and disposed himself In Ihe most com
fortable of attitudes In the chair be
side the desk, "there are a good many
things we may like to explain. 1
should like, for Instance, to know how
your visiting card came to be in the
possession of a man who Is an inmat<*
of the State Hospital for the Iiisan*
on Ward's Island?”
If Brltz expected to startle Sands In
to any physical expression of guilt,
he was disappointed. The million
aire's muscles were as inflexible as
his determination not to satisfy the
detective's Inquisitiveness in regard
to that which he had taken from tl.9
Hindoo.
You are In a mood for rldd’es. lieu
tenant,” said Sands slowly "Now, you
see, I am not. My time Is too valu
able."
"Well, what are you going to do
about these fellows?" asked Blitz
"Oh. don't you bother about them."
said Sands. "I guess l can take ca;o
of them.”
"I guess you'll guess sgain," spit!
Rrlti, for If anybody is going to take
care of these gentlemen, behold In
me the only original little caretaker.”
Brttz turned to the Hindoos.
"Now, then, you dusky beauties,
suppose you come along with mo.
"Going to carry them?" asked Sands.
Brltz blushed; yes, Brltz fairly aud
1 square!? blushed. In his momentary
exasperation at ihe millions re's suilr
tornness he had forgoiten that net
only the hands, but al.-o the feet o*
the Orientals were hound. However,
he was not to be disconcerted and it
1 was with sufficient readiness that tie
replied:
"You don't suppose I take mv pris
oners through the streets like a mem
ber of the Traffic Squad, do youl
Where's your telephone'.’"
Sands indicated the Instrument and
Brit/, took It tip and called for UlotJ
Spring
"Headquarters?" he asked over the
w ire. "Yes. this is Brltz. Have a wagon
sent from the West. Thirtieth Street
Station to the Sr Barnabas Apartmt lit
house. No. don't send the reserves;
just sent a couple of men. Good by."
As he rang off. he turned and fac d
his host.
"Mr. Sands,'" said h». ‘(here sr*
one or two points about which I wo rd
like to talk to you this evening 1
came to yon frankly and directly be
cause 1 found one of your cards in
the possession of a man who. whi'«
mentally unbalanced, knows some
thing about ike lake Maharanee dia
j mond. After arriving here. I had th«
I opportunity to serve you In the way
of protecting your property And i
I wasted no time in medio* with you.
You see fit to ignore my efforts In that
siredion, although 1 may pay that h it
had not been for me these second
tor? specialists would have been up
1 u' down the lire escape 'and many
books away long before you con'd
have caught them I do not mind t»il
1 iug you. Mr. Sands, that ev»n though
"oil were center ru*-h at Harvard, you
ne not quick enough for Central OfDc*
thi.ig on one of these men that may
or may no' be of Interest to me. In
stead of letting me see it, or telling
me its contents —I'd take your word
for It—you stuff It Into your pocket
and tell me to go to blares Moreover,
when I ask you what disposition you
want mails of these burglars, you al
most tell me it's none of my busi
ness."
Blitz reeked on his heels and thrust
hlr; hands Into hts pockets with fori e
that was eloquent of his displeasure
to anybody who knew him well.
“Now, let me tell you, Mr bands,"
he went on, that it is my business
whrt becomes of these prisoners.
They are going to the Tenderloin Po
lice Station, and a charge ot burglary
Is going to he euteted on the bloiter
sgair'-t them.”
"I am not going to prosecute them,"
erld Rands.
To Be Continued Next Week.)