.t. riT i f r aMvfei' Hkw)ulm"mntz2 OfM - At I, A GAME "DIAMONDS tCopJ-rlBht. 1WS. by a B. Ltwl. Mr. John P. Saunders, Jtist from Kns land nud a very ingrntlntlni: sort of man, hnd patronized a Maiden lima Jewelry house to the extent of $1,000 In cash nud hnd met nud dined the lead foj; traveler of Uie house, whose unuio wan Tnylor. Their acquaintanceship was only nbout two weeks old when Mr. Tnylor Hinted out over his western route, cur rying STo.OOO worth of diamonds with li'lm. lie reached Chicago to tlnd the KugllMiman there n day ahead of him. Mr. 'minders wat looking for a Ions lost eoiHn, and while ho looked for the otwln with one hand he dispensed lios pltjillty very liberally with the other. He wined and dined the traveler so often that they became ehunnny. He took Mr. Taylor Into his confidence and j uiihooincd himself and nskru linn to be n brother td him. When the pair hnd been In Chicago n week and the traveler was about ready to move to Milwaukee, Mr. Saunders announced in a Inughlng way that he bad turned drummer for a day to help Ids friend out. A man who ran n cer tain factory wanted to get his wife Komcthlng unique In the way of a birth day present. Mr. Sauudcrs had hap pened to meet him and to sugcest his frleud, and If Mr. Tnylor would accom pany him to the house that evening he would be sure of n sale amounting to at least $1,000. The traveler would bo only too glad to do so, of course. He couldn't expect n rich man and a busy man to come to his hotel to took at samples. It was about S o'clock of an nutuiuu. cvenlnc when the pair set forth from I the hotel In n carriage. A light rain j was falling, and this was an excuse for putting up the windows. Taylor was fairly well acquainted with Chi- cago, but In that drive, which lasted an hour, he was nil turned nround. When the vehicle finally stopped he, onlv saw that the house, which stood' alone, had n respectable exterior, and he followed Saunders up the steps and was admitted. They were greeted by tho wealthy manufacturer himself, who was introduced as n Mr. Harmon, and they at once proceeded to the li brary to talk business. No servant or any member of the family was to be seen. There was some general talk ns they lighted cigars, and then Mr. Har mon said: "Mr. Taylor, I nm sorry to have troubled you to make this long ride, but I could not very well go to you and carry out my plans. The Idea bs to rob you of your gems. That was tho plan from the day Saunders en tered the store In New York, nnd It Is needless to say we have spcut consid erable time and money up to dnte." "You uecm Inclined to Joke," replied Taylor as he looked from one to the other In a puzzled way. "But you will find this no Joke," Mid die man as he pulled a pistol from his pocket and rested It on his knee. "You have a belt containing a lot of valu able gems strapped around your waist. Will you quietly hand It over or shall wo take possession of It nfter your, death;" ' "Look here, man!" exclaimed tho salesman ns he skirted up. "What sort of a gamo is this? Is It a Joko to test my nerve or do you really mean rob bery V" "It'B Just thla, my dear brother," nnswered Saunders as ho also produced a revolver. "I brought you here to bo robbed. You are a good fellow, and X don't want to see you hurt, but wo must have thoso gems. You are not armed nnd have no chance against us. This house was hired on purpose to ' receive you nnd carry through this Job. . You see, we ore two to one and have all the advantage, and I do hope you jrtll look at It In a sensible way." Taylor had lots of nerve and pluck, and for a few moments he dolled thu fellows. He was, liowevcr, boon made to realize that they were dexperato roBcais, and ns tbey wero on the point of assaulting him ho announced thut ho would surrender tho gems. "Ttint Is good common senso," said ! 8uundera as ho received them. "The loss does not fall upon you, but upon the house, which Is well ablo to stand It. Now, pleaso bo ns senaibio about the uext more. Wo have got your gems, Out "wo need at least twenty-four hours start. We shall lock you up In a closet and provide you -with food, water and cigars, and by thla time tomorrow Zoning a man -will como and set you free iSannders protested nnfl threatened, jbut in tho end ho entered the closet oft tho back parlor nnd was locked in. cn minutes later ho was alone in tho house. They left him a pitcher of wa- tor n good luncheon and a dozen cl- Bow. As noon as he was satlsfled- that they n'ad departed ho began work on ono of fho miDols of the door with his pocket- Srffo. It was a solid hardwood af Ir, nnd It was hours beforo he suffi ciently weakened tho pauel so that ho ppuld kick it out and squeeze through. it woe JuBt growing daylight when ho left tho house by u window, und ho hwnd himself n good four miles from ' the houso on tho floor above. At tho bedroom and there Ml me, and I heard , 1810 at Blankciiburg, Prussia, and, llko Lis hotel. Beforo leaving tho pluce ho '',1'1 of a hall opposlto where a stair- liim carry something into n room M-. lot Innovations, mot with mint en looked about nnd found that only the t" i' to tho floor nbovo tho safe Ih Joining. This done, ho camo lu t!uou.'li cdurngomont and considerable oppoil Siall and narlor of tho houso hud been kopr. I led tho way up a front stair-, u door which lie loft open, putting n tln, but it gradually gained a footing urnlshoil andvonr noorly at thut lhl?. niitl, going along tho upper .ball, , linger on his lips to liistiru silence. in. the best educated countries, and its fl", U..u2 iof i .Krt "milV''-' M' t00k PwlUo" ut 0 d 9f U-S Wo mit for u t,ui(i vltboutpeaUlng. ' progress more recently hart beep rapid. crots of tne Business, but l must n-u you that Mr. Tnylor was no sort snap. While he had no suspicious of Mr. Snunders or his friend until too late, he had played the game thnt nil diamond salesmen are up to that Is, ho was provided with n full (dock of falso gems. These were In n belt around him ns he left the hotel, while the real gems were In a chamois bag In his coat tall pocket. A search would have brought them to light, of course, but no search was made. M. OUAD, EeeLves From a. Detective's Notebook OrlctnaL We were a Jolly house party at the country residence of my friend Colonel Peterson till n damper was cast upou the festivities by the announcement Hint one of the guests had lost n valu able diamond ring. There was tiot n servant m uie nousc urn u;m own u. the family for years nud thus far had been perfectly honest. There was no evidence of the house having been en- ervnut in the house but had been lu terod from without. Everything Mut ed to n suplclou that some one of thu guests was the thief. As I hnd a fancy for amateur de tective work, 1 asked the host to put the case lu my hands. Ho did so, and 1 commenced my observations at once. All 1 asked of Colonel Peterson was to prevent any guest from leaving If he could possibly do m without making n scene. This he promised, but none of the guests would leave until tho thief was discovered. It is well kuown that detectives usu ally get their clews from observing mi nut lie. I began n systematic entry In a notebook, a copy of which I give: 1- Saw MKs Ives come out of Miss Benton's room. When she discovered uie looking nt her she started, 2- Wllklns Is feeing the servants more lavishly than is proper in the houe of n host. Saw him hand the butler a silver dollar today. 3. Another gem missing, - Hovey keeps the tip end of tho forefinger of his right hand covered with kid. Keeps his nails well pared and says he cut the nail of this linger too closely. 5. Wilson is the man. I have Just heard thnt his money was made In or ganizing schemes, getting In other peo ple's funds and selling out. So says Barker, but I am not sure that Barker is not prejudiced against Wilson. C Miss Ives Is very conscious every time I look at her. Caught her whis pering with Miss Martin, nnd when they saw me they stopped and walked away from each other. Wouldn't have Miss Ives turn out to be the thief for the world. I nm half lu love with her. 7. Another gem missing today. The coloucl insists on nil the Jewels of his guests being placed in his safe. He alone knows the combination. The Jew els were put In tho safe this morning, each in a box marked by the name of Its owner. S. Have been approached by several persons today saying they suspect Miss Ives. They declare she has been acting queerly, but they have not caught her doing anything peculiar. 0. Miss Ives came to me this evening, with tears in her eyes, to say that the guests nil net as if they suspected her. She explains It all in this wise: SIiq says thnt she left a hat pin in Miss Burton's room and went for It. When she came out nnd saw me looking nt her, remembering that any one of us Is liable to suspicion, she felt embarrass ed. She consulted Miss Martin to know what she ought to do, and Miss Martin hns been talking to tho others, who have caught a false impression. Poor Miss Ives is heartbroken over the mat ter. I am thoroughly convinced that sho is Innocent. I would give my head j 4s. .... !. ... I j iiiu u iivr nu, t 10. Am watching Wilson llko a hawk, He has a passion for Jewelry and wears . n great deal of It. Tho thefts having , usually b&n committed at night, I am , going to watch Wilson's bedroom door, j l'ortuiiatoly It Is directly opposite mine, i 11. Last night revealed the thief. Sin gularly enough, It was Miss Ives who ltd Mm way to the discovery. About 12 midnight Wllson'H door opened cautiously, and I heard him 1( uve his room In ills slippers. Slipping on a dressing gown, I followed him. j He went to tho dining room and ' strnlgU rr a drawer In tho buffet whore the silverware is kept. Ho open- ed the drawer nnd took out a snoon. i Ho then oiiened a door below and took out n bottle. Ho poured somo liquor Into a glnt-s, put in some sugar with the spoon ho hud taken, poured in wa- tor, btlrred tho mlxturo and drank it. Ho then went back to his room. I re ninlned below till I heard his door shut, 1 v. gie.illy disappointed, Starting back to my chamber, I felt n touch on my shoulder. Tho gas, turned down, Is kept burning in the. dining room, and by its dim light I ww Miss Ives in looso gowu und Blip-P"i-. I looked tit her astonished. "One of the guests is ut work at the safe," fch3 said. "You don't mean It!" "I heaid n footstep nud followed It. Come," We both stole softly to a rear part back Rhiltvaso, wncro wo coum which the safe. Some one was working at It a man. He bad n light, which was hut off by a acreen. We could see him distinctly. Ho wuh Hovcy. Holding the tip of his fotvllttger (the linger ho had kept covered) ngalnst the lock, he was turning the knob back nud forth. He worked half an hour. Plnnlly there was a click, and ho open ed tho safe door. Taking out the boxes of Jewelry, bo shut tho snfo and re turned to his room, 1 scut Miss Ives to bed and awakened the colonel. To gether wo went to Hovey's room and found him getting ready to leave the house. He confessed. He hud cut the tip of his linger to tho blood vessels and could feel the tumblers fall. Miss Iven Is going to marry me. She Bays her love began with gratitude for the sympathy I gave her In her trouble. Tho colonel says It should hnvc been with pity for my stupidity as a detec tive. MAKY W. 11LAKK. -- Htlm. ,...). UBTIt'lVr llVvl . J V fl .M I' fV I A I t A 'H l I L llllvIL iluUU II LIU (Original. I had Just tumbled into bed nfter a hard day's work among my pntlents when there was a sharp ring nt the telephone. I keep the Instrument with in reach of my pillow nud seized tho receiver. "Doctor, my nurse is killing me. If you don't" There wns a click, and after that si lence. I had been shut off. 1 rang nnd called "Hello!" and "Central!" at last gettlug n reply from "Central," of whom I nsked with whom I hnd beeu lu communication; but tho girl nt the olllce couldn't tell me. I wss too much discomposed to lie In bed with the thought of one of my pa tients Wing murdered by a nurse whom I had recommended (I recommend nil the nurses employed in my cases), so I got up, lighted the gns nud waited, hoping for nuother call. The voice was more like that of n woman than a man, but what woman I could not tell. I have n large practice and so ninny pa tients that it would be considerable of an effort to go over the list with n view to studying probabilities. I gradually subsided to the opinion that there had been some mistake In the call and en deavored to dismiss the matter from my mind. After an hour's waiting I turned lu again and finally fell asleep. I awoke before daylight and lay thinking over the matter of my strange telephone message. At that hour, when one Is rested nfter a night's sleep and nil is yet quiet, the brain is clearer than nt nny other time. I reviewed all my patients, but not one of them was like ly to have cause to be dissatlsilcd with her nurse. Patients sometimes turn against their nurses for some rensou, usually becnuso tho nurso chooses to become domineering. I wns forced to the opinion that this was one of those cases nnd resolved in my round of vis Its that day to keep my eyes open with this in view. I breakfasted and started earlier than usual, proposing to spend addi tional time In discovering who hnd call- 1 inc. Nevertheless, though I was ex- j trt-mrly watchful, I failed to detect . the bhghtest discord between nny of my patients and the nurse In charge. During the night the telephone bell rang. I put tho receiver to my car, and a voice was saying, "Doctor, doctor, doctor!" pitifully. "Well," I snld, whereupon tho voice continued, "My nurse Is killing me!" There was a click and no more words, nor did I suc ceed in getting the voice again. I mada up my mind the next day to interview every womnn patient of mine without her nurse being present. Wher ever I called I Kent the nurse out of the room and nsktd the patient if sho was satisfied with her attendant. All of them answered lu the afllrmatlve ex cept one or two, whp, though they were not especially pleased with their ut-1 tindaiits, wore not disposed to change them. None of them Intlmnted that her nur.c wns 111 treating or killing her, I went home feeling very much dlscour-1 aged with my investigation. The next day, of twelve nurses I hnd asked to leave the room while I interviewed tho patient they attended, seven asked to bo relieved of their duties. As every doctor needs good nurses, I was very much troubled. I asked them all to re main nt their posts till I could explain ny action, and I then went to a detcc tlvo olllce, related the ehcumstituceand asked If they bad a man who would ferret out tho case. One of their num ber was asnlgucd the duty, and 1 dis missed the matter from my mind. I wns not called up again by the mysterious patient, but I learned aft envurd that the detective left Instruc tions with tho central ofllco whenuvr I was called to call lilin flist. if the cull wns not unusual I was then callul.l Two days nfter my vlblt to thu do. , tcctlvo olllco I recelvul a nolo that If; tho next night I should go to a liou-o ' occupied by a gentleman whoso fain-. Uy physician I had onco boon 1 would receive an explanation of in.v sliiguha , calls. IJoforo going to bed I went to tho houso In question, where I tuel the detective. IIo took mo upstairs to it I heard nothing In tho otiier iou... cept a grating as of'iiomcthlng against metal. Suddenly there was a click. It wns the raising of ii telephone receiver, and a cracked voice nnld, "1 want Dr. Scarborough." Since I urn tho doctor referred to I was somuwhut astonished. Tho call for Dr, Scarborough wns re peated (It occurred to mo that "Central" was asking for tho numbur) till at last 1 hoard a ring and them "Doctor, doc tor, my nurse Is killing nud If you don't take her nwny I shall dlol" This In part was repented several times. Then there was a click. Tho detective went Into theNmlJolnlug room and call ed on mo to follow. There, hopping nbout, was n hugo parrot, tho only occupant of thu room. "ThU parrot," said tho detective, "oc cupied the adjoining room to this one when a patient of yours was hero de lirious and convinced that her nurso was trying to kill her. Tho bird re peatedly heard you rung up on tho tele phono and listened for weeks to tho patient catling on you to save her from her nurse. It was not much trouble for ino to locate this phone nud, oneo located, make thu discovery. The par rot N placed hero every night, let out of her cage and permitted to roam nbout thu room, Sho htm only to tuko up the receiver to get "Central" nud In variably hangs it up again, shutting off the circuit. After that tho parrot was kept away from tho telephone. SIRES AND 80NS. William Travers Jeromo spends hta die moments making electrical clocks. Commander Peary snyH of north pol chasing that "it is full of the pleasure if anticipation uumnrrcd by tho disap pointment of realization." Senntor Cockrell of Missouri finds his chief recreation In dupllcnto whist The senator has half n dozen friends wlio can always bo depended upou to make up a table. Squire B. II. Gutldln of rottsvlllo, Pa., is tho oldest Justice of tho peacu In thnt state, having been first commis sioned by Lincoln. Ho is ninety years of age and wears summer ralmont all the year. Although Audrow Carneglo formerly lived lu Pittsburg nnd has donated rovcral million dollars toward the ad vancement of education then, ho does not own n dollar's worth of property In that city. Congressman Benjamin P. Blrdsall, who succeeds Spcakur Henderson from the Third Iowa district, will bo n nota ble addition to Wnshlngtou literary cir cles, for he Is n student of literary sub jects and a book lover. William It. Smith, superintendent of tho national botanical garden In Washington, owns what Is believed to be the Ilnest library of Its kind In thu world. It is composed entirely of works written by und books relating to, Itobert Burns. Senator McCreary of Kentucky and Senator Stono of Missouri wero torn In tho same great old Bluo Grass county, Madison, which is still McCreary's home. Both havo been governors of their states, nnd they took their oaths us bcuntors on the same day last March. William Colllni of Albion, N. Y., who assisted in the capture of John Wilkes Booth, tho iihsubsIii of President Lin coln, has become Insane nnd Is confined In n lunatic asylum. Ho Is tho Inst survivor but one of tho party of twenty-live thut started out from Washing ton In pursuit of Booth uftcr tho trag edy. THE WRITERS'. Tolstoi is tho most widely "trans lated" author In Uio world. Thoro la no Blnv dialect into which his worka have not bceu translated. Miss Holen Burnsldc, who has been awarded n ponslon by tho Authors' so ciety, lias, it is believed, written more Chrlstmiis card verses than nny othor living person. Connu Doylo does not euro to havo tho "Sir" put beforo 1i!b numo on tho tltlo pages of his books, and ho espe chilly forbids It In tho caso of works published lu this country. .7. M. Barrie, the English author, de rives an lncomo of over $33,000 a year from royalties on his plnys, all of which hnvo locn phouomennlly successful both in Great Britain nnd America. 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