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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.
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(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.
Kdwlu P, Jones, former lieutenant
governor of Now York state, lias b(j
como a novelist. Uls novel, "Itlchard
liaxter," compares favorably with
many of tho novels of rural American
life.
The CloimitlM,
It is said that tho decay and death of
tho clematis Is sometimes duo to thu
sun on tho lower portion of tho stems
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Tlino HtiinUiiril,
Iiclglum nud Holland use Greenwich
time. In Germany, Austria, Denuintk,
Italy, Scuudlnavla mid Switzerland ono
hour before Greenwich time rules.
Flrxt Kliulortfnrteii,
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