The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-05-12

before, and gave me the paper | wanted.
7 told Gardet that | should remain at
Ossiut for few days, and requested him
to leave with the boat at night for Upper
Egypt, and remarked that l would over
take him on horseback in four or five
days at the most. | further requested
him to give out that | was on board, and
to make any excuse he pleased for my
non-appearance. This done, l reoined
Achmet Bey, and desired him to show
me the room from which the safe was
stolen. 1t WAS in the second story, and
could be reached only by passing through
two smaller chambers. Having reached
it, I desired to be left alone; and now
began survey.
The room was sixteen feet square-on
the eastHsand west sides there were no
openings. The walls were waited, and
hung with red tapestry; but for economy,
this was stretched tightly along the wall.
The ceiling was composed of BEAMS on
the upper side of which planks were fas-
tened. There was apparently no opening
communicating with the loft above. A
lounge, covered with dalna5k, occupied
one portion of the room, while ottomans
Of various patterns were disposed in the
corners. On the north side was the door
of entrance. This | examined carefully,
and found upon the wooden bolt. which
could be drawn only from within, no
mark of violence, nor even q, fresh scratch.
On the south side Of the apartment were
two windows, small, it is true, butstlI Of
size sufficient TO admit the ingrcss Of an
ordinary sized man. One was latt:ccd-
the other had the lattice removed. [ ex-
amined both the sills-thero was no rub
bing Of the paint, and no sand remaining
which could have been brought by the
foot Of an intruder. .M
Re I was puzzled. The floor yet remained
to be examined. 1t was of red and blue
tile, and appeared solid throughout; there
were no marks Of footsteps upon it; aud
in solpe places the dust had accumulated
llundisturbed I now descended, and was
met by Achmet. [ put on an expression
Of intelligence but declined conversation !;
and to his question, Any trace yet? 2"
l simply replied, " Wait! Allah will not
let wickedness so unpunshed.'
1t was now nearly dusk, yet began to
reconnoitre the exterior of the palace. It
was of an oblong form, and its greatest
length was from east to west. There was
but one tree very near it, and that was a
gigantic palm, which lowered twice the
height of the palace, at about yards
distance from its walls. next examined
the windows Of the chamber from below.
There was a blank wall to their very s;lls.
then searched the ground for indications
of the use of ladder; and in so doing,
found the marks of feet. There was a
deep indentation as from jump, beneath
the window which had no easement, and
from this mark a single track led off to
the village. But in these tracks there
was one popularity, which was ,particu-
larry observable from the loary soil; all
the heel prints were deeper than those Of
the toe. 1t lad now become dark, and |
re-entered the palace. TO avoid ques-
tioning, l Immediately ret.red-not to
sleep, but to think.
And now let me trace the conclusions
to which [ came. I argued that the thief
was one Of those to whom the treasure
had been shown; that he must have been
courageous, to have taken that which an
armed man most priced from beneath the
pillow on which he slumbered; he must
also have been athletic, to place sufficient
confidence in himself, in case of discovery.
[ further reasoned that he must have been
Of the higher order, to know that q few
shining stones were Of immense value,
and to have been permitted to view them
by Achmet Bey. Next, to the question,
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I" How did he enter!' l argued after this
manner:-He assuredly did not get in at
the window, for the footprints all pointed
away from it; then, as the hee prints
were deepest, he must have taken those
| steps backward, to mislead any observer
from bis true mode of exit; and he made
the counterfeit Of a leap, to further that
impression; ergo, he must have been a
cunning man. MD
I now returned in fancy to my scrutiny
of the room; all was examined except the
ceiling, aud it was next to impossible that
he had entered from the walls, floor or
window-he must have come from the
roof But one other suggestion presented
itself, and that / at once dismissed. 1t
was this: could he have been hidden in