The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-03-25

Then she shook her head angr1ly and
waddled off, looking as acid an old party
as 1 should ever try to avoid. In at
every door she peered through her gilt
tering glasses, the two porters following
her, until she made a stop before an
empty second-class carriage near my van,
and with much labor and assistance got
herself and her packages into it.
When [ passed, few minutes after
ward, she was standing 10 the doorway.
etrectually barring the door to another
passenger of her own unattractlve ap-
pearance there, and prolonging with an
evident relish the anxieties of the obse-
ouious porters. [ fancy that though the
purse she fumbled III was large, the
coin she wanted was but small, for L
passed on and left her still searching and
still asking questions of the men, but
| hearing nothing either of their replies or
OF the loud asides in which they indulg-
ed to each other. [ had reached the
other end of the train and was just about
making my way back to my own van,
when the young lady I had before MOTTO
| ed went slowly in front of me toward
| the empty first-class compartment near
which [ stood.
cam I right for Easton ?" she asked
me gently as she hesitated at the door.
'.All right, Miss" [ said, taking the
door from her, and standing while she
got i'll. ''Any luggage?" For from
that very moment 1 took her in sort of
way into my charge, besause she was so
thoroughly alones, you see, not having
any friends there even to see her off.
| ''No luggage, thank you" she re-
| piled, putting her little leather satchel
| down beside her on the seat, and setting
herslf in the corner farthest from the
open door. ''Do we stop anywhere be-
tween here and London?'
''Don't stop again, Miss, except for a
few minutes to take tickets. Then [
looked at her as much as to say. You're
all right, because I'm the guard" and
shut the door.
suppose that, without exactly being
aware of it, kept sort of watch over
this carriage, for saw plainly enough a
lazy young gentleman who rersistently
kept lowering about it and looking In.
His inquisitive eyes had of course caught
sight of the pretty face in there alone,
and could see that he was making up
his mind to join her; but he seemed do
ing it in a most careless and languid
manner. He was no gentleman for that
reason, { said to myself, yet his dress
was handsome, and the hand that play
ed with his long, dark beard was small
and fashionably gloved. CHANGING still
into that far corner of that one first class
compartment, he fingered until the last
moment was come; then, quite leisurely,
he walked up to the door, opened it, en-
tered the carriage, and in an instant the
| door was banged to behind him. With
out the least hesitation [ went up to the
| window, and stood near it while the
lamp was fitted in the compartment
| The gentleman was standing up within,
| drawing on a dark overcoat; the young
| lady in the distant corner was looking
from the window as if even the half
| darkness was better to look at than this
| companion. Mortified good deal at
the failure of my scheme for her COM
fort, [ went on to my van, beside which
the detective waited for me.
ono go, you see, he muttered cross
ly, ''and yet it seemed to me so likely
that they'd take this train
81 don't see how it should seem like
| ly," I answered, for hadn't gone with
him in the idea. cit doesn't seem to
me very likely that three such skillful
thieves as you are lodging, who did
their work in this neighborhood so
cleverly two nights ago, should leave the
station any night by the very train which
the police watch with double suspicion. :"
Doesn't it % he echoed. with most
satirical knowingness. perhaps you
haven't yet got it quite clear in your
mind how they will leave the town, for
It's sure enough that they haven't left it
up to now. That they'll he in hurry
| to leave it Is sure enough too, for this
isn't the sort of place they'll care TO hide
in longer than necessary. Well, what s
the hardest place for us to track them
in ?-London. And what's the easiest
place for them to get to sea from p
London. Then naturally enough to
London they'll wallt to go. Isn't this a
fast train, and shouldn't you choose a
fast train if your were running away
from the police p
l didn't tell him what sort of train [
should choose, because [ hadn't quite
made up my mind; and he was looking
cross enough for anything in that last
| glimpse 1 caught of him.
| Having nothing better TO do, [ won
dered a good deal how these thieves
could arrange their getting away while
the walls were covered with the descrip-
WILL VI tIioLu, auu every Oilc1dI on the
line was up in it. There was no doubt
about their being three very dexterous
knaves, but then our detective force was
very dexterous. too, though they wern' t
knaves, (and I do believe, the greater
dexterity is generally on the knavish
side), and SO it was odd that the descrip-
ton still was Ineffective and the offered
reward unclaimed. l read over again
the bill in my pocket which described
the robbers. Edward Capon, alias
Captain Winter, alias John Pearson,
alias DR.. Grow; a thickset, active man
of middle height, and about fifty years
of age; with thick iron-gray hair and
whiskers, dark gray eyes and an aquiline
nose. Mary Capon, his wife, tall wo-
man of forty; with a handsome, fair face,
a quantity of very red hair, and cut
across her under lip. Edward Capon,
their son, slightly built youth of not
more than fifteen or SIXTEEN" Though,
| for the matter of that. T thouobt he