The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-10-23

children, with nearly the whole of the lug
a were already safely in the vessel; Mr.
Harvey only remained on shore to purchase
some trifing article and to settle his bill al
the hotel on removing his last trunk. Cart
wright had tracked him all day he could
not attack him in the street, and he finally
followed him to the hotel, in order to wreak
his vengeance on him in his private apart.
ment. of the situation of which he had in
formed himself.
Harvey entered the hotel first, and before
Cartwright came up he had gone down a
passage INTO the bar TO settle the bill which
he had incurred for the last two days. Not
aware of this circumstances, Cartwright, in
the hustle which prevailed, went up stairs to
Mr.. Harvey's bedroom and parlor, in neither
of which, to his surprise, did he find the &C.
cupant, and he turned way discomftted.
Passing along towards the chief staircase, he
perceived a room of which the door was
open, and that on the table there lay a gold
watch and a~ppendages. Nobody was in the
apartment; the gentleman who occupied it
had only a few moments before gone to his
bed chamber for brief space. Quick as light
ming a diabolical thought flashed through
the brain of the villain, who had been baffled
in his original intentions. He recollected
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and that the keys hung in the lock. An in
conceivably short space of time served for
him to seize the watch, to deposit it at the
bottom of Harvey's trunk, and to quit the
hotel by a back stair, which led by n short
cut to the harbor. The whole transaction
was done unperceived, and the wretch at
last departed unnoticed.
Having finished his business at the bar,
Mr.. Harvey repaired to his room, locked his
trunk, which, being of a small and handy
size, he mounted on his shoulder, and pro-
ceeded to leave the house by the back stair,
in order to get as quickly as possible to the
vessel. Little rocked he of the interruption
which was to be presented to his departure.
He had got as far as the foot of the stair
with his burden when he was overtaken by
a waiter, who declared that he was going to
leave the house clandestinely, without set
thing accounts. 1t is proper to mention that
MIR. Harvey had incurred the enmity of this
particular waiter in consequence of having.
out of his slender resources, given him too
small a gratuity on the occasion of paying
his former bill, and not aware of the second
bill being settled, the waiter was rather glad
to ave an opportunity of charging him with
a fraudulent design. In vain Mr.. Harvey
demonstrated, saying he had paid for every
thing. The waiter would not believe his
statement, and detained him still he should
hear better about it,"
"Let me 60, fellow; | insist upon it" said
Mr.. Harvey, burning with indignation. II
am already too late"
'Not a step till | ask master if accounts
are squared"
At this moment, while the alteration was
at the hottest, a terrible ringing of bells was
heard, and above stairs was a loud noise of
voices, and of the feet running to and fro.
A chambermaid came hurriedly down the
stairs. exclaiming that some one had stolen
a gold watch from No. II, and that nobody
ought to leave the house till it was found.
The landlord also, moved by the hurricane
which had been raised, made his appearance
at the spot where Harvey was interrupted
in his exit.
"What on earth is all this noise about,
John 2" inquired the landlord of the waiter.
"Why, sir, l thought it rather strange for
any gentleman to leave the house by the
back way, carrying his own ~portmanteau,
and so | was making a little breeze about it,
fearing he had not paid his bill, when all of
a sudden Sally rushes down the stair and
says as how No. II has missed his gold
watch, and that no one should quit the
hotel"
No. II, an old, dry looking military gen.
himself on the scene, uttering terri
bic threats of legal proceedings against the
house for the loss he had sustained.
Harvey vas stupefed and indignant, yet
he could hardly help smiling at the pother.
What" said he, shave 1 to do with all this?
l have paid for everything; l am surely en-
titled to 60 away if | like. Remember that
if l lose my passage to Boston you shall an
swer for it."
81 very much regret OBTAINING you, sir"
replied the keeper of the hotel; 'but You
hear there has been a robbery committed
within the last few minutes, and as it will
be proper to search every one in the house,
surely you, who are on the point OF depart
ure, will have no objections to be searched
first, and then be at liberty to go ?" as
There was something so perfectably rea-
sonable in all this that Harvey stepped into
an adjoining parlor, and threw open his
trunk for inspection, never doubling that his
would be Immediately manifest.
The waiter, whose mean rapacity had
been the cause of the detention, acted as ex-
aminer. He pulled one article after another
of the trunk, and at l~ength--horror of
horrors-held up the missing watch with a
look of triumph and scorn.
"Who put that there ?' cried Harvey in
agony of mind which can be better i'm
agined than described. "Who has done me
this grievous wrong? l know nothing as to
how the watch came into my trunk" I5e
No one answered this appeal. All pres
ent stood for a moment in gloomy silence.
Sir" said the landlord to Harvey on
recovering from his surprise, 81 am sorry for
you. For the sake of a miserable triae you
nave brought ruin and disgrace on yourself.
This is a matter which. concerns the honor
of my house. and cannot stop here. How
ever much it is against my feelings, you
go before a magistrate"
by all MEANS added No. IL, with the
Importance of an injured man. "a pretty
thing that ones watch is not safe in a house
like this"
''John, send Boots for a constable" said
the landlord. .t |
Harvey sat with his head leaning on his
hands. a deadly cold nersniraticn trickled |