New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-03-01

udHu, duu again TecelVe my nedTCIelC
acknowledgment for this superb master
piece.'
The jewellers beaming countenance,
on grasping his namesake's hand,
''can be better imagined than descrih-
ed"
'.Now to business said the colonel.
':Be SO kind as to take out my pocket
book, and count off your G15O0, for do
not wish to tarry moment before show
ing your che a. euvre to my wife,
The jeweller hastenedto comply. He
took from the officers breast coat-pock-
ct a card-case, setof ivory tablets, and
q silk purse, through whose meshes
glittered some five or six sovereigns-
but no pocket book. Upon the colonel's
request, he then examined all of This pock-
cts. The search was futile.
Strange! Incomprehensible! Could I
have lost it, or been robbed?' muttered
the colonel, audibly, perplexed and pro-
voked. ''What o'clock is it?'' he sud-
denly asked.
Twenty minutes to ive.''
'Good! It is time enough. You must
make yourself serviceable to me once
more, my dear Mr.. Green, and act as
my secretary. You know I cannot use
my right hand. Will you have the good
ness to write few lines for me to my
wife?''
With these words, the colonel stepped
to the jewellers desk, on which lay
some writing paper printed with the
name Of the firm. Taking sheet he
placed it before the jeweller, saying,
''This will do. My wife knows that I
am here" He then dictated, and the
jeweller wrote:
my DEAR W1FE:-Have the goodness to
send me at once &l5OO through the bearer. You
know where the money is kept. lam in i'm
messenger, who is trustworthy person:
"Your af1ectionate husband.
JAMES GREEN"
''Thank you," said the colonel, after
perusing the epistle. ''Michael," he
cried, stepping to the door and calling
the groom, ''take this letter, ride home
as fast as you can, and return at once to
this place with that which my wife will
give YOU
The groom took the letter, bowed, and
quickly drove off.
Fifteen minutes, half an hour, nearly
an hour passed away, and Michael did
not return. The colonel waxed impa-
tient, and wished that he had gone in
person for the money. The jeweller
essayed to tranquillize him, but ineffect-
ually.
Il have always regarded the fellow as
honest and trustworthy" said the col
Onel, land have on several occasions in
trusted him with large sums of money,
though, it is true, never with as much as
at this time. Fifteen hundred pounds
may have proved too strong tempta-
ton for him." Pulling out his magnifi-
cent gold watch, he continued, II will
wait just seven and a half minutes long,
er, for that is exactly the time it takes
him to drive hither from Leicester
Square,
The seven and a half minutes were
gone, and the groom had not come.
The colonel could contain himself no
longer.
.'Do me the favor, Mr.. Green, to call
cab,'' he said, in the greatest impa-
tience. II shall 60 home myself, and
will return within half an hour
The cab was soon at the door.
''Quick to Leicester Squarer' cried the
colonel to the coachman. "A half-crown
extra, if you drive well.''
The cab drove off as rapidly as the,
horses could 60. The goldsmith in the
meantime had the service packed up,
and waited for his patrons return. The
clock struck six, seven, eight, nine. The
colonel did not come. Something un-
usual must have detained him; but the
jeweller felt no anxiety, for had he not
still the service and deposit of f100?
Tired of waiting at last, he closed his
shop at half after nine and went home.
His wife, who had long been expecting
him, had grown sleepy, and was slumb-
ering peacefully on sofa. An open
letter lay in her lap. Mr.. Green stepped
lightly to her side, intending to wake
her with kiss, when his eyes fell upon
the letter.
''What is this?" he cried, dumfound-
ed, as he recognized his own handwrit-
ing and the letter which he had just
written for the colonel.
The reader can readily guess the sequel
and the connection.
True, there existed Colonel Green
who had served in India and the Crimea,
and had been wounded at Balaklava,
who had rented the house in Leicester
Square, and who possessed a consider
able fortune; but, alas! he was not the
Colonel Green who had ordered the
silver service. Heaven knows by what
means the sharpers had gained knowl-
edge Of all the facts and circumstances
upon which they constructed their adj
mirably ingenious plan.
The man personating the groom Of
course was an accomplice, and the letter
which Mr.. James Green had penned for
the pseudo Colonel James Green was
delivered by him to the jewellers wife,
who did not hesitate minute to deliver
to him the E15OO, because she recog-
nized her husbands handwriting upon
the paper stamped with the name of the
jewelry firm. Who the sly rogues
were never came to light.
Monkeys.
Joe, monkey at the London :.Zoo,'
could never be got back into his cage
when once he was allowed his liberty
outside. But he had one weakness
that of curiosity and the keeper, look
ing down dark hole, attracted the at
tention Of the monkey, who slowly APP
preached him to find out the cause of
the investigation. Suddenly the keeper
would start back, and, the monkeys
courage deserving him, he flew to the
shelter OF his cage, when the door would
be shut. This trick was successfully
played on him every time, month after
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