Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-11-18

/ tnb NJ MotuN nave tp give III. Case VI
but iha l,r sident wonldu'tl-t McWattsrs
give i, up. and told HIM if h hadn't any
other clu, but a bag, why, to make the
most Of that bag.
So McWatt rs st to work ON the casa
one NOR with nohin' but theory
to guida him and privat mark on
bag. OF coursn, the bankin house had
kept tn robbery qui for lis own sake,
SO McWattls didn't have any report rs
to bother him with GU stions or any other
people to p str him with tn II p t
"cl VS. This. rs h sid aft rward,
WAS III only point il his fIyor. 1t gave
him at least. if h. fail d. as h made up
his miad he would sooner or later,
chance to fail in his own WY.
Havin thought the bag business care
fully over. McWattors made up hlS mind
that if the bag hadn't been d stroyed or
conccaled it might have found its way to
the old ragmen. Sob made tn acquaint-
ance OF lot Of old rlgm II who prowlcd
around downtown districts. and made up
a cock-and-bull story that he want 4 TO
find particular bag with a particular
kind of mark on it. and that il anybody
came across such bag h. w1s willln to
pay good prica for it.
Weeks pass d on, and several old rag
men cam to him and showed him This
bag and that bag but o1 colwso it wasn't
the kind Of bag he wanted. At last one
oh ragman who had fooled him twice
bcforr. told him that this time he thought
| he hal seen the bag he wanted.
Seen it ?" said NIcWatters. Haven't
you got the bag, You me:n?"
NO p" said the ragman u saw 1t III
the hands of coachman belonging to
swell family up town the other day, and
] made the coachman an Offer for II, but
he wouldn't sill it to me.
McWatters promised the old ragman
to make it I'll right with him. and got
him to tell him who the coachman was
and where the stable was and who EN-
ploved the Goodman. He found that
the coachmnu's employer was one of the
biggest Wall street brokers and . warm
friend of the president Of the hankin'
house
This was news. and in case the coach
mans bag should h'ppon to be the bank
in houses bag, why then things might
loom up in the way Of startllp discovery
at last
Wei. the coachm-n's bag turned ont
to be the identical bankin' house hag,
after sill. The old raGman, under some
excuse. took NcWatters one day to the
stable whore the coachman was. and got
talkin about bags and got the coachman
| to show McWattcrs the bag. There il
was. exactly the bag that the stolen money
had been IN with that little private mark
in the corner of the bag. But I'll Nc
| Wattcrs's idea of things loomin' mp in
! the way Of n startlin' discovery ut LIST
proved to bc sheer moonshine. For Me
Waters found ont that the coachman's
master hadn't given him the bag that
his master didn't know anythin' about
his hayin' the bag. Ind never seen tha
bag. The coachman had bought il for
song of a boy thlt ne d to sell old odds
and ends boy with m ugly yellow dog.
That WAS all the coacmnon knew about
the bag
Wei. McWatters and the coachman
got to be quite fri ndly. and at st Me
Walters coaXed the co2chmon ont of the
bag. But where was the boy with the
uolv yellow dog?
One rainy day McWattcrs was tryin'
to catch street car in hurry, when
dog got between his legs, nearly threw
him down and made him lose the car.
The dog WAS very ugly and very yellow.
and there WIS boy Just beyond that H.
seemed t. belong to. McWattcrs got
talkin' to that boy pretty lively. and hS-
fore long h" found that 10y luck. he Ind
tramplcd upon the dog. with The boy at
tached. he WIS lookin for. The hoy Was
\ prddlcr of odds and ends and remem-
bered haviu' sold q bag mp town to u
] H., 4 la
| McWattcrs took The boy and the dog mp
town; IN boy with the dog rccogniA Il
the coachmm and The coachman. though
he didn't prccis ~ recognize the boy,
WAS ready 10 sw ar to The dog. And
when the bag was shown him tn boy y
mt mbared It at ono .. but that WIS all.
/ He did not m NIB y Whcrc or from
whom h had gotten tn bag. NlcWat-
t,rs coaxad him and thr. atcned him and
tried to bribe him. but thn boy couldn't
member anvthin about The bag, sayin'
that WIS thr bag.
McWattcrs findin' out that the hoy
with tn ugly dog, was even ugll,r than
his deg. had mother. with whom he
lived. hunted mp The old woman. But
the old woman didn't rem mbcr anythin
about the bag at cll-Cidn't even re-
member ever havin' seen it. So McWat-
tars came to another standstill in this
curious case. II had got from tn" rag
man to the coachman. from the coachman
/ to the bog, aud from the bag to tn boy
with fh ugly dog and 10 what he Would
n couldn't e any furIh T.
One afternoon, walkin along the Bow
cry McWatt RS came across his ugly dog
with the ueli.r hoy, and tn thrt" tllrn Il
into Bayard street. whore tn boy was
goin' to do SOM busin S with an old
ragpiekcr of tn fmala p rsuasion
known as Saucy Mol" At + Saucy
Moll and thn ugly boy hal finished tlI"ir
tradin, just as he and McWattcrs and
thr dog ", r. leavin', thr old woman hol-
ler 4 ont ia The boy: Wat ever become
Of that ere funny bag | gave You one day
by golly. says the boy. slappin his
hand ON his sides AMI tirnin' to McWat-
ters. "now know where got that bag
You have boon maxim all that time about
-Saucv Moll Y ii to IN" one oft ruo"n
when she was III good mmor and got
ahead Of m in one Of har trades. Surc
enough McWatt RS. by another lucky
chance, had Init on the trail of that bag
Mt last. H. mad friends with SIucy
Moll md refreshed her memory till she
nj last recollectcd that she had bought
thn bag of The daughter Of III janitr S,
Of n buildin in Pine street below vii
liam.