The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-21


'Goodl IL is time enough. You mus
make yourself serviceable to me one,
more, my dear Mr.. Green, and act a
my secretary. You know cannot us,
my right hand VIII YOU have the good
ness to write a few lines for me to my
| wifepn
With these words, the colonel stepped
10 the jewellers desk, on which lay
some writing paper printed with the
name of the firm. Taking sheet hi
! placed it before the jeweller, saying
This will do. My wife knows that
am here" He then dictated, and the
jeweller wrote;
my DEAR WIFg:-Have tho goodness &c
send me at once tl500 through the bearer. You
know where the money Is kept. am IN inn
mediate need Of 1t; therefore do not detain the
messenger, VINO is trustworthy person.
Your aiiectiondte husband,
JAMES GREEN"
Thank you" said the colonel, after
perusing the epistle. "AIichael,n 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 vranquillize him, but ineifect-
ually.
81 have always regarded the fellow as
honest and trustworthy" said the col
onel, ''and have on several occasions in
trusted him with large sums Of money,
though, it is tue, never with as much rs
at this time. Fifteen hundred pounds
may have proved too strong a tempta-
ton for him." Pulling out his magnif-
cent gold watch, he continued, II will
wait just seven and half minutes long
err, 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. 81 shall go home myself and
will return within half an hour
The cab was soon at the door.
Quick to leicester Square!" cried the
colonel to the coachman. "A half-crown
extra, if you drive we'll"
The cab drove off as rapidly as the
horses could go. The goldsmith in the
meantime had tho 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 Il deposit OF { i00t
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 a kiss, when his eyes fell upon
the letter.
''What is thisPn he cried, dumfound-
ed, as he recognized his own handwrit-
ing and the letter which he had lust
written for the colonel.
The reader can readily guess the sequel
and the connection.
True, there existed q 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 consider
able fortune; but, alasl he was not the
Colonel Green who had ordered tho
silver service. Heaven knows by what
means the sharpers had gained knowl-
edge of all the facts and circumstances
upon which they constructed their ad,
mirably ingenious plan.
The man personating the groom Of
course was an accomplish, 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 a minute to deliver
20 him the fl500, because she recog-
1ized her husbands handwriting upon
,he paper stamped with the name of the
ewelry firm. Who the sly rogues
we're never came to light,