The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04

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Freeman into a livery stable, where his
brother George joined him, and after a
protracted conversation with the pro-
p%rietor, a man by the name of Sykes,
he said Freeman handed Sykes the
parcel, and the brothers went away as
if greatly relieved. Instead of follow
ing them he followed Sykes back into a
remote part of the stable, where he de-
scribed him Is q slipping back the
string on the package and taking out a
bill. 1t is money said he, and that
other chap stole it, and give it to this
'un, and now he's took one of them bills
out, and tied it up so no one would know
it had been opened Right here we
were interrupted by a knock at the
door, which our subject did not observe.
Mr.. Miller stepped out, but almost I'M
mediately returned with q radiant face,
and, without speaking, held up q little
yellow parcel tied with a pink string,
which, though never having seer it, we
recognized at a glance as the lost pack
age OF money. Our subject followed
the livery stable man to Burns tavern.
Up the stairs he took us again, through
the hall to the foot of the second fight,
where, nearly opposite the same room
from which the money was taken, he
discovered n basket of clean linen, with
a pile of towels on the top. why he's
O stickn' that package down under the
towels. Now he's a hurryn' off, Sud
denly he exclaimed, The money is
here. Right over there. That man
has got it in his pocket. All but one
bill. The livery mans got that
1--WE dismissed our subject and rested
our case. Mr.. Miller opened the pack
age, which had been sent over to him
by the landlord of the Burns House
with a message that it had been found
in a basket of linen, counted the money
which was all in 500 bills, and found
one bill missing. Eleven hundred dol
lars were returned out of the original
$1,000 which the package had contained.
Later my friend Wells and myself
sauntered into the bar-room of the
Burns House. A good many men were
standing about, and the one subject of
discussion was the finding ofthe money.
By this time everybody knew that the
money had been lost and quite as mys-
teriously found, it was said, by o cham
bermaid among the linen. All sorts of
surmises and suspicious were floating
about. Many looked askance ut us as
we drew near, and whispered together,
for somehow it had leaked out that Mr..
Miller had been closeted q great deal
with us. An uneasy feeling that some
accusations might be made was evident.
Soon after Mr.. Miller came up to the
bar, and while being congratulated on
all sides, smilingly said that he never
~feltuneasy. He knew all the time that
it would be returned. But said he,
I'm 500 short; l don't worry about
that Seating himself and elevat-
ing his legs comfortably to the back of
a chair opposite, he said: "That 500
is all right" biting off the end of a ci-
gar and lighting it: "Ill get it in a
few days" Everybody looked curiously
at his neighbor, but no one thought it
best to ask for any explanation. Sever
al went away soon afterward. As we
passed out the elder of the Freeman
brothers was just ahead of US. The
next day Mr.. Miller left on one of his
boats for home, thirty miles distant.
Two weeks later he called at my room
again, and said he had just received the
other one-hundred-dollar bill! Two
young men drove up to his door one
day the previous week, he said, stran-
gers to him, and asked if he was Mr..
Miller. They declined to enter the
house; said they We're from the town
where the money was lost. Had heard
that he had intimated that they We're in
some way connected with the loss of the
money, o at least with the missing 500
bill. He said he had accused no one.
One of them remarked it was hard to
rest under a suspicion, and rather than
have their names connected with it they
would prefer to make good the deficien-
cy, at the same time handing to Mr..
Miller a 500 bill. He took it. babe
them good day, and they drove away.