Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-28
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breathlessly.
q A blue blouse and black underclothes,
as far as l can recall"
Could YOU identify him again
Perhaps. His face made an impress
sion on me, rather; because it did not
seem to match the clothing, and yet, now
think of it, seem 70 see only an ordinary
brow nose, and mouth. | fancy it was the
set of the head upon the shoulders which
looked remarkable. Artisans and other
folks usually look otherwise. That is all
can saw But what makes this matter in
teresting to you ?"
u believe your complaining patient to
have been the principal in the late robbery,
concerning which l have come down here"
replied in low voice. Can you give me
any idea as 10 what became of the man
after you were done with him ~
The doctor looked at me in amazement.
81 think he went towards Ems" he re-
piled.
lost no time going the same direction.
An old tree which forked near the top, and
| carried bell in that division, stood on a
hight near the shore Here those who
wanted TO be ferried over the river must
stop and ring for the boatman, whose house
stood in a sheltered nook near at hand. |
shirked preliminaries, and made at once
for the dwelling. Here | found a gigantic
pt4SOIl, WIN dluSultT Oh
the ferryman and the customary rover
when, as now, her father was absent |
sought to gain the confidence of this dam
sci.
"A friend of mine went over here, |
think, not long since" | said He was
| in great haste, being ON his way to London,
| in order to escape serving here in the
| army"
The popular antipathy to the enforced
military training loosened her tongue at
once
Yes. yes" she replied "a young man
n great haste did surely go over little
| time back"
He wore a blue blouse and black
! hose?"
Maybe but it seems to me he had 9TH
ers with him, or OF his party"
Very probably; two others, I sup
pose?"
"This was how it was. One man came
to me in the early dawning. l put him
across. An hour or so later there came a
second, and asked anxiously about the
, first. When l told him he was beyond,
! he seemed content enough. aud followed
| The third, your friend, asked if he were
the first who had wanted me that
day. He asked me particularly about
| the two had already rowed over, and then
seemed right gay, and jumped into the
boat himself"
"Ah! One of the three carried tin
| box ~ l said, slipping coin into my new
acquaintances palm.
Il never noticed" answered the girl
but l noticed that the third carried
round bundle or parcel wrapped in red
handkerchief under his arm
Did he give you good reward for
taking him over?"
Nothing more than all the world-ten
pfennings."
With his right hand ?"
why not ?"
Wasn't his right hand tied up?''
Not that | saw. l only know that he
kept one hand in his pocket-whether the
| right or left / couldn't say now"
| could have embraced the tall ferry
woman in spite of her forty summers and
her uncertainty upon minor points 1t was
plain that the three Tuffians for better Sc
curity had separated and that the last
conner was the leader in and the chief
benefiter by the crime which had been
committed. During his confab with the
doctor no doubt he had hidden the spoils
in some hedge. | was upon his track
now
But | had soon to cry lost ~ 1t was a
grievous disappointment to me- Beyond
Ems the clue was nowhere to be followed.
labored in vain in this neighborhood for
days. | made friends with all sorts of
| people-letter carriers porters, walters
and walked many weary mile in the hot
sun, but all to no purpose. | was batfied
| and wholly at fault. as much as though |
had never had had hint at all to follow.
| Nine days had gone by since I had
| come to T. | turned into a beer
garden in the neighborhood of the town,
one evening, and sat down near a we'll
J LIGHTED bnyylInp a1lpu in W binb oh
| gentlemen were busy at game. Ny
seat was rather in the shade. l paid little
| attention to the players, but leaned my
head upon my hand and reviewed the de-
feat | had sustained and the small estima-
! ton in which | should be held for the sake
of it by my colleagues and chief at home,
| feeling altogether extremely out of humor.
Suddenly an ill-thrown ball rolled almost
, to my feet
miss, miss = shouted several voices
| together, while one cried. Why, Bot
| cher, is your hand not even yet recovered?
You are not complaining Of it still ?'
! felt like huntsman in the forest who
! sees the game at his guns end. | was on
! the alert that second. | lost no time in
finding out all Herr Bottcher's antece-
! dents. be was a merchant, one of Frau
! frledow S connections, and an occasional
visitor at her house. He was continual
! guest at this place Of entertainment. l
! brought the doctor there next evening. and
set him to work stealthiiy considering my
| game. My discontinue was great when
he fatty refused to identify Herr Bottcher
and his patient as one and the same per-
! son. They might be one he confessed
| but then-they might not
If the medcO turned rusty, like this, it
seemed to me utterly useless to bring
thither the ferry woman on like Grand
/ must trust 10 myself alone. We officials
have two methods of doing business of this
sort. We use the long or short line, ac-
! cording as either seems nost likely to suit.
determined to try one after the other.
In order to put Bottcher quite off the
scent went now to the host Of this house
! OF entertainment and introduced myself to
him as Hamburg agent for the forbidden
/ Lotteries. begged him to keep this close.
! but l saw by his face that he intended do
! ing nothing of the sort. Next morning. to
! my great contentment. found myself out
wardly under the supervision of the town
! police and generally regarded by the public
/ as shabby individual.
| meantime was as busy as eyer. but il
was little discovered Herr Bottcher was
/ certainly not in good repute among his fell
/ lows Nevertheless, l could hear of no
/ particular difficulty in which he had fallen
! OF late, although / did learn that he had,
! three weeks since, made hasty Journey.
/ One little fact, however, seemed 10 me of
! great worth; Herr Bottcher, these times
| slept badly, and was wont to rise often bv
night and pace up and down the garden.
lay lurking for two entire nights under
/ bushes in this same plot; but during all
| those weary hours whoever did come to
this place, Herr Boucher unfortunately did
not and in the garden | could find no trace
/ OF any hidden treasure or likelihood of
| such.
| fell into greater despair than before.
What could do? Upon one side my alb
! solute certainty of having tracked my man:
| on the other side no earthly means Of bring
| ing home his guilt. If / only had sufficient
ground to demand a search through the
rascals house, but | had not. One after
noon was walking up and down my room
| considering, when the post brought me a