The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03

bride and groom under great floral
marriage bells in the drawing room.
and q later survey of the wedding
presents upstairs The detective was
upstairs. He noticed there an ele-
gantly-attired lady gazing intently at .
jewel case. There was jewel in 1t, OF
course, and beauty of its kind; but he
felt it received all the admiration it
called for. When the detective
lounged in the lady floated out Later
on she was back again when he CHANGED
to he called away. He was back again
i'm a twinkling. and in time enough to
notice her tip-toeing out alone. He
slipped inside. The siewel-box was
gone He came out again to find her
going downstairs with her wrap on
and a little hand sachel at her side.
She omitted to present her respects, but
went to call her carriage. He made up
his mind at once, and offered to assist
her down the steps. She took his hand,
he noticed, nervously, and with that he
said courteously:
.sPermit me to relieve you, madame"
and took the sachel in his hand. They
had not reached the walk before he felt
the jewel case in it. He called her car
riage, and, taking out the box, handed
her sachel back.
Pardon me. madame, but you forgot
to leave your little Offering behind you.
Never mind, will replace it."
This was all he said. She never said
word. But she sank in the carriage
seat as though she were shot There
was no publicity. But thereafter that
lady's name was omitted from the
eard-list of the house.
At reception a detective noticed a
young man hurrying off with hand
some overcoat on. Not long after he
came upstairs without any. The de-
tectiye kept his eye on him. As heck
pected he went into the hat-room only
to issue forth with fresh overapparel.
The one slipped to the door. The 9TH
er made haste and popped out of the
basement. Almost in the shadow of
the house was a common hack among
the coaches, and the young man crept
into it. 1t did not move off, though.
1t stayed where it was, and presently
he was out again. stripped once more
and bound upstairs for another haul.
The detective let him go and looked for
the cabby. He could not find him.
Then he quietly took no less than four
overcoats out of the hack and entered
The house. He waited in the hallway.
Down came the youth again, freshly
caparisoned.
"Cold night, isn't it?" said the detec.
tive. saluting him.
Il don't think So" returned the
other.
"Well. it ought to be when you need
all these benjamins to your back"
The fellow tried to slip past him, but
he was in custody in a twinkling. The
strange part of it was that this young
man. who was a clerk with fair salary.
had hired the hack, drove it himself to
the house and made his lightning
changes without soul noticing him.
His gentlemanly appearance had given
him entrance without question, and the
BOBBY at the door never paid attention
to his repeated exits and entrances.
The detectives presence at these
merry-makings has caused funny COM
plications once or twice. A lady one
night installing him for a guest. in
quired concerning pictures and brio
a-brac, about which he courteously in
formed her. Shortly afterward there
was theft of jewelry in her own home,
and at her husbands instance the self
same detective was dispatched there.
He found her strangely merry and dis
posed to treat the theft jocularly. When
he asked for information she only
laughed at him, and he went away
mystifed. When her husband came
home he was greeted with derisive
laugh. He inquired the cause.
''Oh, knew all along that you put
my jewelry out of the way to brighten
me," she said. ''When that gentle
man came this afternoon to play
detective saw the trick at once"
''Why, what do you mean?" inquired
the bewildered husband.
''Oh. pshaw! how could you be so
stupid? l remembered him a friend of
the IS ever since the night of the
wedding there. l knew he was friend
of yours at once, and L promise you l
was ready for him."
She lost her jubilance the moment she
learned who had made the intake
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