Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-09-25
/. respectable Irisbwoman who readily

as she led the way up stairs. Its all
Just as she left it, poor thing; but
there's never a letter or as much rs a
scrap of writing to tell where she came
from or where her friends live,
1t was a hall bedroom on the third
floor, plainly furnished in the usual
way, with bed. withstand, bureau,
small table and a single chair The
bureau stood between the window and
the side wall of the house. At the cor
ner nearest the street was a door way
into the next room. The door was
closed. There was not the faintest
sign of any thing like a struggle. The
water pitcher upon the stand was
filled to the brim, Upon the table
stood an ink bottle, and beside it lay
in order, some paper, envelopes and a
pen. The few toilet articles on the
washstand and bureau were also neatly
arranged, except a comb and brush,
which lay apart and aSkew before the
glass, among some scattered hairpins,
and which, with the position OF the
chair before the bureau, suggested the
idea of Il woman interrupted while
brushing her hair, and turning, per-
haps, to talk to some one who had
entered. On the SCOT of the bed, too,
close by the chair, it was plain that a
person had sat, otherwise that had not
been disturbed. On pegs behind the
door hung Il hat and two neat, dark
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The bureau was fairly Tiled with plain
Undertaking. and in a upper drawer
was a box containing 4 few sober-col-
ored ribbons and nccktics, two or three
little cheap trinkets and a purse with a
small sum of money. But nowhere in
the room could find a card or note or
address. Plainly the woman had taken
great pains TO conceal her identity-or
some one else had done so for her.
While | was noting these particulars
my landlady chatted increasingly. |
learned that she had spent the whole
of the preceding evening, up to the
time of the accident, in the parlor in a
position to command a view of the
staircase, and that no stranger could
nave gone up 1t without her khoWl-
edge; also that the room mex 10 'he
one in which we stood was occupied by
a quiet middle-agcd gentleman who
had Decn there but a few days, and who
was so sound a sleeper that he heard
none OF 'hr eo''i,s'oo' ana Iao hot
hno"i vi '"V a~'''"'"' "'l''' H"o ,oi"
nun tn'. iiai''lnA a. :" M,", o", ~
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pdpm,indn1 hT this ~ ,ho o~,mmuri-
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AZ i o'" III t'T nL;a% mo,,l vi" ba',a
sno', '.'u '1I P"i' ""'v' 'I".n n,;,t.
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ius', WHY snI T"o,u ,['o'' lI,''u,n
ent ,eSt VI Ln' 'I, a' ANU ,nu toJ"''; rh hon
m,nH ?nI; '' pn'iantna taa
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Slll' ol' "' ie"s'' " So'no o"' III hei
iooin'
III was not much OF cIe" 10 lound a
'heorAy uPoh-a'lii' IL was sonitUhlhg,
ana l leIt encouraged search as l
"oulo' however, lniouSh 'le roohi' /
coulu discover hothlhg eI'e 10 aIo me
uiltll plche" up llechalIcalit' Il par
OF wen worn kiu SHOES Wileh Stoou pc
sac the bureau ana SHOOK tleil OUT
over my hahd' 10 my surprise from
one OF ihem dropped a goIu sleeve
button CLOSED my mana upon II m
S'antiy ana dropped II mo a sioe
pocke' "hhout attracting lhe woman ;
no'icc' anu ,nel, 'i'ro"IhS 'ie Hlocs
uo"h' well. | N"'u' must NOT
keep you waiting any longer can
write my report now ana lh"llNihE
ier ior lhe trouble shG lau taken lGi'
the mousse passing ON thc Sleps small
swarlhy man win ouSlV plach mar
anu oearu' VINO was coming up ne
eyea me ralhtr Sharply, out PAD
lit'ie heeu at 'he Vihie' l was thlhNlhg
Oh my nlu' anu once III lhe street. l
examined It, couIu hot at once deter
mine "Ile'her IL hal Delohgeu 10 Il
mar or woman put II was evidently
not such an ornament as would nave
peeh worn ny a person III the circuih
STANCES OF lle "eao woman III was
Sollu gola horseshoe OF moderate SIZE
u very heaNy' SET win Il handsome
diamond a sapphire ana a ruby
snowy ana costly thlng sUch as | hac
never seen before n shank wa
oaolY pen': Il II II had Deeh violently
WrGhched IRON the cum
o had IL louhd us way INTO una
shoe' ana where was lis mate now.
certainly tne case was growing inter
eStlhg' put began To feel the need o
some help with IT, Now have an OIL
Trend who happens 10 be a very cleve
detective employed by one of tn
private Offices, and him | decided t.
consult found, however, that h
had been sent out OF town a month o
so before, and had written that h
would not return for a day or two yet
There wasnothing Tor 1t then but to rel
upon my own wits for the present
ealing in the aid OF the police, pei
maps as a last resort.