New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-28

upper row Of white false teeth, but which, as Ing
set them down on the edge OF the wash-basin,
saw had fastened to them at each side roundeg
guttapercha pad about the size of half faIrlE'
sized orange. but fatter, If anything What tnk
could be for couldn't imagine, until lookec
again at Westerfedt, and then saw at once. his
FULL rounded, plump checks OF a moment ago
were thin and hollow. His teeth, too were the
yellow. tobacco-s;ained pegs / remembered in the
ments he had put the red wig over his own closely
cropped hnir. and. with the aid Of some strongly
adhesive wax which he took from his bag. fastened
on the red mustache and "goatee,7 and delicately
fixed in its place over his own small nose the turn
up snub. had heard OF false mustaches and
eyebrows being so closely put on as to deceive
never believed it possible that false nose could
be as successfully adjusted over the natural men,
Der until saw Westerfedt perform the operation.
At the distance l was from him. not over three
feet In the small stateroom, with the light, clear
and good from the outside portfolio, could not
discover the shadow OF a joining of the edges SO
coS s t,u bne Womderiun YAK nod tnSm oown
taken from the valise. with the practsed hand OF
an adept at the business, quickly changed his face
in color age and expression so thoroughly and
completely that, had not been q witness OF the
metamorphosis | should not have been able to
recognize who It was. | confess that, for the
moment. I thought that I must be dreaming, or
that one of the ships crew had got into my, room
by mistake, so perfect was the disguise He Sur
veyed himself critically in the glass for some
minutes, giving q touch here and there to his
Yes. that'll do 1 guess They'll have some
trouble to spot me in this rig, or Pm much mis-
taken.'
Apparently satisfied, he proceeded to get back
into himself again; and having removed the
sailors dress, wig, beard and nose, and donned his
own attire all but his coat. he prepared to wash
moval Of the left-hand glove, which thus far had
never been taken off before any one in the ship.
There, sure enough, on the back of his hand. was
the square red scar which l had seen and Apple
ton had seen on the hand of the fat man with the
thin face Were it possible that any further proof
were necessary of the identity of the man, this
was sufficient. His face cleansed to its former
condition. he reinsertcd his teeth and bumpers"
dra gged the trunk out into its place in the passage
lhaving previously stuffed the sailors and police
mans rigs into his valise), came back, put on
his glove and coat and was starting to go when I
turned over with yawn and said;
Hello"
He stopped like shot, and turned as pale as a
Havc-have, you only just woke upP' he
asked. in frightened voice.
Why, yes" answered, yawning again. But
L haven't been asleep long, have j 7"
That depends when you woke, up,"' he per-
sisted, in quite an angry tone. How long have
you been awake l asked your
:" Only woke this minute as you were going out
Of the door Why. what's the diference?"
"Oh. no difference he said his manner chang
ing at once. " was only thinking that stuff may
have got weak from keeping i in the bag for it is
to you. l just looked in to see how you were
getting on, and found you asleep"
But it shouldn't make me Sleep" said pre-
tending to be alarmed
at the cat he bad let out. Certainly not make
you sleep. 1t only quets and soothes, and the
more you sleep the better you will be. How do
you feel?"
Right as trivet Fit as ever was in my
life Never Re, felt better / think in I'll get up at
Why-why, why-youre not well already" he
stammered II don't think I'd advise you to
get up Just yet. It's rougher II anything, and
you'll only get a setback. Better wait till 10,
be quite well tomorrow afternoon to land at
Liverpool It's generally very rough going up the
channel. and as we shan't get to Queenstown till
midnight. you can't see anything
He was clearly taken aback at my wonderful
cure. which was not only ineXplicably inconsistent
with his plans but would require change in his
future plan Of operations.
Come. old chap" he went on. Do take my
advice there's good fellow"
I could hardly keep my hands off the scoundrel,
but coolly said
"Oh, no, indeed. Why should | stay stewing
in here when | am perfectly well? I'm greatly
obliged TO you for your medicine, you know. But
| must beg to decline your advice. I'll Join you
in the smoSingroom, in half an hour l added,
jumping out of the berth and waiting, standing
rs gentle hint Tor nm TO GO ill.,. -.
He waited a moment quite silent, though his
eyes flashed with suppressed anger.
You're id foolish" he said, between his
teeth and turned and left the stateroom.
No sooner had his footsteps faded away in the
distance than / heard the door of the statcroom
opposite open softly, and Appleton put out his
head.
Coast clear pr he whispered.
/" Yes; come in"
He came in, and, having carefully bolted the
door, / told him all l had seen and heard as well
as a complete history Of my experiences in the
train with the fat man.
" You don't seem surprised ?' said, after had
" Well no. To say the truth Pm not sur
prised,' he replied candidly: and I'll tell you
why Just as soon as | could got out Of that
there an hour. and not seeing Westerfeldt-Wester-
feldt. forsooth-I came down to see if he had
gone No. he hadn't. He was fumbling about
inside and. while / was listening, he suddenly
unbolted the door jumped back into that room
again, and glad l am that | did, for the next
moment out he came dragging that trunk out
side and his glove being off, why saw that scar.
See? | knew then he was the chap who bOned
my ring at Chicago. But what you have told me
is far more important for it satisfies me that be
is the party I've been after for some time: and II
those bundles of papers in that trunk are what l
believe them to be, Eve got my man.
" But what earth can those papers have to
do with prosecuting him for the theft OF your
ring % said l.
am not talking of my ring. That's mere
bagatellc What I refer to is altogether diff
ferent breed of pigs. You looked puzzled
confess, am puzzled"
We'll, I'm not surprised that you should be-"
said Appleton, seeing that you don't know the
facts. But it won't take long to explain. You
must know, to begin with. that while am really
doctor of medicine by profession. don't practise
physic means of livelihood. / am detective
in the secret service corps of the u. S. Treasury
Department at Washington. For the past year
a series Of the ceverest counterfets of Treasury
notes. Or as we call them, Greenbaclls' of the
low denominations have been circulated in the
different far-Western cities, from San Francisco
to Chicago, and so adroitly has the fraud been
worked that we have been unable TO get any
positive clew to the parties engaged in it, But
though no positive convicting evidence could be
got against anybody, there has been strong sus-
pcion for some five or six months that the whole
business IS in the hands of gang of men having
their headquarters at Chicago. 1t was in regard
TO this that visited Chicago when lost my ring.
couldn't succeed in finding out anything definite
10 make use Of at the time but from facts which
came to my knowledge l formed a theory of my
OWN the subject. Chica go is, as you may know
hotbed for Nihilists, Communists. Nationalist
md Dynamiters. | found that the suspected gang
were for the most part composed of freshmen of
he lowest type and escrptlon-Dynamters, in
short. of the true ODOnovan Rosa strain. Now,