The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-25

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he returned to the library, "we'n see
who coTer your bracelet"
ga very peculiar make" said the well
known detective, handling the article
very much as if it were a handcuff.
every fine, too. Cad, sir! Iwonder the
lady let the fellow walk off with it, but
--ahem,-women are-rather"-
"Gad, yes! They are weak and easily
imposed p But we men can't help
that. If we get them out of these
scrapes, that's all we can do"
Precisely. But this bracelet, now
the pattern is quite complex. Difficult
to remember all the points-unless"-
The detective, scrutinizing it closely,
shook his head discouragingly.
81 see," said Mr.. Horshaw, "the police
will need this III to-as l might say
detect and verify the other"
Mr.. Grumley's brow cleared instantly.
sit will facilitate matters" he said.
"Makes the recovery almost certain, in
fact. Shall I give you a receipt-in be-
half of the a-the a-force?"
"Not necessary. Detective Grumley's
name is an ample guarantee"
Mr.. Grumley bowed his thanks, de-
posted the bracelet in a capacious wallet
and rose to go.
"Come round to headquarters in the
morning, sir" he said. ri have little
doubt but you will then behold not only
the thief, but the plumber. too. By the
wayne appeared to reflect severely
''these movements are sometimes neces-
sarily costly. In short, we may have to
use some money-not for ourselves,
understandable with a grim, renun
ciatory air-''but to inveigle the rascals
into a trap of our own setting, seeg'
Mr.. Horshaw saw, or thought he saw,
which amounted to the same thing pc
c~uniarily. The pleasure of ~triumphing
over Mrs. Horshaw must not be delayed
for a few paltry dollars.
GLOW much?"
1.-TWO tens will do, l think"
Detective Grumley slowed away two
of Mr.. Horshaw's bank notes much as if
they were waste paper, then took his
leave with a mighty show of official
ceremony, after which Mr.. Horshaw
rubbed his hands and smiled shrewdly
to himself.
When Mrs. Horshaw returned, her
husband rose to the height of the occa-
sion and his own dignity, thereby i'm
pressing her with such a sense of her
own wifely weaknesses as she had not
felt since the primitive days of Red
Wood Gulch.
"You may regard yourself as a shin
ing light, my DEAR" said he, "yet how
e~gregiously you were imposed upon.
Grumley intimated that such verdancy
was accountable only because you are a
woman. He's the most noted detective
we have. His name alone will give a
kind of eclat to your-a-silly lapse of
discretion"
"And you let him have the other
bracelet
"Of course. I likewise have his word
that the stolen one is quite as good as re-
covered"
II hope So" said the lady weakly, YET
obviously.
"Well-I-Tn try" This meekly and
without the least enthusiasm.
Promptly at 10 a. III. Mr.. and Mrs
Horshaw presented themselves at the in
spector's office and inquired for Detec
tive Grumley.
1.-THE diamond bracelet affair, you
know" the gentleman said, e~xplanato
rily.
81 didn't know Mr.. Grumley ha6
charge of it; but he just happens to be
about" And the blue uniformed police
clerk turned to a dry, quick moving
wooden faced man who had just come
into the office. Here you are, John,
Some m to see you"
Mr.. Horshaw felt something grippe his
heart and impart a tingling sensation
along his spine. There must be some
mistake here.
81 mean Detective Grumley of the Sc.
cret"-
"Yes, yes" said the man, glancing
sharply at the couple as he laid some pa
pers on the desk. ''Tm Detective Grum-
ley. What a l do for your?
"Why-you-he-is not this youl
card?"
Don't use cards. What the deuce dc
l want of cards."
He began to sharpen a pencil vigor'
ously.
"And you-are Grumley;" Mr.. Hor
shaw stared at him as if he might have
been the sphinx, Oh a museum freak, Oh
an ichthyosaurus come back to life.
81 am Grunley, sir"
"Julia," Mr.. Horshaw turned to hi:
wife, upon whose face an II told you So
expression was mingled with n of re
newed dismay, "this-this isn't my mar
at all. IL fear we have been hum
plugged again."
"Wew said his wife. cuttingly, despite
the conviction of a second swindle now
forced upon her. swell l don't know
anything about Detective Grumley, but
I do know that some men are very weak
and credulous creatures-so easily i'm
posed uponl'
Mr.. Horshaw sank dejectedly into g
chair, while Mrs. Horshaw proceeded t.
explain.
II fear it is a gone case," said the rea
Grumley, when he had heard all. Nov
they've got 'em both they'll melt the gold
and spout the diamonds separately. But
good gracious, are you not aware, sir
that in large cities every stranger who
makes up to you is presumably a rasca
until he proves the contrary