The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-24

LII "a, ZEN IA
is my field" he said aloud, and with these
words he turned, crossed the street, and
climbed up to the elevated railroad sta
ton.
Arriving at the Houston Street station
he descended to the street. Standing a
moment, he said: "I'll work up to
Cooper Institute on this side and then
down on the other"
He put his project into effect at once.
1t is no purpose of our story to tell in
detail his search. Suffice it to say, his
experiences were commonplace, consist
ing of entering store, producing the
slip of cloth and askingif they had a suit
IF clothes of that material. When urged
20 buy others equally as good and of the
same quality-as he invariably was-his
answer was that he wanted the suit as a
sort of uniform.
YEARLY he traversed both sides of the
thoroughfare between Houston street
and the Cooper institute, and, indeed all
that part of the Bowery on the east side
as far down as Chatham square.
About half way up on the west side
he entered store and preferred his re-
quest as usual.
The clerk waiting on him examined
the piece carefully.
"No," he said, 1--WE have no cloth of
that kind, but" and he hesitated. much
! tl,t,,1,
will go down into Fulton street you will
find it. A dealer bought all there was in
the market of this kind. have a brother
employed there, and if l am not mis-
taken this is the kind of cloth"
Tom took the address and the name of
the mans brother.
Arriving at this store he inquired for
the clerk whose name he had obtained;
he produced his piece of cloth and asked
to look at the suits.
The clerk smiled and said: Another
of the U. S. It's, hey?'
Tom did not know what the q. S. I. g
were, but be assented.
The clerk was very chatty.
AS he laid out the suits he said:
eve laughed when the boss bought
all there was of this cloth in the market,
and thought he would make mess of
it; but he knew what he was about,
after all"
Evidently" said Tom, encouragingly.
"Let me get your waist measure. Yes,
these pants will fit yNi. The very first
day we got them on the counter your
committee came in, looked over the
stock and lit on this lot They'll be
just the thing for our clam bake said
they"
"Oh, it's clam bake I am going on.
is it?'' thought Tom.
LET me take your chest measure.
Here's the coat. You will have fine
day tomorrow from the looks of today"
Tom assented.
"They gave an order for a hundred
suits right down. Since then twenty-eight
have come in. You make the twenty
ninth. 1 suppose therell be more in
before we close to-night-that is, if you
have got more than one hundred and
twenty-nine members. We will work
the stock off pretty we'll"
Tom now had basis for proceeding
and tried to stop the flow of talk.
Have you sold the same clothes to
any one else:"
Just one suit that know didn't be-
long to the U. S. rs"
Tom Frightened up.
eve ought to get on to him and make
him go with us.
That's what you ought to do"
Can you recollect the sort of fellow
he was?"
"Well. sir, that's pretty hard to do"
by thunder! III bet l know who it
is. Tall fellow, slim, dark haired, dark
eyes, handsome, sweilish-kind O a dud-
ish fellow"
"Well, that does kind O answer to
him"
Eyes, by thunder! That's just like
his pranks. See here, did he get suit a
size too large for him and didn't buy the
vest?"
"Well, no, can't recollect that, and
don't Think know we sold vest with
every suit. You see it would cost the
same whether they took the vest or not"
"If he was up to the game l think he
was, it wouldn't make any difference
about tho price. l say, would you rec
ollect his face if you saw a photograph
of him?''
~ think it likely ="
"What day did you sell it to him, can
you recollect?"
II can tell by looking at the sales
slips; l always keep the slips"
"Do. please"
The clerk went off and returned with
handful of papers. Looking them over
he finally extracted one.
1T sst.s on the 18th, in the afternoon"
4"Five days before the MURDER"
thought Tom.
Aloud he said: THANK you am on
to him. Please send these clothes to No.
1,10O East Thirty-frst street. I'll pay
you for them now"
This is such a good days work" said
he, when out on the street, 81 think l
win dine well and at the expense of the
paper"
CHAPTER Ky.
THE SHADOW ovERHEARS SOMETHING OF
INTEREST.
I'D