Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-27

| called; but in less than half an hour
had fitted key to it, roughly made but
sufficient to unlock it, and great were
the expressions of wonder and admira-
tion at my skill.
Now, without making an effort to do
so, had, during the operation, noted
the various persons present, and among
them was one young man, who SAID very
little, but watched my efforts with
marked interest, and whom / judged to
be clerk in the Office. He was not
over thirty years of age, was of medium
| height, of light complexion, with moth
ing striking about his general appear
ance to distinguish him from ordinary
| men, but, as on one occasion he turned
| his head aside to answer some question
! of the brokers', SAW a small. bright
| red mole on the back of his ear, or,
rather, there were two moles joining so
| as to form an outline of the figure s in
| verted.
had been taught by Mr.. Searle that,
! in a job of this sort, my work was ac-
complished with the picking of the
! lock, and that it was no part of the
| the door, unless at the customers re-
| quest. Therefore arose and said to the
| broker:
There, sir, it is unlocked. You can
now open it,"
He at once aid SO, and revealed the
contents of the safe, which consisted
| principally of papers and books,
but l noticed in addition
| Iaid in one corner where
there were no shelves-a small steel
box or chest, which / recognized as one
which had about a month before fitted
a key TO at the shop. However, | did
| wait hnt altar hcnlSnr had
| given me an order to make n suitable
Key for the safe, which / could do, Of
course, from the skeleton | had made in
unlocking it, went back to the shop
but the mole on the clerks ear still
haunted me.
| About fortnight later | was one
| night returning home from the old
| National theater. i had just turned
from Haymarket square into Gross
street and gone n few yards when, in a
dark part, felt myself firmly seized, IL
cloth bandage thrust over my eyes, and
a rough voice, in suppressed tones, said:
ter hurt ye, but III hev ter T yer don I
come along quietly. We've got little
job for We ter do fore we GO home, m
theirs IA knife stickin' right toward ye i
We make the least trouble
/ mad already ceased what little resist
ance / had attempted Mt first. for l was
neither large nor strong lad OF my
age. and | felt that was in the grasp
of at least two strong men: so | allowed
them, one on each side. to hurry me
along. The night was a cloudy one an d
the stores were all closed, so that the
streets were darker than usual and
knew there was little likelihood OF any
one inter rupting our progress.
| | knew that we had not turned, and
therefore was being taken in the same
direction was AT first moving, tnat is,
toward Salem street, and was aware
when we crossed that thoroughfare, and
that we passed Hanover street without
turning, and that the next street would
be Ann, which had not then been re-
christened North street. Then feared
| was being kidnapped to be taken out
TO sea. had heard of such things oc-
curing to boys.
"Gentlemen," began, "what have
| doneb Where arc"
o'sShut Yer yawp, younker, or yer q
goner," and / felt something pointed
pressing against my side. ''No harm'll
come to ye, tell ye, If We mind"
We pass Ann street, still on Cross,
but after proceeding few PAGES farther
we stepped Off the sidewalk onto the
cobbles and took several turns before
regaining the bricks, and when we
again went straight on knew by the