Wichita eagle., 1889-11-17

Iiarities of the Shadow that he never
mentioned name unless directly asked
for it-"Our man had father once. but
he has been dead almost as many years
as our man has lived"
''In other words" said Tom, "the
father died when the son was young
"When he was baby not two wears
old"
''Who brought him up:''
ellis mother. She lived with him up
in Putnam county, coming here into the
city in the winter. She lived very quiet,
never went out anywhere, brought the
boy up well, dedicated him and then
died, just after he was of age. Ever
since he has lived as we know him. She
left him little property. Guess from
ell can hear he has about lived it up. y
Chow did he get into this swell set?'
"Don't know, but guess through his
schoolmates."
Probably. Well, it isn't much, and
what there is makes him all the more
mysterious"
at this moment his friend came.
"Hello, old boy" cried Tom, have a
beer? No: In hurry, hey: How soon
will you be off" =
''In about three hours" was the reply.
"See here, old fellow, want you to do
me favor. Iwant the picture of man
taken on the sly"
His friend was delighted to do it;
would do it that very day if he could
find the person.
Tom called the Shadow up and told
him to take the gentleman to the most
likely place where Fountain could be
found and taken uno5served.
eff you don't take him today take him
tomorrow.
E[e then hurried off, AS he turned
into Chatham street he thought that he
would not lose time by trying the stores
in that thoroughfare, for it would be
quite unlikely that his man would come
SO far down town as Chatham street.
1.-The Bowery, and the upper part of it.
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 asking if they had suit
of clothes of that material. When urged
to 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 lie west side
he entered store and preferred his re-
quest as usual.
The clerk waiting on him examined
the piece carefully.
mo" he said, ''we have no cloth of
that kind, but" and he hesitated, much
to Toms Impotence. 81 think if you
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. rs, hey?"
Tom did not know what the U. S. It's
We're. but be assented.
The clerk was very chatty.
AS he laid out the suits he said:
1--WE laughed when the boss bought
all there was of this cloth in the market,
and thought he would make a mess of
it; but he knew what he was about,
after all. y
Evidently" said Tom, encouragingly.
Let me get your waist measure. Yes,
these pants will fit you. 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 am going on,
is it," thought Tom.
LET me take your chest measure.
Here's the coat You will have a fine
day tomorrow from the looks of today"
Tom assented.
'.They gave an order for hundred
suits right down. Since then twenty-eight
have come in. You make the twenty
ninth. l 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 well"
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 1 know didn't be-
long to the {. 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! I'll bet 1 know who it
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