The Southern herald., 1889-06-28

'Gou. gOu are not bound to cTlml-
nate youuoli. Mh Mis1le.n said the
other man.
MY name Is Lamb / answered -
''Phineas Lamb
TOO late for thai dodge. You have
just confessed the forgery. Come, we
want YOU You might as well go by the
milk train and escape publicity. Get
up and dresa"
IL don't understand" said L "You
want to arrest me for writing a wrong
name in the hotel register. / meant no
harm. III tell you all about II"
1--WE want you for writing Mr.. Isaac
Mencypenny's name ct the bottom Of
several checks. as ysu very well know. y
II never did that never saw one
Of Isaac MOneypenny's checks"
That is curious, as you have been
his cashier for several years" said the
detective
ZIP ~ I'm nobody's cashierl Oh,
/ seel ! begin to understand! Cheops
T, Mizzle Is . fofger Of whom you are
in PURSUIT.
Exactly" said the detective
"And you have mistaken me for
him." said !. ut was an idiotic thing
to register under an assumed name.
But l assure you am Phineas Lamb
| am going toto be married. I am in
my fathers business in Chicago. lam
not the person you want"
I'VE do not wish to use force" said
the eldest man. ''But don't talk that
way to old detectives. You must come
along"
Here was Q dilemma. OF course,
should prove my identity in the end.
had only to meet Mr.. Moneypenny face
to face But . delay must occur. my
marriage must be postponed, my Emma
alarmed. ! could not sail on the steam
er for which l had tickets My rela.
tives were in Chicago. Suddenly a
thought occurred to me
Landlord" said !, ''Call Mr. Chat
tenn, won't you9 He knows me-"
Probably confederate" said the
detective. NB @
"No." said the landlord. '.Mr. Chat
tenn comes here every summer; ne knowz
everybody.
''It is only an excuse for delay or
something" said the detective. Don't
rouse Mr.. Chattem for nothing"
But the waiter, whose intellect I al
ways respected from that moment, and
who, forgot to say, had recently
emerged from a dark corner, re-
marked:
"Mr. Chattem. sir, Is awake, sir
He's asking questions Of the hall boy,
sir. He always takes an interest, sir,
in every thing that's going on"
ASK him to step in here, then" said
the landlord.
A moment more and Chattem enter.
ed. had never believed that should
be glad to see Chattem, but now I re.
ioiced. His first words we're:
Dear me! Whatl You in troubled A
fino young fellow like you! Tell me all
about it."
Ibid told him every thing, mere.
ly saying that wished to travel incoa-
nito. and picking up the card in tho
road, used the name upon it. To his
question why / wished to be incognito
only replied:
The society paperA You know we
don't want the wedding noticed until II
is over"
And Chattem was delighted. He had
the fret news, which was always
precious to him.
He vouched for me. The whole
hotel stood ready to vouch for him.
and the detectives let go Of me as re.
luetantly as bulldog disengages his
teeth from the calf OF a tramP's leg.
l took the six o'clock train, and
Chattem saw me Of.
! suppose that no wedding was ever
so we'll advertised before as ours was.
Chattem must have interviewed fifty
reporters, for all the papers published
accounts Of my adventures next morn
ing, and every one who knew me or
my bride turned out to see as of when
we sailed. Moreover. the first news
paper l looked at in England had a
paragraph headed;
Odd Tale OF Yankee Bridegroom.
And in a Paris Journal found an
other entitled:
Wished to Travel IncognitO.
Mary Kyle Dallas, in N. Y. Ledger.