Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-07-26

And now matter has to be recorded
which will 60 far to convince many of our
readers that Capt Lane was even more Of
an old fashioned prig than he has hitherto
appeared 20 be. After leaving the vincents'
late on the previous day he had come to his
rooms, and sat there for fully two hours in
the cndeavor To compose a brief, manly let
ter addressed 10 Vincent pere. IL was moth
ing more nor less than the old style of ad-
dressing n gentleman Of family, and re-
questDg permission to pay his addresses to
his daughter Mabel. A very difficult task
was the composition of this letter for our
frontier soldier. He was desperately in
earnest, however; time was short. and af-
ter several attempts the missive was com
pletcd His first duty in the morning was
to send that letter by an orderly to Mr..
Vincent's Office. Then he turned TO his
sergeant and asked for news of the de-
serter. Not IA word had been heard-not
single word.
81 have been everywhere ] could think
Of, sir" said the sergeant, "and both the
men have been around his customary
haunts last night and this morning max
ing inquiries, but all To no purpose. The
detectives came and burst into his trunk,
and there was nothing in il worth having.
He had been taking away his clothing,
etc, from time To time In small packages
and secretng them we don't know where.
One thing heard, sir, that never knew
before, and that was that after he had
gone to bed at night he would frequently
steal out Of his room and go away and
never reappcar until breakfast tims IN the
morning And now will the lieutenant
the captain--pardon me for asking the
question, are tho check books all right,
sirp"
I,,.t hat ..,t.
asked Lane.
"Well, sir, some of the men tell me that
he was always writing at his desk, and
once Strauss said that he had picked up
scrap of paper that he hadn't completely
destroyed, and the handwriting on IL
didn't look like Taintors at all he said 10
more resemblcd that of the captain, and IL
made me suspicious. i never heard this
until late last night"
A sudden thought occurred TO Lane.
Taking out his check book he carefully
counted the checks remaining and com
pared them with the number of stubs, and
found to his surprise and much TO his dis
may that ut least five or six checks were
missing,
"Scnd for u cab ut once / must go down
to the bank. You stay here, and when
Lieut.. Noel comes give him my compli-
ments and ask him to sit down and wait
awhile and rcad tho morniny nsner m
be back in n very short time .
Foljowipp the custom established NV hi.
predecessor Capt. Lane had always kept
the recruiting funds In the First National
bank, His own private funds he preferred
to keep In an entirely different establish
ment-the Merchants Exchange,
The cab whrled him rapidly to the build
ing indicated, and although it lacked half
nm hour of the time of openipp h, mad,
his ,vov into III, nItco ,na ,sLod q, COO a..
paying teller
@Will Won kindly toll mo 10 ,ny ,b.cl.
ON the recruiting fnnd have lately been
prcsen,el for nnvmcntyn Le ongorIv ,aJ
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,a, ~ piv'o'ou; i|'ne tooh
.neui W 'he "ihuo" ana closeiy examined
'ne,h'
.ouiu no, 'e,' 'nei'' ne said' from
my own nahu"ri'lhS' ana yet those three
shschs are inrSerles believe that the
inuoiseuien.s on the back are equally
iorg'rles. NOW, can take these with me
10 the once OF the chief OF police, or do you
desire that the detectives should he sent