Connecticut western news., 1890-01-29
QUEER HUNTS.

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 One day.. as returned to Police Headquarters, after having put in several hours on till-tapping case, I found queer-looking old man await ing. me. He was, should say, at least 55. He wore reddish wig, shaved clean, was very precise about bis clothing, and was eccentric in speech and action. As he met me, he said:
 "Dem it, sir, but you should have more manners than to keep me cooling my heels around 8 place like this!"
 '.But I didn't know you were here." ssIt was your business to knowl Dem it, sir. am put out with you, sirI"
 "Well, I am here, and now what can 1 do for you?"
 "Resign your place here at oncel" .fWhat?"
 'sCan't you understand the English language? Resign, sir!"
 "For what reason?"
 "That you may engage with me-" He handed me his card, and I saw that his name was Ronald Terry. A fter 8 bit he informed me that he was an old bachelor with plenty of cash, an that he had scheme on hand which he wished to work out. He of fered to engage me for two years at four times the salary I was then receiv- ing, but woull not tell me what the work was. After two or three inter- views with him, and after ascertaining fiom trustworthy men that he was what he represented himself, closed with his offer. The day I entered upon his service he said to me:
 "You have been in most of the large cities of the United States. Did you ever happen to notice situation like this: A street about fifty feet wide running of business street at an angle, but only two blocks long before it ended at bluff? This short street is built up with brick houses. On the first corner on the right is 8 drug store. The intersecting street is hardly wider than an alley and is not paved. s'I think you will find something very like it in almost any city, except. ing the bluff. It is not unusual fol streets to come in that way"
 ''We shall have to go from town te town until we find it."
 "Exactly, and we start tomorrow Be at my hotel at 8 o'clock in tho morning. I shall lay out our route and whenever we arrive in 6 city you will do the searching. That's what have hired you for.'
 From the foregoing you will be pre- pared to believe that I thought hin s'light in the head" as the expression goes, if no worse. However, as h' had the money and was his ow1 master, and as he was paying me biz salary, it was not my business to find fault. I soon discovered that he hae his own peculiar ideas in the mos trifing matters. For instance I wa not to know him when on the train. must, if possible, take the front enc of ho vuhslo ho ko A the hotel, must, if such an arrange ment were possible, sleep on the foo above him. Any business bstweel us must be done as formally as if w had never met.
 At our first stopping place he plan ned to stay just so many days. l wa to cover only 80 much of the city pc day. A queer duck you, will thin him, but couldn't record the tenth o his strange doings and sayings. W went directly to Portland, Me-, to be gin our search, and although 1 coul have covered the city in two days h planned that we should stay sixteen Therefore, after the first two days, had nothing to do but loaf around On the seventh day he sent his card t my room with 8 request that I shoul call upon him on matter of business and when entered he asked:
 "Well, what progress in you search?'
 s:I can find no such street here, sir.
 "Very well; give you nine mol days, in which to make sure."
 I spent the nine days in fishing an calling, and we went from Portlan to Augusta. We put in six days tl1er and then went to Montpelier, Vt. W took sash state in rotation, visitir