The Arizona sentinel., 1890-05-24
THE DIAMOND BUTTON

detail his search Suffice it to say. his
experiences were commonplace. consist
ing Of entering a store, producing the
slip of cloth and asking if they had suit
of clothes of that material When urged
to buy Others equally an good and of the
same quality-as he invariably was-his
answer was that he wanted the suit as a
sort of uniform
Wearily he traversed both sides of the
thorOughfare between Houston street
and the Cooper institute. and. indeed all
that part of the Rowery on the east side
as far down as Chatham square
About half way up on the west side
he entered a store and preferred his re-
quest as usual
The clerk waiting on him examined
the piece carefully.
No" he said I'VE have no cloth of
that kind. but" and he hesitated. much
TO Toms Impotence Il 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 brother
employed there, and if | 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, heyT'
Tom did not know what the y. s. T.s
were. but he aSsented
The clerk was very chatty.
As he laid out the suits he said:
I'VE laughed when the boss bought
all there was of this cloth in the market,
and thought he would make mess of
it, but ne knew what he was about
after all
Evidently" said Tom. encouraginclv.
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
d4y Tomorrow from. rre ..a.-a.. ........r
10 at-2uJea
"IH.r gave au order far hundred
su'-zr r5-8- down 5iagetnea t-aalr--..-...
have eoue .n You make raa twenty
lu-n seaa-ss .nereu ra more ia
oerare ue ctgs' tonne -.t-tuat S. # Won
have Eo- rc~a CHAN one hunIraa and
twentynine members. We viii 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 know didn't be-
long to the q. S. T. s."
Tom Enlightened up
1--WE 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
be WASP
well. sir, that's pretty hard to do"
by thunder! I'll bet know who it
Is. Tall fellow. slim dark haired. dark
eyes, handsome. swellish-kind O a dud-
ish fellow
We'll. that does kind O answer to
him."
Yes, by thunderI That's Just like
his pranks See here. did he get suit a
size too large for him and didn't buy the
vesty'
well, no, l can't reSollect that, and
don't think-l know we sold a vest with
every suit You see it would cost the
same whether they took the vest or not"
'lf he was up to the game think he
was, it wouldn't make any difference
about the price. | say. would you rec
ollect his face if you saw a photograph
of him?'
ii think it likely, sir"
What day did you sell it to him, can
you recollectT
II can tell by looking at the sales
slips; l always keep the slips"
do. please
The clerk went off and returned with
a handful of papers Looking them over
be finally extracted one
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Five aar= before 5ae murder
aoa-h. Tom.
Aloud ae said. aTa-nh YOU z Er1 On
.e ll-. Pleas. send t.e-. clothes TO- sg
100 .. Is- street. III re-
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