San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-21

Shaking out the crown Of his soft felt
hat he looked carefully inside, as if try
ing to discover how he hel lost the lin
ing, and then answered with that double
antiquity for which ancient oracles and
modern detectives are alike celebrated:
swell, sir, there amt nothin' as you
might call downright startling to report.
amt got what I'd call reg'lar straight
tip on the gal, but / kinder think I'm
onter the heavy villain gent, jidgin en-
tirely by the face in the pictur'. If you
drored that face right, Why
Where did you see him" interrupted
Henry Henshall, and he picked up his hat
to be ready to dash out when he got the
information.
SIT was last night, sir, talkin' to a
mysterious woman, whose face was hid
by veil. Them two was right under
Lafyot's slater, on Union square, and
the woman acted as if her dander was
up and she didn't care who knowed it;
and the man he tried to soothe her and
set her an example of street etiquette by
talkin' low.
'Well, sneaked round to see what /
could hear, but the man got onto my
little game, and hurried to cab that
was standin' near, and as he drove off
he called out, I'll see you, Louise, some
hour tomorrow night then / tried to
talk to the yelled lady, but she threatened
to call the police. apologized, and she
started off at go-as-you-please gait
that would have won first money at a
walking match if she could keep it up. f.
81 Swallowed her to Second avenue,
near Seventeenth street, where she van
ished into an every day kind of boarding
house. That's the report, sir, and if you
could let me have another fifty to hire
side partner, for I've got to have one
or die for the want of sleep, why, I'll
credit you with it when the jobs over,
which hopell be very soon"
After this long speech Tom Wogly
coughed into his hat until the crown
threatened to burst, and Henry Henshall
handed him five ten dollar bills.
The young man was about to question
the detective further when a heavy step
was heard outside; then the door opened
without any preliminary knock, and a
handsome old gentleman, with troubled
face, entered and said:
Harry, my son, mast see you alone
at once"
The detective jammed the money into
his pocket and his hat on his head, and
vanished with curt Good day, gentsw
"What is the matter, father? You
look troubled" said Henry, as he placed
a chair for his unexpected visitor.
''Then look as / feel" replied Mr..
Henshall, with a groan that came from
his heart. ''On the top of the failure of
Higgins & Lewis, our western agents,
this morning learned that my cashier
has been faithless. He fed to Canada
on Saturday, and hurried examination
Of his books shows that he has robbed
me of at least $500, 000."
But you are rated at a million; sure
ly you can weather the Storm" said
Henry, hope rather than reason prompt
ing his words.
eff you were q business man, as /
wanted you to be-" said Mr.. Henshall
impatiently, ''you would know that a
mans rating by an agency is never an
evidence of the cash he can command"
Then, rising from his chair, he laid his
hands on his sons shoulders, looked
eagerly into his eyes and added, Harry
you can save me if you willr'
II, father" and behind the old gentle
man Henry Henshall saw the Undine
face peering at him from the pictured
water on the easel
Eyes, you, Harry. Sit down and when
have told you all am sure you will
fall in with my purpose, for have been
to you good father, and l feel that you
will be to me dutiful son."
Henry sat down, and, taking chair
facing him, his father went on to explain
his troubles.
81 am in the power of one man." he
said, land by scratch of his pen he can
ruin or save me-"
"Who is that?" asked Henry.
Edward Hartman"
The banker?"
Eyes, Edward Hartman, Lena Hart
mans father. Harry, you and Lena
played together as children, and Mr..
Hartman and I've were neighbors and
good friends in those days-often laugh
ingly spoke of the marriage of you and
Lena. From that time to this she has
loved you. She is an only child and her
father is worth $6,000,000.
eff you will call on her at once may
get time to think, and if you ask her to
MARI. you it will save me and your