Connecticut western news., 1890-01-29
VOL. XIX.

every city above 1000 population in each State, and by the time we were through with the State of New York the first year was up. Every day found MT. Terry the same queer, quaint specimen cf humanity. The same formality was observed, and once, in railroad -smash-up, when I ventured to address him to inquire if he had besn hurt, he looked at me with csfd stare and replied:
 "Dem it, sir, you must have mistaken me for some one else!"
 We were we'll along in the second year, and were in Wilmington, Del, when I met an old friend from the West and told him what wild-goose chase was on. He loc ked at the dia- gram for few minutes and then said: "Youil strike this in Cincinnati. could guide you to the exact spot"
 He went fishing into his, baggage and found an old map of Cincinnati, and in five minutes we had located the spot. I sent my card up to MT. Terry, and followed it to inform him of my discovery, but he sat down on me with:
 "Dem it, man, if you are tired of my ways and wages you can quit! l told you at the outset that I should run this thing myself!"
 And to prove that he meant to, he planned route which did not permit us to reach Cincinnati for nearly four months. He gave me to understand, on arriving there, that we should re- main thirty-one days, and, although l could have found "B" street in an hour, knew Mir. Terry too well to ob- ject to his plans. On the second day I went over the street. It was ancient and rather queer, but no more so than many others. It was tenanted by a poor but respectable class of people. Naturally enough, l had always had a great curiosity to know why my queer employer wanted to find this street, and so, day in and day out, pursued my investigations. l asked every resi- dent for information of Terry, but no one had ever heard of him.
 The last house on the left-hand side was chock up against the bluff. One standing on the high hill of which Cincinnati has so many, could have dropped stone down upon the roof of the house, which was old and un- tenanted. inspected it outside and in, and saw from it's condition that it had been unoccupied for years. It was frame, and the floors were about gone, the plastering all of, and the doors and much of the partitions had been carried away for flel. It struck me that this old house held the key to the mystery, but though I searched high and low I could find nothing.
 On the morning of the thirty-frst day Mir. Terry sent for me and in quired if had found the street. This was the only time he had spoken to me since our arrival. replied that ] had, and he then said:
 "You will go to your room, lock yourself in, and remain until l send for you"
 1 did nothing of the kind. l skipped out, reached "B" street, posted myself in the hallway of a tenement, and al hour later saw MT. Terry appear. Ht went straight to the old house, was in side for half an hour, and then came out with package in his hand. took it to be package of papers wrapped in oil-skin. He walked of without glance to the right or left and I took a short cut and reached the hotel first. After dinner he sen for me and said:
 sOur search is ended. You hay, been faithful and sensible. Here il the balance of your salary for the sec end year, and here is $1 ,06O extra Goodbye, sir"
 "But won't you enlightcn-"
 "Dem it, sir, good-by," he inter rupted, and l picked up my money ant went, and to this day have never go at the bottom facts.
 Two or three years later, after hat worked up case in town in OAio woman called at the hotel one da, and asked to see me. I found her t be spinster, about 50 years old wearing the traditional ringlets an, eyeglasses, and as stiff as a crowba in her demeanor. She, too, had al original way of arriving at the point . After introduc ng herself she said: "I am rich. Some folks call me ec centric, but am simply sensible.
 wish to travel, and wish to hire yo
 as my escort. You will be my em ployee, and I shall exact the mos
 formal respect of you. 1 may nee
 you for year, or may not, but vii
 hire you for that length of time."
 After little talk we arrived a
 figures satisfactory to both. She live z III town twenty miles away, and sh gave herself week to get ready ir
 At the end of that time I reported flo duty, and found her all ready 10 starr She had two fair-sized trunks for bag