The Bossier banner., 1891-11-05

and to agree to it.
oh, | wish had my hand at your
throat, you vilalinr shouted the
millionaire, shaking with rage.
But You know you haven't so
what's the use of your talking that
way! Let US talk business instead.
need loan of ten thousand dollars
! cash. l need it at once If YOU are in
cllned to lend me that sum without
guarantee | shall leave your house
with my men in exactly the same con-
dition in which | found it.
You are running me- groaned
Maxwell. And l don't think have
that much money in cash in the office
safe.
d" You'll force me to commit an afro
clous deed" came the remorseless re-
ply.
IAN right then-yes, I'll pay, but
| to whom?'
1t is now SIS exactly. At this
| very moment my confederate has en-
tered your office to receive the money.
You will pay him and he will tell YOU
| the watchword agreed to between us.
which you will telephone to me at
once
"Mr. Maxwell turned around. A
stranger of pleasant mien, dressed in
the height of fashion, stood before him.
! Said the visitor:
8 l have called to collect little
matter of ten thousand dolls. for d
! friend of mine, Thomas jefferson
Odell.'
1 understand, replied Mr. Max
well, who went to the safe, took from
it two packets containing ten thousand
dollars, and handed the money to tho
stranger.
The latter ascertaiaed that the
amount was correct, and placed it in
side his breast pockets.
And the watchword?' demanded
Mr.. Maxwell.
"'Do right and interfere notr replied
the burglars confederate, with an as
sumption of dignity, and strobe out of
the office with all the grandeur of
Spanish hidalgo.
'''Do right and interfere notn joyful
ly shouted Mr.. Maxwell through the
telephone. And now you'll leave my
!
as for my wife
"'Have no fear, Mr.. Maxwell re-
| piled the man at the other end, 'you
have to deal with burglar and gen
tleman.'
! "Mr Maxwell locked his Office, en-
tered his carriage, and galloped to his
residence. The more closely he ap-
preached, the keener his fear of a
catastrophe became. But as he stopped
at the gate he noticed nothing out of
the way. He sprang up the stairs, and
entered the pretty boudoir of his pref
tier wife. She was quietly reading.
GLOW you must have suffered, my
angelr he cried, and sob shook his
voice.
The young wife looked up, aston
ished.
Suffered? I?'
"'That burglar, you lznow-it must
ingn
"'Why George, dear. what is the
matter? You speak in riddles
"'But didn't he gag you?' he asked.
"'Now, my dearest George, wish
you would talk sense. What do you
mean?'
After Mr.. Maxwell had finished the
recital of his adventure, he asked:
Wasn't there somebody here using
my telephone?'
"Why, yes, there was, replied Mrs
Maxwell q young and well-dressed
man came in, introduced himself to
me as Mr.. Thomas jefferson Odell, a
Spectator and business friend of
yours, and requested permission to
make use of your private telephone to
send you most important message on
business. OF course l gave him per-
mission. He used the telephone but a
short time and then came back into the
drawing room, thanked me for the IA
vor had done him and went away, say
ing the telephone was most useful
and admirable invention-it facilitated
business so much.
"'And that was ALP queried Mr..
Maxwell; he didn't gag yon and the
servants? He was alone, and did not
offer violence toyou?'
Not at all. He was most polite and
SGEllClldlIy " hItC tio mum 60 JON a. y
at this moment, George
9 Great Scottr exclaimed Maxwell,
with a wild outburst, how gigantically
I've been sold. Excuse. me, dear, but l
can't help it. I'll drive over and inter
view the police,
And that's what he did, concluded
the detective, land that's the way
came in possession of the facts. But
after talking the matter over and con
sulting with the smartest detectives in
my service, we arrived at the conclu-
sion that there was little chance of re
covering the money. The pair were
/ too adroit. In spite of all our efforts
since we've heard nothing more of the
SO. 900, nor of Mr.. Thomas Jefferson
Odell and his confederate. "-Bostor
Globe.
-Wollard- What do you mean by
7 telling the boys that you have had thc
: lockiaw?" Pollard-'Just little joke
of mine. You see, I couldn't find that
: lock last night, and my wife gave me