The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-06

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brated detective, happened to see the theft
because he had been watching the man.
Unfortunately, Mr. Twyggs business in
Newport was of SO delicate q character that
he could not allow his presence to become
generally known by arresting Handy Bill,
and therefore he did not modest him for
the present. Some two weeks later an OPP
portunity offered for coaA6ential chat
| with the thief, the outcome whereof was
that he delivered the stolen ring to the de-
tecsive and left town the morning follow
| ing.
Mr.. fwygg earelessly put the tfinket
into his pocket and-returned TO New
| York.
One day not long after Russian detect
i've called at the Office OF his American
| confrere. Paul Sergilof's mission 20 the
United States was to deliver certain docu-
ments to the Russian minister and to
gather information concerning Nlhlllse
| agitator soiourning in Canada
1t so happened that his first point in
prospect was Newport. where the Russian
envoy was spending part of the summer.
| As Mr.. Twygg searched for match in
his pocket with which to help the RUSSIAN
to fire for his cigarette he felt Miss Mer-
rick's ring. WHAT could be more natural
than that he should ask his visitor to de-
liver it up to its fair owner, or that Sergl-
loft should courteously assent?
| But Miss Merrick had left Newport, and
In the excitement incident upon the re-
ceipt of cipher telegram recalling him to
| Russia at once, the Russian forgot to re-
turn the ring to Twygg, and carried It
with him to ST Petersburg.
One morning they found him there, dead.
IN narrow alley.
| A bullet wound in his temple showed the
manner of his death, and the cause for it
was evidenced by the circumstance that the
entire front of his vest had been partly cut
and partly torn away.
| The deed was done by Nihihsts anxious
to secure certain papers that Sergilof was
supposed to carry in his inner vest pocket.
| A few months later the murderer and
some brother Nihilists were arrested, and
underwent the farce of a Russian trial for
| political offences.
| If there is any country on the face Of the
| globe where murder is excuSabie under cir
cumstances, then it is in the dominion OF
| the car, provided the circumstances be
| that the victim belongs to the class of hired
| erjurers, thieves and cutthroats which,
as grim joke, are enrolled in the secret
pOltlcal ponce OF Russia.
| However this may be, the murderer was
| hanged and his comrades went to Siberia
| To one of them he had given the ring be-
| fore being executed.
What fearful days and weeks and months
| of weary travel those were for the unfort-
| unates destined for the lead mines!
The exile, who had the ring concealed in
his boot, managed to escape between two
| stations
No pen can describe the adventures and
hardships of the fugitive jourreying
through country in which the natives
hunt escaped exiles as they would wolves;
no words can do justice to his sufferings as
he travelled alone through the vast soil
tudes.
On the edge of the Khirgix-Steppe he
joined one of the large caravans of escaped
convicts that continually trayA eastward.
1t is easy for an exile to obtain assistance
in Samarkand, or, for that matter, most
anywhere in Central Asia, although it is,
or rather was, extremely difficult for
traders to enter the territory.
In Samarkand the ring left the hands, or
rather the boot, of the owner, and was
traded for an outfit that would disguise its
wearer into dervis.
u
Persian merchant travelling to Herat.
Everybody from Khiva and Buckhara
and Samarkand and Tashkend and even
Teheran goes to Herat and that is why
there is always such a thieving rabble
there in spite of strong British garrison.
And one fine morning somebody snatched
the Persian's leather pouch The merchant
set up great hue and cry, and the thief
y,fI1 rod fror O Lone hoc nv
mule driver from Jelallabad.
Overcome with JOY at the return of his
valuables the Persian presented the young
fellow with the ring
Would it be possible for a good looking
mule driver to wear diamond ring with
out exciting comment sometimes?
Mrs. Dudley was the first European lady
who saw it, and told young Ambrington
about it. Two days later the pretty widow
wore It.
Old Indians" win remember the scene
up Sinla way that terminated the engage
ment of the two.
Ambrington received his letters and
presents back. They made nearly car
load. He reciprocated by packing her ten
der 1nissives, ETC., into an envelope. Am
brington always was a fool, and within
three years after coming into his estate he
had acquired the reputation 0f being the
most gullible spendthrift in Che service |
But he had had a most sincere admiration |
for Mrs. Dudley, who was really charm |
ing woman. Her actions in kublc were |
however, such, occasionally, az to give rise |
to unpleasant remarks. But she was sim |
ply thoughtless.
One day Capt. Dempster ma1e remark |
to Ambrington to the effect that the latter |
was neglecting a sweet girl IN England for |
the sake of a woman who could not begin |
to compare with her
Ambrington was nearly drunk at the |
time, and he made scene. Next morning |
his friend received his deputies. and they /
met early on the following day, pistol in
hand. There they stood facing ea~h other,
each ready to kill the other. One, two,
three-fire.
Two shots rang out almost sipsuhane
ously, and Ambrington reeled Cad fell. |
They thought at first that he Fad been
mortally wounded, but he wasn't. The
bullet had squarely hit a nng in his watch
pocket, and had driven it into his chest
with such force that it broke one of his
ribs and imbedded itself in the muscles
OF course after one of the combatants
had been hurt they were in honor bound
to be good friends, in token whereof Am
brington eventually gave the ring to Desnp
seer. When he heard Of the fatser's en-
gagement he went on . gloriors spree be
cause he felt SO good
Miss Merrick, or rather Mrs Qernpster.
has an extraordinary mfueno ~ him, !
and even expects TO make SIS ming ost
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