The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-06

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you. BY the way, you mentioned thought
reading What PIX THAI to your head !''
MY daughter Is a great believer In il, y
began Mr.. Burt. ''She is a fat attic on the
subject, though there ls perhaps a reason. -
Here he stopped. for a CLERK entered and
said:
- iss Burt is in the outer Office, sir, and
wishes to see you"
Show her IN" said the fi14nc:er, then,
turning to me, be said hurriedly: NOT a
I'd OF your errand here. She knows
nothing Of my worry"
There was light sep and the rustic Of a
dress In the ante room. and tall girl Of %
entered. The milliOnsire's daughter bad fine
eyes and pretty chestnut hair, but her
manner was rather uOisterous-nervously
so. thought.
Now, papa" she began, without so much
as bestowlng glance on me, put away all
that norrid work and take me to the horti-
cultural exhibition. I've set my heart on
going this afternoon"
Impossible, my dear child" replied Mr.
Burt; Il have heaps 80 do here. aud at 2
O'Clock l have to attend the meeting of
the paratfin trust at the Cannon Street
hotel Can't you get the Plymptons to take
your
Miss Burt made pretty little display of
| nlal disappointment, but bowed 20 the iu-
evitable.
81 suppose ! must il you can't or won't
come, sue replied. What a nuisance these
meetings arel Why, you've had two this
week already"
Yes, and I've got another tomorrow, :"
said Mr.. Burt ahstractediy; this is busy
time, Trtx, aid I'm obliged to keep hard at
it,"
81 believe you are making more money
than is good for YOU replied the young
lady, htpOantly, as she prepared to take her
leave without trying her powers Of persua-
sion further. She paused at the door, how
ever, to ask:
What time did you say your meeting at
the cannon Street hotel was to be ~
Two O'clock"
"And it will last %
"a couple Of hours, at least"
| AMI It's no use my waiting for you,
then. Good by till dinner time,n and with
frolicsome wave Of the hand Miss Burt
| left us alone again.
ut was the young lady who has just been
mere who suggested the idea Of thought
residing as solution Of this mysteryp |
! asked
mo, not in connection with this affair.
| but generally. You see, she is almost a
| chlld-has no mother, poor thing, and about
SIX months ago she met young fellow who
gives thought-reading entertainments
Bertram Solvy his name is. dare say
you have heard of him. Well, Trixie aud
this man got very thick He was after her
money, no doubt. and had to nip it In the
bud. She took it quietly enough, but she is
always telling me that Solvyn revealed a
lot about thought-readilg and that there
are plenty Of people about who can spot
| what one Ia thinking just by looking at one
me that way, do youN
Indeed, l DON'T" l said. "Miss Burt,
then, knows nothing of your present trou Die,
out merely talks about thoughtreading
casually, and so inspired the passing fear?
We'll" went on, as Mr.. Burt nodded, 81
think can manage this affair for you II
is now II O'Clock. l Will just irun back to
my office for something l require if YOU
will kindly wait till | return. | will release
you in plenty OF time for your meeting"
When re-entered the private room, after
half an hours absence, brought with me a
small photograph camera of my own
invention. lt was fashioned in the form
| OF carriage clock, for which
| any ordinary observer would have
taken it. but ID was fitted with
| powerful lens and an instantaneous shutter.
which could be worked automatically from
distance by means OF an electric wire.
don't always let my clients into my secrets
at the outset Of q case, and thought it best
| for the camera TO remain a clock In MIR.
Burt's eyes.
Placing the apparatus on the mantelpieoe.
l made q connection between the shutter
and the drawer where the "cable'' Law. run
ming the wire along the wall and under the
| floor cloth in such a way that il could not
| attract attention. II any one opened the
drawer l knew that the lens would do its
work, and that should be in possession of
portrait of the opener.
There" said, as | completed my ar
rangements, while Mr. Burt looked wonder
| ingly on, "if any one pays a visit to your
| drawer while you are at the meeting l shall
know it by mears Of this machine. l will
look in about o'clock and examine it, be-
tore you have occasion to touch the drawer
| yourself"
As we left the room together noticed
that the window was open, and called Mr..
Burt's attention to the fact.
90, yes, he said, Il like fresh air. al
ways keep the window open. | see what
| you are thinking about. but it is a moral
| impossibility for any one to enter unseen
of ladder eighty feet long placed in the
center Of crowded alley below. See for
| yourself"
1t was true enough. The wall of the lofty
building ran sheer down into a sort of
alley or court yard. through which was
| public thUroughfare teeming with business
men taking advantage of the 'short cut
A ladder placed there would have created
an obstruction that would have been
| promptly resented. 80, we went our sew
eral ways, firm in the conviction that the
room was uuassailabIe except through the
doorway.
at o'clock returned TO Queen Victoria
street and found Mr. Burt waiting for me
Ia the outer office. On passi through the
ante-room on our way to the private sane
tum / noticed that Mr. Johnston was alb
sent, learned that he had gone out to
| the bank on his principals return from the
meeting. In the private room everything
was as we had left it, and there was no a -
parent trace OF any intrusion. But one
| glance al the shutter of my camera told me
different story. Turning to Mr.. Burt, 1
said:
Your drawer has been opened during
your absence 1t is only a question OF
time now. You will know all about il in a
day or two."
The fuancier wanted TO write me big
check on account. so overjoyed was he t
find that he was not the victim of SUPER
natural agency. But I babe him wait till
the morrow; l would report to him further
| in the morning Taxing the camera, l went
back to my otfice and repaired to my dark
room. | will not say that felt any posi-
tive certainty as to whose face | should
discover on the negative, but will confess
that should not ave been surprised at
seeing ce tain features present themselves
in the process Of development.