The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02

| far gone "a liquor, I'm sorry to say
| You did not miss the notes until this
morning."
Il did not. How could I?''
You're sure they couldn't have
dropped out of your pocket after you
got home? ! think you said you
searched for them?'
Indeed, did, constable. searched
the house from top to bottom. spent
two hours this morning turning the
place topsy-turvy-but the notes are
gone, clean gone
Il must also have search in your
! house myself: for, of course. l can't
| take your word for everything, Harti-
gan"
Il don't expect you to. IT'S black
! business for me. I'm driven crazy 10
think what l can do to replace the
money. But what can a poor man do?''
| he added. with sigh
The best thing is to find the notes"
''Of course: and I'll bless you, Con-
stable O'Ruark, if you can track the vii
lains who stole them.
We'll, come along now, and wei
| have another hunt in your house before
l try to get on the track of the thieves >
Aren't we losing time on that score
already?"
I'VE can't do everything all at once,
you know. Perhaps in the condition
you We're in this mc-D;1E after last
nights spree your sea-oG 7rasn't as
keen or as thoroUgG - { lnisht have
been
''Ah. l was sad aa5 sober enough his
morning, heaven know There ism IN
inch Of the house al .1', seascl.
Come, let US be laoving." ushering
the distressed butter-buyer out of the
Office and leaving word with Mr. Bod
kin where they were bound for
The pair walked in dead silence to-
wards Hartigan's house, passing the
police barracks on the wav O'Ruark
stopped at the barracks, and. going IN
side, left some instructions with an ell
derby constable, Murphy by name, who
was in charge of the barracks. Then
he rejoined Hartigan and accompanied
him to his place of abode-a small cot
tage in a poor locality. A very poor
looking place for man with two pounds
week in Carrigmore, it seemed to Con-
stable O'Ruark.
The front door opened into a room
with lime-ash floor, a room which did
duty for hall, kitchen and parlor. A
common deal table stood in the center.
of the floor: there were three plain.
wooden chairs,Ta three-legged stool, a
dresser fairly furnished with crockerv
ware. and underneath the dresser and
attached to it small modern cup
board, on the top of which stood few
knives and forks, spoons and glasses.
The sharp eyes of the policeman
took in the whole visible contents of
the room at single glance; and then
he stood for few moments gazing at
an elderly woman, who was sitting on
the three-legged stool, blowing with
pair of dilapidated bellows fire made
of slack balls-a mixture of coal dust
and mud-which burned feebly on the
large, open hearth.
O'Ruark had made up his mind that
Hartigan had not been robbed. and that
the notes were hidden: but it was not
u "
a man as he judged Hartigan to be
would select an ordinary hiding place
However, for FORMS sake. he made an
exhaustive search of the room, a search
which included an examination of the
fiue of the chimney and disturbed the
bellows blowing operations of the old
woman at the fire. AS she rose and
stepped back from the fireplace. bel
lows in hand, Hartigan, who had been
furtively surveying her from time to
time. said:
This is my mother, Constable
O'Ruark. She is stone-deaf, but she
understands my signs as easily as if
she had the best hearing in Carrig-
more"
Unfortunately" said the policeman,
''your mother will have to be searched,
and, of course, yourself. l left word
with Constable Murphy, and he will be
here presently with his wife, who will