Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-01
CHAPTER 1.

well! veil! veil" cried MI Wander
...oom-C Cornelius VanderstrOOm.HyO you
.iaase. diamond merchant, formerly of
BIT Elizabeth, South Africa, and now
- Hatton Garden-in sharp staccato
Emissions of broken-English astonish-
nant. as he let his morning paper fall
snd bounded out of his chair, like the
s-c;table India-rubber ball of humanity
that he was.
well! I never vos seen anytinks like
it-never!'
.iike what, dear?" queried his more
rhlegmatic English better-half, as she
ct her cup down and calmly began
cbipping her second egg.
like vat? Wy, like dis!" Mr.. Van
aerstroom stopped, picked up the fallen
sheet. and in the effort tilted all the
snnerAuous blood out of his body into
h;s adipose head. Like dis, Sleeps
head. dis-pah! I can't call him any
links strong enough except in Dutch!"
The indignant little merchant hur-
ried to the window, the more recluse-
fully to let off some appropriate adjec-
tiyes occurring to him in his native
tongue: .,ar. corne,;,s =. cold 1t.
lady. soothingly, don't upset yourself
for business. What have you lighted
on in the paper-anything disquieting
from the mines at the Cape?"
Matilda Yane," replied the ruffled
husband, as he resumed his seat at the
breakfast table, you English people
always vos cool as ole Zuyder Zee, but
Gals, such r-r-roppers, I runs right out
nd T
Cornelius, be calm-courting apo
plexy in that manner. Why, the pa
pers are always full of thieves and
robbery
Oats vot makes me SO vild.' yelled
Cornelius, in tones suggestive of re-
turn to his native expletives. We're
would be your tiefs and troopers if
peoples vos more sharp? Listen-I
read you dis
Mr.. Vanderstroom gave his paper a
sharp punch in the middle of one of it's
columns to straighten it out and the
better to bring his rolling raisin eyes
to bear upon the paragraph which had
20 suddenly provoked his ire.
Daring Robbery at a City Bank"
Successful Theft of Over G1l,OO0," he
read. And then in his best Bavarian
version of her Britannia Majestys Eng
fish, he rendered to his wife a full,
true and particular account of how a
young walk" clerk belonging to GER
tain city bank had been very neatly
lifted" the day before of that substan-
tial sum. The clerk, it appeared, in
the course of his usual rounds, had en-
tered bank in the neighborhood Of
the Royal Exchange, and, proceeding
to the counter to present some checks
and bills for collection had laid his
sachel down in front of him. AS he
placed it on the counter he felt touch
on his left shoulder, and turning round,
was asked by a man of gentlemanly ex-
terror, standing near, whether he
would direct the questioner to another
bank close by. To give the stranger
the required information was but the
work OF moment, but on turning his
head again to the counter the young
clerk was Mortified to find that his
sachel containing Bank of England
notes to the value of $11, 500 had van
ished.
How lucky" exclaimed Mrs. Van
derstroom, that the sachel held no
gold" OF course the notes will be
stopped, as the numbers"
Matilda Yane, interposed the dia-
mond merchant, severely, you vos like
az de voomans-you yump to gonglu-
slons. 1t de notes vos come into an in
nocent holders hands, de Bank of
England must pay"
But, replied his wife, determined
70 be credited with at least one item of
discovery, If the person who asked the
way OF the clerk took the sachel from
under the young mans very nose,
why"
'Dere you vos again, Yane-yump-
ing" shouted her peppery spouse. DE
party vat took de sachel vos annOder
man on de odder side. Dere vos,
praps, two, dree of dem-vat dey call
'put-up yob.' Nit all dees bricks dey
works it. like de conjurers-it's de
quickness of de hand deceives de eye. "
On, Cornelius-Corny, dear! let this
De warming to you to be careful. You
know the thousands and thousands OF