Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-22
CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER I.
Veil. veil. vell!" cried Mr.. Wander
etroom-Cornelius Vanderstroom.if you
please, diamond merchant, formerly Of
Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and now
pr Hatton Garden-in sharp staccatO
explosions Of broken English astonish-
nent, as he let his morning paper fall
Ind bounded out Of his chair, like the
bxcitable India-rubber ball Of humanity
that he was.
k-never!'
i Like what, dear?" queried his more
)phlegmatic English better-half, as she
et her cup down and calmly began
Whipping her second egg.
{ Like vat? Wy, like dist" Mr.. Van
aerstroom stopped, picked up the fallen
kheet, and in the effort tilted all the
puperhuous blood out Of his body into
bis adipose head. Like dis, Sleeps
head, dls-pah! 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 of some appropriate adjec-
lives occurring to him in his native
tongue.
There, there, Cornelius" said his
Lady, soothingly, don't upset yourself
Tor 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
ven reads Of such tiefs, such r-r-ras-
Gals, such r-r-roppers, runs right out
of mine head and gets excited"
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
you'd be your tiefs and troopers il
peoples vos more sharp? LISTEN
read you dis.
Mr.. Vanderstroom gave his paper q
sharp punch in the middle of one Of its
columns to straighten it out and the
better to bring his rolling raisin eyes
to bear upon the paragraph which had
90 suddenly provoked his ire.
Daring Robbery at a City Bank;
Successful Theft Of Over ELL 900" he
read. And then in his best Bavarian
version of her Britannia Majesty's Eng.
ish, he rendered to his wife full,
true and particular account of how q
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 a 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 man of gentlemanly ex'
would direct the questioner to another
the required information was but the
work Of moment, but on turning hi
head again to the counter the young
clerk was Mortified to find that hi
sachel containing Bank of England
notes to the value of 81, 500 had van
ished.
How lucky" exclaimed Mrs. Van
derstroom, that the sachel held NJ
gold" OF course the notes will b.
stopped, as the numbers"
Matilda Yane," interposed the dia
mond merchant, severely, you vos like
all de vOOmans-yOu yump to gonglu
sions. If de notes vos come into an in
nocent holders hands, de Bank o
England must pay"
But" replied his wife, determined
to be credited with at least one item o
discovery, If the person who asked The
way of the clerk took the sachel from
under the young mans very nose
why"
Deere you vos again, Yane-yump
tng." shouted her peppery spouse. De
barty vat took de sachel vos annodel
man on do odder side. Dere vos
p'raps, two, dree of dem-vat dey cal
q 'put-up yob.' Nit all dees bricks de.
works it like de conjurers d.
quickness of de hand deceives de eye.
"Oh, Cornelius Corny, dear! let thi
be warning to you to be careful. 70,
know the thousands and thousands o