Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-08-09
PROVING HIS THEORIES,



wanted.-valet; must have good referen
ces. Apply A. d. Goodman, Kings Road
Chelsea.
80 UGH was the advertisement which
~ appeared in several of the London
~ dailies. AT 10 o'clock the same
~ morning short, thickset man,
with an extremely red nose show
~ ing that he had been a high livel
in the servants hall, knocked at the
door of the house on Kings Road. a
neatly attired servant girl, with a mus
lin cap perched over her pretty features
appeared on the threshold.
dts Mr.. Goodman in?o asked the
caller.
"He is" responded the girl, with sew
eral critical chances at the man who
stood before her.
~ should like to see him on BUSH
ness"
The Visitor was ushered into bright
front room.
"What name shall say?"
"Mr. Smiler."
The girl disappeared. Then the man
began to examine the apartme MT in q
leisurely manner. Several handsome
paintings and quite collection of rare
bric-a-brac bore ample testimony to the
artistic propensities of the master of the
house.
"Some swell, evidentlyW murmured
the man with the red face.
The girl reappeared.
"Master wants to know what's youl
business
81 called in reference to an advertise.
ment for valet"
"Ohp, She tossed her head and
again vanished. About five minutes
elapsed and then the girl entered the
room.
"You can wait here" she said, "Mas-
ter isn't up yet"
For 40 minutes the visitor was left to
his reflections.
"Must be some blooming SPORT" he
commented. Then the door opened
and tall, pale gentleman entered the
room in languid fashion, picked up
the morning paper and carelessly
scanned the contents, as though oblivi-
GUS to the presence of the visitor. He
read the Geographic news and then the
local. The servant brought in tray on
which reposed breakfast bacon, eggs,
cup of coffee and rolls. The gentle
"Jane, take away those dishes. Leave
the coffee"
The servant silently obeyed.
Ellis appetite isn't good to-day, "
commented the caller. The gentleman
slipped the coffee with apparent relish,
read again the cable article from Paris
and finally lighted cigar. All this
time the visitor remained standing re-
Ia tO
cough, and the gentleman, turning to
him, remarked:
"Aw-you called about the advertise
ment?"
eyes, sir"
"Where are your references?"
"Here, sir" and he took from his
pocket bulky package.
"Well, don't care to see Them"
81 served last the Duke Of m
aWhat the devil do care whom you
served? Will you accept a guinea d
week and expenses"
eyes, sir"
every we'll; we leave tonight fol
Paris. See that everything is ready
With that the gentleman took up his
hat and cane and strolled out of the
house in leisurely, half bored way.
''He is rum un," commented the
visitor.
Two days later the gentleman and
his servants were quartered in Paris
The former had rented a magnificently
furnished house in fashionable par
of the city. Try as he would, Smilel
could learn little of his new master. HI
usually arrived home about in the
morning, and sometimes Smiler had tt
put him to bed. He got up anywhere
| between 10 o'clock and noon. Some
times he breakfasted heartily; at othel
times he merely slipped his coffee
Smiler was commissioned to buy tick.
cts for every fashionable event, from
the opera to the races, and he always
came and departed in a private carriage
quite an elegant equipage. About this
| time the Partisan newspapers were agt
tating the matter of the remarkable
tests in spiritualism given before the
woman in Milan. The psychological
society was in session in the French
capital, and the comments on the feats
teresting by the presence of a renowned
English mind reader. This gentleman
showed great aptitude in ferreting out
| CIlIIlludlS, dIlu LIS ACCURACY LII AlIio "
spect made him feared by the
wrongdoers. Mr.. Smiler read of these
wonders, but being of skeptical dispo-
sition, poor-poohed them. One morn
ing when the gentleman was slipping
his coffee, into which he had placed a
few drops of cognac, he looked up from
his paper and said to Smiler:
MARKHAM, the mind reader, has run
down another criminal, Smiler. Whai
do YOU think of that?"
of might venture an opinion, sir,
should say that it was all bosh. "
"All bosh. eh? May | ask why?"
"Well, sir, it stands to reason, sir,
that no man can read what is going on
in another mans mind. 1t is against
nature, and what's against nature can I
be done, sir. My idea is, sir, that this
man, this fraud, will call him, sir i
in collision with these fellows aud
paws 'em. That's my impression, sir
Easiest thing to humbug these French
savants, sir. A criminal. sir, can't be
detected except by detectives, and they
make an awful botch of it, sir. /"
$50 you don't believe in it?' The
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