The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23

told this tale
! The carriage drove into the station III
gWfl time. and IL single representative
of the embassy followed quickly upon it.
The young prince was to pay. visit to
Irndon strictly incog.. and it was his
particular desire that: upon his arrival,
even approached formality; indeed, he
| was coming from Dover by the ordinary
train. Just under the clock two men
! were talking.
''It'M be /, rare old beano if it only
comes off. JIM Old Icey Creamo says
it's as good as 10000 pahnds, if it's IL
punny."
"Yus. If it's Il punny I'll bet you
| i to something goes wrong
"lll tike YOU. I'll tike YOU. In six
| pences.'
The two smacke,l each others palms to
| render the wager binding. Another car
| riage drove into the station with an odd,
clean-sha coachman. i'll coat that
looked a shade too large for him. Inside
| was Il man with fierce moustachios.
There he is Sec him on the box :
That's old lcey Creamo."
$50 are ycu,' said the other, incredu-
lousy.
Its pawsitive fact, my boy. It's a
good mike-up, s'elp my bob. 60 and tell
him that the prince is at the front of the
trine. III go and tell the other lot that
he's at the back
E"What do we stand to get, old man.
asked the pessimist. ''if this goes rocky
II don't know, Norris. I've never took
! on with a job like it before. | don't sup
pose it's much. They say they don't want
to kill i'm
so they say" said Mr. Norris, doubt
fully.
What they want is t. s., d. And it's a
vurry common comploint, too. Go and
! look on the site and see what time the
| triue's due"
Mr.. Norris did so and returned with the
| information that it was due in five min
| utes' time.
Good! said the other. You look after
Ieey Creamo. Ill look after the toff's
own carriage. If I can only keep 'em
/ vel away from the saloon it ought to. be
| pretty right. Wen follow 'em up in Il
| 'ansom. That's the oidea, isn't it,"
oide;,, old man."
| The two strolled off. performed the
duties which they had assigned to them
selves, and the carriage from the embassy
| drove down to the end Of the platform.
The tidal train steamed over the bridge.
came slowly into the station, the buffers
of the engine kissing the stop-buffers gent
ly just for fun. From every carriage
passengers descended. The porters at
| loot in the shape of bulky portmanteal,X
and bloated handbags, to be placed lin
company wrtn their respective travelling
| companions> on cabs; the gentlemanly
man with the fierce nustachios, seeing il
youthful figure, with refined face, de-
| scending from Il saloon in the fore part
of the train. and looking he!plessly around
h1r Ice1 lr61 at hat n 111 nd
| Par lei, vOtre Altesse sill vous plat.
! Both stepped into the carriage, the door
was closed. and Icy Creamo-this was not
probably, the bogus coachman's real name
quickly drove out of the station. The
two men. who had been talking, jumped
| into a hansOm and followed, with Il look
Of extreme content upon their ingenious
faces.
well, l never saw no prince get out
SIR the guard said to the attache in
charge of the embassy carriage. per
haps he's walken on to the HOTEL
The attache. much perturbed, declared
that he could not think it was likely, for
he was coming. The inspector came up
and heard the evidence and said, with a
judicial air, as though the remark half
settled the matter, that it was Il rum 60
| His luggage is in the CUSTOMS said
the station inspector. but where's he: =,
|
the others were troubled about there was
no reply.
"He can't have vanished into what you
may call thin air. said the station i'll
spector, augmentatively. You'd better
drive to the hotel, sir; and see if he's ar.
rived, and then come back
The attache from the embassy. more
excited and more annoyed now that he
saw clearly that the disappearance would
| entail work upon him. hurried away tC
the hotel on foot. Soon he returned.
"Personne is there" he cried:
"Oh, he's there, is hep said the sta
ton inspector. II thought there was nc
OCCASION
Il say to you nobody is there. His
highness the prince has not arrived, MOI
disappeared"
"Well. I'm hanged!' said the station in
spector. Which, Of course, was not, strict
~ speaking true.
The extra special editions came out
with placards bearing one item only:
sTP HSSaa'o AN Al f kT' FLor.
They contained. of course, the barest
account of the extraordinary affair, but
they were, nevertheless, quickly bought
up. The men selling in the streets were
surrounded by would-be purchasers, tht
bOokstalls were besieged. no other topic
| of conversation was permitted in decent
society. A perfect army of interviewers
came down to the station to see every.
body; Il small battalion of snapshooters
took the scene from every conceivable
point of view. At the hotel they could
get little information-and this. under the
circumstances, was not surprising; ut the
embassy they could get no information
at all. but they ascertained by dint OF
patient waiting that good many tele.
grams were being dispatched thence, and
this fact alone, handled with due dexter.
ity, would make at least twenty or thirty
lines in the morning Journals. They all
1t was II o'clock that night exactly
that one of the two Englishmen came
back into the station and stood exactly
under the clock. TO him, within two
minutes Inspector Brading of New Scot.
land Yard-Insrector Brading, in silk hat
and frock coat, with white satin tie
smoking big cigar and presenting alto
gether genial see-it-eut appearance tina,
you'd better come down to the yard
Norris" said Mr.. Brading, when lie rec
ognized his man. 1--WE can settle all We
want to do ERE, Mr. 'Brading. You go'
~ did. Who do you want to split upo,
now?'
! Mr. Norris looked around and did mol
speak until his gaze rested again on In
spector Brading. .s,.ss.ss:...s- s.z..
eff you like to make it worth m,
WHILE" said Mr.. Norris. slowly, II cal
well, WE'LL .ss4<5|5 81
Just where, at this very moment, thu
.'Is that a fact r. cried Inspector
Birding, with much anxiety. 81
Cav struth, s. said Mr.. Norris