The Washington times., 1894-05-13
Part2 Now Ready.
Chr. Heurich
Brewing Co.,
Brewers of Strictly Pure Beers.
l22l-1233 10th st. N. w.
WASHINGTON. D. C.
Telephone 11ss. spl3-Im
Telephone, l13.

the landlady came up to inform Tom that q
gentleman wished to see him.
.'It's about the note," said Tom. 'Shcw
him up
minute afterward gentleman walked in
10 the room and Tom, directly he saw him,
| gave great gasp OF astonishment. 1t was
Captain Fairclough.
You are I. E. said the Captain.
''Yes-I-am."
1.-TWO years ago you lost $500 note'
''Yes," said Tom, wondering what on earth
the captain could know about it.
"Well, said the captain, "you can have il
again if you explain the circumstances How
the deuce did it come to be sent to me to
Africa in a letter from my wife?''
Tom turned hot and cold. II don't under
stand you," he stammered
"It is rather hard to understand" said the
captain. "My wife never had the note, but In
letter written to me by her and received by
me some eighteen months ago in an out
landish part of Africa there was that identical
note. 1 took the number directly l got 1t,
and carried it about with me for month
before got to q place where there was q
banker to change it. I concluded that she
had sent 1t to me thinking-which was true
that was stranded, and hadn't the money to
make the big journey across country and get
home. To my utter astonishment when 1 did
reach home l found she knew nothing about
the note, and assured me she closed her let-
ter herself and sent il to the post by servant
How the deuce did your lost f500 note get
| into the letter?'
II can't say, I'm sure" gasped Tom, cit
quite takes my breath away"
.'You can prove that the note was yours?"
said the captain, looking round the room and
thinking it did not look the abode Of . cap
italist.
"Oh. yes, was q racing man at the time
| and received it from bookmaker. He only
tbo aota md tbo hop ~ ha yvafe
the other day-that is why didn't advertise
| before The date was the 90th of September"
"That's odd," exclaimed the captain. my
wife's letter was dated the 26th and she says
it was posted the day she wrote It. don't
! know what the postal date on the envelope
| was, as tore It up In Africa. How could
your note have got into my letter four days
| after it was posted2"
| Tom couldn't offer any explanation, but he
began to understand what had happened
himself. When he put the folded note back
| after showing it to his father-in-law 1t must
have accidently slipped inside the open en-
| velope which was then in the pocket book,
and, taking the envelope out aiterward with
| the flap down and sealing It without opening
| it again, he didn't notice It.
"Well," said the captain after pause, "it's
a mystery, but II you can prove by the person
who paid it you that the note is yours you
shall have the money. 1t clearly doesn't be-
| long to me. Good evening""
All that night Tom wondered what on earth
| he could do. Here was his $500 come back
again, but he knew he would have to make
! his story very plausible to get 1t.
After all, he hadn't done anything criminal,
because he had posted the letter. and be
hadn't stolen it, and part OF the delay In post
| ing 1t was accidental.
| By the next morning he had made up his
mind. He called on the captain and made q
clean breast OF everything. The captain was
furious at first, but eventually calmed down.
and then Mrs. Fairclough, as Tom knew the
contents of the letter, explained that she had
written it out of pique. and had no intention
Of carrying out her threat, and was quite sat-
lshed with her husbands explanation Of his
| long silence.
And eventually Tom received his $500. not
in notes this time, but In an open check,
which he duly cashed, and the money he at
once deposited in a bank as a nest egg for
rainy day. He had never risked any of it on
the turf. and he has made mp his mind that II
ever he picks up another unposted letter he
will drop it into the nearest pillar box at once.
| Prying into the correspondence Of grass
! widow very nearly cost Tom Enifer GOO.