Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-10

Possibly. But common sense mus
tell You that If he had wished to deceiv
me as to his character be need not hay
confded to me his name and history
However, if you are afraid to under
take the case, say so, Mr.. Doyle, and
will go to some one else"
afraid? Not at all, f" said the detect
i've, with alacrity. II shall be happy t,
exert my best endeavors on Mr.. Vim
ing's behalf.
The first thing the detective did was
to set watch upon Mr.. Barlow from
next door, but he had to pass the notes
after he had forged them, so his every
movement out of doors was reported.
At the end Of couple Of weeks the pri
yate inquiry agent began to look blank.
Mr.. Barlow conduct was irreproach.
able. He went for walk every day, and
once he visited his tailor's. That was
all. He was invariably home before
dark.
"I'll have him Swallowed for anoth.
er week, but really I don t see much use
in it, he thought, and he said as much
to Sadie. "Mr. Vining must be mis-.
taken as to who gave him the notes.
The man seems perfectly respectable. -
One of Doyle's emissaries, following
Barlow one night in evening dress, sue
ceeded in making himself chummy with
that gentleman in chance encounter at
one Of the music halls and thereafter
had many social evenings with him.
Still nothing was discovered
At length, however, something &C.
CURED. A satellite returned with the
information that Barlow had entered a
small hairdresser's shop in back street
| in Soho and had remained there quite
two hours.
This was mysterious. For what pur-
pose could the white waistcoated house.
holder with the bland smile and the
creaking patent leather boots have spent
all that time in dirty little barber's
shop?
The next morning Doyle undertook
the shadowing himself. Mr.. Barlow
went for walk and nowhere else.
Ditto the next day and the five subse-
quent days. The detective ragged. For
nearly fortnight nothing occurred,
and then Mr.. Barlow visited Soho again.
While Doyle waited for his reappear-
ance one or two persons came out of the
shop, and some went in. Among the
former he noticed a gentleman with
bushy sandy whiskers. Three quarters
of an hour later he returned. The
pavement was narrow, and he brushed
against the shabby lounger at the cor
ner. And the shabby lounger's observ.
ant eyes noticed that there was a speck
of mud on the gentleman otherwise
immaculate shirt collar 1t was dirty
day, one of London's own.
Presently the private door opened,
and Barlow, in his own proper person,
issued forth and walked briskly down
the street.
On his collar, in the very same place,
was a little speck Of mud.
1t was three weeks later. In his pri-
vate room the manager of the x
bank was cordially shaking hands with
u.
"You want those large notes changed
for small ones? Certainly, sir. Anything
to oblige client of Messrs Gordon &
Co. A recommendation from them is a
recommendation indeedp'
A few minutes afterward the old gem
tleman quilted the building, and calling
hanson drove to Charing Cross sta
ton. Close in the rear followed another
hanson, whose occupant was Mr..
Doyle.
The old gentleman entered the sta
ton. So did the detective. He came out
again and took another cab. Ditto Mr.
Doyle. A short journey OH the under-
ground railway was followed by sharp
walk, which terminated at the private
door Of the shop in Solo, Therein van
ished the old gentleman, only to reap
pear short time later in his true char
acter as Mr.. Barlow.
The detective watched him down the
street with look of genuine admira.
ton on his face.
Hes disguised himself twice within
my knowledge SO that his own mother
wouldn't know him." he muttered.
"And to think that man Of that genius
should have been betrayed by little
bit of dirt
Mr.. Doyle returned post haste to the
& bank. Therein all was conster-
nation, for discovery had just been
made that the old gentleman's letter of
reference from Gordon & co. was as
false as the e25 notes they had ex.
changed for him.
That afternoon the house in Bedford
square was entered by the police A
quantity Of forged notes and tho neces-
sary implements for making them were
discovered in back room, and Mr..
Barlow and his servants, or rather con-
federates, were arrested.
At the time of the trial it transpired
that they had only been waiting to
make one more large coup before leav.
ing the country with their i'll gotten
gains.
By the next steamer the young man
sailed for England, and week later
Sadie was olasped in her lovers arms.
Good Company.