The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-02-23

81 would stake my life on his truth
and honor"
lyon are biased, my dear madam
Possibly. But commo sense must
tell you that if he had wished to deceive
me as to his character he need not have
contided to me- his name and history.
However, if you are afraid to under
take the case, say SO, Mr. Doyle, and ]
will 60 TO some else. t.
Afraid? Not at ALL said the detect
i've, with alacrity- II shall be happy to
exert my best endeavors ON Mr.. Vim
ing's behalf"
The first thing the detective did was
to set a 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 a couple of weeks the pri-
vate inquiry agent began to look blank.
Mr.. Barlow's conduct was irreproach-
able. He went for a walk every day, and
once ho visited his tailor's. That was
all. He was invariably home before
dark. .+"'
III have him Swallowed for anoth-
er week, but really / don = 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 ohummy with
that gentleman in a 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 q 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 a dirty little BARRIERS
shop?
The next morning Doyle undertook
the shadowing himself. Mr.. Barlow
went for a walk and nowhere else.
Ditto the next day and the five SUISSE
quent days. The detective ragged. For
nearly a 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
he noticed a gentleman with
bushy sandy whiskers. Three-quarters
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 g~entleman's otherwise
immaculate shirt collar. 1t was q dirty
day, one of London's own.
Presently the private door opened,
Barlow, III his proper person,
issued forth and walked briskly down
the street.
On his collar, in .ho very same place,
was a little speok of mud.
1t was three weeks later. In his pri-
room the manager of the X-
bank was cordially shaking hands with
D spare gentleman of benevolent aspect.
You want those large notes changed
'or small ones? Certainly, sir. Anything
oblige a client of Messrs. Gordon g.
20. A recommendation from them is q
recommendation indeedp'
A few minutes afterward the old gen.
quilted the building, and calling
hanson drove to Charing Cross sta
ion. Close in the rear followed another
ransom, whose occupant was Mr..
Doyle.
The old gentleman entered the sta
ion. So did the detective. He came out
gain and took another cab. Ditto MI.
Doyle. A short journey ON the under
round railway was followed by o sharp
walk, which terminated ut the private !
loor of the shop in Soho. Therein van :
shed the old gentleman, only to reap
ear a short time later in his true char
cter $ MI. Barlow.
The detective watched him down the !
treet with a look of genuine admira. !
ion on his face. i
He's disguised himself twice within i
ny knowledge Sc that his W mother I
@A0W AAAhs u0 IuuGGETGH. N
And to think that a man Of that genius 4
hould have been betrayed by o little I
it Of dirt"
Mr.. Doyle returned post haste to the l
- bank. Therein all was conster- A
alton, for a discovery had just been :
that the old gentleman. y letter of
from Gordon 81 Co. was as h
alse as the 925 notes they had ex- 4
hanged for him.
That afternoon the house i'm Bedford 4
quare was entered by the police. A
uantlty OF forged notes and the neces- d
airy implements for making them were +
lscovered in a back room, and Mr.. 4
carlow and his servants, or rather con- h
aderates, were arrested. 4
AT the time of the trial it transpired 4
nat they had only been waiting to II
'ake one more large coup before leav- Z
the country with their i'll gotten 4
aims. ' y
BY the next steamer the young man
alled for England, and a week later I
adie was clasped in her lovers arms. 1
Good Company.