Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-03-15
had many social evenings with him.

Still nothing was discovered.
At length, however, something oc
CURED. A satellite returned with thu
information that Barlow had entered {
small hairdresser's shop in back stree
i'll 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 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 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 speck
of mud on the gentleman's otherwise
immaculate shirt collar. It 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 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
spare gentleman of benevolent aspect.
''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 indeed!''
A few minutes afterward the old gen.
tleman quilted the building, and calling
hanson drove to Charing Cross sta
tion. 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 on the under
ground railway was followed by sharp
walk, which terminated at the private
door of the shop in Soho. 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.
'He's 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 a little
bit of dirt. -
Mr.. Doyle returned post haste to the
K 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 the 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 a week later
Sadie was clasped in her lovers arms.
Good Company.