The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-22
THE p. P.'s MYSTERY.
Wanted-AnOther Sleuth to Take
Hold of the Case.

looking the marsh that once was Ldlnpert >
lake." Glad am | to escape from that grue-
some spot and get into town. Chilly may be
your atmosphere, and sooty the breeZes that
blow your streets, but cheerful IS the glow OIL
your iresides and rudy the glare OF your
glims.
Oh iC was so lonesome and desolate o
nights out there on Hog Back pass! Happy
was | when the rabbit hunter found me- An;
how happy, when the ?. T. man dlscoNered
me and | accompanied him to his office TO
be written about; yes, and illustrated, TOO.
And now I'm perched on the tipmost top
of the topmost point of the P ?. building
awaiting Developments.
No roosting for me on a plain, wooden
door, I'm no raven not l. Yet envy the
bird Limited were his powers OF speech, l
know, but then he could put in a word now
and again-and Poe would listen. m DONG
the listening in this case, for I'm doomed 10
silence-to sit and watch the editors and the
reporters think how they can 'unraYel me-
penetrate" me. solve me-
that [ could shrek aloud. yell, shoGt'
whisper, How | hate the man who for the
sixty-fifth time in five days has seriously re
ferred to an ordinary police case as beng
''shrouded in mystery
I'm no shroud. I'm nobodys winding
sheet! 80
ride the air, It's true, on a chainless bike,
and | keep SOLITARY vigils' with conscience
serene as well as disturbed Who knows that
| haven't an eye even now upon some con-
science upon which rests with crushing weight
dreadful ss.ret?' CSee today's p. P art-
Gle headed with the line borrowed from
Beadle's The Mystery Deepens.,l
But. for all this, I'm intangible can
ShrOud ANYTHING that real 1--we huHldh III
telIect focuses its thoughts upon.
Trifes were the torments of Jekyl when he
lapsed into Hyde. compared WITH Hilis' III
tongue-tied, but my eyes are Wlue opeh'
keener than the finest razor's edge pierce
the deepest gloom. l can see away down
through twelve stories of steel and timber ana
stone into the very bowels of the building
where the printer filings me over TO the puplic;
having first been robed for that ceremonial
br tho vieilant sleuth UP stairs who captured
me-made ME forcibly the property ol HIS
newspaper. ,..
see everything about the P. P. bearing
upon ma. the Mystery I'm beginning u
despGSr of ever being unwound.
Good Mr.. Editor listen to me while SPEAK
not with NV tongue. | haven't any: nor with
my eyes, for they will neither WINK nor Dllllk n.
nor with the muscles of my lace lor Liey al =
as rigid as any that ever contemplated
very large pot with a very small pair
But by that invisible process when puts
mind in contact with mind ana presents iacts
as clearly as if the telegrapher ART hau oeen
drafted into service, let me communicate 10
YOU some of the things that I've so feeehti!
seen. G. !, ;,o1o
Things that weary a genuine fin de steele
Mystery -o..,,.,,5 ma
You will bv this time have recognized me-
I'm sure If not let me recall the lacC Iud1
Won saw me. on the front page OF the +. +. on
tuesday morning last. The order had been
given somewhere along the line 10 put d
s.Scare'' head over me. Unacqualnteu Will
nrintars' variance | was indeed until l saw
myself reposing on a printed couch Win se'-
eral fonts of job type FOR l9ot t fon .ba
should have written headboard, put lot lle
fact that that particular piece OF furniture
WIS sa+ upright little further down III the
bodv of the article. as the printers descrlpeu
il. I've wondered since why they dldh Put
that remarkable illustration at the top OF the
M
columns (where the caPut naIuIaiiy peioi Is, 80
and then locate the job office somewhere I'M
derneath. r,,o nov,
But let that pass. Things, so We now
learned. have to be hurriedly done IN news
paper offices so they can get 10 press VIII
out slipping Il mail.
You now I'm certain. recall my appear
ance You were not, let me say III pass,hs
the only person hereabouts VINO was sauueu-
ed hy the same sight that morning and hur-
ricd TO business without his coffee ASK tne
editor of the P p. himself how he llked II;
I know he didn't, for I've since peel feleSaCeu
to inside pages. ASK anyoooy Dut Tue E sdeItL
who carried ms capture III manu- '''O
to the photographer :. oI;+.
But that illustration Il speak OF IL pohte-
ly) haunts me-, Eheu! .,,o,,loa oni
rive DAYS I've been t-umFed ana mauled ahC
barIed, and pulled First the sleuth, ther
the coroner prosecutor, the doctor, yes the
ndertaker. and last of all always the police
I'm thinning under this intellectual massage
Pm sore but I'm not yet solved.
I've heard and seen in the Z. T. PRINT th'
most Extraordinary things since Monday
Could a Mystery blush, suffused' lhueeu
would be my cheeks - r,a+.
p DisteI's undertaking rooms. Dlstel care
fully counted them. And yet only twenty -oilt
remained Yesterday. This must be true.
Mr. Distel hied him to the doctor. Aroused
was his sIeuth instinct-in embryo thouSh
I should Judge it to be.
Fortunate trip! How it has added TO oul
stock of anatomical knoWiedge. NdhseH ho
in it for original research.
same women have twenty-five rlDS. Sont
have twenty-siX. None have twenty-ohe. me ne
doctor did not say this to the public througi
the P P It's what Sleuth says that Dlste
SAYS that the doctor says.
And then the woman doctors" discovery
she who was also visited by Sleuth
She examined the corsets closelyIver!
breathless and bursting with suppressed emo
lions Another scoop in sight.
AS | listened to her verdict | couldn't hell
heaving a sigh. Plainly it was not to re
lease me from my thralldom-my state o
being an involuntary newspaper asset.
They are 'bust-make, The woman wh'
wore them had Il. fat chest The waist wa
large and with but small curve from thu
shoulder to the hips.
| could read Sleuths thoughts. Mercy
was his mental ejaculation. Have got II
hunt for all the missing fat-chested womel
Who'Ve been in town since last summer?
As d mystery | instantly thickend in hi
estimation. A few more discoveries lik
this, and I'll be clothed in tights and descend
from my perch to join the corporal thron;
in your busy streets.
A Mr.. Dey has examined the hole in which
the P P finds itself in its role of Vidocq t.
the Twin Cities. Pardon me, l misquote,
ing, the hole in which the P. P sleuth dis
covered the head that Mr.. Dey examined.
looked to Mr.. Qey Il now quote correctly
very much like a hole dog would dig
deeper on one side than another and slight.
followed out on the deeper side, just as
dog would dig hole with his paws
/ like this description OF a hole for 1t
frankness and lucidity. 1t settles, moreover
all doubt about the hole having been dug b,
some other member Of dog than his tail
Somebody suggested last night in the Offic
that the hCle ought to be illustrated. Where
upon somebody else remarked that it ough
to be sent right away to Tom Plat, in New
York who. being a good judge OF orihce
about this time. might discover some clu
that would be useful to the P P. Then an
other person Just growled out and broke u
further conversation with Dang the hole
Go interview the deg who dug 1t.
Sleuth hung some time over this hole il
writing today's story. I'm at loss to know
whether. from the text, il was his though
or that of Mr.. Dey that "a dog would no
prey upon such an object but it is by ~
means impossible that one might have burie'
it.
What a good dog-this deg jointly conjuret
up by Sleuth and Mr. Dey as having begun
the work of interment. Do not censure hin
too harShly fer failing to complete the task
Some other dog may have come along. and
falling into conversation they may have NOV
ed off together for visit to Mr.. Deys sheep
which, we are assured. were some where in tn,
neghborhood at the time the foul deed
was probably consummated. | like tha
phrase 1t smacks of the heroics
like. too. the zeal with which newspaper
and public officers prosecute sleuthing.
saw in today's issue repeated L don't know