Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-26

best. Your late troubles do not in any
way concern the management, and at
this time of year you will not be en-
barrassed by meetings with friends"
GAS you please" said abruptly.
| ION the way to the hotel stop the
cab and send a telegram to yourself,
desiring your own presence immediate
| ly at Ayr, signing any name which
may occur to you. At the Elsinore en-
gage one Of the best rooms in the house
! and have your luggage carried up at
once. Refresh yourself after your
| journey, during which process you will
| probably receive your wire, dispatched
| few minutes earlier. Order and eat
a meal, then see the manager and in
| form him of what he will most likely
| know already, that you have had tele-
gram. Say it calls you away until next
day, and give him case of jewels,
| which you will ask him to examine, to
keep in his safe until you return.
This will assure him of your good
faith, even if the dummy trunk should
not wholly DO SO, and you may leave
Glasgow for Ayr, taking only your bag
and all it's contents, except few tribes
, which you must leave scattered ON
your dressing table.
Having reached the place and spent
an hour or two as you will, write on
the paper Of some inn of the town to
the manager Of the Elsinore Hotel.
Inform him that you find, on account OF
the illness of a friend, you will be de-
tanned for three or four days, but that
your room is to be kept for you exactly
as it is.
"Post the letter and leave Ayr at
once, going to Edinburgh, where, by
calling at an address I will give you,
you will receive the second half Of the
promised five hundred pounds. Now,
are you certain that you thoroughly
understand every detail of these in
structions, for I cannot over-estimate
the value of each one?"
1 intimated that all were indelibly
impressed upon my memory. Yet he
would not be satisfied until I had not
only repeated his orders in rotation, but
noted them with a pencil on my cuff
as I did so.
"Have your word Of honor as gen
tleman that you will faithfully attend
to even the least Of these things, with
out the slightest deviation?"
1 was in for it now, and SO gave
him my assurance.
"Wilat Iioxtt:" asked at lat.
There is no more to be DONE" he
replied. Though, if you choose, you
may leave q line at the place in Edin-
burgh where you are to call for the
balance Of your payment, stating where
a communication from me may find you
in future. I may, before long, be able
to throw another plum in your way.
Here are the two hundred and fifty
pounds, Mr. Napier which you were
so careless as to leave lying on the
table when you went to dress, and in
addition ten pounds extra, which will
meet all your initial travelling expenses,
undertaken in my interests. In this
envelope, which is sealed, you will find,
when you need it, the Edinburgh adj
dress. Of that. if you want the rest
of your money, you will be careful.
Now you have still nearly three-quar-
tiers of an hour for a nap, if you would
care for it?"
I replied that I had never felt less
desire for sleep in my life, which was
true, although my rest had, to say the
least, been considerably broken during
the past few nights.
We spent the remainder of the time
in talking of Indifferent things, MY
mysterious host evidently priding him
self somewhat upon his varied knowl-
edge OF literature and of affairs 1
had every reason, though no actual
proof, for believing him to be a
scoundrel. Yet he interested me, ana
I was surprised when Hassan appeared
to announce, with appropriate gestures,
the arrival CT the vehicle which was to
take me away.
My host and l shook hands for the
second time, though with no more in
ward cordially on my part than be-
fore, and then he insisted upon seeing
NE to the cab.