The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-06-22
SHAvINe AFeR.
THREE PERSONS TELL DETECTIVE STORY.
BY Warren Walters.


Institute.
Il was not prepared to answer this
question until I knew with whom he
to fill the vacancy, should
one exist
"Thereuron, NJ. Belot presented to
my attention q letter OF instructions
from Count LIE Marry, dated in Paris,
some time previous, ordering NJ. Belot
to select q school OF the very highest
order in New York City, and to place
Estele lie Maury therein.
Money was no object, the letter
stated, tho main consideration being
to secure q school where Mademoiseile |
lie Maury should meet none but ladies'
OF the very highest respectability and
family.
IN. Belot was also specially in
structed that the young lady should
receive no visitors but NJ. Belot him.
self, and that for few weeks her
studies should be held in allegiance.
In consequence Of q recent bereavc-
ment it was not likely mademoiselle
would care to devote her attention to
books, her nervous system being Sc
verely wrenched by the blow.
IN. Belot explained that Madame
the Countess LIE Maury had but re-
Gently been taken to heaven, and that
the young lady was suffering intense
prostration.
II confess I was considerably elated
over the prospect Of having a pupil of
titled birth. saw with what excel
lent effect the name Of Count LIE
Maury would shine in the spring cata
logue of the Lavender Institute, but
the glow of satisfaction I experienced
in that thought was considerably aug
mented when NJ. Belot handed me the
amount of my charges in gold coin,
without murmur.
II say without murmur, because
had I been dealing with an American
or English gentleman II had English
patrons of aristocratic familes), they
would have demurred, perhaps, at the
sum total. which I may frankly own
was considerably in advance of the
terms as set forth in my catalogue.
But well knew the additional care a
nervous pupil must entail, therefore I
deemed it but just that my increased
anxiety ana vigilance should have q
representation in the account.
cit was quite early the next morn
ing that close carriage drove up with
NJ. Belot and my new pupil. The
young lady, unfortunately, was suffer-
ing from severe attack of toothache
or neuralgia; the lower part of her
face was bound up in several folds of
cloth.
'She was tall and slender, I could
see, and possessed the most piercing
black eyes 1 ever saw. Her clothing
was of the richest, but with my pre-
conceived ideas Of French elegance, I
was rather surprised to observe lack
of neatness and taste in her attire. /
attributed this to the pain which
Mademoiselle Estelle was enduring,
however.
an. Belot suggested that mademoi-
selle be shown her chamber at once,
an idea she eagerly seconded.
"The counts man Of business again
urged upon me the necessity of allow.
ing Mademoiselle Estelle the privilege
of doing very much Us she pleased,
assuring me that such policy would
do more to restore her to composure
than anything else.
'Mademoiselle may require some
!, extra attention, or long for unusual
articles of diet. To provide these,
hope madame will not hesitate to ust
this and he handed me couple O.
gold eagles.
DEFECTIVE DAN DAwsoN's STATEMENT
"I never saw an old gent so cut W
at being done as General Morgan
When he came to me he was jus
bilin' over at the audacious rascal TO,
presuming to swindle him. Tha
seemed to stick in his craw more thai
the loss of his bonds, which was It'd,
pile. He must have a good man.
more of the same sort sailed down
sure.
, , "Most gents, in such cases, ar
: willing to -compromise-'com
the felony as the lawyers call it
providing they get back the bulk Q
the cash; But this old gent he wa
hot for catching the rascal: He woul
like to get the money well enough
but the man he must have.
II explained to him that if h
! wanted the cash, his best plan woul
= be compromise. I warned him,
! he was bent on turning up the ma
!. and putting him in good he stood
poor chance. You see, the great diff
Guilty in all the confidence games is t
!, prove the actual robber. There wa
nobody to swear they saw tho none
taken.
II knew who it was as soon as til
general described the person who ha
spoken to him at the apple stand. ]
" was 'Patter Brumpton,' his real nam.
{ believe, is William Joyce.
;, II did not think the case dificu
y one, for had seen Patter a dav {
% two before, on Broadway, and kne
where to look for him. He was q
70 old offender. and one of the smarte
80 stalls in the country.
., ut was altogether likely Patt,
= would not make any great efforts
a hide, calculating that the case wou1
'" take the usual course-that is, to e
back the bulk of cash the victim woul
refuse to prosecute.
n Unfortunately for me, the genera
s. who is great swell, and no end of
re big gun in the fashionable world, e.
attacking. He made known his sent
il. ments in pretty vigorous languag
a The reporters gave it all away in T.
h. newspapers. Patter. of course, got
n hear this, and knew he had tackled
u tartar, and at once sought cover
Next to finding Patter himself,
r wanted to know VIII are his pals wer
+. Boston Dick had travelled wi
10 Patter Brumpton for many yea
ut and I learned that, on the morning
ne the nineteenth, Boston Dick had be
#, seen lettering in the neighborhood.
was certain, then, that the two b
O. planned the lob. and that BOSTON hi