The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-18
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stun. wall and again ] WIS right In getting

I'LL tIAlh Wt- IfNI 'NSH thAN'A' 9 INV
servants. Lord Colonel, there wasn't too much
Miss Leighton could say 200 OF them. A lot
OF old TRUSTEES, that YOU READ upout ahu seldom
see. devoted to their masters interests, aud
each one with a saving-.hauk account, When
found this out | didn't oauy. further, for
me crooked. Colone! don c2t,on 10 y saving,
proits in order to make ullck returns OF wha'
they TOOK leastwise that what Trey always
Say, Though in "a ny y s ,Ei n.t mom nrslItu''on IS
DETECTING, Colonel. il often like u sum in
subtraction. You lump together all the pos;;
those chat investisntiun shows 10 be ground
less. and when you We dono this lust as far as
YOU can. then the truth ought to be somewhere
seemed to be no remainder, unless the conyic-
ton OF thr court had been right, ana Young
Proctor was the thief OF The missing diamonds,
Leighton good-by for a day or two, though
put on a hrash 'front.' Tor liked her style anu
her pluck, aud most Of oil liked her LOYALTY,
"a men ike things they may. have dreamed
about when they wer" boys. but have never
%AsI passed through the thee sorrtWso oFi the hen %a AZ;
/ you make out NJ ~ SAID he. Nothing, said l..
'Of course not. said ne; | looked into it my;
self. out Of pity, you know and then called
nate that she said she would 60 with II, to
50 ana so'-namine rivals OF ours-whirh /
lint want Just s,rrp nN,t ~ ,or = WINE nue.
know il she'll meet some one else she likes, AMI
then good-by 10 Proctor and his case. Let mo
see. how long j. II you men saw z woman sticks
~ n man in the pig six months Is the limit.
II didn't answer. Colonel. being hotter than
before under the collar. but slUucnei away IN "A
/ manner which no doubt strengthened Mr.. Rei-
clifro's contempt Tor mo, Perhaps there Is
whore he made a mistake. too; Tor when a
mans pride IL hurt and his better feelings
aroused. then's when his. thinktng machine ~
going TO do dOuhla- luicR work. The more !
considered such treatment OF 4, client, an old
employee. and a house that had been an nom
MY OF crookcdnees. the hotter | got and IT was
nv mad, Colonel, not my deliberate judgment.
that turned my thoughts in a new direction, a
direction which led To the truth.
"The next evening. Colonel. | spent going
over the record with young Proctor'S lawyer,
There wasn't much to il, the. prosecution had
made out u prlma tacic ca g., by virtue of tho
suspicious circumstances mentioned. and all
there was to offset N was the defendants hare
denial. bold and candid, but not worth. much
law and order and high responsibility, The
trouhi" wa. the defence had been al az
sea. with nothing to do bur 10 Ash. Thus
the rross-rXaminotion wandered taking
up ono subject only to drop II for
another; and the only fact it brought
out, which dIdgt sem M,irT!y W0r,nlr n
no attention. Od Marchmont voIuntcCrcd he
statement that III" safe was a peculiar English
invention. designed exclusively Tor me pro-
faction of viluab.cs within a small space.
Then. alter on, when asked by the. drteninnts
attorney, moratO use up time than for any other
purpose, whether the lock ever got ont Of order.
he answered that il had worked all right be-
fore the burglary, hui thar the very next day
after, he had to saud for a man 20 come aud re-
rair II, the tumbltr4 being displaced by the
violence with which h. had slamm - the door.
in his rage over the discovery OF hIs loss.
"h!I night long, Colonel, my, m nj was flled
with wild teas about that safe. and the next
morning the first IN NJ | til was 70 walk uy
the snowy Offices that the ENGLISH inventor had
taken in a fashionable part Of the town. They
wcTn closed and inquiry at the agents showed
thai the man had departed hurrirdly and for
parts unknown ldldn't n]"sltat" a moment,
hut went right up tn, old ,Mqrchmonts house.
and was lucky enough 10 find him NJ hone. AT
frat, H. stormel, but on nv appealing 70 his
might and the weakness OF my client. he con-
scented TO let me -" the famous safe. | swear,
Colonel, II | had gone into the library alone,
shouldn't have been able 70, hhl the
durn thing. In appearance II wasn't
a safe AZ all. hut merely u handsome cab net.
The little door to the compartment seemed but
n part Of the woodwork, and the combination
knob but a carved boss, Nothing. ct course.
was within the tiny space but it, proper share
Of emptiness. ! rapped along the sides, the
top. the bottom :and there | rappeda and raped
"gaa!!RG: o. tho vork man alone whom n. repaired
the lock the next day. | asked.
~ SUPPOSE So snapped ont .Marchmont.
why Shout amy one haye watched MN We've
got something else to do beside barring the
Get me 4 stout hammer and II show you.'
said /.
We'll. he cussed a little, but finally he rang
rhe bell, and one OF the old TRUSTEES brought g
miniature sIedGe to mo, And then, Colonol. ]
took a chance. TOR. without another word. \
drew back and ht the, bottom 1.-THE rompart-
ment a whack at my full strength: The plate
cred like glass. and in another ome We
were examining as pretty Il piece OF trtckwork
as | eyer saw In the hull course OF my profess
TT was hollow underneath. Colonel. instead
OF being the solideat and, chlIliest OF steel, hot
, oI cI SGr work /, T There S wSs a 'G con 9r an sor tS
cause the bottom Of the comrartment TO
slide back at a certain time and dump what
ever might be 10 II into a little srsce below.
There was a rontrivance - caisc the lock 70
get out q. order al a certain time after This had
happened B,ame me-. don't think there
were cOntrivanceS enough 10 cause the cabinet
to drop itself ont OF the window. il II hal been
thought wise tor II TO 40 80. The proof was too
plain tor any argument: Old Marchmont had
| been hocua-"d by ms slick a gana OF English
swindlers IA ever struck this country for thor
II must say that the old man came up to the
scratch without wincing. Young Proctor. he
swore. should he got oqt Of luol without de-
lay aud have his girl. H. would marry them
of instautcr aud set them ~ for life As for
the scoundrels who had foO2lel him. he would
follow them to hell ami back NJ the cost Of half
his fortune. To think OF the credentials they
Showed he raved, from the, highest police nu.
was to u" suspicious which my mad had
aroused like fire to tow. | Ept IN n fine work.
and hv entreatiug and promising. | finally per-
suadc' tho Old fellow IN agree 10 Keep quiet
and 30 nothing for a few lays.
DC you remember. Colone.. when ! was tell
ing you about my wait in the managers office,
| sand that | noticed something. simply Tor
want OF ANYTHING else 10 do ami viii, no ldea
that II might be- important? Yes Well. that
something ! noticed was that the platen OF h =
typewriting machine was covered with words
and letters. caused hv his writing in such slap
dash style that now and again his uap"r would
run out before he knew IL. and part OF what he
was writing would remain on the Ula'"u. ]
hadn't thought ANYTHING ~ u. then. except that
II was another OF the many instunC"S | had
known where a man through very cautiNu,nc-s
laid himself Opou ~ betrayal by not also tax.
bis own Uttle' in.lghilicant personal
habits. ltndclife was TOO cautiouS 10 keep
an amanuensis: and vet, by NOT guard.
ING against his hHstY. ~SInp-dash way
nj tvrewriting. u might VOL be- thar be had left
imprinted on thc nlaten some word or mart Of
would most. wish 10 hide. N oll events, Col.
Onel. | wah determined to have that pljteu, and
Sc" whit II might have 70 reveal.
Colonel. il told the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but II. so help mol That night |
had the platan ont Of RedcliiTe's machine and
was S~tulying Il under "A microscope. At II
O'Clock | had Inade on an address. 'N0rItz ct
have been .hlup"l TO themY Al II o'c'o"k
was closrtad with our Old firm. the gooi. square
partner. who had never thought me stupid
because | hkcd 10 chat aud smoke with III"
boys At ! O'Clock the cables were hummiUg
~ our agents in Europe. oh. IL was rapid
cour-n: our men on tho Continent inkr bipg"r
chances with the thtr degree than we dare
to 10 here, and they cOughrd up soUc
o. the stunS, l"dclifr Wa pinchel ana