Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-05-05

dump whatever might be in it into a
little space below. There was con-
trivance to cause the lock to get ont
OF order at certain time after this
had happened. The proof was too
plain for any argument; old March
mont had been hocussed by Us slick a
gang OF English swindlers as ever
struck this country for their own
good.
IT must say that the old man came
up to the scratch without wincing
Young Proctor, ho swore, should be
got out CT quod without delay and
have his girl. He would marry them
off instanter and set them up for lie.
As for the scoundrels who had fooled
Inn, lie would follow them at the cost
OF half his fortune. TO think Of the
credentials they showed he raved,
from the highest police authorities III
England! At that, Colonel, which
was to the suspicious which my mad
had aroused like fire to tow, got in
my fine work, and by entreating and
promising. I finally persuaded the old
fellow to agree to keep quiet aud do
nothing for few days.
"Do you remember, Colonel, when
I was telling you about my wait in
the managers office. 1 said that ]
noticed something, simply for want OF
anything else to do aud with no idea
that it might be important? Yes?
Well, that something noticed was
that the platen OF his typewriting
machine was covered with words and
letters, caused by his writing in such
slap dash style that now and again his
paper would run out before he knew
it, and part of what lie was writing
would remain on the platen. l hadn't
thought anything OF it, then, except
that it WAS another of the many in
stances I had known where man
through very cautiousness laid him.
self open to betrayal by not also tax
ing into account and guarding against
his own little, insignificant personal
habits. Radcliffe was too cautious to
keep an amanuensis; and yet, by not
guarding against his hasty, slap
way of typewriting, it might be we'll
that he had left imprinted on the
planten some word or part OF sem
tence which would give q clue to what
he would most wish to hide. At all
events, Colonel, 1 WAS determined to
have that platen. and see what it
might have to reveal.
Colonel, it told the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but it, 80
help me! That night had the platen
out of Radcliffe g machine aud was
studying it under q microscope. At
II o'clock I had made out an address.
'Moritz ct Cie., Amsterdam might
not the diamonds have been shipped
to them? t12 o'clock was closeted
with our old firm, the good, square
partners, who had never thought mo
stupid because I liked to chat and
smoke with the boys. At 1 o'clock
the cables were humming to our agents
in Europe. Oh, it was rapid work, I
tell you! Moritz & Co. squealed, of
course; our men OH the Continent
take bigger chances with the third de-
gree than we dare to do here, and
they coughed up some of the stuns.
Radcliffe was pinched and exposed,
and got ten.speaker for his pains.
And old Marchment kept his word,
getting young Proctor pardoned out,
and married off to Miss leighton and
set up solid in jiffy. And do you
know, Colonel, when I went to call
on the happy pair, in the bang-up flat,
blow me, if they didn't have my
picture on the palmer with big bow
Of lace above it."-New York Sun.