The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-07

they determined to combine interests
and make a. run on Richard Englar
EsQ.'s bank. 1t was decided that the
easiest way to achieve the run" was to
approach the building through a sub
terranean passage, and the three start
ed to dig a tunnel.
When affairs were in this posture
and the tunnel nearly completed Rud-
ertck McKlowd stepped one day off a
train which had brought him out OF the
beyond. The Great Idea had taken
him away from Cornville soon after
Herbert Renshaw was elected mayor,
and it was the Great Idea. that brought
him back. With the letters of INTRODUCE
ton and recommendation that he had in
his pocket when he stepped of the
train he was officially a much more re-
spectacle parsonage than when he left
Cornville, but in essentials he was still
Ruderick McKlowd, ''the slick Chi
gun" He went straight from the train
to the Front Office" and called on the
chief
Mr.. Cowles," Ruderick began, ct
have been given to understand that
you are looking for a new man for your
detective A1rce. have had consider
able experience in the detective BUSH
ness, and L should like to be your new
man if you are satisfied with my Gre
dentials.''
"I see you are certified to icing a
very wise man. remarked ,oWles
after a hasty perusaI of RuC Ks pa
pers. 81 suppose that word wise is
merely a technical term in police par
lance"
That's what it is. Mr.. CowIes. A
wise man in the police business is just
wise, that's ALL
You have some acquaintance, have
you, with the criminal classes9 We
very much need a man who under
stands the ways of thieves"
of course, don't get myself up as
ina
but you've got my record in those pa
pers-"
well, Mr.. MclNowd, I'll take your
name into consideration. Good after
noon, SIR
Three days later there was aston
ishment, bewilderment and profanity
in the Under World. Ruderick McKlowd
had been appointed chief of detectives
in the town of CornvilIe, and the IN
der World wondered what the appoint
ment meant. When inQuisitive, the
Under World is like a child-it walks
UP and asks questions, and Ruderick
McKlowdsS office was, besieged by
guns who desired to know what was
what and what was doing" Among
the rest were the three who had come
by special summons. So far the Great
Idea had progressed exactly as Ruder-
lex had hoped it would. The financial
value of the idea was still to be dem
onstrated. The three bad men were in
where, by judicious questioning, they
were made to declare that they had
nothing whatever ION" and had not
done any business in the town since
the reform administration went into
power, and that they had been ditch
ed by Ruderick's idea. and were sick
of the place and ready to quit it. To
all of this Ruderick listened with a
politeness which was exemplary in a
public officer and an old friend When
they had finished, his reply, too, was
exemplary and significant.
''Blokes," he said, ST amt much an
chewin' the rag, but I'm more'n a lit
tie glad o. what you've told me m
that you're sick of the town I'm mar
ticular glad you're not mixed up in
that tunnel business under Englar1g
bank. The Teller that's done that has
got TO choke it off, see? 1 can't stand
for it. Anythin' else It's been done
fore / go here amt any O. my bust
| ness For yourselves, my tip as an old
pal is, since you're sick of this town
to get shut of 1t by the next RATHER
I'm responsible for what's done here
from this on. an I'll have to make "a
pinch If you hang around, So you'd bet
ter try to mooch. guess you've made
your pile here anyhow, an it's time =
you got your graft in elsewhere. I
am maxim no passes at you nor
nothin', but If you sprint Won can
catch that 1880 this evenfn'. It 'ud give
me a pain to see you here after 8