Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-07-04
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near Chinese border. Hayie only ~ half Be- Be-
join In search. =.
PART 11.-Reaching sengko1-wat, the
make ana T the sHc na
ace. Toward dusk after a most tedious
search they come upon secret entranceto
cred great quantities OF bar gold and uncut.
hands with gems: and the men make their
md their two Burmese servants, slain and
Ing the night Hayis secures treasure and
steals away into the Jungle. = .'.a III -.
conscious, Hayle Is found BY English off,
GERS near. frontier station of Nampoung.
As soon az able he leaves for Rangoon
and thence to England "a: 3. -
PART IV.-Two months later another
ofHcer at Nampoung, while out on hunt
comes across :Kitwater and Codd: Kitwa-
ter explains they were traders who had
fallen into hands Of Chinese who had put
tongue. After recovering somewhat from
effects of exposure and fortunes they set
on in pursuit of Hayle.
CHAPTER I-George Fairfax relates
and finally came to open up an office in
London. s:A.F - SO s, = -. )
At the conclusion OF. this case Z re-
signed my position in the police of the
northern colony, and joined the detec-
tive staff in Melbourne, seeing. in their
service a good deal of queer life and
ferreting out not small number OF
extraordinary cases. The experience
gained there was invaluable, and led
me, after one particularly interesting
piece of business in which I had the
good fortune to be most successful, to
entertain the notion of quitting gov
ernment employ altogether, and SET
ting up for myself. I did 80, and soon
had more work upon my hand than 1
could very well accomplish: But I
was too ambitious to be content with
small things, and eventually came to
y 2SRg!8s|2R s4et! thfrs zes aaet
After Is years. absence, therefore,
,xstQrned to England, spending year
in the further east en- Route in order
TO enlarge my experience, and to quail
fly myself for any work that might
come to me from that quarter: 8.
r. On certain bitterly cold day in
January I reached Liverpool from the
United States, and took the train for
my old home. My father and mother
had long since died, and now all that
remained to me of them was the stone
slab that covered their resting place in
the quiet little churchyard at the foot
of the hill. Il; II. 49, E V. Z. Il I
#"Well, here I am,'' said to myself,
"33 years old and alone in the world.
Nobody knows me in England, but it
won't be my fault if they don't hear of
George Fairfax beforeav very long. I'll
be Off to London and try my fortune
there:H1.;. 800 :. -. i. s - s.
: Next day made my way to the.
great metropolis, and installed myself
at a small private hotel, while 1
looked about me preparatory to COM
mencing business. To talk of gaining
2 footing in London is all very well in
its way, but it is. by no-means 50 easy.
9 task to accomplish as it might APP
pear. Doubtless it can be done fairly
quickly if one is prepared to spend
large sums of money in advertising,
and is not afraid to blow ones own
trumpet on every possible occa-
sion, but that is not my line,
and besides, even had $50 wished,
I had not the money to do it.
For a multitude of reasons I did not
feel inclined to embark my hard
earned savings on such a risky enter
prise. preferred to make my way by
my own diligence, and with that end
in view l rented an Office in a con-
venient quarter, furnished it, put q
small advertisement in q few of the
papers, and then awaited the coming
of my clients.
AS have long and curious story
to tell, and this book is only intended
to be the narration of q certain episode
In my life, detailed description of
my first three years in London would
not only be superfluous, but in every
way waste of time. Let it suffice that
my first case was that of the now
notorious Pilchard street diamond
robbery, my success in which brought
me business from well-known irm,in
Hatton Gardens. As the public viii
doubtless remember they had been
robbed of some valuable gems between
London and Amsterdam in q SINGULAR
y audacious manner. Ny second was
the case of the celebrated Russian
swindler, who called herself Countess
Demikoff. p This case alone TOOK me
nearly SIX months to unravel, but
: did not grudge the time, seeing that I
was well paid for my labors, and that
i managed to succeed where the police
had failed. From that time forward I
think may say without boasting that
- have been as successful as any man
OF my age has right to expect to be.
What is better still, I am now in the
happy position of being able to accept
or decline business as I choose. 1t is
: in many respects hard life, and at all
times is attended with fair amount
Of risk, but you cannot make omelettes
without breaking eggs, and if anyone
& chooses to spend his life running to
earth men who are waging war against
+ society, well, he must not grumble II
he receives some hard knocks in re-