The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-11-10
A COMEDY OF
 LOST NUMBERS

IT 4A ANa'' ' 9NNNi NtN'- arf the mattert'
 "Fve lost twenty SlO0 bills"
 "WhereT'
 "Where3 What nonsense! If l knew where, wouldn't so and dnd themi I've been robbed"
 "Robbed.'
 "One Of the customers of the house came Into the office last evening when was alone and insisted on paying me G2OOO. ! told him that ! would not receive lt. as the safe was locked and I didn't know the combination. Then be said he had to take a night uain for New York and must receive lt ad be wouldn't carry it with him. Fear Ing he would report me to the firm and they would blame me. ! consented and gave him a receipt After be had gone l put the bills in my inside pOck' ct and started for home. l can remem- Der leaving the office and walking a short distance. then my memory stops Al the end of a blank ] was lying on the sidewalk. with a crowd around me. The first thing I did was to put my hand In my pocket to feel for the bills. They were gone.
 "Gonel oh. Georger
 "A couple of policemen took me home, and mother persuaded me to go to bed "But what was the matter with your "Why. the policemen say that ] was undoubtedly followed by some person or persons who saHdbagged me and took the money. Any one could see into the office. for the gas was on and the curtains not drawn. They may have seen me counting the bills and making a memorandum of their mum bers after the customer had gone.
 'You have the memorandumf
 ssThars what troubles me. lf ] had that the bills could be recovered. ] can't remember what ] did with lt
 "Don't distress yourself. George, dear Since you remember making it we must And lt. First the office must be ransacked."
 sThe odlce has been ransacked. J don't believe ] left it there.
 "Nor I. It would be more natural for you to take it with you l hope you didn't put it ln with the notes"
 "I don't know whether ! did or not My head aches yet. and ! can't re- member much of anything
 "Do they blame you at the officer
 ooh. yes. They say that ! had no business to receive the money
 And do they intimate have they shown any disposition to suspect you
 "They don't say SO. but they look it." George. that memorandum must be found. You may have put it in some safe place in the office so unusual that it VIII be very hard to find it. You must attend to that cant help you IT you put lt In any of your pockets ' win find lt. for ] will go home with you and turn them an inside out
 Mother has done that already. No. nothing ctln be done. There's no hope of tracing notes the numbers of which we don't know. We are taken from @ height Of happiness and plunged into an abyss of misery. Tomorrow iu- stead of being married ] may be be- hind bars
 ~Cheer up. Come; let us so to youi home. and l win make a search.
 
 First give me your coat"
 Here it is."
 ''Now your vest and trousers.
 Here they are"
 "Your hat You may have put the money ln the lining. No. it is not in any of your pockets nor your hat Did you have on glovesF
 "No."
 "You wouldn't have put it in your shoes. I've examined all your outer clothing. ] don't suppose you have any pockets in your uuderclothing|
 Not except in my nightshirt, in which I have a pocket Tor my handker- chief. but Ccontemptuouslyl ] didn't have on my nightshirt on the street.. Certainly not Have you got on the shirt you had on when you were rob bedT'
 "No. Mother gave me clean one to put on thls morning"
 "What did she do with the soiled oneT
 "Oh. my dear you are wearing noe out"
 "It you win get me the soied shirt I'D not trouble you any more"
 Here it is ln the closet But must say that lt seems very ridiculous to overhaul shirt to find a memoran- dum. But father gave me a long lee ture the other night to serve me, after being married, about the singular ways women have Of getting at things and it may be that after all (very con. temptuouslyl there is some connection between 5000 and a soiied shirt Here it ls."
 "Where is the collarT
 "Oh. that's in the closet too. sup pose you want the cuIst'
 "Tes. ] do."
 "Weu. here's the whole thing. By thunder"
 -These marks In pencil on the cu6l What are theyt"
 'eThe numbers of the notes"
 Thank heaven!"
 aYou mean thank you Fathera light. Women do have queer ways of getting at things. Give me a kiss- an Nher. another, a thousand