Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-12

and they would blame me, consented
| and gave him a receipt After he had
| gone l put the bills in my inside peck
| eft and started for home. / can remem-
| Der leaving the office and walking a
| short distance; then my memory stops.
| At the end of blank 1 was lying on
| the sidewalk with crowd around me.
| The first thing 1 did was to put my
| hand in my pocket to feel for the bills.
They were gone"
"Gone? oh. Georger'
"a couple of policemen took me home,
and mother persuaded me to go to bed"
"But what was the matter with you?"
"Why, the policemen say that 1 was
undoubtedly followed by some person
or persons who sandbagged 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 num-
bers after the customer had gone.
| "You have the memorandum
That's what troubles me. If l had
that, the bills could be recovered. l
can't remember what l did with it,"
Don't distress yourself, George. dear.
Since you remember making it, we
must find it. First the office must be
ransacked.'
1.-THE office has been ransacked. l
don't believe left it there
''Nor l. 1t would be more natural
for you to, take 1t with you. l hope
you didn't,put it in with the notes."
az don't Iknow whether l did or not
My head aches yet, and 1 can't re-
member mach of anything"
do they blame you at the officer
"Oh, yes. They say that 1 had no
business to receive the money
"And do they intimate-have they
shown any disposition to suspect
you am
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 will be very hard to find it. You
must attend TO that. 1 can't help you.
If you put it in any Of your pockets,
will find it, for l will go home with
you and turn them all inside out"
Mother has done that already. No,
nothing can be done. There's no hope
of tracing notes the numbers of which
we don't know. We are taken from a
height of happiness and plunged into
an abyss of misery. Tomorrow in
stead of being married l may be be-
hind bars"
"Cheer up. Come; let us go to your
home, and l will make 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 in the lining. No; it is not in
any of your pockets nor your hat. Did
you have on glovesT'
mo"
"You wouldn't have put it in your
shoes I've examined all your outer
clothing. 1 don't suppose you have
any pockets in your underclothlng?"
| Not except in my nightshirt, in
which have pocket for my handker-
chief, but (contemptuously) 1 didn't
have on my nightshirt on the street"
Certainly not. Have you got on the
shirt you had on when you were rob
2"
mo. Mother gave me a clean one
to put on this morning.
what did she do with the soiled
oneY'
"Oh, my dear, you are wearing me
out"
'If you will get me the soiled shirt,
I'll not trouble you any more"
Here it is in the closet. But must
say that it seems very ridiculous to
overhaul a shirt TO find a memoran-
dunn. But father gave me 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-
temptuously) there is some connection
between $1,000 and soiled shirt. Here
it is"
"Where is the collar?"
ooh, that's in the closet too. / sup
pose you want the cuffs?"
eyes, do"
"WelI, here's the whole thing. BY
thunderp
"These marks in pencil on the cuff!
| What are theyT'
''The numbers of the notes.
THANK heaven"
"You mean thank you Fathers
right Women do have queer ways OF
getting at things. Give me Nissan
other, another, a thousand"
Extract from newspaper item:
A Quick Recovery.-A man attempting
| to change hundred dollar bill yesterday
| on which was a number known to the po-
| lice was arrested and nineteen other SIM
| liar notes that had been stolen were re-
| covered. George Randell, from whom they
were taken. is to be married this evening.
| Mr.. RandeiIs employers have given two
/ of the bills to his bride wedding