Bisbee daily review., 1903-05-26
A COMEDY OF
 LOST NUMBERS

For heaven sake, George, what the matterT'
 "I've lost twenty S100 hills"
 ''WhereY
 "lYhere? What nonsensei If knew where. wouldn't l go and find them? I've been robbed"
 ''Robbedr'
 "One of the customers of the house came into the office last evening when was alone and insisted on paying me S2.0O0. I told him that l would not receive it, as the safe was locked and l didn't know the combination. Then he said he had to take a night train for New York and must receive it. as he wouldn't carry it with him. Fear ing he would report me to the firm and they would blame me, I consented and gave him receipt. After he had gone l put the bills in my inside pock- ct and started for home. 1 can remem- Der leaving the office and walking a short distance: then my memory stops. At the end of a blank 1 was lying on the sidewalk. with a crowd around me. The first thing l did was to put my bpNhNS tc -t'- ApA AhS bilA1s They were gone.'
 Gone? Oh, George
 "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 l was undoubtedly followed by some person or persons who sandbagged nc 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 nun. bers after the customer had gone.
 "You have the memOrandunI'
 That's what troubles me. If I had that. the bills could be recovered. can't remember what I did with it." Don't distress yourself, George, dear. Since you remember making if. we must find it. First the office must be ransacked.'
 "The ofice has been ransac,lrd. ! don't believe l left it there"
 Nor l. It would be more natural for you to take it with you. l hope you didn't put it in with the notes"
 "I don't know whether I did or not My head aches yet, and c.,E't re- member much of anything"
 Do they blame you &t the OfiiCrt'
 "Oh. yes. They say that I had nc business to receive the money"
 And do they intimate-hGvc they shown any disposition to suspect you'-
 They don't scy so, but they i1oi; i-.' George. that memorandum must be found. You may have put it iB some safe place fin the office so unusual that ii will be very hard to find fl. You must attend to that. I can't help yOu. If you put it in any of your pockets, I 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 TO hope of tracing notes the numbers of which we don't know. We are taken from g height of happiness and plunged into an abyss of misery. Tomorrow in stead of being married I may be be hind bars"
 "Cheer up. Come; let us go to your home, and will 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 in the lining. No; it is not iD any of your pockets nor your hat. Did you have OF gloyesE
 NO"
 "You wouldB't have put it in your shoes. I've examined all your outer clothing. I don't suppose you have any pockets in your underclothingY
 Not except in my nightshlrt, in which have q pocket for my handler chief. but (contemptuously) I didn't have on my nightshirt on the street" Certainly not. Have you got on the shirt you had on when you were rob bed?"
 i'No. Mother gave me a clean one to put on this morning"
 What did sine do with the soiIe1 oneT'
 "Oh. my dear. you are wearing me out"
 If you wili get me the soiled shirt. I'll not trouble you any more.'
 Here it is in the closet. But I mus, say that it seems very ridiculous to overhaul 8 shirt to find a memoran- dum But father gave me a long lee ture the other night to serve ne. after being married. about the singular ways women have of getting at things. and it may Oe that after all (very con temptuously) there is some connection between 5000 and q soiled shirt. Here it is"
 "Where is the collary'
 "Oh, that's in the closet too. I sup pose you want the cuffsr
 "Yes, dO.'
 Well, here's the whole thing. By thnnder!"
 "These marks in pencil on tbe cutfi What are theyT
 "The numbers of the notes"
 'Thauk heayenr'
 "You mean thank you Fa her. ',s right. Women do have queer ways of getting at things. Give me a kiss au- other. another, B thousand"