The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-08-28
A COMEDY OF
 LOST NUMBERS
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 sOh. Maria. I'm rulnedl Our wed ding will have to be postponed"
 "For heavens sake, George, whaci the matterT
 ave lost twenty S1OO bills"
 "whereY
 "WhercG What nonsense! If knew where. wouldn't SO and find themi I've been robbed"
 "Robbedr'
 "One of tho customers Of the house came into the office last evening when ! was alone and insisted on paying me S2.OOO. I told him that l would moi receive it. as the safe was locked and 1 didn't know the combination. Then he said he hnd 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, l consented and gave him receipt. After he had gone put the bills in my inside pOck' ct and started for home. can remem- Der leaving the office and walking a short distance; then my memory stops At the end of blank l was lying on the sidewalk, with a crowd around me. The first thing did was to put my hand in my pocket to feel for the bills. They were gone"
 "Gonel Oh, Georgew
 "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 persous who sandbagged me and took the money. Any one could see Into the office, for the gus was on and the curtains not drawn. They may have seen me counting the bills and making q memorandum of their mum bers after the customer had gone.
 "You have the mcmorandumY
 "Thats what troubles me. If l had thnt the bills could be recovered. l can't remember what I did with It." "Don't distress yourself, George, dear. Since you remember making it, we must And it First the office must be ransackcd
 "The office has been ransacked. ] don't believe l left it there."
 'Nor |. lt would be more natural for you tu take it with you. hope you didn't put it In with the notes" q don't know whether did or not My head aches yet, and I can't re- member much Of anything
 "Do they blame you at the oalceT ooh. yes. They say that | had no business to receive the money"
 And dn they intlmate-haye they shown ahy 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 will be very hard to find it You must attend to that. | can't help you. If you put it In any of your pockets l will find lt. for ! win go home with you and turn them an Inside out" "Niother has done that already. No. nothing cnu 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 [ may be be hind bar"
 "Cheer up. Come; let us go to youf home, and I will make a search"
 
 "First give me your coat"
 "Herc it is."
 ''Now your vest and trousers"
 Here they arc.'
 "Your hat. You may have put the money in the lining. No; 1t Is not ip any of your pockets nor your hat. Did you have on glovcs|
 "No."
 "You wouldn't have put 1t in your shoes. I've examined all your outer clothing. don't suppose you have any pockets in your underclothingP
 Not except in my nightshirt, in which have q pocket for my handker' chief but (contemptuously) l didn't have on my nlghtshlrt on the street" Certainly not Have you got on the shirt you had on when you were rob. bedY
 "No. Mother gave me Q clean one to put on this morning"
 "what did she do with the soiled oneT'
 "oh, my dear. you are wearing me out"
 "If you will get me the soiled shirt I'll not trouble you any more."
 ''Here 1t is in the closet. But must aay that 1t seems very ridiculous tc overhaul shirt to find a memoran dun. But father gave me a long Ice ture the other night to serve me, aftel 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 5000 and soiled shirt. Herr it is."
 "where is the collar"
 "oh. that's in the closet too. l sup pose you want the cuffsT
 "Yes, I do."
 "well, here's the whole thing B! thunderw
 -These marks In pencil on the cuff l what nro fhpyp