The daily Alaskan., 1905-04-25
a COMEDY OF
 LOST NUMBERS

"tNe tost twenty SAVV otiiS
 "whereT'
 "wherce What nonsensel If knew where. wouldn't I go and nnd then. I've been robbed"
 "Robbedr'
 "One of the customers of the hous came into the office last evening when {. was alone and insisted on paying me S2O00 l told him that l would no, receive it, as the safe was locked end I didn't know the combination. Th'n he said he had to take night train tor Ncw York and must receive it, as he wouldn't carry 1t with him, Fear Ing he would report me to the firm and they would blame me, 1 consented and gave him receipt After he had gone I put the bills in my inside pOcG ct and started for home. can remem. Der leaving the office and walking a short distance; then my memory stops At the end of a blank | was lying on the sidewalk, with & 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, Georger
 "A couple of policemen took me homo, and mother persuaded me to 20 to bed .'
 "Rut what was the matter with youE'
 "why, the policemen say that l was undoubtedly followed by some person or persons who sandhaggCd 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 ot their mum bers after the customer had gone,
 "You have the memoraudum|
 "That's what troubles me, lf l 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 it, we must find it. First the office must 6e ransacked.'
 "The office has been ransocked. ! don't believe I left 1t there"
 "Nor |. It would be moro natural for you to take it with you | hope you didn't put it in with the notes"
 "I don't know whether did or not My head aches yet, and l cant re member much of anything
 Do they blame you at the ohccT
 "Oh yes, They say that l had no business to receive the money"
 And do they mtimatc-have they shown any disposition to suspect you"-
 "They don't say so, but they look i'," "Gcorgc. that memorandum must be found. You may have put jt In some safe place in the office So unusual that it win be very hard Co find it Nou must attend to that can't help you II you put it in any of your pockets, l win find lt, for win go home with you and turn them an inside out"
 Mother has done that aiCcady, No, nothing can bc done. TheUc'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 a6yss Of misery. Tomorrow iu- stead of being married may be be hind bars"
 "Cheer up. Come; let us go to youi 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 ip any of your pockets nor your hat Did you have on gloyesy'
 'No"
 "You wouldn't have put it in your shoes. I've examined an your outer clothing. l don't suppose you have any pockets in your uuderclothingy
 Not except in my nightShirt, in which l have a pocket Ter my haudker, chief. but (contemptuously) didn't have on my nightshirt on the street"
 Certainly not Have you got on the shirt you had on when you were rob bedg'
 "No. Mother gave me a 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, Tn not trouble you any more
 Here 1t Is In the closet. But ! must say that 1t seems very ridiculous to overhaul a shirt to find a mCmoraR dun. But father gave me long lcc> lure the other night to serve me, after Oelng married. about the singular ways women have Of getting at things sud 1t may be that after all tvery con temptuously) there is some connection between 5000 and a soiled shirt. Herr 1t is"
 "where is the collary"
 "oh, that's in the closet too. sun pose you want the cutfsy'
 "Yes, l do"
 "wen. here's the whole thing, Bs thunder
 "These marks in pencil on the cud What are theyy
 "The numbers of the notes"
 Thank bcaveny'
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