The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-08

powdered it with a block Of chalk,
handed me the bottle again, took one
along with me. and sat down in arock-
ing chair A#S s. - I !
"'Ever do anything In the crib crack;
ingline?#he asked me, twisting his big
mustache and looking calm a. q. mill
pond. M, /
Ma said l, that's of my beat
Il. was plain to me that he was in the
business, and so chucked up the bluff
I'd been making.
I'm pad shoe and day worker
entirely I went on. Cant stand for
losing my beauty Sleep
"'Dan't know but what you're right,
pal, said he, crossing the room and
picking up suit case that lay on his
bed. MY end Of it's pretty wearing, for
fact. They've just turned me loose
after a two-year stretch down in San
Quentin, and I've got my eye on two or
three neat things in this mans town be-
fore pulling my freight for the east :.
He opened the suit case and showed
me a pretty set O. new tools as ever l.
see-whole outfit, from all sizes O. alli-
gator files and Jameses to cloth wrapped
bottles of nitro. That convinced me. /
could see that he was o. K, all right
See here, podner,' says I, after we
talked little while longer, I'm sorry
to break away. but there hasn't been
much doin' with me lately, and l need
the old girls stuff next door, Want
to see if she's left her gig lamps be-
hind, and even if she hasn't there'll be
enough in the cleanup to pay for tho
hunt. Glad to have run into you. See
you some other time. Hope you win out
on your jobs. Now, I'll just step in next
door, and, by the way, if you hear any,
body coming just hand me the rap on the
wall, will your
Sure said he, and edged out and
reached for the knob Of the prima DON
mas door.
'Of course, it was locked, but had the
right skeleton for it in my mitt, and l
was inside in ten seconds.
We'll: say, the carelessness of these
stage folks is queer, isn't it? That sing
ing woman's good stuff .s'pose she
was wearin 6 the paste 1t the matinee
performance-was spread out all over
her dresser-'not even sailed away in:
the jewel cases that Uttered the bureau.
1T was pretty soft, DO. / dropped
something like $4,000 worth of blue
white rocks into the pocket of my top
coat and in the top dresser drawer I
found wallet stuffed with about 81, 500
in paper change--ffttes, hundreds and
the like.
=" This is a shame I bought, and 1
concluded I'd drop into the room Of ths
duck next door and slip him a few hun
'dred for acting as lookout for me-
II turned the knob of the p1ima dom
mas door and stepped out The next
door mug was waiting for me. So were
two San Francisco bulls. He'd touched
a button for the cops. So was the man
ager of the hotel. ?
"The duck that I'd run. into next door
had the wristlets on me before 1 had
time to- blush. So there I was, nailed
with the goods. My pals got together
and {! di d., some on buying wlenI4came to-be
tried and only got a two speaker
The big guy into whose room I'd
slipped by accident was a Denver detec-,
tive He'd brought a requisitioned.
burglar from Denver to San Francisco.
and when l ran into him he was Just,
about to take his mans set o. tools to
the property clerk.
But he sure made a chimpanzee out:
O me. IN Y. Sum-