Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-22
THE FURNISHED BRASSPLATE.

Parker" said Jude Carson one horn
ing, Il want this bit of metal polished. |
want il made bright. | want it made to
shine like FURNISHED gold"
The emphatic manner in WSich these
instructions were given, combined with
their somewhat unusual character, eXcit-
ed Parker'- curiosity.
"Ycasir," he said; and took up a small
metal plate about the size Of lady's
visiting card or perhaps shade larger
FOR upward of an hour Parker was
very busy with emery cloth and brick
dust and channels leather, and as he
worked and scrubbed and polished, his
brain was Just as busy as his hands, try
ing to conceive what possible use Mr.
Carson could have for a bit of brass
plate
Excellent" said Mr.. Carson. Il
couldn't have done it better myself"
"Gessir-no, sir!" said Parker, in con
fusion
1t was morning of surprises. On a
table beside the easy chair in which Mr.
Carson reclined was set out an array of
genuine working tools There was a
rivetng tool and a boring tool and a
craving tool, and a pot of enamel paint,
and a file, and ii hammer, and a packet
of short spikes with points as fine as
needles. At the sight of them Parker's
curiosity rose IL fever pitch.
On one preteXt or another for the rest
of that morning Parker made il his bust
ness to be in and out of his masters
room. and in the course of it he saw a
great deal that interested him and aug
mcntcd his curiosity, but nothing what
ever that satisfied it.
For instance. he saw Mr.. Carson using
the boring tool. then he caught him busy
with the riveting tool and then it was
the turn of the craving tool, and it was
an undoubted fact that Mr.. Carson was
engraving certain letters or characters on
the Furnished surface Of the plate.
But the reason for all this activity re-
manned a mystery, and by lunch time the
tools and the brass plate and the paint
brush had been put away without a sin
Gle word of explanation.
After lunch Mr.. Carson was engrossed
in studying the floor plan of a great
block of buildings designed to be let out
as offices.
II.
1t was next morning after breakfast
that Mr.. Carson took Parker partially
| into his confidence.
Parker. | have discovered what looks
like a reasonable opportunity for replen-
ishing our somewhat depleted exchequer;
! but the success of the effort viii depend
| in some degree upon yourself.
'Yessir!" said Parker.
You know Graham house, Upper
Broad strect--a huge pile OF buildings,
containing some hundreds of sets of of
hces?'
Parker knew it well. and said so; he
also recognized it as the block of build
ings whose floor plan Mr.. Carson had
been so diligently studying the night be-
fore.
Very well, Parker. want YOU to call
upon Sidney Mander, an insurance broker
in small way of business. who occupies
. single office on the third floor. last door
but enc at the end of the passage. It's
one oil the cheapest offices in the place.
because it looks out upon the central
we'll OF the block and gets very little air,
aud little or no light.
"Nc,eir,' said Parker.
Il want You to call upon Mr.. Mander
shortly before ~ O'Clock. Parker" pro-
ccded Mr.. Carson, airily. land engage
him in conversation on any suitable topic
that occurs to YOU. You might suggest
TO him that You desire to insure your life
or that you have friend who desires
to insure his, or that you propose to take
out fire insurance policy. | confidently
leave the exact choice of Il topic to youI
own good Judgment, Parker. But the
point of your instructions consists il
| this-that YOU will have to Get him ont
of his office by 12:15 and keep him out OF
! it till 1880. Between 12;15 and 12;3t
| shall want his office for my own use"
"Nessir!" said Parker But his curl
osity~~it almost sufocated him.
III.
"\rc you the headquarters OF the city
police? Oh, Pm Hiram ZONES Hiram
Jones & Son of 231 Graham house. Up
per Broad street. Wholesale jewellers
Yes. YES; that's right want YOU {,
send round a couple of plain clothes men
Ia be here not later than 1850. &c
thaty Eth? You can manage it? Good
Well -eh? Wen. of course. | can't say
but il looks tishy-quitc outside the on
ldinary run of business. Saws he want
to buy an assortment of really hjgh.cla-
fancy jeWehy, No, | haven't seen him
he wrote What Bcfcrrnccse Yes
asked for references hut he replied tha
he was prepared To pay cash. subject t,
q he usual discount. Naturally lei il %,
; at that. didn't catch that. Oh hi
tame? The name hg gives j, smith
i.um'eN smith Wrote originally from