Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-17

Ed, not specific"
ltH be specific enough ali rtyh.
all right, before you leave for that
european trip. Good night" sail
Hnthrie as they parted.
me next morning about 10 CHENEY
stroiled into the office. Usually his
uesk was loaded with papers, tele-
grams, letters, etc, but this morninsy
IL was as clean as a new coin. Cheney
read the paper, smoked a cigar or two
looked at his watch and glanced nm,
easily around the room. He was rest
less, no doubt Of 1t. He walked into
ihe outer office the furniture was ali
III place but It was as quiet as a tomb
JeIt called Cheney His tome
was sharp and ineisive. but there was
no answer. He opened the door into
me general work room and a hum of
'spsWiters greeted his ears.
Htier he said to one OF his
CLERKS, where's Jeff?"
over IN Mr.. Guthrie's office. sir
1u'nrie ana Lonergan had their Of
aceS ~ the opposite end OF. the suite
anu .nither Cheney Went JEFF was
sitting in their ante room.
What are you doing over here
JenT' demanded the colonel with n
snow OF asperlty in his tone.
Well' you see, kunhel. Mistab Lon
ergan he say dis mawnin' as how yo
wasn't a-goin' TO do eny mo- wuk rom,
mean so 1 wuz to cum ovah an tend
lheyan doah, sub. OATS why. suh -
On! II Is, Is it," said Cheney "And
you're going 10 tend the door are Won I,
wen, you get back 70 my room and
you stay there until / tell Won 70
leave" ~" W
Vas, sub, said JEFF. laughing heart
lily to himself as he went out cheney
went into the inner Office and there
sat Guthrie and Lonergan going over
the mail. W.
Morning, Jack" said both of them
rising. Glad to see you down. What
new?" "h"'
That's what I'm asking you two
! come, into my Office and find every
uihs quiet as a grave. Jeffs gone.
not a paper nothing"
well said Lonergan, smiling.
Didn't you say you had given IN aS.
tive work? You were Just going 10
nave general interest. Am | right.
Sid?" e"''
You sure are, Ed, and we moved
all the specific cases over here. we
left your room SO you could entertain
your friends and"
cheney saw through II all and In
his soul he knew he couldn't give up,
He surrendered as they knew he
would.
There's nothing special Just now,
Cheney said Lonergan after they had
gone over matters. Just then the
phone rang. Guthrie answered.
Yes, Col. Cheney, is in town. A
minute please-Weeks OF the Parlor
Car company wants to speak to YOU
he said. handing Cheney the receiver.
Hello, Weeks. Been back two days.
Yes, I'm ready for business. Always
that, you know. Who--Count Gus-
sepe Rossi Of Florence. Italy? Robbed
Bring him over. I'll see what can be
done" Every sense was now alert,
and his companions smiled as he went
out.
Il told you so, Sid" said Lonergan.
Guthrie only smiled.
Mr. Weeks was general manager OF
the Parlor Car company. and about
half an hour later introduced Cheney
to Count Rossl OF Italy.
"Glad to see you, count; sit down"
The count was very distinguished
looking man and dressed like a Pari-
sian fashion plate.
Cheney" said Weeks, Count
Rossi was a passenger on the overland
limited coming east 4 few days since.
In fact, he and a party OF friends oc-
cupied the greater part of one OF our
cars. A short distance west OF Ogden
the count discovered he had been
robbed of large sum OF money.
$4,000, In all. and a large number Of
Jewels. I'll let tho count tell the story,
though"
Count RossI spoke perfect English
and said, you see, signor, | was COM
ing east from San Francisco and hal
party OF friends with me. Az what
you call Promontory Point tho scenery
II very grand and my party were all
IN the observation car. We stayed
there until dinner was announced and
then went back to the cafe car. After
dinner Es vent hack lp,aGuS>Gwn car