The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-28
TIE EVENING STORY
The Man Who BIushed.

1eFS OF the -Four Hundred and stray
multi-milltonaires fell over each other
| 70 be numbered among her guests. She
meant that it was q homelike place for
stenographers, typewriters, bank clerks
ana floor walkers of department stores
10 take advantage of, but they must at
the same time realize to the fullest ex-
tent the privileges permitted them.
These privileges. so far as any one ever
discovered, consisted Of a latch key and
piano. Any boarder who dared do so,
could also take a seat in the parlor of
an ewing. He or she could also use
the gas until midnight and enjoy one
clean towel per day.
The girl with the golden hair. as they
called Miss Bierce, the stenographer,
had been at this fashionable boarding
house week, when "Greenbacks, as
they called the bank clerk, arrived His
name, as given to the others at the din
ner table by Mrs. Barnes. was T1llman.
The stenographer and the bank clerk
had had two days to size each other up
in when the actress arrived. The
stenographer, as it transpired, had
fad. 1t was physiognomy. It also trans
PRED that the bank clerk had a fad.
It was deduction. After about ten fur
tive looks at Mr. Tillman the sIenog-
rapher discovered that he was young
man of weak character and easily
tempted. The shape of his forehead told
her that he would not be honest under
great temptation.
Miss Dorothy Delamar. the actress,
whose real name was Cathartne Briggs,
had no fads. All she wanted was to
climb to the top Of her profession, AS
she had just got through playing read
ing lady in a transforming company
that had failed on the road after being
out three weeks. she felt that she was
getting along, and that It needed only
a sudden Jar to make her public Ia
vorite and bring a dozen managers III
autos to the house.
She was blaming how best to bring
about that jar when she arrived MISS
Delamare was hustler She hao
hustled around and provided herselI
with seven rhinestone rings and a
pair of earrings and a sunburst out OF
the same barrel. The landlady esti-
mated the value of the jewels at 81
500. Miss Delamar corrected her py
making the figure 1000 more. ~
her first dinner in the house she wore
the whole outfit.
one morning the actress appeared
in the dining room in q state OF great
perturbation. In fact, she was gasp
ing for breath and on the point OF
fainting away. She had been robbed
she announced when she could get her
voice. Some one had entered her
room and stolen her bag Of diamonds
While everybody got to his teet she
sat down and went into mysteries.
While she was engaged in this, the
stenographer looked at the bank clerk
ana for a moment they gazed straight
into each others eyes Then ne
blushed and dropped his. Thls was
enough for her. She alone of the
dozen boarders seemed TO rememo per per
that he had come in late. He had
Jagged behind to enter the actress
room and steal her jewelry. That
blush betrayed his guilt to the stenog-
prapher She almost expected him TO
throw the chamois bag on the table
10 Ave re in state
Not until after the boarders had
scattered from breakfast was it sug-
gested that all submit to be searched,
and then it was too late. There were
eighteen boarders, including the act
ress One of the other seventeen must
be guilty. There were seven rooms
on her floor. and the natural inference
was that it was some one on her moor
that had robbed her. All seven occu-
pied positions of trust, and to suspect
them was rather perilOus. While Miss
Delamar sent for reporter Mrs.
Barnes sent for a detective. Both
arrived at the same time. While the
reporter went in for scoop, the
detective held two or three interviews,
looked wise. and as he got out doors
winked at himself and went hunting
for a glass of beer
Some fifty different times that day
Miss Delamare told the story OF the
robbery and grew faint The bag of
diamonds had been on her dresser
She was out about fifteen minutes
Her door was shut but not locked. Her
future career did not depend solely
l1pou these diamonds, thank heaven.
but unles they were recovered she
would not be able to play certain lead
ing parts.
with its account of: Bold Robbery
An actress loses SIS. 900 worth of dia-
monds in a boarding house, Miss
Delamar tainted away, and after her
recovery her moaning was pitiful to
hear It was so pitiful that the stenog-
raph err decided to temporize no longer.
Ever since she looked the bank clerk
in the eyes and noticed his blush she
had been convinced OF MS quit sne
had said nothing to any one. and she
rather expected that he would seek an
early opportunity Of restoring the bag
and thus avoid state prison He dldn
restore it at lunch time. nor during the
half hour before dinner when he could
That pitifui moaning started Miss
Bferee lip stairs. She knocked at the
door of the bank clerks room and II
vas. opened to her. Standing in the
hall and speaking in a low nut decioed
'sMr. Tinman. It is pity and q
Beg pardon. hut 7 don't quite IN
Il am referring to the robbery this
morning"
II don't know but I have. The rob |
her Is here in the house this minute: |
should he restore the diamonds shall (
saw nothing; If he refuses I shall betray
his identity"
'sDear me, but you know the rascal, I
then p"
II have known him ever since I /
looked into his ewes At the breakfast
table and he blushed-"
name in confidence? % softly asked the
bank clerk.
His brazenness angered the girl. and
with hot cheeks she loked him square
in the eyes and replied:
s'T7e stands before me, sirl'
indeed Miss Bierce, viii you kind |