Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-10
you think you'd better hand me those lit.
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you think you'd better hand me those lit
| tie trinkets?'
A healthy guffaw greeted him.
You See," Jimmy went on, I'm spe-
| cial agent''-here he showed his badge of
authority, conferred on him by the munich
pal authorities-"and you are good fellows,
| and-well. We don't want to make any
| scene, now. do we?"
The boys began to look wee bit doubt
| full of their position. Jimmy read their
| feelings.
That's right" he said, please give me
| the silver"
And about the time when Dave was
cleaning from highly conflicting stories that
one lone man had held up the train, and
John was unostentatiously tracking the in
1ured' man, being wheeled out for his
daily airing, Jimmy was experiencing a YER
liable old-fashioned silver shower, to the
| ill-concealed amusement of the row of mu-
| latto faces framed by the dining car VIM
dows.
Kept Them Busy.
During the first three weeks that broth
ers Dave and John were busy on the trail
of road agent and faker, Jimmy, besides
keeping both eyes open for pickpocke.s,
was called upon to perform the divers lit
tie duties that invariably fall to the lot of
special agent whose assignment is ter
minal or station of any pretensions what
ever.
Perhaps once a day it became his
D0unden duty to rouse a drunken man TO a
realization of the fact that his journey was
over, and it was really necessary for him
to let the company have the car. Her fer
reted out the parents of lost children.
Whenever any one became too obStreperouS
while waiting for train it was Jimmy
who warned him back to normal, or fail
ing in that, turned him over 10 the mercy
of a uniformed policeman. He listened TO
victims descriptions of the man they dimly
suspected of robbing them, knowing all the
while that it was time wasted But then,
truth to tell, beyond the worry caused MIN
by the elusive pickpocket, Jimmys work
was not of the strenuous sort exactly, and
he had plenty of time on his hands
Jimmy was beginning to despair of ever
landing his man when he gave a patient car
10 portly gentlemans clear description of
a man who had severely jostled him, the
said portly gentleman discovering a minute
or two after the incident had occurred ihat
he was minus both watch and well-fl!ed
pocketbook. Thereafter Jimmy looked hard
for clean-shaven man. slight of stature,
with a students bend to his back and
rather shaggy eyebrows for one not over
thirty.
Running Down a Road Agent.
This was close to the time that John,
who had found his case the most puzzlng
that had ever fallen to his lot, began to
think that perhaps his road was in error
in suspecting his man. But he was not
yet ready so to report, and IN order TO
watch the man in his own home, if pos
sible, John rented a fiat directly opposite
the suspects, and that same day he and
his wife quietly and temporarily changed
their place of residence
Dave. meantime, had been genially loaf
ing about Flathead, hoping to secure even
a Slight clue that might lead to the app-e-
hension of the bold road agent.
Now there had come to the town some six
months before gentlemanly sort of tender
foot from somewhere in the east. He had
sought out Flathead, presumably, that the
state of his health might be improved He
lived alone in a shanty of the open-air sort
on the edge of town. When Dave Hart
struck Flathead the easterner was buslly
engaged in long talk concerning the bold
road agent and his feat. The man persisted
In discussing the road agent days after the
rest of F'lathead was ready to fall back on
the weather again. Indeed, 1t was this
little circumstance that led Dave furtively
TO keep his eyes on the easterner, after hav-
ing listened for about three weeks to his
one song rendered numerous times.
Events now moved rapidly with the trip
lets. Jimmy discovered one afternoon, as
he was saunterng through the waiting
room, that there really existed a man who
answered fairly well the description given
him by the portly gentleman bereft or watch
and roll. He was greatly overjoyed, but