The Green Forest tribune., 1909-02-05

Dr. Furnivall, and Wrinkle meekly obeyed
 At Station 16 Dr. Furnivall picked up two policemen, whom he took with him to the hotel There the landlord, after few words that startled him a good deal had been spoken in his ear by Dr. Furnivall, immediately showed the party to the suite occupied by the rich and exclusive Van Dykes. The husband and wife were alone together, and while the officers drew themselves up one on each side of the door. Dr, Furnivall removed his spectacles and advanced to the lady, who sat by the window, with book in her hand.
 Madam" he said, be good enough to look at mel"
 She was tall blonde with beau tiful skin of red and white, a willowy form, luscious lips, and blue eyes that were incomparably lovely and melting and tender. She beamed up at him with smile that would capture the heart of almost any man except the one she was bestowing it on at the moment. He stood with one hand in his pocket, and easily repeated the command:
 Mrs. Van Dyke, tell me in as few words as possible, who you are and what you know about the attempted theft of Mme. Selba's diamonds
 In a colorless voice, she answered at once:
 Our name is Seely, not Van Dyke. We pretended to belong to that old family for social reasons. We are ad" venturers. My husband and l have followed this singer three months waiting for an opportunity to appropri- ate her diamonds, which, we discov- cred, she always left in charge of the hotel wherever she was stopping, on returning from the theater. At this small hotel there is but one night clerk, and the last bell-boy goes to bed at two o'clock in the morning. We studied to get this clerk out of the way for few minutes, leaving the safe unlocked, and it must be after the bell-boy had gone. My husband learned the make of the safe, eX- amined those like it at the salesrooms, had a small piece of iron made to fit into the bolt-socket, and last evening managed to spike the safe in the face and eyes of the clerk-an easy matter, for he used to be a professional sleight-of-hand performer. We had be- come acquainted with the Thorndikes at the table, and knew that the daugh- +or Iar tp Ualyon her moi h. CT by screaming, for she has serl- ous heart trouble and the physician has warned them against startling her in any way, so that if the daughter could be made to believe there was somebody in her room she would be likely to run to the clerk, who would probably start so hastily for the scene that he would not give much attention to the condition of the safe.
 "We had secured a room just under Miss Thorndike's, and at three o'clock this morning my husband through a long tube of tin, made on the tele- scope pattern, which he thrust up to her open window, initiated certain noises. as if man were stumbling around in the dark. This awakened her. and sine did as we had studied it out that she would do-she ran for the office. And while the clerk was ab- sent from his place l hastened down and secured the black bag containing the diamonds. But a policeman, who. as we have since learned, was in the habit of coming to the back door for a dram which was furnished him every morning at just that time by the night clerk, saw mo at the safe and"
 "Yes, but please tell me what MT. Wrinkle had to do with all this?"
 "Mr. Wrinkle was the provision we made for my escape from conviction in case should be caught in the risky venture. l posed before him and his pupils as completely helpless hyp- notic subject in his hands, taking great care that he and they should become convinced that his mind dominated me wholly, even at distance. Then if our plan should fail in any way, and I should be apprehended, l could pre- tend to be in a hypnotic trance, pro duced by him, and acting under iiis di rection, with no responsibility of my own. l had many witnesses, his pu- pils, to prove that he could command me in this way. Then ao. Iot l, would be convicted!"
 The authors of t3iic ingenious scheme were found to bs two noted English confidence workers, wanted in London on so many serious charges that, being sent back there by the United States authorities, they were each of them given sentences that meant practically for life.
 Copyright. 1909, by W. G. Chapman, Copyright in Great Britain)
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