El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-11-05
By William Freeman.)

| hACb Droooed over the mouse OF
| ~ Borrodaile. Della sat at one end
of the breakfast table absorbed
in a twelve-page letter from Mrs. lynn
panny Smyth; l. at the other, eagerly
| scanning the Daily Flashlight"
| Suddenly Della put down her letter
and spoke:
Have they caught the Perivale bur
! glar, or found the jewelry yet?'
NO. although Sir Ebenezer is offer
! ing reward OF fifty pounds. The police
have no clue"-Delia shifted contempt
uously-"for they'e discovered foot
! prints leading from the drive to War
! ham Lane. 1t ought to be easy enough
| to track the man."
] Il don't see why" said Della. and
! it's CHASTITY to think that the burglary
| took place the very first time we were
| invited to the house. Our own may
! be the next to be robbed"
When 1 came home that night she
met me at the end of Warham Lane
and perhaps because we were more
than usually on the alert, actually came
upon further traces of the man who
| burgled Sir Ebenezer Perivale's big
grey house half a mile away.
The thing was a wisp of dusty note
paper. carefully wedged in the roots of
a blackberry bramble, and it was Della
HOSc QUICK eye llTSl p6ICelNSQ IL Sno
gave a little squeak of excitement
"a clue"
'Ncrsense!" said I, picking up the
paper.
A single line of printed characters
ran across it. ITO find joolsetinydir-
Observation-Disclosures
This must be taken to the police
station I said. "a
Dick; don't be silly, You know
how easy it is to follow up a clue
you said so yourself this morning. And
think Of the reward. We want new
carpet in the drawing room frightfully,
and the bed room curtains are simply
dropping to piecesI" Della snatched
the paper out of my hand and gloated
over it. "Oh, let's get home again
quick"
So home we went
IFS like anagrams." she said breath
lessly.
And now to solve the cipher!''
At seven we were still wrestling
with the task, for 1 so enlarged upon
Delia's usefulness that she hadn't the
heart to desert me. At half-past sew
en- we rang for some fresh tea, and ate
and drank in gulps. AT eight-despite
some reluctance on my wife's part-we
tackled the problem again.
The following morning, although the
reward had been increased to a hum
dred pounds, 1 had grown distinctly
weary Of the whole affair
81 shall put back the paper" I told
Della, land wait every evening after
dusk-for the confederate isn't likely
to put in an appearance before-until
it's duly called for
Butt thought you were going to
follow the clue?" said Della, with less
than her usual tact
ct weIl-I haven't the time 1t must
either be that, or else II take the pa
per to the police. / shall explore the
lane tomorrow evening and If there
are no signs of the place having been
disturbed, go on to the station"
That day I came home rather earlier
than usual No Della awaited me In
the front garden, butthe door was ajar,
and from within came the sound of
voices-masculine as we'll as feminine
With vague representations of evil. !
entered the house.
Della was seated, a limp, white heap. !
on a dining room chair. sobbing hys-
terically. Opposite her stood a short |
man with bull neck and unwinking
black eyes, in a frame of mind clearly |
between suspicion and apology.
The eyes of the bull-necked man and |
myself met.
I'm sorry to give trouble he said, |
but this ere lady was seen to go, !
after dark, down Warham Lane. After !
waiting to see if she was noticed
which she was, by my mate-she began
trowel, and be"ave SO suspicious that |