Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-02
COMEDY OF
LOST NUMBERS
A Woman's %Shrewdness Un-
locks a Mystery.

ding Will have to be postponed"
For heavens sake. George, what's
the matter?"
give lost twenty $500 bills"
"WhereY"
where? What nonsense! If 1 knew
where wouldn't l go and find them?
I've been robbed"
"Robbed!'
"One Of the customers Of the house
came into the Office last evening when
I was alone and insisted on paying me
$4,000. l told him that I would not
receive it, as the safe was locked and
he said he had to take a night train
for New York and l must receive it.
as he wouldn't carry it with him.
Fearing he would report me to the
firm and they would blame me. l con-
sented and gave him a receipt. After
he had gone l put the bills in my in
side pocket and started for home. I
can remember leaving the office and
walking a short distance. Then my
memory stops. At the end of q blank
I was lying on the sidewalk with a
crowd around me. The first thing l
did was to put my hand in my pocket
to feel for the bills. They were gone"
"Gone? Oh. George"
"a couple of policemen took me
to bed"
"But what was the matter with
you"
"Why. the policemen say that l was
undoubtedly followed by some person
or persons who sandbagged me and
took the money. Any one could see
into the Office. for the gas was on and
the curtains not drawn. They may
have seen me counting the bills and
making a memorandum of their num-
bers after the customer had gone"
You have the memorandum"
"That's what troubles me. If I had
that the bills could be recovered. I
can't remember what I did with it."
Don't distress yourself. George.
dear. Since you remember making it.
we must find 1t. First the Office must
be ra~nsacked."
"The Office has been ransacked and
nothing found. I don't believe I left
it there"
"Nor 1. 1t would be more natural
for you to take it with you. I hope
you didn't put it in with the notes."
81 don't know whether I did or not
Ny head aches yet, and I can't "re-
member much Of anything"
do they blame you at the Officer
ooh. yes. They say that I had no
business to receive the money under
the circumstances"
"And do they intimate-have they
shown any disposition to suspect
you
"They don't say so, but they look it."
George, that memorandum must he
found. You may have put it in some
safe place in the Office so unusual that
it will be very hard to find it. You
must attend to that. I can't help you.
If you put it in any of your pockets 1
will find it, for I will go home with
you and turn them all inside out
"Cheer up. Come; let us go to your
home, and / will make a search"
First give me your coat"
"Here it u.s."
"Now your vest and trousers"
"Here they are"
"Your hat. You may have put the
money in the lining. No; it is not in
any Of your pockets nor your hat. Did
you have on gloves?"
mo"
"You wouldn't have put it in your
shoes. I've examined all your outer
clothing. l don't suppose you have
any pockets in your underclothingY"
"Not except in my n%ightshirt. in
which l have a pocket for my handker-
chief. but" contemptuously, Il didn't
have on my nightshirt IN the street
Certainly not. Have you got on the
shirt you had on when you were rob
bed?"
"No. Mother gave me a clean one
to put on this morning"
what did she do with the soiled
one?"
"Oh, my dear. you are wearing me
out!"
IF you will get me the soiled shirt
I'll not trouble you any more"
Here it is in the closet. But l must
say that, it seems very ridiculous to
overhaul a shirt to find a memoran-
dunn. But father gave me a long lee
ture the other, night to serve me after
being married about the singular ways
women have of getting at things, and
it. may be that, after ALL" very con
t%emptuously, there is some connection
between $1,000 and a soiled shirt
Here it is"
Where is the collar?"
"Oh, that's in the closet too. I sup
pose you want the cuffsY
Eyes, I do"
well here's the whole thing. By
thunder"
"These marks in pencil on the cuff
what are they?"
"The numbers of the notes."
THANK heaven!"
You mean thank you Fathers
right. Women do have queer ways Of
getting at things. Give me a NISSAN
other. another, a thousand"