Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-03-31

49, agent c. & p, Mr..
Marden."
~AIl right, Mr.. Cohoon, l get you.
what's wanted?'
This is Bullivants?"
"certainly."
Wanted to be sure. that's all. We're
4 BIT puzzled over here. Can you
send a good man for some peculiar
work."
why, don't know. You see, all
our crack-a-jacks are out on special
Jobs Just now. Must you have a man
al once?"
"Instantly-else I'll have to try
elsewhere"
IAN right. Mr.. Cohoon-I1l attend
70 the matter in person. Be over
right away. Good-by."
And Marden replaced the receiver
on It's hook, donned his hat and light
overcoat-for the spring breezes blew
cold over San Francisco-and five min
utes later was in the elevator OF the
California & Pacific Railroad build
ing on his way to the office of the gen.
eral traffic agent.
II should perhaps be promised, by
way Of introduction, that o. X. Marden
embodied in himself all the abilities
and traditions of the famous Built
wants Limited whom he served, which
vas the corporate or public name of
the smartest aggregation of brains
ever gotten together for the detection
q time, the unraveling Of puzzling
mysteries, and the solving of more or
less difficult legal problems.
Bulllvants Limited, as all the world
knows. was perhaps the leading secret
Inquiry agency of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, with branches in
every capital and an army of experts
n field and Office at fits beck and call.
Consequently. when every other earth
y power had failed-police, secret
service or private detective-Bulli-
wants was very apt to be called upon
as forlorn hope. OF course, their
charges we're high. but then most of
their clients were perfectly willing
to pay for successes-and that's what
Dulliyants practically guaranteed once
they agreed to take hold of your prob
lem or case
Aarden himself was about as little
IKE the traditional detective as one
could imagine-a trait that distin-
guished all Of Bullivans' men, where
N perhaps lay much of their success.
he merely typiiied the ordinary we'll
iodo and masterful business man. yet
under his brown fedora hat there re-
posed q set Of brains which argued
ioF bis success in any commission
which be assumed or directed.
AZ q result he was able to meet
ne great Patrick Cohoon on a foot
ing Of equality. The trafic manager
q the c. q p. was equally level-head-
"a 50 the twain met on level terms of
brain scope.
What's the trouble, Mr.. Cohoon ?"
euened Marden, when the usual ameni-
ues OF greeting had been satisfied.
Wen" said Cohoon, "a hundred
and ten thousand dollars Is the trou-
Pc which Is just leetle mite more
man the c. & P. can afford to lose
every day In the week"
For instance?" queried Marden. as
one used to dealing with big problems,
amid which such trifies as 100000
vas mere bagatelle.
lfs this way" quoth Cohoon. pass
ns out box Of cigars Of the four
Nra-oollar variety. ION March 20 last
eof freight agent at Virginia City re-
ss'veo and receipted for a car load OF
aver bars-eight tons in all-worth
1pploximately $4,000. This car was
..u'eo directly for San Francisco.
were It was CONSIGNED to Beatty a
.z'es being ultimately destined for
~ n'nt here. The train, No. AZ. was
,ae up at Virginia City. 2s cars in
car 22662, belonging to the C.
W. was the one containing the I
.aseryou know how freight cars
- used indiscriminately by different
ozos until they work their way back
. n.raen nodded understandingly.
... ~ow, Mr. Marden. here comes the
80 s'e,y Somewhere on this diyi.
49, oe'ween Reno and San Fran
~ car 1852 simply vanished on
4. ace Of Gods earth. together with
contents. eight tons of silver bars
49,. neither hide nor hair of It has
~, - metaphor was slightly mixed.
49, 49, ~ SET that down to the annoyance
akef Cohoon. nam
n s ne resumed, SITS up to me
r'.,, s-u mat car-or rather, want
a. !" nus 70 do It, Oh. yes" he went
re,.a anucipation Of the question
N, .,es ne saw Ia Marden's eyes, we've
our road detectives on the lob