Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-01-21
COMEDY or
LOST NUMBERS
A Woman's Shrewdness I'm
locks a Mystery.

the matterY
"I've lost twenty 500 bills"
"Wherer'
"Where? What nonsensel If j knew
where wouldn't go and find them?
I've been robbed"
"Robbedv
"One of the customers of the house
came into the office last evening when
I was alone and insisted on paying me
$4,000. told him that / would not
receive It, as the safe was locked and
I didn't know the combination. Then
he said he had to take night train
for New York and must receive 1t,
as he wouldn't carry 1t with him.
Fearing he would report me to the
Arm and they would blame me, con-
scented and gave him a receipt. After
he had gone put the bills In my In
side pocket and started for home.
can remember leaving the Office and
walking a short distance. Then my
memory stops. At the end of blank
I was lying on the sidewalk with a
crowd around me. The first thing
did was to put my hand In my pocket
to feel for the bills. They were gone"
"Gone? oh, Georger'
"a couple of policemen took me
home, and mother persuaded me to go
to bed"
"But what was the matter with
youT'
"why, the policemen say that ! 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. II I had
that the bills could be recovered.
can't remember what did with it"
Don't distress yourself. George,
dear. Since you remember making 1t,
be ransacked"
"The office has been ransacked and
nothing found. I don't believe I left
1t there"
"Nor l. 1t would be more natural
for you to take 1t with you. l hope
you didn't put 1t in with the notes"
'I don't know whether did or not
My head aches yet, and I can't re-
member much of anything"
"Do they blame you at the Officer"
"Oh, yes. They say that | 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 1t in some
safe place in the Office so unusual that
1t win be very hard to find it. You
must attend to that. I can't help you.
If you put 1t In any of your pockets !
will find 1t, for 7 will go home with
you and turn them all inside out
"Cheer up. Come; let us go to your
home. and l viii make search"
-
''First give me your coat"
"Here it Is"
"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 glovesT
"No."
"You wouldn't have put 1t In your
shoes. I've examined all your outer
clothing. l don't suppose you have
any pockets in your underclothingT
mot except In my nightshirt, In
which have pocket for my handker-
chief, but" contemptuously, 81 didn't
have on my nightshirt on the street"
Certainly not. Have you got on the
shirt you had on when you were rob-
bed?"
mo. 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
outp
'If you will get me the soiled shirt
I'll not trouble you any more"
Here it is In the closet. But must
say that 1t seems very ridiculous to
overhaul a shirt to find a memoran.
dunn. But father gave me long lee
ture the other night to serve me after
being married about the singular ways |
women have of getting at things, and
1t may be that, after ALL" very con-
there is some connection
between $1,000 and soiled shirt,
Here 1t is"
"Where is the collarT
"Oh, that's In the closet too. / sup
pose you want the cuffsY'
Eyes, do"
"Well, here's the whole thing BY
thunder-''
''These marks In pencil on the cuff
what are theyr
"The numbers Of the notes"
"Thank heayenr'
"You mean thank you Fathers
light Women do have queer ways of
getting at things. Give me Nissan
,ther, another, thousand"
Extract from newspaper item:
A Quick Recovery.-A man attempting
o change a hundred dollar bill yesterday
IN which was a number known to the
police was arrested. and nineteen other
Iimilar notes that had been stolen were
ecovered. George Randeli. from whom
hey were taken. is to be married this
vening. Mr.. Randell's employers have
Iiven two OF the bills to his bride as a
Wedding present