Bisbee daily review., 1911-02-28
COMEDY OF
 LOST NUMBERS
A Woman's Shrewdness Un-
 locks a Mystery.

-Oh Maria. I'm ruinedl Our wed ding win have to be postponed"
 For heavens sake. George, whrts the matterT' i I've lost twenty sio0 bills" "HYheref'
 "Wheref What nonsensei If l knew ! where woaldn't 1 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 S200o told him that I would not receiYe it. as the safe was locked aud ! didn't know the continuation Then he said he had to take q night train for New York and l must receive it. as he wouldn't carry it with him. Fearing he would report me 10 the firm and they would blame me. con sented 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 B short distance Then my memory stops At the end of blank was lying on the sidewalk with a crowd around me The first thing did was to put my hand in my pocket 10 feel for tha bills They were sone.'
 Gene Oh. Georger
 " cGupie of policemen took me hone and mother persuaded me to go to bed"
 But what was the matter with yous7
 why. the policemen say that ! was undoubtedly followed by some person or persons who sandhagged me and took the money. Any one could see into the office, for the gas was OF and the curtains not drawn. They may have seen me counting the bills and making a memorandum of their mum bers after the customer had gone"
 You have the memorandumt"
 That's what troubles me. If l had that the bills could be recovered l can't remember what I did with f."
 "Dou't dls1c1s yourself. George, dear. Since yoa remember making it, we must find it. First the office must De ransacked."
 "The office has been ransacked and nothing found. don't believe I left it there"
 sNor | If would be more natural for you to take it with you. hore you didn't put it in with the notes"
 'I don't know whether I did or not My head aches yet, and can't re member much of anything"
 "Do they blame you at the officer
 ~Oh. yes. They say that I had no business to receive the money under the circumstances"
 And do they intimate-haye they shown any disposition to suspect yon''-
 ''They don't say so. but they look it."
 George, that memorandum must be found. You may have put it in some safe place in tue office so unusual that 1t will be very hard to find 1t. You must attend 10 that. I can't help you. If you put + in any of your pockets I will find it. for I will go home with yeu and turn them all iuside out
 "Cheer up Come; let us go to your home. ard I will make a search"
 
 First give me your coat"
 Here 1t is
 Now your vest and trousers"
 'Here they are"
 Your hat. You may have put the money in the lining No; 1t Is not in any of your pockets nor your hat. Did you have on glovesT'
 "No.g
 You wouldn't have put it in your shoes. I've examined all your outer clothing. I don't suppose you have any pockets in your underclothingY
 '&Not except in my nightshirt, in which have a pocket for my handler chief. but" contemptuously, T didn't have on my nightshirt on the street"
 Certainly not. Have you got on the shirt you had on when you were rob bedT"
 'sNo. Mother gave me clean one to put on this morning"
 What did she do with the soIIed oneg@
 "oh, my dear. you are wearing me out"
 "If you will get me the soiled shirt i'li not trouble you any more"
 Here it is in the closet. But must say that 1t seems very ridiculous to overhaul a shirt 5o find memoran- dun. But father gave me a long iec- 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 ali." very con tempfuousiy, 'fhere is some connection between S2.OO0 and a soiled shirt Here it is"
 Where is the coIIarT
 "Oh. that's in the closet too. sup pose you want the cuffsf"
 'sYes. do."
 "wen. here's the whole thing. By thunder
 These marks in pencil on the cufT what are theyT'
 ''The numbers of the notes" Thank heavenF' 'sYOu mean thank you Fathers light Women do have queer ways of getting at things. Give me a Nissan other another a thousand ~