The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-09-10
Judging from Hewitt's story in the
morning DAper.

ClLed.
Il have found a little girl on Vine
street" said she, who saw that man
so into the house, No. 21."
"Sanderson."
Yes II was about an hour after
the robbery. The girl says he used a
key, but the landlady does not know
him. It's house where they rent fur
nished rooms, quite nice and respecta
bic and all that The landlady is tell
lug the truth, but I'm sure that the
little girl is not mistaken"
what do you make of that?" asked
Hewitt.
why, the man must have used some
body else's key. He has a--what do
you call it?-a pal living there"
you may be right said Hewitt,
more excited than she had ever seen
him before Wen look this up. Wait
for me in that drug store while ! run
into headquarters and ask Staey what
he knows. Then I'll join you
| Staley was the chief of police, a crea-
| ture of politics, but not m aggressive
| " bad man. He was tricky, but not
malicious: clever up to a certain level
and utterly dense beyond it.
"Har' said he, drawing the word
out into sort of singing note when
bis eyes rested on Hewitt, Here's
the shrewdest boy of the bunch, You
come right along with me" and he led
| ~ sFat i'm n,
room
Are you good at puzzles?' said he.
"Fair." said Hewitt "What have
you got?"
"A note from Sanderson to his pal"
responded Staley, and Hewitt's heart
sank
"You see.'' continued the chief. Its
the money we want. We've got the
man beyond a doubt-that is, we've
got one of them. There's another on
the outside. as / knew from the be
ginning, and, Of course. the fellow on
the inside would like to communicate
with him.
"Weli why not give him q chance?
says |. So | fixed up scheme by
which Sanderson was able to write a
note In his cell last evening and pass
1t to little, unimportant crook whom
we were holding here on suspicion and
were ready to let 60 The note was
passed all right, and one of my men
Swallowed the little crook. and what
do you suppose he did? By lingo. he
went home and went to bed!
when found that this was straight
had the fellow brought down here
with Sanderson's note on him. / said
Where did be tell you to take this
And the crook replied. Nowhere: just
take it and run along What do you
make of thatT'
Il don't know said Hewitt. What
was in the noteT
That's what / want you to tell me-
responded the chief. Here it is
He laid before Hewitt the following
humorous message written on half d
sheet of note paper:
r a @ e T II n y N m
j HaLeEt iE oE
Ill, Is, IL, 20, Ia, liz. q.
Ill, %, 10, IL, Ill. Ill.
This is too much for me-" sale
Hewitt. but know somebody. wht
can read it
4sWhop'
Miss Reed of our paper"
II believe you. my boy" said staley
with enthusiasm 'She's the brightes
: girl in this town.
"She'll be here in two minutes salt
Hewitt, and he made his word good.
After devoting five or ten minutes I,
. "a close study of the mystic scroll Mis-
Reed ventured to express this opinion
1.-The man knew that this would fal
into your hands"
what makes You think so?" aske
Staley.
Il Judge from what it says" she re
Piled
You've read it?''
YES; 1t is quite simple. The fig
: ures refer to the letters He nigh
: as well have set down the alphabet
but that would have been too plain
Now. take the first number. Ill. l
2 CHI really DE Ill. DeCauSe There dI'
] not so many letters as that. But sup
! pose you read it one. elcyen-that is
] first row. eleventh letter That's
! Similarly Is Is first row. fifth letter
! That's T. and II Is A. Twenty-six il
! second row, sixth letter. That's L."
Seems to be my name" said Staley
5 porting over the document "STAL-
! and liz Is Y That's me. Twenty-on
+ is l, and III is S--STALEY is
E twenty-five is A. and 10 is N. and L
E is A.
And III twice means IS" sail
!. Hewitt 'Staley is an ass Well
] upon my word"
] The chiefs face was purple. but b
forced laugh.
( Funny, eh?' said he MIR. Saun
e derson thought he'd be funny. We'll
! we'll Let's see what happens to him
! But-er-I wouldn't mention this out
d side You're a good fellow. Hewitt
o. You understand that-er-a man in m,
! position, you know And Miss Rec,
:. / xxrsll lynoa rnf.1n That's understood