The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-18
I gave myself a rundown. and when I

went to bed I tucked 1t into the In
side pocket Of my coat. Just forced 1t
on the thief, as you might say. He's
got the goods; his government will
have them as quickly as he can turn
them overland | suppose might as
we'll try to locate a position Of some
kind here in Chicago. | haven't the
nerve to go back to Washington after
this. The chief might not even say a
word about it, but I'd be set down as
a rank failure In his mind forever"
"Why give up SO soon?" the Cuban
said en~couragingly. Let's make one
last effort to get back the letters. Luck
has broken wonderfully we'll for us so
far along the road-it might stick by
us now"
"Tll do anything that you suggest"
Brockett acQuiesced, but the chances
are about a million to one against us.
What course would offer n possibil-
ities?"
1--WE might report the theft to police
headquarters. simply stating that you
had lost a leather ~money-belt, naming
the amount of currency, and saying
nothing as TO the papers or letters"
Description Of thief" dolefully re-
marked Brockett, "a mar who had a
brown hand. That was about all T
saw of him. 1t might have been either
Yazimoto OF Aguilar, or n countryman
Of either one. Can we have every
Jap and Filipino IN Chicago rounded
up?"
Debating and discussing various
ideas, none of them seeming to offer
much hope, the boys walked aimlessly
along, killing time till the morning
was almost gone. Three times they
passed Japanese gentlemen, dressy,
smiling. bland of face and innocent in
personality. Each Of these sons OF
Nippon must have wondered, after
ward, why the young white devils
peered so sharply, almost savagely,
into their co%untenances. but the quick
inspections brought no comfort-none
OF them had the least likeness to Mr.,
Yazimoto. Pacing onward In this de-
sultory, fruitless fashion, the bafiied
lllCbStIlsttb IA z INV SHASbSo ~
Chinatown, and hurried out of It again,
All Chinatowns are twinkle In their
buildings, sounds and odors, and the
memory OF recent experiences In
Doyers street did not give the boys
any special desire to linger in the Chi
cago colony.
Towards noon they found them.
selves In a district as intensely black
in population as Hayti or Mashonaland
"a region that might have been inter
esting to them under ordinary circum'
stances, but which was now anything
but attractive to the heartsick adven'
turers. They walked YEARLY along
cleared, as they thought, the bound
aries of the black belt, and entered
an u~npretentious restaurant where
they could at least talk over their
unpleasant situation. They had be
gun a half.hearted lunch before they
noticed that the other patrons of the
place were all brunettes, of various
shades between lampblack and light
saddle-color, but the discovery did no
worry them. In their state Of minC
they would hardly have raised objec
I tons If they had been seated at the
same table with a band Of gorilkas.
At the next table sat a bulky blacl
woman, whose billowy figure was
draped in most of the colors of the
rainbow, and who Tended off the in
quiries OF the dusky waiter by explain
ing that she was "waitin' TO a gen
tleman." The gentleman" came in
moment later, and proved to be
colored man Of gigantic stature-suct
magnitude of person that the large
negress herself was dwarfed before
him. This mammoth Zulu settled
himself comfortably, grinned delight
eddy at the woman, and summoned
the waiter with a lordly wave Of his
broad black hand.
THAT fellow Is a twin to the one
who handed US the message In De