The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-09-12

but he's comfortably fixed. very COM
fortably fixed now. since he took my
advice and handles the family pocket
book himself"
He laughed reminiscently. and
chuckled with him
Yes" he went on. "ths old man
had to be advised . little bit some
time ago. / advised him Mrs. Hol
lster-nne woman, lovely lady. but
inexperienced in handling large sums
Of money. you know-had been given
q free swing at the colonels bank
account By jove! / tell you she tore
q hole into 1t for>two or three years.
Yes, sirl Nearly had the colonel OF
his feet. said to him. Colonel. only
one thing for you to do. Shut down
on Mrs. Hollister Don't let her handle
q dollar. Otherwise you'll be selling
that happy home of yours up on the
Sound"
And he shut DOWN." asked.
Eyes, yes. Closed down on her
tight For about a year she's had
to go to the colonel for every cent she
got, and, believe me, sir, the colonel
has been careful, very careful, indeed.
o, yes, the colonial Is safe enough
financially. Anything up to million
should say.
thanked my new found friend for
his friendliness and confidence, and
went further on my way, rummaging
around Wall street to find all / could
about the state of HOLSTERS finances.
! There was little enough to find. APP
parently the colonel was sound so far
as money was concerned, and CLAWS
was the only man who knew that
there ever had been any financial diff
ficulty between him and his wife.
Everywhere that | investigated l
found HOLSTER spoken Of in the high
est terms He was a fine, honorable
gentleman. Mrs. HOLSTER WASH so
well known among the coioneps
| friends. In order to make my inves-
| legations thorough got on Broadway
car and rode up to the theatrical dis
trict, to the Office of friend Of mine
who conducted booking agency,
| There / gathered that Mrs. HOLSTER,
formerly Margaret Wynderly, was not
az happy with her rich husband as
she had expected to be. 1t seemed
| that Mrs HOLSTER had expensive
tastes The colonel did not approve
of them At one time, SO tho gossip
of the Rialto had it, Mrs. HOLSTER
had gone SO far as to threaten to go
back to the stage to earn money to
| crafty her whims.
All these minute Investigations may
! seem to the layman to be superfuous
| in a case like this. What could the
| HOLSTERS family affairs have to dc
with the advent of burglar in their
home? I could not answer this ques
ton any better than the reader at the
beginning Of my search, but success
full detective work is largely mat
ter of watching the small things. Il
is the small things that the wrong
doer fails to cover, not the large ones;
and it is among these small things
that the careful detective will otter
find the tiny item that puts him OF
the trail of something big. I had n
definite plan in so carefully looking
up the HOLSTER family circumstances
I only knew that it was my duty al
, an investigator of this case to fint
out all about them that could.
I ran down all the information
could scare up in New York; then
( next morning, I bought a ticket t.
the station on the Long Island Road
, where the HOLSTER home was IL
, Gated.
: arrived at the station. Sound
> hurst, near noon and registered a
> the little hotel In the village. TIL
> clerk at the hotel dined at my tabl
and led him to talk about the Hollil
3 ter family. I was surprised to I'm
4 that even there the news Of the bul
!. glary had not become known, an
0 the clerk did not hesitate in discus.
I ing the people who lived in the bi
q house on the Sound.
o i've got cousin who takes Cal
Of their launches and boats" said b.
+ land know about all that's going o
y up there. And let me tell you, miste
= those rich folks don't have 80 muc
J. smoother sailing than Us poor one
! No sir, they have their rows Just lib
we do. Why, here two months az
% this spring. Mrs. HOLSTER had son
% Of her old theatrical friends out Il
" q visit, and they were raising NJ
d out in one of the big launches. n
La Old HOLSTER came running out In
1t smaller launch and ordered the who
r lot Of 'em back to shore They BIZ
a merry old row that night. him Al
is her, and she was going to leave hiI
u and then he cooled down, and at la
Id she agreed to stay. I guess he mu
II have given in to her because she
u. had that bunch of show people o
81 every Saturday since. And belle
Id me, they have some times, then. o.
as of them is her brother. A young f
n. low; great sport. After the rest
OF 'em have gone to bed at night
1g comes down here and has a II
m drinks with the bunch in the b