Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-06-06

| ,.44, AOauQuarlerS with his
little bundle of tissue paper. We heard
the story, and as the man talked ba-
gan 10 nnger the bogus bundle AZ :
uld SO, there began to come q few In
spiratlons into my mind. The tissue
paper was short and square and fold.
ca. It struck me all of a sudden that
4 was OF the type used for shaving
paper in barber shops. Suddenly as 7
started to crumple the paper in nv
nano l stopped and looked at it. Some
OF It bore the marks of pencil. be-
gan to examine the pieces, one by one
At last I5grasped one close and held It
closer to the light. read:
Sunset and evening star
And one clear call for me.
And may there be no moaning Of the
bar
When put out to seal
I whirled. Something had flashed
through my head. Here on the evil
dence of thievery, someone had writ
ten a stanza of Tennyson's Crossing
the Bar approached the captain,
for wild idea bad come.
IT you please, would like a little
expense money on this case,' I told
him. may be wrong in my belief,
but I've got little lead that may turn
out something
Il received the money, and then
started out. The loop district looked
like the best chance for me and so
started around there. The first day
made eight barbershops and"
Made them?" / interrupted. II
don't believe I quite understand"
Why" Miss Clement answered, "I
simply covered them like a salesman
would cover line of stores. And In
cidentally, had become salesman.
had figured it out that my man would
be either a poetic barber or a poetic
candy merchant of some kind. knew
someone who had something to do
with tissue paper of that size was
either barber or a candy man. In
one place it would be used for the
shaving. In the other, it would be
used in putting the dressing in candy
boxes. And so, / got a job with a
candy manufacturer knew and start
ed out to drum up trade.
"And you know" Miss Clement
added with a smile. Sin walking around
Chicago, where the wind is always
blowing, ones face gets mighty grimy
and dusty. There is nothing that, takes
the dust away like massage. And
SO. between every candy store, would
manage to become grimy enough to
need the assistance of a barber. I al
ways did hate to go to these feminine
kairdressing establishments she
smiled at me, "and so just acted like
man, walked into the barbershop,
sat down in the chair and ordered a
massage.
"When the night of the first day
came, my face was as sore as a boil.
The next day decided that had bet
ter change my method until my face
got over the various rubbings it had
received the day before, and so found
that my hair was giving me head
ache and needed a good combing.
Ten times that day went into barber
shops and had my hair combed, then
dressed by the manicEist. No luck.
ssNor were the candy stores any
more enlightening. The men l saw
were sordid brutes. They had no more
poetry in their systems than a block
of wood. began to realize that was
working on 6 mighty slim clue, to be-
gin with. that it was wild in the ex-
IRENE am, that there was little chance
of me winning out in my fight to catch
a man simply through the fact that
there had been some poetry written
on tissue paper. But persisted just
the same.
"And things steadily grew worse.
The loop district was covered, did
every barbershop and every candy
store in the radius Of the confines OF
T. structures which go to make up the
real business district of Chicago. In
not one of them could find a man
whose face or whose personality at all
tailed with that Of the one sought.
After all. / had been foolish. had
spent a lot of good money on quest
that I should have known, before 1
started. would be fruitless. Yet some
thing impelled me to keep on.
II visited every shop in the tougher
districts of the city. Not an item OF
evidence did I find. I went out into
the residence districts; and then, II
small. two-man shop, saw some
shaving paper of exactly the kind OF
which the fake money bundle mao
been prepared. / took hope-then iost
n again. The owner of the shop was
small and dull-eyed and glance At
him showed that by no possibility
could he the man described Dy the
various victims. The other barber
vas nearer the size sought, put II
seemed that there was q plodding
something. characteristic about MN
that never had been described. But
inst the same, ! determined to take
chance. got into his chair and called
| for massage.
aAs he worked / tried to study MS
eace whenever could keep my eyes
onan) to see If there could ma tne
criminal lines that would depict the
Wind Of man / sought: or It I could
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