Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-27

little bundle of tissue paper We heard
the story, and as the man talked be
gan to finger the bogus bundle. AS
did so, there began to come a few in
SEPARATIONS into my mind. The tissue
paper was short and square and fold
ed. 1t struck me all of sudden that
it was of the type used for shaving
paper in barber shops. Suddenly as
started to crumple the paper in my
hand, stopped and looked at it. Some
of it bore the marks of pencil. / be-
gan to examine the pieces, one by one.
At last / grasped 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
81 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 a wild idea had come.
of you please, would like a little
expense money on tits case told
him. Il may be wrong in my belief,
but I've got a little lead that may turn
out something
81 received the money, and then
started out. The loop district looked
like the best chance for me and so l
started around there. The first day l
made eight barbershops and"
made them?" interrupted. Il
don't believe | quite understand"
why" Miss Clement answered, Il
simply covered them like salesman
would cover line of stores. And in
cidentally, | had become a salesman.
had figured it out that my man would
be either a poetic barber or a poetic
candy merchant of some kind. l knew
someone who had something to do
with tissue paper of that size was
either barber or 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 smile, ''in 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. l would
manage to become grlmy enough to
need the assistance of barber. | al
ways did hate to go to these feminine
hairdressing establishments" she
smiled at me, "and so just acted like
a 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 good combing
Ten times that day went into barber
shops and had my hair combed, ther
dressed by the manicurist. No luck.
"Nor were the candy stores any
more enlightening. The men l saw
we're sordid brutes. They had no more
poetry in their systems than a blocl
of wood | began to realize that was
working on a mighty slim clue, to be
gin with, that it was wild in the eX
IRENE and that there was little chance
of me winning out in my fight to catcl
a man simply through the fact tina
there had been some poetry writer
on tissue paper. But l persisted JUS
the same.
"And things steadily grew worse
The loop district was covered, | di
every barbershop and every cand
store in the radius of the confines
i structures which go to make up tn
real business district of Chicago L
not one of them could | find a ma
whose face or whose personality at a
tailed with that of the one sough
After all, | had been foolish. ha
spent lot of good money on a ques
that | should have known, before
started. would be fruitless. Yet som'
thing impelled me to keep on.
81 visited every shop in the toughe
districts of the city. Not an item
evidence did | find. went out int
the residence districts; and then, in
small two-man shop, l saw SON
shaving paper of exactly the kind
which the fake money bundle ha
been prepared. | took hope-then lo'
it again. The owner of the shop wa
small and dull-eyed and glance (
him showed that by no possibillt
could he the man described by tt
various victims. The other barb'
was nearer the size | sought, but
seemed that there was a ploddir
something, a characteristic about nj
that never had been described b.
, Just the same, l determined to take
chance. | got into his chair and callC
i for a massage.
LAS he worked tried to study b
r face whenever l could keep my ey
t open) to see If there | could find Il
4 criminal lines that would depict 4
! kind of man I sought; or If l cou
! find that softer something viii