The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-14

actIy $6o,000.D
 on tho 9:S0 train, never to rerurnI He win take the glazed inlay patent with him! Look ?, And before their very eyes he plucked off his vandyke, put it under his arm, handed them telegram and replaced the beard. though upside down.
 The mayor opened the telegram and read it with keen interest, then pass ed it silently to the other members of the committee. It was from Mir Tut tie, in New York, addressed to Henry Caosbyyand said:
 Erltert aiming proposition apply glazed in lay table and dresser tops how much
 Saluting them, Blaclxie wheeled and entered the alley mouth They watch ed him while he stopped at dry goods store and empfied whiskers from all his pockets. When he began point ing at them successively with his fore finger and saying, Eny, meeny, miney, moe, 2, to determine which set he should wear next the committee hastily left
 As the result of their deiibera tions the city clerk was sent to MT. Closby with an offer of $1O,O0O and d royalty for his patent
 The city clerk came back with . counter offer Of $6oO0o cashl
 The city council offered s2oooo and royalty
 The answer was the same.
 They offered $3oooo and no roy atty.
 Same answer.
 Blackie Daw, wearing a Francis Jo- sef makeup, dashed in upon the wor- ried city council with another stolen telegram. It was from Chicago and said:
 Shall you please come to 125 South Clark street. ANTONIO SCERLATTI.
 That telegram settled the business The mystery of 1t was what did the work. Just thirty minutes before the bank closed the city council accepted Henry Closby's offer of $60,Oo0 cash for his patent on the process of mak- ing glazed inlay and for his written agreement never to engage in that or a similar eneerprise as long as be lived nor to sanction such an enter prise; also, at their dictation, he wrote a letter to MT. Futile advising that art agent of the sale and that the glazed inlay, henceforth and forever, was the property of the SpanglerviIle city council
 Before the 7.3o pulled out that night Wallingford, Blaclzie and Henry Clos L in his pocket, sat at cozy table in the dining car when an agftated knock ing came at the window. Looking out, l they saw the painting committee.
 Wallingford hurried out to the rear l platform
 stWe want Henry Closby to sign this telegram, puffed the mayor breath lessly. 'tThe city council II pay for 1t ? | Since the telegram proved to be noth- ing more than an order forbidding MT Futile to have the city water of Span. 1 glervitle analysed, Wal1ingford prom 1sed that they should have it and hurrying in, obtained Closby's sigma ture. He returned to the committed with a sadly grieved countenance. I ~Gentlemen, you have made hide ous mistake, he told them as he hand ed the mayor the telegram. MT. Clos by has never made a penny from thu glazed inlay, and he just refused te sell the patent to furniture factory because the best offer he could get wa. $500 7
 l sIt's Eei" gulped the mayor. "Yog can't fool us We seen his bank state l ment..
 Those receipts consisted entirely O 1 royalties from the sale of plaster dogs, 1 Wallingford suavely explained.
 From whatr' gasped the mayor. I Plaster dogs repeated Wallingfort calmly, and from his pocket he pro duced a copy of the canine whose for lornness had started Henry Closby or the road to comfortable fortune.
 The consternation on the faces o, the four members of the committe was as the balm of Gilead to the sou of Henry Closby: and Blackie, sitting II I.f ctr dx1fn in. fTe{0 admiration the whiskered face of tn artist, made sudden discovery.
 You're about a week late in you trip to Chicago. aren't your" he in quired.
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