The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-10-22

Nov, see what you make OF THIS,
whispered Blackie impressively. "Mr.
Kerr says that Henry Closby frequent
ly buys powdered orris root!"
More than all the rest of my GUS
TONERS put together" supplemented
Mr.. Kerr in whisper that cracked
into a shrill falsetto at all the en-
phatic words. Buys more than a
pound a week and always a fresh
pound when he goes to Chicago"
"See! eagerly triumphed Blackie.
isn't that about In line with what we
suspected, Yard?"
Wallingford. suddenly aware that
Blackie was addressing him, grunted.
Il beg your pardon, MIR. Waling-
ford" corrected Blackie, covered Wild
confusion. 1.-The secret slipped. MI.
Kerr, this is Mr.. Scotland YARD. the
great English detective, but Of course
he doesn't like his name used here"
your secret Is safe with me-" prom
Used Mr.. Kerr, bowling with becoming
Difference to the famous Scotland Yard.
"I'll hurry your telegram right of, MI.
Holmes"
Telegram asked Wallingford won
deringly, and perturbed. too, as he
specialized upon what Blackie's new
move might be.
"Yes." explained Blackie smoothly.
II told Mr.. Kerr about our misfortune
in losing our disguise trunk. He knows
the telegraph operator and can get
away secret message for u.s.
He took the message In question
from Mr.. Kerr's hands and displayed
it to Wallingford. who read:
Violet Bonnie Daw-send complete as
sortment whiskers Immediately.
The city councilman creaked away
to get Blackie's secret message on the
wire.
As they walked across Courthouse
square to the official box, Wallingford
turned to Blackie with half vexed
laugh.
II hope you didn't have the nerve to
tell that piker your name was Sher-
lock Holiness" he observed
Certainly not" grinned Blackie. II
only gave him my initial, 81"
A councilman with three haired
mole on his chin. who sat next Blackie.
nudged his arm. "There goes your
man." he whispered. pointing to where
Henry Closby. neatly dressed and
prosperous looking merchant. with a
jet black beard of which he apparently
took justitiable care. emerged from MIS-
store, behind the rag baby booth and
the ice cream-taffy stand. crossed the
square with the entire Indifference or
| one traversing a vacant field and dis
appeared down side street for his
evening stroll.
Looks like real sport to me-"
Blackie commented apprOvingly.
Hes point shy or he wouldn't stay
here" growled Wallingford. whose dis
taste for the town was growing deeper
every minnie.
BIackies neighbor nudged him again.
my name is Scorpine. Pm the pro-
prietor of the Spanglerville Adver-
tiser," be confided II probably know
more about our citizens than any man
in town. Henry Closby goes to Chi
cago on the first and third Sunday Of
every mouth and be stays till Tuesday
morning every time. He carries
hand bag and a big suit case"
"Yellow?" asked Blackie excitedly.
1.-THE suit case is"
do you hear that's" demanded
Blackie of Wallingford. but }, Rufus
had turned his back. 1.-THE hand bag is
black"
"No. brown" asserted the best post
ed man in town.
"Brown?" repeated Blackie In dis
tress. "That throws me or my calcu-
lations. What does he carry in them!"
The best posted man shook his head
sadly. Nobody Knows" ne confessed.
II can tell you something else about
him, though. Once every month or six
weeks he expresses a heavy box to
New York;
Blackie caught his breath loudly.
mot q wooden boxy'
"A wooden boxv' repeated the other
triumphantly. ut is Aways addressed
!. to B. f. Tuttle. at Fifth avenue and
q Forty street; prepaid"
. 'Tuttle," unused Blackie. as II to him.
9 self. II never dreamed that he would
, be In this" t.....s7 ..,,s.s,,.,
Before they returned to their hotel
, Councilman Brand, who operated q
brickyard just behind Henry Closby'a
store, and who was the best posted
:, man in town. told them that Henry
went to Chicago about every two weeks
= and was in the habit Of digging holes
a in his back yard. Before they went to
bed Councilman Smith. who sold farm
implements. ammunition and lightning
; rods, and who, besides being the best
!, posted man in town, suffered from in
:. somnia. told them that he frequently
saw lights in Henry Closby's upstairs
= windows as late as 2 O'clock in th'
morning; also that Henry paid mystic
riOus visits to Chicago. !,
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