Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-07
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Oracle Hollands was g years old. Miss Gracie was sstenoGrapher and 70 smart that she earned s14 week. She was receiving 410 when it was discovered some cfnploye was carry ing goods out of the store The de- tecttve from Headquarters spent . week and did not get g clue. Here is where get raise to $11' said Miss Oracle to herself. and she showed back from her machine and wandered, about for half an hour and then said to K. & K:
 Your assistant hookkeeper has gone out to lunch." He goes every day at this hour was the calm reply
 And the missing goods so with him. What! You can't mean it.a Come with me know where he feeds ct this hour.
 "She led K & K. to quick-lunch
 room three miles away, and they
 walked in upon the assistant just as he had ordered his usual spring Has the firm failed?" he asked as he looked from one to the other. 'sNo, but you have" replied the smart girl with . little giggle of tri-
 umph. Hand over quickly and you | A.--sJ AA0s 9ss W. w e-NHS - - ~ VI - The young man who was the sole support of a widowed mother and six
 xStherless sisters and who firmly De-
 neved that the moving picture shows
 were filling the jails to overfowfng
 smiled giadsome smile and began to hand over bolts of silk yards and dozens of real pearl buttons until he had deposited enough on the table to stock a department store in the Bronx.
 George, what tempted you?" asked
 tie senior partner of K. & K.
 T wanted to sell the stuff and buy
 Bibles for the heathen.'
 When the thief had been tucked away in nice little cell in prison
 'For your smartness you now get
 $12 per-
 Thanks.
 And during your spare time you
 can watch the others"
 She did, and she brought the por-
 ter, the janitor and two elevator men
 to justice. They were in a conspiracy
 to rob the store of thirty shirtwaists
 per week. Then, Miss Grace was raised to s14 per week, and the sem
 for partner said to her.
 Such smartness I never saw be- fore, and K. 6 K are sure proud of you, but you needn't do any more watching for a time. It is only a strain on your brain but you might catch me trying to beat the other K or vice versa"
 Miss Graice Hollands stuck to her real duties, but she imbibed the idea that she was a born detective She began to look at all men and women as suspicious characters. Even when a young man tried to hirt with her was so strong that she almost laid a hand on his shoulder as she hissed at him:-
 You are a safe blower. and know it. and you make your hike or I'll run , you in!'
 He was a minister's son and a sales man in large jewelry house. and had just organized a Bible class, but he made his hike" just the same. When Miss Oracle began her pro- fessional career she went to board
 with Nanny Jones. It was hall
 bedroom and starvation table, but as the salary went up things im- proved. When it reached $10 per week Miss Oracle took the best front room and became the star boarder. She did not leave when the salary became $14.
 Strangers came and went 1t sud- denly occurred to the stenographer that she was most favorably situated to continue her detective work and she went right at it. She suspected SOAA> she suspected a grocery clerk who had a room in the house. and she all most suspected the landlady herself. One evening, when an old clothes man called to see if she had any
 second hand garments to sell, the word villain" stood out so plainly on his forehead that the girl laid hand on him and said:
 "Retrfbution has overtahen you at last!'
 "Vat ish dot?" was asked. Your crime has found you out!" "I lick my wife ten years ago, but she don't go by der police.". Other callers were put through their paces, but none of them was fright ened into confessing murder or bomD explosion. The day must come, how ever and, it did come It came three street A bareheaded young man with a pencil behind his ear. and who seemed to be clerk in store, accosted Miss Oracle at a corner and asked If she could give him $1O bill for five two. It was her salary day and she was carrying home her $14. Why not oblige the clerk? The $10 was passed over for the twos, and 1t seemed to the girl that she was be- ginning to be of some importance as a capitalist.
 The coIbbler took fifty cents for re- pairing a pair of shoes. a lunch at a restaurant was thirty-fi five cents, a bit of cheap tewelry that happened to please was seventy-five cents In each case one of the two-dollar bills was handed out. The other two went into her board money and Mammy