Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-09
sale. but it's :iS light as W0od," he G.

sale. but it's aS light as wood,' he eX claimed
 "Anutler little side issue of nline,' said Chsby carelrssly Its trans parent mixture. something like cellu loid. but is waterproof. lireproof and almost scratchproof. It's not inlay. though The design is an ordinary printed affair underneath but the ma terial has il curious quality of refrac tion. which apparently brings the lines to the surface. have a patent on the process.
 Have you done much with it?" in quired Wallingford, always awake t. money making possibilities and he ex ainined tlle checkerboard again with keen interest
 Not a thing" returned Closby. with the carefree nOnchalance of q man whose success in one line has made him kind to all his failures ''l shipped an assortment of the stuff to my New l York agent and he could do nothing
 with it. l guess ifs just as well, for ] l helieve the SncceSS of the process i>, l due to solHe peculiar quality in the 1 city water, which have not analysed
 tried to prepare the material in Chi caGo and New York and had failures in both places"
 Wallin@ford puzzled over that state i ruent for q moment aud then he 1 ch,lcklcd.
 ''I see" he said. If you had made q 1 l,s d l declared it an official enterprise"
 Blackie's whiShcrs arr, cd m d bulk y | package on the first mail Tuesday | morning and Iilackie. who had kept l impatiently out uf sight on Monday in. 1 sisted on wearing the red GulwayS and wig to breakfast, in spite of Mailing ford's disnlaypd protest, ]. Rufus posi- | lively refused to appear with him on ] the street III that make up, so Rlackie went alone. made the round of the square and walking boldly into the general merchandise store. attended by q dozen small boys and Dummy Long shank. purchased from the amazed CloSby himself spool of black cotton thread No. 40. a dozen clothes pins and cake of beeswax!
 In the afternoon he added luxur ant black goatee to his own pointed black mnstache and, making motions like Frenchman, infested the public places until he had large enough fol lowing and entered Closby's store In the evening. as soon as it was properly dark. Blackie made him q mask out of some blue cambric. went back through the brickyard. climbed up on Closby'S high board fence and sat there smoking through a hole in his mask. absolutely motionless other wise. for a solid hour. while the popu lace quiveringly watched.
 Rlackies actions were so openly mysterious that Mayor Sawberry him self came to Wallingford in protest on Wednesday morning.
 Your man. Holmes. is mighty care less about his disguises," he complain ed after having duly introduced him self Henry Closbys bound to know who he is and what he's hanging around for"
 Wallingford. who was annoyed into nn itching rash by this most absurd of all Rlackie'> many roles. was, however, prepared for this emergency.
 He is doing that to throw Mir. Clos by off the track" he asserted. "He in tends Closby to know who he is and to keep so much in his eyes that he will not think of me"
 But what good does it do?" persist ed the mayor
 Just this" said Walingford i'm pressively. While my assistant has been attracting attention to himself I have been finding out things. For in stance. Henry Closby is making a net profit of over 5000 a week out of q product of this town about which you. Mir. Mayor. know nothing" The mayors chest sank in like de- dated balloon. You don't mean ivy he sasped painfully.
 Look at this letter." insisted Wal lingford calmly.
 He banded Mayor Sawberry a letter l bearing the business card of B. F. Tut | tie and addressed to Henry Closby. With oily tir"ers the mayor opened