The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-09-24
THE CRYSTAL CAzER
BY GEORGE D. sHRAke.

t(Copyright)
Chenille was all astir. 81 Hoovers
horse was stolen.
That was something awful.
Everybody was terrified.
1t happened some ii between
nine o'clock Wednesday night and five
O'Clock Thursday morning. At six,
every one Of the 300 inhabitants knew
OF 1t. They simply did not know what
to make OF It. -
The like amt been heard of for
40 years, said Alec Humbert, the vii.
lage philosopher and presager-also,
the authoritative bureau for informa
ton concerning anything that Glen
Vile might want to know.
What put them entirely agog was
the fact that there was nobody to
blame, or even to suspect There had
been no strangers in town since the
preceding Saturday night, when
travelling doctor sold medicine from a
blackboard. These fellows came often.
Almost every week one would come
around and tell the Glenville people
that they were all sick, and then sell
them something that would cure all
ailments. II they did not chance to
get sick, they could work it into a
lather and use 1t to shave
Sure enough, there were two
strange men In town, but they had
been there since the day before, and
were there yet 1t could not be they
Their business was to inspect tele
phone wires. They had a horse OF
their own.
All through the next day the gossip
continued. Saturday morning things
were In a deplorable state. Nine
horses were reported missing. Every
one at the livery barn. including the
wire-inspectors' horse, had been
taken. Never IN the history of Glen
Vile had such a thing happened
Nobody worked that day. Women,
men and children stood around the
streets, their faces wearing serious
expression.
One Of the two trains that stopped
daily at Glenvilie brought another
medicine man. Even he was ques
toned about seeing horses. He smiled,
horse-cars.
After putting up at the hotel. he
came out in the streets to look over
his prospects. He was little fellow,
rather old, had steel-gray eyes, few
gray hairs, and walked lame. He soon
struck up an acquaintance with Alec
Humbert. and many of the others He
was very sorry that they had had
such hard luck, for II surely would +
hurt his business.
occasionally" he said, Il tell for
tunes and read minds; but not often. |
i used to do more of it."
II wish you could do like woman
j saw once" said Alec Humbert
What did she do?" asked the doc
tor.
Alec then explained how woman
he once saw in a vaudeville show
could tell people whom she had never
seen what their names were, how old
they were, what their occupation was.
or could even tell them where any
thing was that had been lost
There was now quite crowd
round Alec and the doctor, all OF
whom had heard Alec tell about the
vaudeville show. Some believed, while
others discredited It,
my wife and I did that. too" said
the doctor. What did she look like.
do you remember? Maybe 1t was her"
"A very little woman" answered
Alec, quite Interested. ut was at Con-
norville that saw her"
Must have been her." exclaimed
the doctor. 1--WE played together,
showing on alternate. nights. But,
you see, she couldn't stand it. She lost
her mind, and finally died. Then I
quit that business and went to selling
The doctors medicine did not 60 7
very fast The people were too scared
10 buy medicine. He then started tell
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