Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-07

dynamic aCLFlllcS Oh me Al l4c s1S-
gestion of Waldemar, owner Of an i'm
EsortaBt and decent newspaper. he
opened Offices in Astor court and went
IN for following up queer advertise
meets and tracing down fraudulent ad
Eertisers. Business doomed.
Not good enough said Average
Jones.
-The ad. says different. sir simp-
E0n eaised the paper and read:
ETTE THOUSAND DOLLARS - THE
aforesaid sum viii be peld without ques-
ten to anyone furnishing Information
which leads 10 the discovery Of Roderick
EEoh, tventy-4our years old. who left his
hoEne in Toledo. o. on April z Commu-
Escate with Or. Conrad HO1. Toledo.
Surely Doctor Hof is good for the
amount
oh. he's good fer millions. The
point is. from what 1 can discover, Mr..
Roderiek Hoff isn't worth retrieving at
any price above one dime
Was the information about him that
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the confidential clerk.
Yes; ali / wanted. Have the ToIe-
10 reporter forward his bill"
Left to himself, Average Jones again
ian over the information as to the lost
Toledo youth. At twenty-four. it ap-
peared. Roderick Hoff had achieved a
career Emerging from college, he
had taken a post graduate course in
the cigarette ward OF a polite retreat
for nervous wrecks. endured two
bFeach-of-promise suits, broken the
record for speed violation arrests, had
Seen buncoed and short-carded out of
varying sums and now was the horror
Of the pulpit and the delight of the
city press. Bets were even in the
Toledo clubs as to whether delirium
aFemens or paresis would win the
svent around young Dir. Hof's kite
shaped race track of brain.
With his tastes the income Of TWEEN
ty-five thousand dollars per annum
which his father allowed him proved
sadly insufficient to his needs. He
mentioned this fact to his father early
IA April. only to be refused with some
zeerbity.
"Oh, very well" said he, I'm go and
make it myself"
To all intents and appearances. Rod.
srick lief had dropped of the earth
IN or about April twelfth. BY April
Sixteenth the elder Hoff's five-thousand-
dollar anxiety became known through
ahe advertisement
Simpsons face appeared at the door.
His blond forehead was wrinkled with
excitement
Doctor Hofr is here, Mr.. Jones. /
aDld him you
Following the word, there burst into
Average Jones private sanctum a
gross old man, silk-hatted and bedia-
Gonded, whose side-whiskers bristled
Whitley with perturbed selfimpor-
sance. In his hand was a patchy bun
de
They tried to stop mel" he sput-
tered. ME! I'm worth ten million dol
ARrs, an ten-doIlar-a-week Office toad
zTies to hold me up when l come here
myself person1y, from Toledo to see
you."
The Advisor said CURLY: Il can't
Jake your case. Good-day."
Not take it! Did you read the re-
vard?"
Yes. Get someone else to find your
hopeful"
1T amt no case of findin' now. The
boys dead" His strident voice qua
Fered and broke, but rose again TO a
anarl. And, by God, I'll spend mil
Mon to get the dogs that murdered
aim"
At the word murdered" Average
Zones clean-cut, agreeable, but rather
stclidly neutral face became resolute,
Sorceful and quietly alert The hest
Rant drawl signified awakened inter-
est
How - do - you - know-hes-
Eead?"
The other tore open the bundle he
carried, and spread before Average
Jones white silk shirt stained with
Sminous brown splotehes.
It's his shirt. There's the initials.
Mailed to my house with the note that
some pinned to it. Here it is"
He produced a bit of coarse wrap.
ping paper upou which was this mes
sage in rough capital letters:
TWO DAeoEs SHOT HIM DAssENT
SAY NO MORE
Average Jones examined the wrap
per. 1t was postmarked Cincinnati.
Ne next smoothed out the creased silk
and studied minutely the blotches. Ap-
plying a cup sponge to one of the
spots he rubbed the wetted portion
vigorously on sheet of paper which
Jay near at hand. He scratched his
ghin with a slow movement.
j don't see anything so far" he
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