The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-08-14
POWERS HAS BIG
BOOMING VOICE--ALSO
BIG HEART, SHE FINDS

Knocked Insre was no answer
and / walked In.
a Booming Voice
There was desk with It's back
10 the door Beside II sat a wom,
an weeping softly A. ] entered a
big voice doomed from behind the
desk. Don't mind" n said Hes
a blooming idiot. but III FIX him"
I retired hastily and closed Tbs
door.
A few moments later the woman,
not weeping now. came out into the
hall The big voice doomed after
her: n
lien be back, Don't you y
ryi"
went into tho office. walk
around 10 the front Of the desk. 4
found the inspector OF police.
, His name describes him bet.
ter than can. lt's Nike Pow.
ers.
had been very wrong In
both the aspects OF him that
had Imagined. He 10 not stern
and he 10 not thin. His eyes
are very blue. and his close.
cropped hair and nustaehe are
black, with few gray threads.
WrinkIed in Smiles
His hands fascinated me.
They are broad and rather
square, and he uses them con-
stantIy as he talks, 10 illustrate
what he says. He does II with
SORT Of aw<wsrdness that 10
captivating withsl
He looked up al me and snll.
ed. When he smiles his face
ereases into thousands OF laugh
ing wrinkles from his eyes TO
his chin.
What's the trouble7" be want.
ed 10 know
assured him that ! did not In.
tend to inflict any might have up
on him.
He Wonders, Too
Il want TO know what you are.
please--In the department mean"
told him.
Inspector Powers thought for sew
erai minutes Suddenly he burst In
to a laugh. and slapped his knee
violently.
rive always wondered myself"
he said. I've got II at last ! am
the complaint department and re-
pair man! That's what ! am"
The phone rang and the In
spector turned 10 answer II.
THAT poor chap has lost both
legs 10 the knees and he wants 10
sell shoe strings within the pro-
hibIted district lie says / told
him he could once.
Il know that | have never seen
him. but | told him To come up
here and talk IL over. Poor duck"
he unused.
What He Does
lis that all yCT do. arrange H.
censesg" I asked.
Inspector Powers laughed. But
things.
He may begin the morning
lecturing m officer for neglect
duty. and finish II by unitin,
man and mis- wife in Judge On
dons court.
In between, he will deal withN
several little matters like getting
a woman who mas taken a little
too much. back into the bosom Of
her family without unpleasantness.
There was the case OF the woman
who had seen the inspector when I
came in.
Her husband las been a spe-
cial policeman FOR week" said
Powers, and now he's too aristo-
cratic TO go hcmc. He'll go. tho,
when I'm thru WITH him"
Some way | think he will, too.
Frequently whom Judge Gordon
is puzzled what to do with a case.
he says. i refer this matter TO
the inspector OF Police" And when
Chief Rockingham is away, Pow.
ers Is chief of rolice.
Good Story Teller
sat there in Inspector Powers
office for nearly two hours. and
shamelessly absorbed every min
ute he could spare me. He told
me stories. gripping as any fiction.
and much more wonderful because
they are true. and OF people who
really live
Inspector Powers walked to %
door with me. aid. as he opened III
we saw man stamping toward US
whose legs were cut off at the
knees.
AS ! went out onto the street I
heard his dig voice boom a greet
ing to the crippled shoestring man.
Hello. old chap, Come In.
How'S the ,xotIn p"