Hyder weekly herald., 1934-11-17
Lost-One Collar
 Button
By ROYCE COLLINS
@. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
 WNU Service

 theater or to one of the popular ho- tels where he could dine and dance the evening away. he hadn't decided.
 "D-nw he exclaimed suddenly when his collar button eluded him in the traditional manner just as he was carefully fastening on his collar. Rob- ert spread the evening newspaper palnstakingly on the floor and start. ed hls search for the missing button. Under the radiator he found dust, some burnt matches and nothing else. After further research he found a square opening around the base of the steam pipe where 1t entered the room. This half-inch space was ex- actly where lost collar button might be hiding. Robert decided.
 And there was something glea ming fin the shallow hole. Robert fished around with knife blade. He brought the gleaming object to the surface and carefully carried 1t to the bureau. "rll be d--d" Robert uttered out loud. But 1t wasn't his missing collar button that he had found.
 Instead 1t was a diamond ring that Robert had unearthed from a dusty setting. It was wOman's ring. Some one has been missing this. I'll bet.
 "Now for the collar button and I'll be satisfied" murmured Robert as he went back to hls excavating. But be- fore he had stopped to a squatting po- stiOn his foot hit something. He turned around and there was the col lar button smashed fiat.
 Robert didn't mind altering his plans. He put business suit on In. stead of his tuxedo.
 He knocked at the iandlady's door before he left the house.
 q was just wondering, Mrs. Turn bull, who lived in my room before [ moved in." said Robert. "I found . book there--" he had a book under his arm. a modern novel.
 "Oh. that Miss Blossom must have left it-I don't believe she wanted 1t. She was always losing things--she lost her diamond ring right there in the room the very day she moved out"
 "l suppose she left her new ad- dress" ventured Robert.
 "Well. yes, she did. She couldn't af. ford to pay the rent here so she got a cheaper room with a Miss King on Amsterdam avenue"
 With this information. Robert decid. cd to dine by himself. After a sumptu. ous meal he proceeded to the new home of Miss Blossom.
 Miss Blossom. yes sir. She lives here. Here's gentleman to see you. Miss Blossom" the maid said and led him to small living room where someone was playing the piano. The playing stopped. A woman arose and said to Robert, "rm Miss Blossom"
 Robert was surprised to find the woman facing him somewhere around forty years old and not particularly pleasant to look at.
 "I came to inquire about a diamond ring that you had lost"
 "I never talk to reporters" snapped Miss Blossom. And besides found my diamond ring in my trunk when l unpacked here"
 "Well, do you happen to know who occupied the room before you took It? found diamond ring there last night and Pm anxious to return 1t to the ov ler"
 "A Miss Towers had the room-Nflss Elsie TOwers-and she works In the Uptown Savings bank"
 The Uptown Savings bank--his own place of employment And Miss Tow CTS was secretary to the president As he left Miss Blossoms home, Robert decided to forego pleasure and return to his room for a good nights sleep The next morning the alarm clock awakened him an hour earlier than usual. Robert Jumped out of bed and spent the extra time making sure l that he would look his best at tho bank that day. In hopes that Miss Elsie Towers breakfasted at Mrs. Turnbull's. he was in the dining room by seven-thlrty. Half an hour later | ev, khA ri pl hn l11