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The Exeter Times, 1890-4-3, Page 2A FALSE FRIEND, - 4. sTextx OF MODERN BABYLON. CHAPTER IX- Now, note the, in connection with what I Holmes had et first no intention of doing shall tell you presently ; the wrapper Nro4 anytbing in regard to the draft winch Mr. addressed, in a fine feminine hand, to "Miss Cleytou had handed to him, lie saw that Neale, care of Conutess Sountfort, Grosvenor Vitene laadapproprieted the money to himself Square, London" --and bore the W. a post- -a weakness he -would bevel:teen prone to meek of the 10th of June. Opening out the paper (it was the Standard of the 9th of Jonah 4 heavy blue -pelted mark against 4 notice at the top of the eeeend Peleliu), et mtee caught my eye. Here," aid the officer, handing Holmes a slip of paper, is a copy of the notice.' Hohnesniterally holdinghis breath, read the followitig "Margaret V-----, I have come back, and cannot find you. If this reathes your eye, and you are in London, I will welt this with five thousand. pounds in que,stwn- forging his (Holmes's} name to satisfy the banker that the debt had been duly paid. It WitS not likely Mr. Clayton would ever ep , of it again, and it would sem pass out et his mind. But on his way westward from the Oily, Holmes began to feel curious as to the. disposal of the proceeds. What had 'become of the money, that Feline should have been found in these wretehed lodgings at the dodo, moneyless1 Ile might have been robbed, it was true; or the amount evening, and Saturday, Sunday, Monday, at mightbe lying to hi eredit in the Anglo- the old trysting-plaee (Fouutain) front 0 to Comedian Bault And then, if Faune left 10: If in the country, sena answer to me in London on the Sunda, -, when or how dui he this gamma -Jun" pay the clove Into the bank . The result of these rellectiens was that Holmes decided to make some incpairies for himself concerning that eheqoe. Delaying for some time oii the way in the Fleet Street neighborbood, it was late us the cedtag the murder aft -gement whenliflutes was passiug up the "In the Standard of the Ms of dnue. The Stroud, 11c -re he went up to au elliee on 4 newsPaPer tins PATO t1H5 morning of the first floor, end iuquiring for a Mr. Vizard, the ItIth of June, Margaret Neale hail not found that gentlemen, to whom he WAS COMO tO the Place a aPPalutmeut on the evidently known. uight of the 9th, and therefore bed certain- " This oherme," said. Holmes, pronueing lY not seen the ativertisentent. The paper the document, " was cleared through, the was consequently posted to her on Saturolay Anglo•Canatlian gj1 at Chariug Croo. I morning, win in all probability she found want you to find out for ifie by whom the on the ball table on her return from the cheque was paid in to that bank, and when, concert at Grosvenor House, Does llot tide and, ON'ely other particular about, it. --The eeem clear enough ! She pielted it off the iS,yenuine," he added. seeing the table as she caane in, and took it with her detective nioseiy uud suapieloutly 0:tensile. lip to her room. The rest is obvious tag it. enough ; the. poor girl would, be careful to "Both siguatures on the back, however, kee her busutese a secret from the house - were written by the same hand." hold." "That is so. Follow the matter up as "But if Faunte-aestuning him the author soon as you eau, and let me know the reof the message -knew her address, why did suit." he not scud his message to her direct at Mr. Fizard glanced at his wateh. and Quo r* promisedto do so. Then Helmet; weat 4)n "Of eonrae. to avoid detection," "M rastret Neale, a ain. might have been "And thia advertisement," eatel Holmes ate straotedly-for there was oue expression ia it which. struck hint, and whielt the officer am not appeqx to notice-." appeared in the Mondani of the Oth Of Juno,, thic day pre - to los lodongs, where he found the officer waiting for hum straAb,y the sact of the paper hesng sent to distovery you made this morning. leale- aso "res -if the pear thin hod aught to sus. After all, Mr. Holmes," he arid "the Ist°r." far-a-te nothing, The pap . widen etp peet, or to fear. 'Fite probabilities are a peered in never entered theleuse in Gros. thousand to one that w. she opened the velum &pare either above or below stairs. paper and read, the hueltale. menage she It must, refer to something eise-eome other Warne oblivious to all else -so absorbed in appointuient =tie by Faune." the thought of meeting him again that elm olmea drew a breath of intense relief. forgot all about the odd way .the message This news lifted a load off bis miad. With- came to hen Under nolo eireumstanee% out waiting to hear more -without delaying Holmes the excited and hutment mile would an lassaue-ae sent a telegram to 'ate, have no inemory for anythieg, no 'conscious- Olayton requesting hint not to speak of the ness of anything but seem; her husband the advertisement to his daughter, as it had onee mote." been found to have no reference to the mut..' "'believe that it is all true, Cracroft," der. said Holmes with is sigh. "Poor Orr -- Furthermore, Faune'a departure from He was thinking of the exquisite sweetness Cotiopn Pine so early that :avant could now of her tinging that fatal day iu Grosvenor be accounted for by this engagement. , House, ami, the surprise of her modest eyes "If we mid find out who it was he met, ' and gentle face at the applause. ROW everything might look very different for patiustie and pitiful the recollection WOODOW? Feline," he remarked with hvely interest. "And new tomes the perplexing part of "Perhaps -and perhaps not. Vve have a the affair," eontin e,:d the officer, with is look &raker puzzle than that to duel with, how. of vexation. "I lost no time in obtaining the ever." original copy,of the advertisemeut What "What is it?" do you think 1 It was handed in by is lady "1 114V0 discoveren the messaoe loose (about whom theXclerk who took it re- broughtMar -*trate Neale to the Park that Members nothing except that site was well night." dressed like any other lady and is in the 'Who sent it r Holmes demanded with a ; tuone feminiue hand as the address on the atart. The critical point of the case was ' wrapper. Of course the name and address touched at last. jwith which the copy purported. to be "We have to find that out yet. But that authenticated taurn outto barn been fictitious I have found the message Is beyond all -there is no doubt on that head." doubt I can't help feeling a bit exeited ' "Whichleavesonly twotheories,"observed about it myself," said the officer with a Holmes: "Either the murder was the act of smile, "not knowing what mw surprise it some other person, or the lady was Faune's raaylead to. As I have said, the advertise. agent. I think you have a cos° to work up lewd discovered this morning probably re- still, Craeroft." leered to an appointment of another connee- "I1n afraid so. The queation ie -who was the a ;ent 1" "Let tne interrupt you is moment, Cra- "It ought be as well to keep your mind -croft. That appointment, whatever it was, open both ways," said Holmes. Keep your would account satisfactorily for an net that information out Of the newspapers; there alms pressen heavily against Faune-I mean are a thousand well-dressed women who .his early departure from Mr. Clayton's would act as agents in a business so seem- nonse that night. The appointment was ingly harmless, for a trifling remuneration. for half -past nine. I shall put this infer. But it is just possible, Cracroft, that you mation into Crudie's hands.' are prejudiced by the strong presmnption " Very wall," said Cracroft "But did against the prisoner, and by continuing so Fauna make any excuse, when leaving Mr. ..,y2 are shutting out the light on one side of rObartonn, about having an appointment to 0-"*" :keep ? If so, we have not heard of it And Craeroft soon* afterwards -vent away. )is it not probable he has already told his The= Frank Holmes began to pace up and , solicitor ? Crudie, we know, has as yet said down the room, getting a clear grasp of bis nothing about it -which looks suspicious. position in relation to this can. It was a But tell him all about it, and see what he of intense abhorrence. The man had shown will aay." "You still hold to the belief that Fauna was the murderer ?" "I have not the smallest doubt about it. Only, there will be some vital points to clear up. He sent the fatal message to Margaret :Neale; she found it awaiting her when she ,returned to the house after the concert that ,Baturd.ay afternoon. What do you say to that ?" he solemn emphasis with which the officer made his statement -the apparent .,certainty of his facts -made a deep im- Tression on Holmes. "It was your own idea, Mr. Holmes, of Lthe vehicle of communication used in the -ease which led me to what I discovered. felt so convinced, when I left you in Mount Street, that I had then the all- ninportant clue in my hand, that I only went to Grosvenor Square to be satisfied that the Intelligence was one of the morning papers taken in -for this would be an im- portant corroborative fact. To my great disappointment, I learned that the paper was never taken in, even among the ser- vants. I confess I was a bit staggered, al- though the presumption still remained that she might have seen it elsewhere. I was on the point of leaving, when it occurred to me to ask to see the room which Miss Neale had occupied. It had been kept locked since the murder, by Lady Southfort's orders, and the butler carried the key in his pocket. It was evident the orders were strictly obeyed, for I noted the position of certain articles to be exactly as they were when I was last in the room. I don't know exactly what I was looking for, but I have sometimes found that in examining things in this aimless way, ,you stumble by chance upon evidence of the reatest. value. This happened to me in omersby's case; you remember how ' Yes, yes 1 -Never mind now, COncroft.-- Well 1" "Well-openhig and closing, in an ab- . About Sleep. stracted way -for I was busily thinking How Many hours' sleep do you require? what was best to do in the matter of the No rule can be laid down. Jeremy Taylor advertisement -one after another of a chest, thrived on three hours, and so does Cardinal of drawers, my interest was arrested by a ; Newman. Many Centenarians are contented loosely -folded newsp slier lying in one of the I with five hours; but some of them require top drawers.From the form of the fold and eight or nine. But there are two rules of otlaermarks, it had evidently come through sleeping which everybody may adopt with - the post -office. You mild perceive as much out hesitation. 1. Never let yourself be without moving it But I found along with ' awakened by anybody else, but wait until the paper the wrapper in which it had been you have slept out your sleep. 2 Get up as posted; a fragment adhered to the paper, 1, soon as you are awake. If you follow these and exactly corresponded with the remain- ', two rules, the hours of sleep will :very soon der. An old newspaper is generally not an regulate themselves. If you read yourself object of suspicion in such a place, and I to- sleep, you should read a heavy book, not must have seen it when I was there before • ' re light one. A dull book is good, a stnpid but after what took place this morning, Mr. one is better. Some persons recommend a can always depend upon her. Holmes, I made s Point of examining it. cup of beef -tea -just to amuse the digestion. STOBIES ABOUT THIEVES, THE °OHBA ROBB. Thealarvel Explained -Subedited, Memory. Three instancea et Coleilstued Inge/mitt The cobras are perhaps the only serpents and coolness.. whielt Will eat insects Tney feed on ants, It has not been massy years since a well, grasshoppers, -a, variety of beetles, ete„ but known jurist chanced to OA a friend, the ise?ertatposhterza.%sspeetehieallpatreteferreetIceb.fooreafiurge-hilit east, time of day AS he entered the temple of P iustice, remarking at -the gone time thst jAe. Dight more easily than auy other kied THE NEWSBOY'S FAREWELL. "There ain't Much of Me *Thout Illm." We was both what you call train butchers, 'cause we butchered folks patience, I s'pose, Well, yes, we was pretty young fer the place and I ain't but 16 now an' that was two years ago ; but we was mighty plucky httlo chats, tell you. He was a French- mau, all tire an ,go, au' I gaess I got there had forgotten Ms watch at home. At the as zebras in the nrass catching the fire -flies, When I first knew him we was both tnsect. I have often or hours watched el -it. conclusion of his day's duties he returned nowsbotra ; used to come down to the trains, home, and when be Asked his wife for his r4eagrutiiuregsaronusit dheer4rebattiedextehretrieo,naop4rotcheessvarwitticoli you k now , to sell our papers. I liked him bear that she had given it to a young luau chronometer was not a little em -prised to the serpent. Now, every entomologtst enows t'fore I knew him, 'cause he was such a pretty who had come for it, representing that the that the dying lampyrithe consist entirely of males. The females, winch are not very num- juriet had nut him. The young man was are much larger and cannot By, as they thief. He had heard the Judge remark oroos, have only rudimentary wings, They sit • the,t he had fornotten his watch. Without a moment's delay the cunning rogue ma to ; quietly in the grass, emitting a greenishlight, he Judgen honte and told thegood lady which muchstronger than that of the males, Fla fades and becomes brilliant at regular the house that her husband had sent him i intervals. If a glow worm be watched for a for the watela It was aelever story, plausibly house in I he observed !lying toward it, and alighting told, and it won the watch, time, A steady current of male insects will The proprietor of a large jewelry Cincinnati can scarcely have forgotten his e10Se.ProTonity. experience with an expert knave. It was I this lit.tle pebble of chlorophane or fluor-apar. Tao...sr it $0 happens that the onialcallu, along tewardnoon one very. hot day ht. the , erode the dark a greenish light whine is summer of1875 when 4 ministerial -appearing e so lunch like that of the female lampyris fellow in a black snit, with a white tie, an that it IS easy matter to deceive the ntale tered the store. He leisurely walked to the nrenly with it, by setting it up as a decoy. showcase and asked to see some diamonn The cobras barn gradually emne to take ed. studs. After some besitetion be bought a sutall etone,, for which paid f,;;•95. lie then ;ventage of au esperienee ittede by them, ac. wished to look at some ringa-thought enlentally, I dare say, thousands ef yeara ltttle fellow; reeler French-ableok eyes an' black hair, an' all-round beauty. One day I spoke to 'ire an' says: "Ii0W'S biz to -day?' an asked 'ira what wu.s his name, an' he said "Pierre" --that's Freuelt for Peter -au' I add my name was Tom, an' that's ell the introduction newsboys needed. It didn't take us long to get acquainted, an' we got to be jolly good friends. One day Pierre says; 'I'm sick 4)" baba' a newsboy; let's get into bigger business," so I says: "Let's get en the trams," so we struck apiece of luck 411' both got a place on the D., Y. & T. 'Course we couldn't see eaeli other much any more, only just as the trains inet once a day ; then we'd both be on the rear platform, last ear, AU' jeSs Sliola Old 93011jolirsr "Adieu I" He'd taugat me them words. an' a lot more, an' spent a heap o' time ,ettin" me to say 'em nest ; it was the viva to the 3bowcase mum= the din.1 that a cobra finda one of these shiningstones making ho wife a present. As he followed , ago. may requent y appen, for utstattee, awful ard at first, but after a wlule he told sne 1 said 'cm first rate. Yon know what in the gravel of the dry riverdsede (where henients mons, hnt 1 bet you can't SlAy is ensralond.vatangsblebegbeentanwetreo etot utuesciatitediseir: i theyare by ne meum mammon), bon At. like I ecu Mimeo harder yet, but it meant satisfaetion. One valued at $500 pleased !laded to it by its glow 41.1ight, OA t410/3g. 4t for a glowworm. It would then, a heap more, Pierre said it was A' Dime, - him, but Wali not just toilet hc wanted. At . te, notice that the fire4lies eould be eaught at any t*Ia'llattlareritetettli Ole rest 'bout Pierre, length be saw one he thought was just the id e, As the clerk reached, to get it the melt more easily tool quickly in the neigh. I but elposeIEligh 44 Weil go en 1101V I've got eta, b °theca of diet tibinbtg object then anywhere eommeneed, parsondike eustomer pressed the $500 am, else, and would habitually return to it. cleverly deep into the apple he was eating Several area mi bt th t th , meet at the regular place. It made me feel Well, Ye Ron elle day the trams didn't and tbere would be eompetition, and front kind o'skeery and at the atafion I got into the TOM IT, Orn OP TUE DOM this mompt to the finding out that alleeeile engine an' kep' my nye on the treek ahead. in cap mug re. les open s on the posses- 0 hada t gone many Boles /ore we name to The clerk ain't notice the move, but a fel- sion of this Phaaphoreseent pebble, alla to juet what I expected. There was the engine lew who was standing on the outaide did, the seizing of it IA order to ,prevent another of bia train upside down 1118 ditch, ao' the and haatily picked up the apple and depart- snake frommonopolizing it, Nil WNW OPIAIDA, ealE SpreW Ali round, folks gremlin' au' ed., The dioniond purchaser decided not to get 210 great step, and involves no exceptional acreateite. Ugh I I never saw such A Sight hie wife a present tillnuother day. Ile:n•as ' powers of reasoniug. The cobra earriea it before, nor heard such found% au' I don't ou the pallet of leaving, when the clerk min- , about, and soon !came to treasure it, for it I know es I wattt to agaifl. ed the ring. i affords it an ea, Meana of gettillo" itall'anfn It was quite it while 'fore I found Pierre, "Wait a minute, pleate,'" caviled the clerk, All it hos to no le to deposit the atone in the i I knew bettent to listen for his voice. I wtio was nervously looking over the tray. ' geese at night, and the obliging tweets liter. I knew if Ike wae most dead heal jest shut Ids "1 eannot find that large diamond ring yon ally By down its Moot, , teeth hard an' uover make a noise. I hated were looking at," 1 There Are even MMUS for believing illAt to innk for ern but 1 uu..u. j " Pluck up, old The sanctimonious gentleman in black at no individual eeperience is Dow DeeeNSAry boy, it's your lititinees to find Pierre, dead or once returned and reniarked that the clerk to cause any cobra to act in this manner, alive." Pretty soon I saw a baud sticking must he mistaken. The search continued, but that MO a young cobra, on finding suet: out from a pile of broken wooa, an' I knew but it wee fruitless. The proprietor wiis o atoie. will instinctively take it up, and diet hand. His bawls wasn't power rough calleJ, and ill 4 very auetere and. blunt way nee it in the manner 1 have deeerlised. For medal -- e liketi other boys, You see hoovas insinuated that it might be founn in the it inust be borne in mind that there is an cut out fer a gentleman. All I mild folds of the ringrbuyer'a gementa. o inherited race memory among the lower see of him was that one hand an' lois aweet "I aln the Hoy. pla tr----us" said the animals widelt is often far stronger than thel face, He woo under a hoop of „..od an., customer, in tones of molted wrathouuning ineinotaegathered during the short lifetime ginee an. couldn't move nor swan, lout 1 a clergyman who lived in a village about of the individual. Whet causes it blind could tell by his face that he kuew me. I thirty miles distant, feted I'll giveyou town kitten to spit and put up its back if a dog is went to work beset him out, an' when Iyot &Mend that I did not come hero to be in- brought near it? It never saw a dog, never the stuff from lum I flaw he was all brtusen suited." l eaw anything, yet it knows there is some; mu; out, bat a mode bellow, wasn't much Well, the proprietor become angry and danger aimed. Thusthe ftectunulatedexperia an* talked jolly to him all the while. I called a policemen, and the alleged clergy- ; ence of thecobran ancestors during countless couldn't move 'ha ; he had to lie right there I11411 WAS remove(' to a back room, protest- ' generations now causes it to act in it num- till the train came to take us baek to the ing indignantly et the treatment. A Alert ner we refer to inatinet. I - ,etty. Au' then I got the btaltentait an' we consultation was held, and a telebrram was Such aro the retnarkable bete connected managed to get him into a ear. It hurt him tent to the address given by the prieouer, ' with the naja-kallu, the cobra's shining ' awfully, 1 know, but he know mo all the makingin uiryasto his clutracterandwhore- atone. Who can tell whether the old tradi- abouts. e reply was sloe, in coming, and tions of snakes carrying premous stones, of it was decided to search the prisoner. He -which we still find traces in our fairy tales, was forced tostrip, audeveryfold and crease may not hove their source in some such bids clothes was searched. It is needless to fact as this n-Ellarpor's Magazine. say the ring was not found. The telegram to the village thirty miles away, carne, say- ing that the 'Rev. DA G -n WAS one of the OVER ATPREOIPIOE. most reliable men in the town, and that he was visitin friends in Cincinnati. Up to tune ; I could tell that by his face. When we got here we had Min took to the hoapital. It seemed so nice an' still in there, an'ithenurses were so kind an' careful. I thought when I saw Pierre put into a nice bed 'twas a regularHeaven for him. But he didn't know nothin"bout it. Ile had an awful fever, they said. He was talkin' jest as fast's he could, but no sense to anything — le said. The doctors came and looked him this time t to proprietor had been of the The Startling Experience or it BridelConple over, an' they looked pretty solemn, an one opinion that the customer was on it flood Sled. of 'em said he wouldn't live but a fewhours, w Wens YRA.PD, A wedding journey was begun under pecu- an' he put his hand on Pierre's head an' liar circumstances near Hartford the other says: but the telegram changed his tune. Ho day. John Borrows, the groom, owns it farm "Poor fellow 1 it's too bad, such it pretty wanted to make amends right away. The on the slope of old Taleott Mountain. P,elle• little chap 1" parson talkee heavy damages and law, but Andrews, the bride, kept house for her filth. I tell you I'll never forgot that doctor for was at length soothed to silence by four crisp ' or in his little home on the mountain top. that. They gave him sonaething to stop the $100 bills. In some way the story of the , They were married at the home of the bride. fever, an' said he must be kep quiet, but they -minister's insult leaked out. His friends They lied arranged to take a short bridal lot me stay, after I begged 'em to an' prom - heard it and asked him about it. In the end ' trip. There es a little railway station at the ised to bo still. He got quiet after a while, he called at the jewelery store to see about foot of the mountain a mile or so away. an' the nurses went away an' I put my head This they resolved to teach by coasting on the pillow by him, an I think we both it, and the proprietor was not a little tunaz- ea to fin& he had been duped. Detectives down the mountain on a hand sled, Thew slop, tiCeouple of hours or so; then I woke up were at once put on the case, and in. f a -ow preparations were quickly' made, the last an' sat there watchin' him for a while. He days arrested the bogus clergyman and his farewells were said, a kindly hand gave the knew I was therein his sleep, I guess, 'cause confederate trying to pawn the ring. They parting push, and, followed by a shower of he opened his eyes an' says: were the notorious "Fre.nchy" La Mountain rice and the best wishes of the wedding "1 thought you was by me, Tom. I'm and Cal Duncan. guests, they sped down the steep incline. glad. Tell 'em I;won't be back no more; A night watchman who was employed to All went well until about half the descent an', Tom, you an' me can'tbe pards no longer. protect a jewelry store in Denver agamst the had been accomplished. Then John sudden- Be good to yourself -don't forget your old ravages of thieves, was neatly outwitted by 1.3, aaw ahead an ox team toiling slowly up pard. Tom -Adieu." the notorious Billy Forrester some years be- the road. The road aims narrow. On one I just says, " Adieu, Pierre." He never fore his death. The firm carried an immense side towered an overhanging mass of rock,. spoke another word, an' just shut his eyes on the other side was the brink of a pre- an'went away -to God. It's kind o' nice when I get to thinkin' it over, to think that was cipice forty feet in height. There was little time to think.. The sled the last word I said to laMi-that adieu that was travelling at lightning speed, and the he had learned me, an' that I am livin' all the driver of the oxen seemed not to see it. time with that adieu e him as akind of bless - John hurriedly whispered a word of courage he on me. to his frightened and clinging bride- and, That's aU there is 'bout Pierre. An' me? just before raeeting the approaching 'team, Well, there ain't much of me 'thout him. suddenly turned the course of the sled, and stock of gems, and kept them in a large old- hunself so utterly destitute of principle as to shock his former friend's belief in human fashioned safe. Forrester had, by long years' experience, become so familiar with safes of nature. Holmes had found a sediment of thatpattern that he could tell when to reverse good even in the lowest strata; but there seemed to be none -none at all -in this and when to turn the knob forward, by g. placinghis ear close to the door abovetheeom happy creature. So far forpersonal feeling. Then there was his promise to Miss Clayton. bination, and in this way could open the safe in a short time. By taking a wax im- Had ever man such a cruel task imposed 1 pression of the keyhole he made a key for on him before? Faune-had worked his spel upon her before she Was driven to despise him ; but the spell was upon her:still, a cruel bondage, and the cry that she made to Holmes for his help to save the unworthy being from a disgraceful fate went into his heart like a dagger. He could not refuse her -he loved her too passionately. If Mary Clayton -were ready to take to her pure bosom the shamed head of the acquitted felon, the task undertakenbyFrank Holmes could scarce have been harder. But now that he had put his hand to it, he looked at it without flinching. There was a point, of course, beyond which he could not go -beyond which Miss Clayton would not expect him to go. The moment it became clear to his conscience.that Faune was guilty of the cruel murder of that poor girl, that moment Holmes would abandon the man's cause. It had not come yet, though it seem- ed to be drawing very near. But it had not come; and until it did, he would keep his pronuse. When reading the fatal message that had lured Margaret Neale to her fate, Holmes noted the date; it was Friday the 9th of June. She was invited to meet her murder- • r that night -and had not done so. The murderer would certainly have been at the Fountain, waiting for her. Now, if Faune had spent that evening as usual at Cadogan Place, could he have made the appointment In the Park? (To BE CONTINUED) the front door. Ramo; previously located they went flying over the precipice. the safe in the store, he was now ready to The young farmer had calculated well. begin. It was a The landing WaS made in several feet of yield - Wen, ssowy, STORMY MOUT, ing snow, and no serious harm resulted. about 10 o'clock and Forrester walked up to Friends from above hurried to the rescue, the store with an air of ownership and nn. and the paintogether with their carpet -bags, locked the door. He carried a small sample were dug out, and once more started on their case in his hand. Going in, he turned up journey. This time the station was reachen the gas in the rear of the store and then safely and the couple continued their jour - shook down the stove. He leisurely worked ney hi high spirits. the combination to the safe, and in less than half an hour he had before him thousands of dollars worth of costly jewels and watches. At this very interesting point the night watchman came in. " Good evening," said the cordial burglar, as he continued toremove valuables from the safe to his sample case. "Come back to the fire and warm your - sell.; it is very cold out to -night." The patrolman allowed that it was, and sauntered back to the stove. "I'm packing up my samples," went on the thief, suavely. "Going out on the road in the morning, and thought I would get ready to -night There I isn't that &beauty?" he asked, holding out an elegant Jurgensen for the watchman to examine. In this way Forrester peeked over $9,000 worth of gems and watches into hie sample case, chatting cheerfully with the night watchman all the while. As he was about to close his sample case he stopped suddenly if struck with a hap- py thought, and then ,picked up a very pret- ty ring. Turning to the watchman he asked him if he had a wife. The watchman had, and with a careless laugh Forrester tossed him the ring, saying: "Give her that, and tell her it is a mark of appreciation for the faithful services :rendered by her husband." The brilliant guardian of other people's property was dehght,ed, and was unusually wide awake all the rest of the night It was not until the next morning that he be- came aware of the hoax that had been prac- tised upon him. Forrester by that time was Well out of the way, and his connection with, the robbery was not discovered till a few days before his death,' when he confessed it. There are only a few certainties in the world. One of them is the mother ; you A Brave Woman. It would be hard to cite *a, nobler story than that of the career of Marie Therese, the French Sister of Mercy who has received the Cross of theLegion of Honor at the hands of the lighter vehicles surpassed the heavier in the Governor of Tonquin. This devoted wo- "Injured" by 1,441 to 1,194. These -figures man was only 20 years of age when she re- testify to a long list of brilliant and success- ceived her first wound in ahe trenches of ful attempts to hurt daring or unwary pas. Balaclava. She was wounded again at the sengers'and afford very reasonable grounds battle of Magenta. Later, with undaunted for the terror with which elderly ladies, or energy and courage, she pursued her chosenjgentlemen long past their days of sprint - mission under her country's flag in Syne, racing and football, regard the wild hansom China and Mexico. From the battlefield of as it sweeps suddenly round a curve. As a Worth she was carried away suffering from matter of mere: justice to on, it should be serious injuries, and before she had recov- stated that the "light care" surpasses even ered she was nide performing her duties. the cab m its total of injured. Altogether On one occasion a grenade fell into her ambu- in London during 1888,124 were killed and lance ; she seized and ran with it for a Mtn- 5,555 were injured, a grand total which in dred yards, and her patients' lives were 'sav- any modern British battle would justify ed, though she herself was severely injured many musical lyrics, a shower of orders, and by the bursting of the missile. The French the striking of many service medals. As troops who were called out to witness the pepys might have remarked, it is very unusual scene of the bestowal of this honor pretty to observe that in the honorable list upon a woman, presented arms to the hero- of the hansoms, the killed amount to exactly ine of the ceremony. 1 per cent. 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