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SHORT STORY.] The Detective's Story. tALL BK!HTS BESBKVE.D.) A grey-iis-tred man with a. prematurely old face &h,3tmibled into the vestibule of a restau- Tant one night last week, and pressLng his ffM)e asai-nst the glass door gazed hungrily in a.t, the throng around the tables. About three ta,b-les from the door sat a man with a biack moustache. He was a handsome lellow, with a .arm j&w and keen eyes, and was well dressed. He was in earnest conver- sation with another man at the table, when he happened to glanee np and see hag- g,ird ía.ee pressed against the pane. He intently at the face, and then jumping from his chair ran to the door. He grabbed the arm of the gTey-hajre-d man, who imd smarted to go away, whispered <L lew words to him, ca.me ba&k and got his hat and coat, a.nd then left the resta.nrxnt. JIj" fr:ie.ndsa.t at the table patiently await- ing hia røtun. The man who 'vent out was a .Londo a cJ.ete.tiv8, who cmne toO GLaBgow t. tscae ba<k a furtive from justice, a,,jd the man who sat waiting for ban at the table was a Gip;sgow oSicer who had been enter- tainiYttg him. It was a'nio&t an hour before the detee'tive retarned. Ee came in looking very much perturbed, threw hi:mself in his cba.ir, ajid said:— "Talk about seeing ghoets! I thought I'd seen one then. That man tJiere has just Tisen from the grave. The d<"ad live again, or. at least. I know s&veroj hundred people who'd think so if they'd seen th<).t man as I saw him, looking through tha-t door an hour ago. But he's ilesh and blood, and would you believe it, he's worth JE1.000 in the maj'.ket to-day. "h€re did he go?" demanded the other man, Tisin?. "I nay, really you don't me&n to let a, man with £1,(0) worth of rewards out a;g'a,in-!t. him walk oR, do yoa?" "If there wa, £20,000 re.vvrd out against him I wouldn't take him in," said the defec- tive. 'I'm partially reRpo-nst'ble for the changing of a stroHg. handsome, merI"Y'yQu Bta.n, i.nto. that wre-sk you. j'uat sa,w." '"Well," s.ajd the oScer. "let me hOOlr the stcry. for there's -a story in it, 00 doubt." "There 'h." said the detective, "a. long one. 'bTrt I -won't tetl it all to you. Ten years ago there was a gerita of robberies in a city which I won't m¡fÆ,tion, thia't were so evi- dectly the woæl" of a.Ji expert orackeman, t.ha.t we were hard put to it to get any cine to the identity of the mac. "I started cm the theory that no local crook could do .ueh work as had been done m these caæs and that Mine London or Birmingh.ajn jman had come to town to tap us a bit. 'Burglar aLa.rms. safes, and watchmen were a.hk8 of no ava,il against this individ'o.a.l. and in nob one instance was a jot) of his dis- eo-.ered a:nil basmeaa hours the fotl()wing d..y. about a. mo's'th. before these bur- g\iayies hü¿:;an a S"oung ItLwyer moved to our town. cpeneid an omce. took a hoaee in h paet of ths eity, aod, wtttt his wile. be?'an to cut quite a future iH lofAl I shall can him James Wright. Hoe: æmNI to JJ.avü plen'y of money, and' his wife, who was very pretty, became fery popular. "T went to my ii'oom. -at sfven o'clock <Mie mo"ni.na-. having worked aAl nigJJ-b at oae of t!ie,, ra.bberies- An bom* la'ter I was who had assisted me in ajtd he brcufrht me the news that Blank s ba,n-k had been sntered dttTing the night a.IHI .&10,<MO stolen When I got to the bank and looked ove.* the gTOT;nd I rea-lisMi for the* th-st -,dme w,ha.t a. clever man I waa up ag-ainct in the work of rwnin¡; down the author of theL=e ro-bberie?. 'Mere this man. who nuMt ha.ve ''been treading on stranse ground, had JIl,8,Ck" hi", way through a net- work oi' bur<;Inr-a.Iar n wires without toiM'h-' ;ng one of them, a.nd had opened tbe door of a rrv--d,-irn va'ul.t without, the aid of drills or gnnpowde-r It was-a. clea.n-cu.t job, a.nd I was comple.t&ly banled. I realised that 'bringt b i, man to jil,tioo; tha.it I would ha.ve to adopt i. a. new line of investigation if I hoped to a.c()mplish "For a, week I frequented all tbe low reports in town, hoping to get a, clue, but it was all in vain. The touFFh c-ha-raoterB in town weTc as mwh mystined <weT these !Mob- "¡eriffl as I wag. Ever since the robbery in Thank's baj*k: I had carTied with me a enm.II hr'13 button that I had fo'und in the vavlt, 'ther<\ I hadn't m'n)Ch liope of ever getting Ttoldof myma.n thro'trghit.but it was a-olue, .and. withotT't saying' a word aboTBt my find to anybody. I ca.med -rt with me always, a-nd -,il,gt waited fcT so'nteth.me' to turn up, and something nna,lly did turn up. It happened in this way' "Tho a-a.vo a, fa-ncy dress baJJ. It wa" the swellep-t w)-mal function of the yea.r. and locaj society ttTmed out to it. The CMef me to ball to 6OIl"t of look out for tilings, for the women had a'H the-ir je-wellery out. I waa a George Washington that ni.g'ht. and I wandered arocrnd aimlessly during the early part of the evening, looism! for the h()f!t, so that I could m&ke mYPlalf I known, a<nd get mstruictiona frofm him. if he had any to give. Se-veral ladies spok.e to mo nndecr the impT-ow-i-Du ttMt.1 I was a guest. <md it was whi!.e ta.Utir'g to one oT Utent tibat I suddenly s/)lmøtb.Ïag whjah made me F4t:t-t. A ma't dresse<I a.3 a C'0'8tarmoneer w.a.lkfd ac-ros the foor and spoke to a marked lady. Then he waJkod c'ttt into tbe and went H'pst&i.r- "'Who vas tha.t man?' I &-ked rather a/brnptly of the wffma-a I had. been taJihing to- 'I doift TcncMF;* €.he B3.M;; 'tfnt if yoT: really wad to know I ca.n Snd out. for the v.Huan Jte af'tn'ke to is miT ho0s:t.e!:8, Mrs. Wri;t.' "'I he a rea to kn-ow: I f!S,'d. and my fo-mpaenc-n walked a.<T06S the r.y)m without hŒ;itatiol1 and down beside Mrs. "I tsll yaH I wap 001. then. Wh'y? Oh, nothing eyrept&m t'ha.t on the let-s of Üe oor;;t':l" trCJltlf!ef'S, down at the bo.tT<ym.. t'h'are wevp Httile. c'f bEass butto-iM. and I had se-en tba.t one was 'ndSR- in? fr.ni the left leg, and €ha.t the buttona corre!-rp<tn(ted "tbr- th.e' omeri fatn.nia' fn..Blaa'k*s 'Why, that wa-s Mr. 'W right.' so.id my me< spn-ge! r?tnrmng; "cow. take me out a,nd get me some ipfa.' "Bow I wanted to ch?op her that itKMmem.t.

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