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THE PRESS JOURNAL By GEO. A. PHIPPS. HARRISON NEBRASKA 1 I DOWN SOUTH FISHING STORY. : The Storyctte: I SIR JASPER'S ADVENTURE. NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES ' j lowing article apiear9 in the leading The farmer around Waco axe los- English angHrig journal, the Fishing fog cattle from the cornstalk disease. I Gazette, and is Horn the pen of Mr. Henry East, who wau fur win years fcUiior uf the Fredericksburg News, anJ l well known through that section oJ country: 'lexaa, the "Lone Star State," is the largest and least known state-in Broth er Jonathan's domain, and it is prob ably the most attractive on account o( tie ciinrater scenery 'and- w earth or game of all soils, including the nmiy tribe. In the summer of DT we tried the waters of the Guadalupe a tine stream about 60 miles west of the curious, partly Mexican town of San Antonio, which, In combination with electric ; street tars, electric lights and oilier modern improvements, still retains ;any of the habits, customs food and language of old Mexico. Rising at sunup my attention was S-n Antonio, Tex.. May . The fol- Central City Is discussing the advisa bility of adpoting the initiative and referendum. The Columbus and Albion HUh chools will hold a Joint debate at Al bion on March 14. John McCormick is on trial at Ne braska City, charged with the murder of Mrs. Maggie Linsley. Miss Louise Gafeller, aged 2. resid ing at Humboldt, dropped dead from heart disease last week. ion of Mrs. Lizzie Russell of Humboldt, tepped on a round stick and fell, dis locating one of her hips. Ice dealers at Henderson were unable to hire help and were compelled to hip in Ice from David City. Herbert Payne of Arlington was hurt Internally and his shoulder was broken while cuttng a tree for sawlog. George Gould, the third brother In terested In the failed Bellwood bank, has been arrested and lodged In Jail at David City. By an accidental discharge of a shot gun, the 6-year-old boy of Joseph helm, a farmer near Dawson, was shot through the heart. Chris Burhof of Roten Valley, In the outhwest part of Custer county, is in Jail at Broken Bow on the charge of stealing thirteen hogs of James Byler about Christmas. Sheridan county people are agitating the question of building a, new court house. The present one Is small and iocs not afford sufficient protection to then county records. Hnters have been successful lately In killing several wolves In the vi cinity of Tekamah. In addition to rid ding the community of the wolves tha chase has afforded splendid sport. first drawn to the innumerable pits of the ant lion. This is the larva of a large fly. It has a flat body, its head is aimed with a pair of formidable nip pers, and it always walks backward. It constructs a cylindrical pit by mov ing around in a circle backwards, dig ging out the sand with its tlat head With a violent Jerk it scatters it, and, diminishing the diameter of its circle, it completes a veritable de.ith trap in the shape of an inverted cone, then burying itself out of sight at the bot tom, it awaits the approach of unlucky insects, who fall down the steep Fide. of its hole, finding no foothold on in. slippery sand, only to meet death in the grip of those inert. iless nipers. I; la dragged out of sight, andi after ii blood has been sucked out, the carcas. is buried, the pit carefully reimired, and the ant liorfawalts another victim. The question of bait came on lh board mxt, and a short stroll rewarded two lucky shot? by providing us with a rabbit and a squirrel, and listiing was the order of the day. No d.iint) bamboo varnished tapering rod was used, but a few long branches of the ajcainoie, iitiiinteu oi ttdvtfb biiti ivtiga, It was 1 don't of It. This not game, gives up at once; its i white and wolly. and tastes something like a fresh herring. When I was pulling at my second trout I became introduced to another new fish, the alligator gar. He rushed after my captive, thrust his head and wide-open mouth out of the waler. and made a vicious snap at his prey, which he Just missed. This pirate of the water was about five feet long (two feet of which being mouth), and probably six Inches thick. In fact, he greatly re sembled a flouting branch, H- is of great interest to geologists, as 1 un deri-land he is the only living specie: if the polenleigicxl fishes, m abundant in the carboniferous era. He has bony piat-s under the skin, so that nothing less than an ax will be of use In cut ting htm up, and is eswia!ly notice able for having the backbone prolonged into the tall, the lobes of which ar of unequal size, the upper lobe being much the larger. Having tied three hooks together brought its-inevitable tt'a rd . sonous snakei had entered their sack, swallowed their baits, and stayed there to sleep off their heavy meal. Aftei fortune in trade, and who had devoted this these two " greenhorns'' ere rath- , himself to one of the great political er more careful. parties with so much doggedness that About 10 o'clock the flPh c eased to j he had been rewarded by a baronetcy feed, and we didn't get another bite, without ever having had to expose so. as the heat was proving almost too i the defects of his early education by much for us. we gladly retired to the i making a long speech In the house, shade, where, after an impromptu din-J Whatever his party did was right; tier of fried fish, bacon, onions, eggs , '' bin motto, and he lived up to and canned pear, we drowsily smoked 11 H,ln "'" simplicity which nau the pipe of peace until about 4 o'clock" When we returned to the river I caught some "minnows." probably young catfish. At least they were un like any minnows I had ever seen, and when tried just at the tail of a 'riffle" for what Texans call trout. Throwing my hook Into the stream as it rushed over a rocky ledge. I let it run Into the foam below, and at once felt a tug at the line. This proved to be a trout about two pounds in weight. The fish is dark nearly black in color, and has a huge mouth. In fact, the head and mouth are as big as the body a stranger to me, therefore know the correct name lish 1 flesh Sir Jasper Peters was the fortunate Sir Jasper called him, he was smitten man who had made a large by a sense of the inequality of the con test between this stalwart, well-fed handsome pursuer and the undersized lean, grizzled rascul of whom he was In pursuit. Halutlng as he came, the warder was under the window In a minute. "You are lookinz for a coin let wh has escaped?" said the baronet. "Yes, Sir Jaser." "You know me, then?" "Why, yes. tabs sunLws! kno Kir Jasper Peters." said the warder with a smile. "Have you seen any The Albion News is one of the offices that is now showing signs of pros perity to the extent of putting In , a flrst-cl&f cylinder press to take the place of one that bas done duty for everal years. a strong cotton line being tied to thej-ija.k to back, and baited them with ;i end. a bullet and a big hook bailed sma; perch, I trolled for Mr. Gar foi with raw meat completed the uutlit. Boine time without sue cms. He looked Placing the butt end of our rough I at my bait Hn,j passed on. Beini de-jr. poles in the roots of a tree we ftiate- ,, f ,loeT acquaintance with him. fully lighted our morning pipes andij trlMl a ,.harge of duckshot on his calmly awaited results. By this time bony pide. He wagged his tail ami Harry Wicks of Humboldt found a pocketbook containing 140 and spent ail the money in one night, and now he spends his nights In jail, having made no effort to locate the owner of the pocketbook. Romaine TImmerman of Stella fell from a haystack and was Injured so that for some time all the lower part of his body was paralyzed. He is slowly recovering, but has not entire ly recovered the use of his limbs. Keya Paha county is without a rail road, and the people of Springfield are agitating the question of constructing j un electric line from that place to some point on the Klkhorn railroad, preferably Newport or Bassett. Farmers In several parts of the state have been swindled recently on a new scheme. A man who pretends to hall from Chicago has been around offering $5 for the privilege of hunt ing on the farmer's land. The offer accepted the sharper takes a receipt, which later turns up in the hands of an Innocent purchaser as a note with the figures raised to 150. A man and a woman, strangers, ac companied by a little girl, came Into the residence of James Muneey of Crete and asked the privilege of warm ing themselves. This was cheerfully granted. A short time after the man nd woman slipped out, leaving the little girl with Mr. Muneey. The offi cers were notified and the pair traced to Lincoln and compelled to take the child and provide for It. me sun was gaining considerable povv-. ,Hmj io wink at m er, and although a thermometer would probably have shown about lou degrees Fahrenheit, jet a soft, gentle brecse tempered t he heat and made us feel aulte comfortable. Our dreams were soon broken off by i. sudden run on one of my lines; the pole was bent double, and a hasty pull- up brought out an ugly catfish of about three pounds. There is no ar tistic "playing" of fish known in Texas. I but as soon as a fish is hooked he is yanked out by main force and "landed" with great vigor. Soon after this a school of perch paid us a visit, and a couple of dozen were soon landed. There are four or five different kinds of perch in the Trxas rivers, none of them appear to be the same as the fcnglish perrh. The "sun perch" is the most handsome of all; it has a short j but wide body, nearly approaching ai Dlrcle in shape, and its coloring Is very brilliant. None of the Texas fith are j "game," and give up the battle as; soon as they feel the hook. The unual j method of keeping fish In good condi- j tion is to thread them on a stout cold j fastened to a bush, and allow them to remain In the water until wanted. I Some friends had a disagreeable and Sangerous experience while fishing. -Wishing to keep some small perch alive for bait, they put them In a sack, and j tied It to a bush, but the next morning' an taking up the sack, they found two i fishing an excuse to be out targe "water moccasins" (a very poi-) mountains. ' I then tried about a dozen buckshot, backed up by " grains of iowder, and supposed this would make some Impression on him at about four yards distance but it didn't. This made me feel real mad so I got out my Winchester repeating rifle and rammed a bullet through him. This settled his hash, and I then pulled him out and carefully examined him. The havoc caused by the gar Is al most equaled by the turtles, two of which I pulled out, one being a hard shelled turtle and the other a soft-t-helled one. These turtles can swim and dive like a fish, and are extremely vorat'ious. The two I caught w -re about 1 3-4 feet long and a foot wi -I.. I executed both by cutting off their heads. The hard-shelled turtle did not seem to mind this much, as he walked about for four hours afterward, and even next morning showed signs of life. That night we set out a "trot line" with twenty hooks on it, and the next morning we had two catfish, alxiut sev- j en pounds earn, out all tne other ba ts were gone. I thought turtles had taken them, although the natives told me turtles never fed at night. So far as my ow n taMe goes, these Texas fish are not worth eating. They have a mud ly taste and the flesh Is woolly. Hut m regards the scenery and the lovely climate, I was always glad to make in the A LIFE TIME IN 60 SECONDS. fBy Astronomer G. P. Hervlss.) i entire course of a human life In this Some recent experiments- by Prof, manner, although, of course, that life Charles P. Schllchter in magnifying by would first have to be lived through, means of the klrtetoscope the rate of 'After the more rapid changes of child motion in growing plant about DOO.'sW hood have been passed the successive L. A. Bates of Springfield had vis Ions of a bank robbery one night re cently. He was awakened from slum ber by what sounded like an explosion, times suggest very Interesting possl- picture might be separated by Inier He speedily summoned the cashier and billtles In the application of a similar j win of more than a day perhaps one the two hastened to the bank. The method to men and animals. Prof . j a week, or even fewer, would suflice moment they attempted to enter the Bchlichter placed peas and beans In automatic burglar alarm wentoff.rals- j a glass case containing moist soil and Ing the whole town. The cause of the made photographs of them at regular original disturbance has not been lo- Intervals, both day and night, on a cated, as no attempt has been made to rob the bank. The Armour Packing company, near the national stock yards, Best St. Louis, Is erecting new buildings. The company expects to employ more than J.iOO men at the plant from the day It opens. The payroll will approximate SM.MO a week. Of the 2.500 employes, about 50 per cent will be skilled labor er and about SO per rent will b common laborers. About 1,000 of them will be brought from other cities where Armour has plants. The re maining 1,500 will be hired at the plant continuous photographic film. At the end of three weeks the film, wit hits erle of photographs, was placed on the reel of an ordinary klnetosc ope and run through the machine like any other "motion picture.' The result was that there appeared on the Illuminated tcreen growing plants, which, starting with the appearance of the first germ bursting from the seed, passed through all the changes of three weeks' growth !n a few seconds. Suppose a child to be represented In this way for any desired period, which night be extended to years. Everybody 11 I knows that changes of the most tajbtle The governor of FIJI has deported -hararter constantly take place In the ! fljlan who were canvassing for j Vatures and expression of children The final result as shown upon the screen by the klnetoscop would be a baby face developing, changing, pre senting the growth of new expressions, altering from Infamy to youth, from youth to the stronger features of man hood, then gradually wrinkling, fading, becoming furrowed deeper and deeper' with age, the rheeks sinking, the eyes' losing their fire until at last senility would gibber where childhood had miled. And all this, which might have required 7S years of preparation, could be exhibited within the space of a single minute. The consequence 'w as that his only son was able to give up any active share in the business, and to play at being a country gentleman of patrl archlal descent, while his wife couid assume the airs of a Lady Bountiful, on the one hand, and outshine all the great ladies of the neighborhood by her diamonds, on the other. Peterscourt, the country seat of the distinguished pair, was of course an old place where many generations of ancestors of somebody else bad lived their little day. It was a large, rambling two-story building, dating from some far-away period, and altered In the castellated style In the cai ly years of Victoria's reign. Beautifully situated in the southern part of county Dorsetshire, it was a little too far away from London to be quite lo the taste of Lady Peters, who was ambitious of playing a great part In soclety.and who would ofien run up to town for a few days at a time, while her husband was enjoying his dignified seclusion within the well wooded grounds and park at Peters court. It was on one of these occasions, when the baronet was sitting in sol itary state' in his great libiary after dinner, his little electric lamp on the table behind him and a pile of litera ture suitable lo a country gentleman by his side, that he was disturbed in his leisurely perusal of the paper by the sound of a footstep on the gravel outside. He had scarcely raised his head when, lo his sui prise and alarm, a man In the unmistakable dress of a convic t, panting, breathless, with star ing eyes and hanging Jaw, leaped upon the window ledge from outside, and then fell, exhausted upon the caipet. "By jove!" cried Sir Jasper as ne sprang up and made for the bell. But the man was too quick for him. Panting still, Indeed, but recovering himself Bufffclently to stagger to his feet and across the floor, the unwel come visitor threw himself upon the terror-stricken baronet, and stooping at the same moment for the poker, which he was near enough to reach, he growled out -between his set teeth a threat to "do for" that unhappy gentleman If he so much as uttered a call for help. Sir Jasper gurgled out a promise to refrain, which he did not mean to keep and the man thereupon let him down again Into the arm chair from which he had risen and suddenly al tered his threatening tone for one of abject entreaty. "Look 'ere. guvnor." said he, in a thick hoarse whisper, moistening his mouth as he spoke, still Blading near and holding the poker In his hand, but no longer menacing his unwilling host, "I don't want for to do yer no ' aim. I'm not so as what you'd think for to look at the dress I'e got on." "You're a cc convict!" stammered Sir Jasper, half tinicrous and half surly. "You've escaped from tin- Portland !" The man frowned uneasily. , "Well, so's a many more than me been convicts, and a many as deserve It a precious sight wus nor what I do." said the man. And as he spoke from lime to time an anxious glance to ward the window by which he had entered. "Hut this ain't no lime for to throw my fallings in my face. 1 in a 'unted man, sir, that's what I am. The warders Is after me" "What!" cried Sir Jasper, with some thing so life like In his face that his guest scowled him Into silence. "Surely, guvnor, you wouldn't go for to betray a ur.tcd man, a noble gen tleman like you. wlar everything 'nd some and comfortable about him! You wouldn't go for to give up a poor wretch that begs you to give him it change of clothes. Would von. ah?" The 'mod h- tillered was on Inde j scrlbable one, as he suddenly etraight I ened himself up and listened with straining ears to the unmistakable sound of rapid footsteps on the giavel. "They're couiln', they've traced ni" 'ere! For the meicy sake, sir, don't give me up!" 4 The baronet looked at the coe cropped head, with the ugly ear standing out on each side, and the coarse features distorted with fear, with a disgust he found It hard to hide. He. too, heard the approaching footsteps, and secrtly congratulated himself upon his prospective deliver ance from his tormentor. Before h had tme to answer the man's entreaty th: noise of footsteps ceased; the convict threw one glance thing of the man. sir?" "Yes. yes. he's in my house at this moment." answered Sir Jasper, In stlnctlvely lowering his voice with sort of fear of retribution at the hands of the hunted man if he were to learn he was betrayed. "Where sir, where?" Even the baronet his finished his sentence the warder had put his hand on the window sill and sprang Into the room. Sir Jasper pointed to the door "He got away through there the mo ment he heard you coming." ine warder looked at him In con sternation as he crossed the room. "Then I'll be bound he's rifling your strong room, sir," said he. "The man' in 4 gnat urea to a petition in favor of federation with New Zealand and col lecttaff money from the native to de fray the espense of sending a deputa tion ; to England to further the cause In Am cathedral of Herford, Eng land, there art atll la bout fifteen bun- ' dred hooka with the chain that Med t be attached to book In the slxtsenth eatary la eoolealaatlc and nnJvrreUjr j kbraiies. rlthout even their parents or nurses jelng able to say just how the varia ion have developed, or what their re asons to one another may be. By ;he klnetoscope method of magnifying :he rate of development, all such ob tcgre relation would be rendered plain uid a permanent record of them wound yt obtained. It would be within the ange of the possible to represent the It Is evident also that the method might be applied to the study of rer-'.t the window, a second glance round cain a. .eases manifesting themselves the room, and by external symptoms. When Good Htomarh, one 'of the Hloux Indian wit hthe Nouvesu Cirque In Pairs, was picked up in the street, drunk and Inarticulate, the police spent the time In which he was sobering up In hunting all over the city and sur. rounding country for an Interpreter of the Sioux language. They did not find one. When the noble red man regained the mastery of hi vocal chorda It wa found that he spoke nothing but Eng then he made for the loor with all speed. Sir Jasper lumped up from his chair and ran to the window. Yea, there at a distance of but a Socen steps, was one of the prison warders, with a carbine In his hand. It was eveldent that for the moment 1 had lost the track of his quarry. Hlr Jasper beckoned to hlrn quickly "Warder!" cried he. "Warder! Thl. way!" The man turned and came rapidly toward him. He was a tall, strong. Ane-looklng man, with shrewd eyes gad clear cut rfeatures; and, even as one of the cleverest safe thieves Kngland. and he's got some sort of tools with him he's managed to make and as you have got plenty of stuff to steal, I'll be sworn he's having a shot at it." '" w what!" startled the ban-net "How can you know?" Already he was leading the warder out of the room and across the ha in the direction of the strong room. "These chaps know most everything 'loudness only knows how. Klse why should he come straight to her? If. miles from the prison, your house is and there many a place he might have took on his way, instead of mak "naigiu i or nere: it was my guess to come this way, the only one of the lot to believe he'd got so far. The baronet was hunting for th Keys. I hey were standing together ai the door which led to the basement and as Sir Jasper turned the handle h said: "We'd better have the butler with us, had we not?" ine waruer smiled, and raised his carbine. i think this will be protection enough for us both. Sir Jasoer: anl I wouidn t call the man If 1 was you You're never quite sure with men ser vants, whether they'll be a help or a hindrance. So the two descended together into the basement, looking and listening, but without coining upon any trace of the escaped convict until they reached the strong room door. h?t t a jasper turned the light on the opposite wall, and heaved a sigh of relief as he saw there was no sign of any attempt having been made to tamper with the lock. The warder nowever, was stooping to listen at the tiny key hole and making a sign to the baronet to keep quiet. Then h nodded and came toward him. you listen at that door and 'ell me if jou hear anything'.'" h. asked. Trembling, and sick with alarm, Sli Jasper took his place al ,hl. k,.y j.,,,.. "I I fancy j head a sort of scratch ing." whlsiwred he at last. The warder nodded. "That's it, sir, that's our man ai work!" Sir Jasper stood up. 1 "Hut how did he get In?" sid he, 'w iih w hite Hps. The warder shook his head. , The baronet took his little key from his watch chain and pioceded to fit it Into the lock. "Have a care, sir!" Sir Jasper, thus Earned, opem-d the door most cautiously, and flung 11 wide. Then hastily piessing the but ton Just Inside, he flooded the small apartment at once with light. II drew a long sigh of relief-there wa-. no one there, "And the Jewelry, is that all right, Sir Jaiipcr?" The baronet advanced Into the room and opened a safe at the further end 1-ady I'eteis' c-ineialis and dfiiiuoiids were almost world fainons, and a sud den momentary doubt flashed through the baronet's mind i the t. i-.i..... of letting even the prison warder km me fjati place w nere they Were kepi when her ladyship hud th.-m f,jr u,e In the country. Bui a glance at the warder reus suied him. The stalwart guardian ha. I his watchful eye, not on the suf I. ,. . L. .. i. lMe oaiuuei was busy, but on the dark corners Inside and outside the room, and even as he looked about him he held his carbine ready In case of a sui prise from unseen enemies. "It's all tight," cried Sir Jasper, with relief, as he came to the snug velvet nest where the Jewels were sparkling But even as he uttered these words I he warder's cry broke upon his ear; "Ah! would you?" And. looking round, Sir Jasper saw the convict rushing pHSt the warder from some unseen corner outside, and. Jerking up the arm which held the carbine, make a dash for the Jewels. The next moment, before the baronet had time to make all safe, he per ceived that the warder's weapon had falen to the ground, and that his right arm hung limp, while he cried out ex citedly. "Seise him, Wr Jasper, seize hlrn!" The convict, even as these words were uttered, was springing upon Ihe baronet, who, good man, living an easy life, wa not In condition to grap ple on equal term with the' lithe, square fralM of his assailant. In another moment both were on, the floor, the convict on top. There was a shoit. sharp struggle, during which the baronet frit himself for some moments blinded, choking. Then the man was pulled him by tin; superior fone of the warder, who, even with one arm disabled, knew a trick or two which made hiiu more than a mutch for his man. "Now, sir, up with you and help me with him." cried the warder, while, the convic t muttered cutses on tbeiu both, and vainly struggled lo get .'r--e. It was sum seconds then before the warder was able to i lap the handcuffs on the despeiate prisoner, at the cost, of much pain lo himself from his wounded arm. But with the baronet s assistance lie at last overpowered the wiry rascal and dragged him up stairs, where, with the help of the men ser vants, who now, hearing the noise of the scuffle, Joined their aid to the master's, the convict, stll defiant ami sullen, was led out of the house and hoisted up Into the light cart w hii h. happened to be within hail. "To Portland!" cried the warder, a, barely remaining long enough to re ceive the congratulations of the bar onet, he sprang up Into the? cart and. laid a powerful detaining hand on the rascal's shoulder. Then. Sir Jasjs-r, who was somewhat daxed as a result of these unwonted exertions and excitements, turned back to the mansion with a sigh of relief and distinct consciousness that he was considerably bruised. He could not, however, await to at tend to his wounds or even to ascer tain the extent of them, as he suddenly remembered that he had left the door of Ihe strong room open, and that even the safe where his wife's jewels were kept was still unlinked. As the lights were burning both in side and outside the strong room, how ever, It was but a matter of a fetv seconds only to retrace his st.-c aid to regain the velvet nest whre th-r gems lay. What was his amazement, his horror lo find on looking Into the caje whic h he had previously opened, that the chief treasure of the collec tion, hi wife's hlara of hung emeialds mounted in brilliants was gone. The unfortunate baronet sl.eid for :t moment petrified by his discovery. He could not remember at what point of the hurried proceedings of the best half hour it was thai tin- convict had had the opportunity of seizing the Jewels; yet itmt he had made good use of some momentary chance wis only loo pluln. A trembling of the other cases showed that a magnificent bracelet had also disap wared, but that the iet of the collection was safe. Scarcely able to walk, the baronet nade all safe and loitered up stairs. "Order the phaeton, round. atonce," said he to the lirst servant he met, and then, as he paced up and down the hall, he debated the c hunc-e t,t his ver recovering the property. He knew well enough that if the rascal were to lake the Jewels back uf Portland with him the search he would undergo would discover the utolen properly; but his fear was that the man. whom l tie warder hud described, wily old thief, would find some means of getting rid of then, on the way. If they were to be flung into a lilch or Into the s.-a. what wis hi h.n.ie of ever seeing them .li.ii::? The minutes seemed hour.c as he I rove along in ihe darkness towaid the prison, and when be leaped to toe ground and addressed the wurd-r who pened Ihe door his voice waj i-rm ked and broken as he stammer. -J out. "I -I want to see the warder whu brought the escaped prisoner back." The man stared at him Intently. "What escaped prisoner, sir? There has been no escaoed urlsoner " "Oh yes, there has," said Sir Jasper, Impatiently. "I tell you he was caught in my house petersc-ourl not an hour ago." The warder looked at him. recog nized one of the magnates of ihe neighborhood, and begged him to step inside the lodge. Sir Jasper, with a terrible sinking of. Ihe heart, accepted the Invitation, gave a minute account of what hud. taken place, and was shocked to see more dubious look come over th arder's face. Vi hen he bause.l. the man said: "I'm ry much afraid. Sir Jaxner Ihat you Sliiud a poor chance of seelua our jewels again. You've hec-n the Ictim of a very artful rnlihi-rv mil I by your description of the uin t nould think II was ihe work of Neih- rby and Met. her. n a , ihein. ami uiey ve puiie-I otT a big thing like thill. I should think they'd be out of the 'Oiiutiy before tomorrow morning They've evld.-ntly laid their plans very well, down lo having the cnit ready lo carry tin-in HIT. I'm wry sorry for you. Sir Jasper, but you'd better drive to the nearest police station unci lodge your complaint Ht once, it's your only chance and I'm afiald it's a oor Not only were the police convinced that he hud been robbed and ttiat he stood a bad chance of recovering his propei ty, but It even seemed to hint that they took a misguided pleasure in hearing every detail of the nffalr at great length, In order to express some thing very like admiration tf the means by which the two artful sconu iliels had possessed themselves of the Jewels. "Then then It must have been the one that pretended to be the warder that took the things!" he stammered, white with rage. "That's It, sir," said the officer cheer fully. "While you was on the floor struggling with the convict-1 mean, the one dressed like a convict why, the tall chap was helping himself!" Hr Jssper groaned. "He never seemed to look at me or the safe either!" sighed he. "He's the most artful rogue I ever heard of, and I'd give the world to see him in the dock!" Sir Jasper did have that tilensure some six months later, when Netherh and Fletcher, after having expatriated themselves for a time, rashly returned to ineir native tanci. , The baronet had the satisfaction of seeing them, forlorn and depected. re ceive a sentence nf some years penal servitude. Hut neither he nor I-ndi- Peters ever saw the Jewels agnn.
