TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 6. 1910.
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'. MUSEUM'S OLD RESTAURANT
Ancient Mexican Temple of Metla
Reproduced.
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NT.W YOFK. March 5 -In th bft'tmfnt
of the American Museum of Natural His
tory. Soventy-sixth street st. Is a very
Interesting restaurant recently finished
called th Mllla restaurant, which 0'iM
be evidence If any were needed of the ex
treme car In detail taken by the official,
of the establishment.
In appearance the restaurant la a very
good representation of an ancient Mexi
can temple. Stepping from the elevator
you look about In a square, room whoso
walls convey the Idea of extreme niaa
sIveneHS nnd are In fact several feet thick.
The llnteJa and sides of the entrance wh'oli
leads from this foyer to the patio or din
In; room propor and from the dining room
to a third room a.ro oblong slabs, the plu--
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TAMALES AND ENCHILADAS FOR MEXICAN QUESTS.
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(Copyright, 1310, by Bobbs Merrill.)
CHAPTER Ill-Continued.
The disappointment was the greater for
my few moments of hope. I sat up In a
white fury and put on the clothes that had
ri.een left me. Then, still raging, I sat on
th edge of the berth and put on the ob
noxious tan shoes. The porter, called to
his duties, made little excursions back to
me, to offer assistance and to chuckle at
my discomfiture. He stood by, outwardly
decorour. but with little irritating grins of
amusement around his mouth, when I
finally emerged with 'Hie red tie In my
hand.
But the owner of those clothes didn't
become them any mot than you do," he
sa'd, as li piled the ubiquitous whisk
brot m.
"Whan I get th owner of these clothes."
I retorted grimly, "he will need a shroud.
Where's th conductor?"
The conductor was coming, h assured
me; also that there was no bag answering
the description of mine on the car. I
slammed inv way to the dressing room,
washed, choked my fiftten and a hulf nock
Into a fifteen collar, and was back again
in less than five minutes. The car, us
well as its occupants, was gradually tak
ing on a daylight appearance. I hobbled
In, for one of the shoes was abominably
tight, and found myself facing a young
woman In bluo with an unforgetable face.
C'Tlue women already." McKulght says:
"That's going pome, even If you don't
count the Ulliuore nurse.") She stoud, half
turned toward me, one hand idly drooping,
tho other steadying her aa sho gated out
at the flying landscape. I had an Instant
In presslon that I had met her somewhere,
under different circumstances, mure cheer
ful ones, 1 thought, for the girl's dejection
now was evldv.nl. Reside her. sitting dowp,
a email dark woman, considerably older,
was talking In a rapid undertone. The
girl nodded Indifferently now and then. 1
fauoled, although I was not sure, that my
appearance brought a startled look Into
the young woman's face. I sat down and,
hands thrust deep Into the other man
pockets, stared ruefully at tho other man's
shoes.
Th Stag was set. In a momdit th cur
fin was goln
, And fa
t little sr
tain was going up on the first act of th
for a while we w uld all tay
peechrs and ulng our Hltl
sV.gs, and I. th villain, would hold center
stage while the gallery biased.
'I he porter was standing beside lower
ten. He had reached in and waa knocking
valiantly, rtut his efforts nut with no
rsaponse. He winked at nic over tils shoul
der; then lie unfastened tha curtains and
taut forward. Uul-ud him. I saw hUu
stiff", beard his muttered exclamation.
Irg of which ha required extreme nt'-ety
nf construction. In the original temple of
Mitla a step some nine and a half Inches
from the ground lowered the head lins
and ormveyed to the explorers a defln t
Impression of the lesser height of the an
cient Mexican. For what ue this step
was Intended could not he discovered and
In this facsimile of the building It has been
omitted, giving the space required by the
modern American physique.
The entire coloring of the place Is a
cool gTsy, the plaster composition retaining
Its ordinal tint and for relief are orna
mentations of frets of terra cotta placed
tu a geometr'tal design which In the
original building had undoubtedly om
religious significance. Whether the pe
culiar coloring was selected by a primi
tive taste or expressed a symbolic mean
ing Is also undetermined. The famous
Roman key seems to be duplicated In this
fretwork and everywhere one Is haunted
by peculiarities cf resemblance between th
architecture of the ancient Mexicans and
that of the Egyptians, there being an en
tire absence of curves or suggestion of
circular figures.
The ventilating of the place la done by
air currents conveyed around th top and
sides and the open air effect of the ancient
temple given by an arrangement of bam
boo poles over which are trailing vines.
In the entrance hall and the annex to th
patio two strange windows of atalned glass
saw the bluish pallor that spread over his
face and neck. As he retreated a step tl;e
Interior of lower ten lay open to the day,
Th man In It waa on his back, the early
morning sun striking full on his upturned
face. But the light did not disturb him.
A small stain of red dyed the front of Ms
night clothes and trailed across the sheet,
his half-open eyes were fixed, without see
ing, on the shining wood above.
I grasped the porter's shaking shoulders
and stared down to where the train Im
parled to the body a grisly suggestion of
motion. "Qood lord," I gasped. "Tho
man's been murdered!"
CHAPTER IV.
Afterwards, when I tried to recall our
discovery of the body In lower ten. I found
that my most vivid Impression was not
that made by the revelation of th opened
curtain. I had an Instantaneous picture of
a slender, blue-gowned girl who seemed to
sense my words rather than bear them, of
two smell hands that clutched desperately
at the seat beside them. The girl In the
aisle stood, bent toward us, perplexity and
alarm fighting In her face.
With twitching hands the porter at
tempted to dra-jr the curtains together.
Then In a paralysis of shock, he collapsed
on the edire of my berth and sat there
swaying. In my excitement I shook him.
'For heaven's sake, keep your nerve,
man," I said bruskly. "You'll have every
woman In th car in hysterics. And If you
do, you'll wish you could change places
with th man In there." Ha rolled his
eyts.
A man near, who had been reading last
night's paper, dropped It quickly and tip
toed toward us. He peered between the
partly open curtain, closed them quietly
and went back, ostentatiously solemn, to
Ma seat. Th very crackl with which h
opened his paper added to the bursting
curiosity of th ear. For th passengers
kr.ew that something was amiss: I was
conscious of a sudden tension.
When the curtains closed th porter was
mors himself; h wiped his Hps with a
handkerchief and stood erect.
"If my last trip in thla car," he re
marked heavily. "There'a aomethtng wrong
with that berth. Last trip the woman In
It took an overdose of some sleeping stuff,
and wa found her, Jos' like that dead!
And It ain't more n thre months now sine
there waa twlue born In that very spot.
No, air, It ain't natural."
At that moment a thin man with promi
nent eyea and a spar grayish goate
creaked up th aisle and paused besld me.
Torter alckT" he Inquired, taking In with
a profeaalonal y th porur'a horror
struck face, my own excitement and the
with antique figures glv light, but are
apologised for by the constructors of the
place as being slightly out of keeping with
th or. Th figures are emblematlo of
the Mexico of a later date than th Mitla
temple. They were put In because It was
absoultely necessary to make som con
cession to modern needs In the way of light
and air.
The furnishings of the place, necessarily
conforming to the present-day needs, are
f 'ee from any s'ar'llng anachronisms. While
chairs are unknown at the epoch repre
sented, the museum chairs made of heavy
tropical wood duplicate the angular archi
tecture of the temple stools and the center
table, a atngla enormous slab of wood. Is
supported by rough pedestals of shortened
tree trunks. This table slab is of Sequoia
glgantla redwood, made from a single
tree and is part of the excess of the
rhlllpplne exhibit of woods sent by the
museum authorltiea to the Seattle exposi
tion, the most complete exhibit ever gath
ered, it is said, for uch a purpose. The
chairs are also manufactured from this
oversupply. The table slab is about ten
Inches thick and weighs approximately
00 pounds and the chairs are of corre
sponding weight
There Is no intention expressed by the
bead caterer, Robert Moulder, who was
at one time connected with the Department
of Instruction of the museum to supply
curiosity seekers with duplicates of Mexl
can menus. Their taste for the curious
must be aatlafleld by the eye alone, but
th power of environment has weakened
thla original viewpoint and he finally
admits, driven to the nearest Mexican cor
ner, that he ha a regular order with a
maker of tamalea to furnish him that
eatable whenever required and chill con
carne, frljoles, mole of chicken may be
had if the order la placed long enough
ahead to give him time for the necessary
preparation.
The mole of chicken aa prepared in the
kitchen of the establishment la certainly
a chef d'oeuvre. It consists of the breast
and wings of chicken, practically all white
meat, which are boiled In a special pot,
jointed and cut and then cooked anew, th
final touch being; given by a marvelous
sauce made of the hot chills. The ingre
dients are one of the secrets of the place.
Simple and severely plain as the Mitla
restaurant Is to the casual glance, It really
represents the work of several months,
preceded by that of years, when data were
gathered In Mexico, photographs taken and
preliminaries perfected by the staff of
museum workers under the direction and
part of the time under the personal' super
vision of Prof. Marshall H. Savllle of
Columbia university and curator of Mexi
can and Central American archaelogy for
the museum.
Every one of the several thousand bits
of plaster In the mosaic of the restaurant
was manufactured In the department of
preparation situated in the museum, and
one of the helpers says that while the
architecture is generally spoken of as "Az
tec" In design it is really of a period pre
vious to the Axtec Influence, previous even
to that of th Montegumas. and that the
moKt Interesting data came to them from
old manuscripts written by the Jesuits.
In these writings the Mitla Temple is
spoken of as being In existence when Mon
ies urn a reigned. To Its great age and the
mystery of Its Inscriptions and the use to
which a great part of its enclosed courts,
secret chambers and underground corridors
was put Is added the fact of its wonderful
preservation, utterly unexplalnable by any
climatic reasons, for ruins of later date
have crumbled and worn away.
Mr. Flgglne. who had charge of th con
struction of the Mitla restaurant, comes
covered with plaster from the workroom,
where a sheath down Is being fitted to th
life-slxe plaster cast of a sebra, and lead
ing the way by a seotion of globe on which
are placed some hundred or so tiny sheep
tllghtly gaping curtains of lower ten. He
reached for the darky's pulse and pulled
out an old-fashioned gold watch.
"Hm! Only fifty! Whafa the matterT
Had a shock?" he asked shrewdly.
"Yes," I answered for the porter. "We've
both had one. It you are a doctor, I wish
you would look at the man In the barth
across, lower ten. I'm afraid It's too late,
but I'm not experienced In such matters."
Together we opened the curtains, and the
doctor, bending down, gave a comprehen
sive glance that took In the rolling head,
the relaxed jaw, the ugly stain on the
sheet. The examination needed only a mo
ment. Death was written In the clear whit
of tha nostrils, the colorless lips, th
smoothing away of the sinister lines of the
night before. With its new dignity th
face was not unhandsome: th gray hair
was atill plentiful, the features strong and
well cut.
The doctor straightened himself and
turned to me. "Dead for some time," he
said, running a professional finger over
the stains. "These are dry and hardened,
you see, and rigor mortis Is well estab
lished. A friend of yours?"
"I don't know him at all, I repllrd.
"Never aaw him but' once before."
' Then you don't know If he Is traveling
alone?"
' Na, h was not that Is, I don't know
anything about him," I corrected myself.
It was my first blunder: th doctor glanced
up at m quickly and then turned his at
tention again to tha body. I.Ik a flash
there had come to m th vision of th
woman with th brons hair and tha
tragic face, whom I had surprised in the
vestibule between the cars, somewhere In
the small hours of the morning. I had
acted on my first Impulse th masculine
on of shielding a woman.
The doctor had unfastened th coat of
tha atriped pajamas and axpoaed th dead
man's chest. On the left side wss a small
punctured wound of Insignificant sis.
"Very neatly done," the doctor said with
appreciation. "Couldn't have done It bet
ter myself. Right through tha Intercostal
space: no Urn even to grunt"
"Isn't th heart around there some
where?" I asked. The medical man turned
toward me and smiled austerely.
"That's where it belongs, just under that
puncture, when It isn't gadding around In
a man's throat or his boots."
I had a new respect for the doctor, for
any on Indeed who could crack even a
feebl jok under such clroumstancea, or
who could run an impersonal finger over
that wound and those stains. Odd how a
healthy, nomal man holds th medical
profession In half contemptuous regard
NATURE STUDENT8.
of varying breeds, showing the effect of
migration, etc., continues the description
of tha work commenced by one of his aids.
"When Prof. Seville made a survey of
the Mitla ruins he found ono court which
contained more than 500,000 pieces of stone
that had been cut and ground, of course,
without the use of any steel Instruments,
which were absolutely unknown at that
time. These ptecea were put together so
accurately that they could without break
ing or crumbling sustain th weight put
upon them. They did not us cement In
those days, that being also a later produot
for architectural use, and altogether the
old Mitla Temple, the most important of
the Mexican exhibits, having a facade In
one place of nearly 200 feet. Is the wonder
and admiration of every archaeologist and
every architect who has seen It or its
photographed representation.
"The restaurant, duplicating it In part,
has been built absolutely to scale, using
the measurements taken by Prof. Savllle
and the photographs as guides. This has
been made easy by the perfection of the
ancient architecture, where the relation
of one piece to another was accurately
maintained throughout. The atones that
went over the top of the door to the patio
In the original temple were twelv and
one-hslf feet long, two and a half feet
thick and four feet wide, while alx to
seven feet was the height of most of the
original doorways, Including the steps.
"There was a Hall of Pillars, which we
have not yet duplicated, but may In tUa
by continuing the space already allotted
us for the purpose. Several of th pillars
In this hall are fifteen to eighteen feet
high and there was a long covered court,
entrance to which was obtained only by a
circuitous route, which muet have been
employed for aome rellgioua ceremonial,
concerning which there is absolutely no
until h gets sick, or an emergency like
this arises, and then turns meekly to th
n an who knows the Ins and outs of his
mortal tenement, takes his pills or his
patronage, ties to him Ilk a rudderless
ship In a gale.
"Suicide. Is it, doctor?" I asked.
H stood erect, after drawing th bed
clothing over the face, and, taking off his
glasses, he wiped them slowly.
"No, It Is not suicide," he announced de
clslvely. "It Is murder."
Of course, I had expected that, but the
word itself brought a shiver. I was Just a
bit dlrsy. Curious faces through the car
were turned toward us, and I could hear
the porter behind me breathing audibly.
A stout woman In negligee cam down the
aisle and querulously confronted the por
ter. She wore a pink dressing jacket and
carried portions of her clothing.
"Porter," she began, In the voice of' the
lady who had "dangled." "Is there a rule
of this company that will allow a woman
to occupy the dressing room for one hour
and curl her hair with an alcohql lamp
w'.ille respectable people haven't a place
w her they ccn hook their"
She stopped suddenly and stared Into
lower ten. Her shining pink cheeks grew
pasty, her Jaw fell. I remember trying to
think of something to say, and of saying
nothing at all. Then she had burled her
eyes on the nondescript garments that
hung from her arm and tottered back the
way she had come. Slowly a little knot
of men gathered around us. silent for the
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gest rather than duplicate th original.
"When Prof. Savllle first visited the
Mitla temple. In th Hall of Pillars and
the Long Court, aa well as in tha patto,
alcoves and Inner rooms, desolation
reigned supreme. The Mexicans used th
place to camp In whenever an itinerant
horseman doslred a shelter and horses
and cattle were both housed there and
allowed to roam at will. Many of the
bits of plaster like this" and Mr. Figglns
picks up a piece of the original work
sawtoothed by some stone instrument of
crude make "were kicked and defaced
by the animals and there was danger that
the whole place might In course of time
lose its wonderful value by mere careless
ness and Ignorance of Its worth to the
world at large. It Is due to' these rep
resentations of Prof. Savllle to the Mex
ican government that today the horses
and cattle have been ejected and an en
trance gate protects the place from van
dals. The mission fathers near by guard
th ancient ruins and the key has to be
obtained from them, the small fee re
quired being used to protect further the
temple. The Indians believed that pieces
of atone taken from the temple would In
time change to gold.
"Before the main entrance of the temple
when Prof. Savllle first vlalted it was an
enormous heap of volcanic ash and refuse,
which he had removed, this work taking
100 men about thirty days. The labor was
rewarded by tha unearthing of a room
which had In the beginning been situated
In a court, the walla of which were de
most part. The doctor was making a
search of the berth when the conductor
elbowed his way through, followed by the
Inquisitive man, who had evidently sum
moned him. I had lost, sight, for a time,
of the girl In blue.
"Do It himself?" the conductor queried,
after a buslnossllke glance at the body.
"No, he didn't," the doctor asserted.
"There's no weapon here, and the window
Is closed. Ha couldn't have thrown It out.
and ho didn't swallow It. What on earth
are yftu looking for, man?"
Sotno one was on the floor at our feet,
face down, peering under the berth. Now
he got up without apology, revealing the
man who had summoned the conductor.
He was dusty, alert, cheerful, and he
dragged up with him the dead man's suit
case. Th sight of It brought back to m
at ono my own predicament.
"I don't know whether there's any con
nection or not, conductor," I' said, "but X
am a victim, too. In less degree; I've been
robbed of everything I possess, except a
red and yellow bath robe. I happened to
be wearing the bath robe, which was prob
ably the reason the thief overlooked 4t."
There was a fresh murmur In the crowd.
Somebody laughed nervously. Th con
ductor was Irritated.
"I can't bother with that now," h
snarled. "The railroad company Is re
sponsible for transportation, not for
clothes, jewelry and morals. If people
want to be stabbed and robbed in the
company's cars, It's their affair. Why
didn't you sleep In your clothes? I do."
stroyed. This room he has left In th most
perfect condition and It too Is preserved
by the government from future desecra
tions There was also an underground rave
discovered and evidences of other subter
ranean rooms.
"The remains of th Mitla temple at
near Ortiaha. a region particularly fertile
In ruins, showing a thickly populated prov
ince In former times. Mitla was rarely
visited by explorers until a few years ago,
but stnra thn rnnmlMinn nf the Xlevloan I
Southern railroad the ruins r visited by
hundreds of tourists from the United
States every yesr.
Prof. Savllle rays that the Journey Is a
comparatively easy one . and best mad
during the dry season from December to
April, the traveler leaving the city of
Puebla In the early morning, changing
from the opld region to the tropica voy
aging tha major part of th day through
som of the grandest railroad scenery In
the world, the final part of the tour being
a thirty-mile carriage ride to Mitla, situ
ated In a delightfully temperate sone.
"The Jesuit father who wrote of Mitla
waa Motolinla, who said that Father Mar
tin d Valencia passed through Mitla some
time about the year 1537, and gives a brief
account of a temple containing a hall of
columns and also asserts ss one who
knows whereof he speaka that the edifice
Is more worthy of being seen than anv
other of 'Nw Spain.' The very first men
tion of Mitla, preceding the Jesuit account,
placea Its conquest In th yesr "two rabbits'
which Is-Mexican for 14M. ,
"The Spaniards ocoupled It after th con
uest," says Mr. Figglns, again unearthing
i bit of plaster, this time with a Spanish
nscrlptlun, "and th now famous 'palace
if th Columns' waa then used either for
a dwelling or aa a public edifice, and a
Spanish window built of bricks still exists
n the southern part of the front wall of
th structure. ' Several of the doorways
have been partly walled up and remains of
the brick walls may still be seen. One of
the moat Important of the edifices, which
contained mural paintings of the utmost
value, has been partly demolished and a
church and curate's house now occupy the
site. A number of other rooms exist, but
THE SQUARE THING AT
I took an angry step forward. Then
somebody touched my arm, and I un
clenched my fist. I could understand th
conductor's position, and besld. In th
law, I had been guilty myself of contribu
tory negligence.
"I'm not trying to make you responsi
ble," I protested, as milably aa I could,
"and I believe the clothes the thief loft
are as good as my own. They are cer
tainly newer. But my valise contained
valuable papers, and it Is to your Interest
as well as mine to find the man who stole
it"
"Why, of course," the doctor said
shrewdly. "Find the man who skipped out
with this gentleman's clothes, and you've
probably got the murderer."
"I went to bed In lower nine." I said,
my mind full again of my lost papers,
"and I waked In number seven. I was up
In the night prowling around, aa I waa
unable to sleep, and I must have gone
back to the wrong berth. Anyhow, until
th porter wakened me this morning I
knew nothing of my mistake. In the in
terval th thief murderer, too, perhaps
must have come back, discovered my
error, and taken advantage of It to further
his escape."
Th Inquisitive man looked at me from
between narrowed eyelids, ferret-llke.
"Did any one on the train suspect you of
having valuable papers?" he Inquired. The
crowd was listening intently.
"No one," I answered promptly and posi
tively. Th doctor was Investigating the mur
dered man's effects. The pockets of his
trousers oontalned the usual miscellany of
keys and small change, while In hla hip
pocket was found a small pearl-handled
revolver of the typo women usually keep
around. A gold watch with a Masonic
charm had slid down between th mat
tress and th window, while a showy dia
mond stud waa still fastened In the boeom
of his shirt. Taken as a whole, th per
sonal belongings were those of a man of
som means, but without any particular
degree of breeding. The doctor heaped
them together.
"Either robbery was not the motive,"
he reflected, "or the thief overlooked
thesfe things In hla hurry."
Th latter hypothesis seemed the more
tenable, when, ofter a thorough search,
we found no pocketbook and les than a
dollar in small change.
The suit cose gave no clue. It contained
one empty leather covered flask and a
pint bottle, also empty, a change of linen
and oio callara with the laundry mark,
8. H. In the leather tag- on the handle
was a card with tho name Simon Har
rington, Pittsburg.
The conductor sat down on my unmade
berth, across, and made an entry of the
name and address. Then, on an old en
velope, he wrote a few words ond gave It
to the porter, who disappeared.
"I guess that's all I can do." he said
"I've haT enough trouble this trip to last
for a year. They don't need a conductor
on these trslns any more; what they ought
to have Is a sheriff and a posse."
The porter from the next enr came In
rnd whispered to lilm. The conductor rose
unhappily,
"Next car'a caught th disease," h
grumbled. "Doctor, a woman back there
has got mumps or bubonic plague, or
something. Will you come back?"
The strange porter atood sslde.
"Lady ahout the middle of th car," ho
said, "In black, air. with queer looking
hair aort of copper color, I think, sir."
CHATTER V.
THE WOMAN IN THE NEXT CAR.
With the departure of the conductor and
th doctor, th group around lowr ten
brok up, to reform in amaller knots
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their beautiful aton work Is disfigured by
w hltewash
"Excavations for the Anietiean Museum
of Natural History acre made in the vicin
ity of the famous tnvjln within a radius
of ten miles from eaut to west and about
thie miles from north to south. Jn th
valley in which the Mitla mounds are
located are many mounds In which es
cavatlona were ina'le, revealing the founda
tion of buildings now entirely destioyrd;
buildings partially destroyed. In which th
rooms were cleanid out. and tombs, tit
walls of which wero of stone with the
mosaic' pattern seen In the rooms of the
temple duplicated in the museum restaur
ant. Two burial pUcea were discovered, but
for their complete exploration more time
was required than was at the disposal of
the expedition. In the tombs and burial
places more than thirty skeletons wei
taken out. The doorways of the burial
chambers faced tha west, but there was
no regularity In the manner of interring
the dead.
'"Some of the chambers of the Mitla
tempi ruins were unquestionably designed
for tombs of the ancient prieats, and they
all have the mosaic decorations duplicated
by the department of preparation for th
Mitla restaurant. No structures of like
character are known In any other part of
Mexico or Central America. They are by
far the most elaborate and Important burial
chambera yet found In the new world, both
In alio and In beauty of stone work. Un
fortunately none has been opened by
archaeologists and we know of nothing of
what they formerly contained. Their form
lends an Hdded Interest to these chambers ,
and analogies mlnht easily be drawn to th
crosses of the old world.
"Th large blocks used In the building
of th Mitla temple, l'rof. Sivllle believes,
wer transported long distances by means
of rope and rollers, the stones were
dressed at the quarries and the 'mosaic'
designs csrved after they were placed In
the structure, the designs being traced; out
before the cutting began. Stone chisel
might have bn used, and probably this
tool was used by th ancient workmen;,
work which has been duplicated here in a
few weeks probably to k years to complete)
originally."
THE MITLA RESTAURANT.
through th car. Th porter remalued on
gut td. With something of relief I sank:
Into a jat. I wanted to think, to try to
rememDer m aeiaus oi mo provious nigm.
But my inquisitive acquaintance had other
Intentions. He cam up and sat down ba
sld me. Like the conductor, he had
taken notes of the dead man's belongings,
his name, address, clothing and the gen
eral circumstances of tha crime. Now
with his little note book open before him,
he prepared to enjoy the mlnur sensation
of the robbery.
"And now for the second victim," he
began cheerfully. "What f your nam
and address, please?"
I eyed him with suspicion.
"I have lost everything but my name
and address." I parried. "What do you
want them for? Publication?"
"Oh, no; dear no!" h said, shocked
at my misapprehension. "Merely far niy
own enlightenment I like to gather data
of thla kind and draw my own con
clusions. Most Interesting and engroaslm;,
Onoe or twice I hav forestalled the re
sults of police Investigation but entirely
for my own amusement."
I nodded tolerantly. Most of us hav
hobbles; I knew a man once who carried
his handkerchief up his sleeve and had a
mania for old colored prints cut out of
Godey's Lady Book,
"1 use that Inductive method orlglnnte.1
by Poe and followed since with such suc
cess by Conan Doyle. Have you evor read
Gaboriau? Ah, you have missed a treat,
Indeed. And now, to get down to busi
ness, what la the name of our escaped
thief and Drobable murderer?"
"How on earth do I know?" I demanded
Impatiently. "He didn't wrlto It In blood
anywhere, did he?"
The little man looked hurt and disap
pointed. "Do you mean to ssy," he asked, "that
th pockets of those clothes are entirely
empty?"
The pockets! In the excitement I had
forgotten entirely tho sealskin grip which
in porter now sat at my reet, and I had
not Investigated the pockets at all. With
the InqulHltlve man's pencil takliiaT not
of everything that I found, I emptied
them on tho opposite erst.
Upper left hand walxtcoat, two lead
penclla and a fountain pen; lower right
waistcoat, match box and a small stamp
book; right hand pocket coat, pair of gray
suide gloves, new, size seven and a half;
left hand pocket, gunmetul clgarttto cas
studded with pearls, half full of Egyptian
cigarettes. The trousers pockets con
tained a gold penknife, a small amount of
money In bills and change, and a hand
kerchief with the Initial "H" on It.
Further search through the coat discov
ered a card case with cards bearing the
name Henry 1'lncknny Sullivan, and a
leather flask with gold mountings, filled
with what seemed to be very fair whisky,
adti nionoKi ammed 11. P. S.
"His name Is evidently Henry Pinckney
Sullivan," said the cheerful follower of
Poe. as he wro'e it down. "Address as yet
unknown. Ftlond, probably, llavo you no
ticed that It is almost always the blond
men who affect a very light gray, with
a touch of red In tho scarf? i'act, I
assure you. I kept a record onco of the
summer uttlre of men. and HO per cent fol
lowed my ruli. Dark men like you affect
navy blue, or brown."
In spite or myself I was amused at th
"Yea; the nil. lie. look wr.s durk-a
man's shrewdness,
tiue." I said.
He rubbed his hands and smiled at mi
dullRhtedly.
"Then you wore black shoes, not tan "
he said, with a glance at the aggrslC
yellow ones I wore.
T B Continued
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