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Show I l s I V 3Y ELSIE FNDICOTT. R GEORGE CARNEY iEfflHRSMI had cuame of the. oiotof fiX'V "ent9' finishing" i i iSbSZ' TA department in a JL raPHE " ' i clothing store. f : lyi&of! '1 MUM Kittle Parker! d& I lijf; V,J7 l'as employment in a! I k)i''.'vJ Hook and suit house g. P. j&4h':i : r Carney uoed thy .g'jnf f i jffl Subway to get Wl vAwa from his boarding house up town as if Uttf ho owutd the outfit vcr Miss Parker did the same, prlr'f Mr. Came boarded at a house vonv hhn. found a strap to which he could hii4 hang during his llvc-mila rldo. tJJJ Ditto Miss Parker fJ?d Mr- Parker hoarded at a house ' , where there was a gentleman wilh a cork lev itb Ml&b Parker boarded at a house ie Cj where (here was a lady who had lost I iCi?1 an arm l Mr. Canity was sized up at the store aud at his boarding house as n gentleman who could not be bam-boozled bam-boozled by the wiro-tappere. iw Miss Parker was sized up at the I Cloak houso and boardiug house as a y f 1 girl who would have to be shown if a man came along and claimed to ho I worth a million and proposed unar- 11 I Mr Carney's undo had died, as all I uncles must sooner or later, and left ggri him a diamond horseshoe pin. Such it- pins are scarce and unique. .Mr Carney didn't prise his pin for .j I the value of the diamonds, nor in JA' memory of his uncle, but because he i(t I had been told that there wore only i IL two more like it In the whole world. B8 I' He wore the jewel dty and night, and If whenever u customer took notice of I' it ho was given a discount of 1U P"- AW! cent,. Miss Parker's aunt had died, as all aunts in this w orld are bound to do, j and left her a small gold watch It was one of the eort that Is worn pin-! ned on the left side over the heart. Ii wasn't scarce nor unique nor valuable. It was worn altogether In ' . i ' mory of Aunt Sarah and the de- 1 licious mince pies she used to make. ( Behold now of an evening, hero and. heroine are hanging to the straps in a Subway car on their way home They happened for the first and only time to be standing side by side. They were only too thankful that the guard had not shoved thom on the roof Instead. Of course there were other strap-hangers, thousands of) theru. Mr. Tarney seldom noticed a fellow-j passenger. He was too busy thinking of collars, cuffs and neckties Ho just happened to notice Miss Parker because be-cause she had a mole on her left cheek. , She would have preferred to have! had It on her right cheek, but as her Aunt Sarah said it was allowed to , remain where Nature had located It. Miss Parker happened to notice Mr. j J Carney because he had a 6car on his I chlu. It was one he got while playing j shinny as a boy, but aa most every ; body thought ho got It while following follow-ing Roosevelt up San Juan 11111 he had lot it go at that No talking no flirtation no mash-i mash-i ing! One just looked ul the mole, and I the other just looked at the scar They might have bumped together, when the cars swayed, but Subway passengers I bump and think nothing of It It's what they call unconscious bumping, By the by the guard threw open the doors and whispered the name of a j station and announced that all pansen-I pansen-I gers who wore dissatisfied could go I pshore. Among those who did so worQ Mies Pa.Efcet and Ir- Carney, '." At the top of the Iron steps they separated to meet no more She forgot for-got ihe scar, and he forgot the mole. She went to her room to put her hair straight before descending for dinner He went to his to see if the fool knot in his tie had worked loose. Ten seconds passed and then! "O, heavens'" "By Jupiter!" "My watch 16 gone!" "My pin is gone!" "The man with tho scar got it!" "The girl with the mole got it!" "I suspected him all the time!" "I ouKht to have known sho was a. pickpocket! " Mr. Carney went olf to a police station sta-tion and told the captain all about it. The captain told the sergeant at the desk, and the sergeant told the ward detective "She's a professional," was the re-ply re-ply of the latter. "Dut I don't care what she is!" protested pro-tested Mr. Carney "I want you to catch her and get my pin buck.", "Xou. have no cIqwJVV- I "Of course I have. Didn't I say that sho had a mole on the left choek?" "Well, you'll have to help me out.' You must ride back and forth on the I Subwav tralnB for a week and look for I her." "I'll bo hanged if I do! Do you think I can spare that much timo, frpn my business''" "Then I'm afraid you will never seo j your pin again. You tee. If tho mole was on the right instead of the left cheek It would be altogether different." THE OFFICER ARRESTED CARNEY. -Mr. Carney was hardly clear of the Station hen Miss Parker arrived. "Had u scar on his chin, eh?" nuorl. d ihe same detective when her story had boen told. "He had." "It wasn't on his forehead'''' "No, nor on his heel!" "Should you think he had been slashed by a negro with a razor?" "No I should think he had been hit with an axo In the hands of a Turk " "That may be a clew or It inay n.Qt, You never can tell about these things " "But are there auy hopes that he may be arrested?" was asked. "Millions of them, my dc.ir Miss. It Is a dead-easy case " "Good. You may get him In a day or two, then?" "1 may walk out and pick him up in 18 minutes. That's the way It goes in this work. However, a6 he may bo a cuter rascal than we think ho is, Ij want you to ride back and forth on j subway trains for a week. Begin at 6 o'clock In tho morning, and don't leave off until 10 at night If you see the man with tho scar call the nearest officer.' "You must take me for a ninny!" Indignantly In-dignantly exclaimed Miss Parker. "Not necessarily. A 1 said before, yon never can tell. I've worked out a murder case by finding that a clock had stopped at nine minutes to twelve " "And you should have stopped with It!" Neither Mr Carney nor Miss Parker had the sllghteat hopes of over seeing the property again. There was a re-i re-i mote chance that some day they would I strap-hang In company again, and I both decided to keep their , open And the Impossible came to pass) I within three day s Both victims rode up on the same train together again, ' but not In the same car. It was when thoy got out at the station that .Miss Parker made tho discovery. Yes, tho man walking upstairs ahead of her wafl the man that had stolen her watch. For a moment her 1. ut choked her She coiihl nol have screamed out If offered a new $15 hat for so doing. At the top of the stairs was a policeman, police-man, and the girl managed to ejacu-, late "Officer arrest that mau! lie's a thiijr. " Mr Carney whirled around at the words and promptly exclaimed: "And arrest her! Sho swiped my diamond pin!" "I'll take ye both!" replied the officer, of-ficer, and tako them he did At the station thoy formally charged each other with robbery, and both would le been locked up for tho night If the sergeant hadn t had good sense. He got their identities and where they were employed, and mused: "Some mistake here." "But there can't be!" protested Miss Parker. "No, there can't be!" added Mr Carney. 1 "He has the scar on his chin!" "She has the mole on her cheek "Keep quiet a minute," chided the officer. a3 he reached for two or three newspapers lying on the corner of his desk. Pound on the street, a lady's gold watch, rather old fashioned. Found, at the Brooklyu Bridge Subway Station, Sta-tion, a gent's diamond horseshoe pin, "My watch'" gasped Miss Parker. "My pin!" gasped Mr. Carney. "Make it up, children go home and make it up'" said tho good man as ha J held his hands over their heads and turned to his blotter. And It was only tho other day that Miss Parker hecaume Mrs. Carney. |