Show TRIALS OF OP DIAMOND I How Row One Fancied He Was Followed by a l W That war wm lilt a moot moat Ingenious gnome ome story aWry that bat caste out o t of Montana Montaha the other day about bout a traveling jewelry trunk containing worth of dl monds moods having baving teen been neatly lifted lilted the he window of or a baggage room roem in i a small town own in the dead of night by a gang Pong of burgle burglars remarked a welt well known diamond drummer RImer who wee was in is town own last week weekS The ImpossIbility ImpO or orather rather ather the imbecility Im of the tile tale has baa so many nany facets facet that they n nt all aU be b held heldo to o the tM light and a ld so Ill IU only mention two to fictions of Ute the take fake ke that m make mak makall ke keall all alt the rest ridiculous No traveling jewelry salesman aa carries any ny worth of samples along with him ilm in this or spy any ether other country nor like JUte M It worth and those that he Je lees does de s carry arry along al n with hint him he d trust to any trunk He packs them hem in Jn a long king specially contrived wl wet 1 et let and they are always ae as close e to his person as his clothing day and night He rarely travels in a 0 steeping sleeping car if he can cn possibly pG avoid it but when he the wallet containing his samples plea IB is right there here so that he be can all feel of it every time Ume Umee be e emerges from a cat nap and aDd he sleeps with ith on one eye o oien or en n and the one partially cl close in such at that Instances in which bleh traveling diamond salesmen have hav haven robbed bed by adroit thieves who have bave skillfully followed them from com headquarters and aM watched their chance have been extremely rare and lid in all 11 cases eases such suh thieves clever CI as they were vere have ha been by agents o of the to American Amedean Jewelers Protective ease elatIon dation Nevertheless N diamond dram drammen men mere are constantly alert as I say y for tor attempts at t robbery and when wilen they are ure urethe areIa IR Ia the western country they drop several ever I pounds a day I might say BaY for fear of sudden sadden holdups by bold boM bed bad with scans guns The first trip hip out that I made for the tbd firm that has bu had ar valuable services fer for th the past twenty years Jears afforded me lite an experience ce that has lies caused Me ne a lot o of Inward chucklIng ever skies since Mr Mi F wallet contained about 36 worth ot of unset tIMet diamonds and the way I did clutch those thoM gents gains to o my bosom basest was surely a Caution My territory was tu th southern country this skis ride of the Mississippi PI and Del every army time I nodded off I dreamed of oC tall south er sis mountaIneers mountaineer who tucked Inched their tress trous trousers ers era Into JAto their boots and shot et straight t This in fat fact fa t wa w the type tn of brigand briga I had bad mostly In rated mind m so 10 that about a week after I had left New Hew York I wa was mystified to te find that a smooth looking individual appeared to be paying a whole lot tot of attention to tomy tomy tomy my movements mo He a bit ostentatious about It but bat th the fact tact began n to bear in upon me we that he lie waa was certainly taking In ny my 7 route throughout and Kentucky pretty thoroughly t OIO and aad traveling Ua on the same trains and can cars and stopping at t the same game hotels and nd seeming M to be a heap DeaP of ofa ofa a le a uit as it were Weft of mine e and the Ute fact fAd got pt on my ray nerves when having tint first observed H It tt I 1 started to look for tor a con continuance continuance continuance of f the same came I tried to It it out that I 1 was all wrong and nd that probably he was a drummer in some other Une line who whose e route to be k identical with Time but somehow or other be he nave have the look took or bearing bea of a rom ORI mercial traveler Ua and pud I 1 satisfy satiety myself on that point He held himself 11 very much aloof both oth bothen 1 en n the trains train en which we trav traveled d and md at t the hotels at which we stopped never engaging anybody In is friendly conversa conversation lion doll as sa te is the manner of 0 touting touring sales salesmen salesmen men und end when I began to suspect ct him himI I often eften caught hIM sizing me up oat out of the taU tall eye ee In to a manner mARDer that caused me sO to road read a solitary line In my newspaper about bout a hundred times Umes After I had bed been In III the t constant c view YIeW of this person tot tor a week I became eon con convinced vinced that he was we In ID sore acre need of about worth worm of nice diamonds diamond monc and that nr my package would do as well aa as anybody elseL At the end of the week I was begin beginning beginning ning to inquire as at to the best nerve ton tou tonic ic lea Jet for men mien laborin n gender gander severe strains nd I never went to bed that I have bate barea havea I a nightmare in which this suave quiet smooth faced Individual seemed to b be beabout about twelve feet high and possessed of more gun bands hand than an all octopus has haI ten tentacles One evening 1 was wu taking supper in a Nashville hotel bott and my 7 bete moir as he b had bad become was seated ed at a table directly in front ef at me calmly reading a I newspaper r a as a he ate and ard a nO every once ODee hi in awhile looking tf lip up abstractedly and aDd re is regarding garding me In a dreamy sort of wa way right through me as it were I t stand It any ny longer I rose oe from my table walked over oyer to his took a 9 seat at and looked him square in the eye erE My 11 friend said I I dont exactly know whether w ther or not net Ive rn been dreaming a go good d deal lately ut t It seems ceeN to me m that rYe Fin seen e n more mo of f v a o within wit th the past pet ten days ey than I 1 b have ve of my jay ewe c countenance In the glass gIas Ave Are you follow following followIng 1 ing me He looked at me m as if h be I me inc a II crazy raZ man deliberately roe roSe Now from I Ithe the table without a word left the dining I room and I 1 see Bee bide hide er or hair uk of Aim si I again during durin the trip But BuL I MW saw Mm him m again aft 5 right after I the trip I 1 got goi into New lew York about a t month later ant and there th was the th looking coking proposition pro who had dogged ed edo sv Ms IK so persistently calmly seated Mated In tn the private office ottle of ot the head bead member ember of or the firm irm just as much at home borne as if tf th t whole plant belonged beio to him hilL I stared alaNd at him tm and arid he nodded at me and grinned When hen W he be left the office 1 I the head of C the firm who the tM man was 8 narrating U my y experience Oh On he hp hes just ju t a handy haDdy man an we eM eMploy s ploy loy occasionally o was wu th tim the and to tout cut ut the story down don I that be the suave looking chap was w a detective who had been n on l of trail m tIM the moment that Id left New York Text on that tUt first trip My M credential had h 51 right of course else I t fist the he job but the tile detective lispS along aloS after fter me for tor the purpose of ofer seeing waeter er r I was w a man maR of straight and aad whether I observed proper p precautions In protecting prote the valuable property t the e ties to my cure care His report wa wag all to the tM pod good con COlI eluded the t diamond Dl drummer g ga to a Ute the Washington Wast Star Otar of course comae IR in tM the Utter latter respect r t pe but I 1 feel pretty certain that hat if I taken notice ef et his b eon east tant stant stant proximity to me upen u that flint trip rip out oua Id have ban been raM 50 teM that hat after alL alt the firm thought it need my services |