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Show Sherlock Has Yet to Learn How to Detect Assistant Hotel Manager Lee Solves Luggage Mystery; Mys-tery; "Marvelous!" HAT do you make of the Wl Watonf' demanded WW A P. I assistant manager man-ager of the Newhouse hotel, addressing the chief porter. "Most extraordinary," said the chief porter. Indeed, it was, a the facts will show. Aha, but, my dear Watson, there waa the deductive genius of M r. Holmes cr, rather Mr. Lee, to be reckoned with. Had it not been for the deduct i ve intuition of Assistant Manager Man-ager Cee, Mrs. J. G. Flourney of Chicago Chi-cago would not bo receiving her missing miss-ing luggage today in Colorado Springs. Several days ago Mrs. Flourney stopped off in Salt Lake City on her way home from the expositions. Several Sev-eral friends wore with her, and they stayed at the -Newhouse. Mrs. Flourney finally went eastward and the friends tarried here to make the Yellowstone Yel-lowstone trip. When Mrs. Flourney got well on the way to Colorado Springs she telegraphed tele-graphed back frantically that she had left her traveling bag at the hotel here, and would they please forward it to her at once. She described the luggage as "a yellow leather traveling Xag, with a small mesh sewing bag attached to the handle.' ' The description was corroborated by Mrs. Flourney 's friends, who were quite positive that she had left it at the hotel when she departed for Colorado. They were quite sure they had seen it there after her departure, in fact. Employees of the Newhouse instituted insti-tuted a diligent search, with no results. Another frantic telegram from Mrs. Flourney, and Mr. Lee was called into the case. He had successfully solved two other baggage mysteries this summer, sum-mer, and was regarded as something of an expert. Mr. Lee went through the hotel like a beach-comber, but found ''nary a trace of the bag." He admitted that "The Mystery of the Yellow Bag" was the hardest nut yet to crack. Mr. Lee dug his lead pencil into the palm of his left hand, as is his custom when thinking. ' ' I have it, ' ' he said, at length. "Mrs. Flourney didn 't leave her bag at the hotel; she left it on a street car." "Marvelous!" said the chief porter. Suro enough, the "lost and found" department of the street railway company com-pany had Mrs. Flourney 'a baggage when Mr. Lee made inquiries of the company. The street railway reported that she had left it on a depot loop car. Mrs. Flourney 's description of it was not quite accurate, however. It turned out to be a large-sized Buit case instead in-stead of a traveling bag, and the "small sewing bag" attached to the handle proved to be a good-sized shop-rung shop-rung bag. But this merely made the brilliancy of Mr. Lee's solution of the mystery greater. "Marvelous," said the chief porter. |