Show BETTER THAN HE DESERVED fat man who aroused hopes in great detective really got off lightly rather a slow day dawned yawned the great detective as he laid aside the dally paper and picked up the weekly magazine but I 1 eee the automobile thieves are may again be surprised it I 1 got a case of that kind any minute now As if to prove that the great detective never guessed wrong the door opened at that moment and a stout man slightly corpulent and rather inclined to embonpoint embon point rushed in panting I 1 just stepped inside a saloon to see what time it was just a moment mind you and when I 1 came out again the machine was gone 1 care so much it it was my own but it was my wife s machine sit down said the great detective soothingly im sorry your eyes are not as good as they might be why stammered the stout man now did you know you wear glasses explained the great detective now tor the machine this Is evidently going to be a simple matter what kind of tires did 1 have it bad no tires answered the stout man well then what kind of brakes and what make of steering wheel As far as I 1 remember returned the other there was neither brake nor steering wheel though to tell the truth I 1 don t know much about sewing machines he landed rather lightly considering the drop was three stories on the flagstone pavement outside indian apolis star |