Fame and Fortune Weekly, No. 801, February 4, 1921

trouble here?" a

here to pawn it. I followed him and got it away from him. I expect the manager o

d is my property," said

d she has just run away," said

the trouble that you

as he knew them. The chief clerk told the officer all that had happe

diamond, then?"

nswered the

to me, yo

is pocket and turned

ith the theft of the s

d

see him

id n

o you know

mstances point

mean by cir

he salesman. He looked over quite a number, and finally said the prices were too high for him to pay. Then he started to leave, but the salesman called him back because h

d, brightening up, "there

u were in our store?

ver denied

efore this clerk that you had not been in any store this morn

ay that," admi

e," said Dick

ed the man. "At any rate, you have shown tha

one. You'll have to explain how you came to have the missi

lady who was with me. It ne

manager arrives he

have to say about it. The

aiming it as your

s hers is mi

e your

r business whethe

bed it till she ran away. If it was her property,

claim to be connected wi

treet. Mr. Roger Baco

iately identified the accused as the man who had visited the store an hour or more since, and

ence against the man,

a diamond here to pawn. I'd li

t stone to him. He looked it ove

one that you mi

s to be the stone

looked as much alike as all peas of a size. The salesman explained that it was a part of his

stock," said the policeman; "but as long as you can't show that this m

e light on the matter,"

s looked

ing something out of it," he said, handing the gum to the manager. "It evide

deed!" said

ting that aroused my suspicions and caused me to watch and then follow them to this place, particularly after I picked the gum up and saw the impression of a diamond in

manager, who was familiar with many of the tricks adopted

d if he is a sufficiently expert sleight-of-hand artist, he manages at some time during his inspection of the stones to convey a diamond to the gum and force it into it. When the diamond is afterward missed he cheerfully submits to a search, for the stolen stone is not on his person. Later he sends a confederate into the store to get the gum, under cover of an inte

d recognize h

ake him to the police station. We will go wi

ceman. "Come on, my man, y

his removal to the Tombs prison. The manager, salesman and Dick then returned to the store. The former complimented the office boy on his smartness in bringing the thief to justice, which would result in the ultimate return of the valuable diamond to the store. Mr. B

"and I'll see that you lose nothing through

and returned