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

ntown were talking about it before closing-up time. Dick Darling, the boy in the knickerbockers, was voted an uncommonly smart lad, and people who knew Mr. Bacon told him

led her attention to the story. She read it and was, of course, much surpr

eatly pleased with yo

re say he thinks I

ested. As he proved to be the chief figure in the story, next to the thief, they grew quite excited over the story. Had they been together, their exclamations and talk would have attracted attention in the car, but they seldom came together on the same car or train, and so they waited till they reached home to loosen up their tongues. And what a jabbering there was in the little flat when they arrived within a few minutes

om the Carlin jail. The jail was an old one, and they had been lodged in a cell the window bars of which proved to have become defective. At any rate, during the short time they were locked up there, they managed to loosen two of the bars so

wyer spared no pains in his efforts to tangle the boy up. Finally he moved that his client be discharged on the ground that there was no real evidence connecting him with the theft of the diamond. The magistrate, however, refused to accept his view of the matter, and remanded Hurley to the consideration of the Grand Jury. During that month the store was closed at three on Saturday afternoon. On the S

ases standing against the walls. There was no clock on that floor, and Dick, forgetting it was Saturday and that the house closed early, gave no attention to the flight of time. The cashier, thinking he was out on an errand, left his pay envelope on Mr. Bacon's desk, and the proprietor seeing it there, also concluded that the

eces of choice silverware of all kinds and sizes made him anxious, and he made up his mind to get away with several of the least bulky ones, which he could successfully conceal in his clothes. He approached a case with the view of helping himself when he suddenly came upo

nd my pal have been waitin' an hour to get a si

Dick pluckily. "I've only to call out and some of

age, and found himself quite powerless. He gasped for breath, and was turning black in the face, when Bulger, not intending to kill him, eased up a bit. The sight of the silverware within his reach had put different

small pieces of silverware, concealed them about his person, and hurriedly left the sample room, sneaking downstairs and making for the front door. Mr. Bacon and the clerks were s

ntered the store. The merchant went into his office to get a small package he was going t

he was sent?"

dea where he was. He stepped outside where the young m

ou know where Dic

e," replied on

pay envelope is here wai

so?" said

me and said he believed Mr. Dal

got back long before this, for he knows th

you see

s then up on the next floor making

be up th

down after his money when he saw it

ll work a minute more than they're paid for it. Dick is always interested in his work. I've noticed that, and it is jus

the boy was really still at work. They fo

"Mr. Dale must have sent him on

subject of their thoughts finally became senseless. Dick's head, falling forward when he lost consc

t?" exclaim

r open and the of