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Chicago Ledger, v. XLVIII, no. 31, Saturday, July 31, 1920.
Contributor
Hazeltine, Horace. Keeler, Hazel Goodwin. Tracy, Louis. Moulton, Lewis H. Reynolds, Isobel M.
Date Added
3 September 2014
Format
Newspaper
Language
English
Publish Date
1920-07-31
Publisher
Chicago, Ill. : W. D. Boyce Company
Source
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title
The Million Dollar Suitcase / by Horace Hazeltine. The Riddle of the Flying Hands / by Hazel Goodwin Keeler. The Albert Gate Enigma / by Louis Tracy. The Carnival Puzzle / by Lewis H. Moulton. The Meter Mystery / by Isobel M. Reynolds.
Topic
Popular literature > Specimens. Story papers > Specimens.
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The Million Dollar: suitcase
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money there might be some clew to the
origin: but only more bills. in packages,
in rolls and in loose disorder, rewarded
h .
m.
Then he turned his attention to the
bag itself. It was of shabby pigskin. of
the shape known as (I. "kit-bag,‘
‘if it were not his own. it was certainly
his own's twin brother’. On one end of
his, tho, had been his initials--"J. L. B."
-and on neither end of this was there
any letters whatever. That, then. was
the explanation. He had taken this bag
in mistake when he left the Pullman.
But it was not his fault; for the porter
placed
It struck him at once that had his
‘own bag contained so much money he
would have guarded it more caretuily.
pun-
ishment, and he doubted not the owner
was being very sorely punished at just
this rnoment,by,which time he had prob-
ably discovered his loss.
e smiled as he pictured to him-
self the mental distress of the loss.
righ "' ejaculated.
It's lucky
for him it fell into honest hands. Now
I'll have & more careful look thru the
filthy lucre, and see if I can find some
‘trace oi.’ the careless Zilidas who goes
about so deliciously well heeled."
ELIBIIRATELY and with systematic
are he began removing the money
cw mor
increasing rather than lessening.
thus far not the sign of a name or any-
thing indicatire of ownership in any
form had he found.
He worked more slowly nowscounb
g more accurately and hunting still
in such in fashion, and with so little heed
to its sate-keeping.
messengers, brokers’ clerks.mer-
chants. importers, bookmakers, bribing
politicians-all these were considered in
turn and put aside for one good reason
the final result of his co
exterior or the interior of the article of
conveyance.
And for choice between these two. he
was rather inclined to favor the latter
conclusion. believing that in spite of all
he had heard or American plutocrats.
they were outnumberzdethe eccentric
ones, at all events-by the lower class
of criminals. ‘
“If," he communed with himself, "this
money is the iii-gotten proceeds of some
y grave
not improbable that the robbed or swin-
dled parties will sooner or later be forth-
coming."
And just at that particular moment.
d with two thousand or
more dollars in his hand, seventy-odd
ovtr the table under
the electric light. and the bag still un-
emptied. there came a resounding knock
on his door; .
Instantly the possibilities or what
might ensue from his being discovered
in his present occupation rushed in uimn
him. All the guesses he had Jul! 115%"
making concerning the unknown loser
of the bag and its contents would nat-
urally be made by his discoverer regard-
,” Mm; Wm, we probable result of the
same conclusion being reached, and the
suspicion born that he was the unright-
anus possessor of iii-gotten WE31UI- N0?
would he be able, in such an event. to
explain the situation. now manY men.
he asked himself. would believe his story
that he had been given the bag In min‘
take by 1 Pullman Boner?’
N0. HIS visitor. whoever he might I1".
must not see the money. To throw it
ing the whole. and already he had spent
more than an hour in making his esti-
For ust a. moment the thought as-
sailed him that possibly the owner of’
the bag had watched him when he took
it from the porter, and. for reasons best
known to himself, had preferred that
he, Brooke. should carry that precious
burden from the station to a hotel, while
the owner had now come-to claim it.
bringing Brooke's bag in exchange.
the money-strewn table.
started back in dismay. - '
He had forgotten, in the excitement of
his discovery. the faucets turned for his
bath. an ttle room was hooded
from the overdowing tub. e door was
a. miniature lake fed by the Niagara
which poured over the'tub’s sides.
astily he turned off the flood. splash-
ing to do so thru the pool which spread
L E D G E R
vamp-high over the tiled tioorlng. Then,
snatching N towel from a. hook. he s
turned to his chamber, s read it across
the table and the bank notes, closed the
bag as best he could. and turned in last
to the door. uponwhich the knocking
All right!" he called, 9.
little excitedly. :'What’s the trouble?"
And with that he opened, to fac
appeared into the bathroom he.ha.d Just
ed.
Brooke closed
0 ye bees wantin' to drown the ieddy
in the room low?” asked e man.
"Sure, the ceilin' over her bed is pourin'
like a shower bat’."
' "I‘m very sorry, indeed," Brooke he-
gan, while the porter pulled the nlui:
out of the tub and then threw every
towel in the room upon the floor in an
effort to absorb the pool.
For ten.mlnutes
worked energetically
way, vainlytendeavoring to express his
regrets.
“Ye winrto slape, I suppose, while ye
wuz wa.itin'," the porter went on "I've
knowed it tomapuen-the likes o" that.
But it's hard on the hotel, ye know. The
leddy may be after gettin‘ the pneumo-
neay. and suein' us (or the damages,
over and above the cost of a new ceilin'
and wall paper.
"Oh. I hops not," said Brooke serious-
ly. "I'm sure I wouldn't want the hotel
to lose anything on account or my care-
lessness, and yet-damages for pneu.
mania. and a. new oeillngand wall paper
are, I am afraid, rather beyond my mod-
est means." - V
the door into the passagl:
and followed him ‘ V
s ..D
The porter rose from his task. and as
Brooke backed into the bedroom the
Irishman took his place in the doorway.
it's shtill a. bit damp in there,"
. "Now it I had a. di thy towel,
s he spoke his eye fell upon the
towel on the table, which was at his
right. hand. '
In an eye-wink he had snatched it
oil‘, dragging in its train a, scattering
Score of bills.
“Holy murtheri" he exclaimed in dis-
may. “What he I either doin‘? Excuse
me, sir. I'd no knowledge ye wuz a
anker." ’’
FOR a moment Brooke stood quite still,
startled by the sudden turn of things.
hen he stooped and gathered up the
money from the cor. .
“It‘s all right," he.protested, putting
the best face possible upon the matter.
“Never mind. You can use the towel
if you want to I didn't know who was
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