Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1911 — FOUR BITES OF R CHERRY. [ARTICLE]

FOUR BITES OF R CHERRY.

By George Folsom.

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Copyright, The Frank A. Munsey Co. ———o — r “Very carefully," returned Captain Chesley, “we mustn't move too fast on such a slight identification. Find his house address, and something about his habits. But be sure there isn’t any mistake made; and see what you can find out about Field and his trip to Malden. He isn’t with us, and he is worth considering just now." McGill left the room, and Chesley, after a few words with General Martial, went to his office ta attend tc routine matters. * * * * *

Two. weeks had passed, and the police were no nearer a solution of the Cossett robbery than they were on the morning after the crime. Mr. Simon Cossett had made no move to discover how Miss Nellie Cossett's picture had found its way to his front steps. The strange relations between himself and the two cousins who thought he had defrauded them prevented his making inquiries in Malden, and Field could be of any further service to him in this matter. His description of Linden did not prove anything. As for the police inquiries concerning this recently discovered relative of the Malden Cossetts, it was obvious that one of Chesley's men had gone over the Malden ground, and anxious to find a victim, had tried to implicate y A -, Linden because be wore a gray suit and looked something like the man seen in front of Cossett’s house.

The department had guardedly suggested that he ought to help them find the gray man, and, while they did not mention Linden's name in this connection, there was no doubt that they would like, to goad the financier into some action that would give them an excuse for inquiring into the recent movements of his young kinsman. The wonder was that they had not detained Linden and confronted him with the financier. The latter was acute enough to see that if he were seen with Linden the police would at once come to him with a host of new questions. But angry as .Mr. Simon Cossett was, because of the high-handed outrage he had been subjected to, he was not yet prepared to move against Nellie's supposed sweetheart, for Nellie had always been his best-loved relative and, School shoes of all kinds for girls and boys, at Rowles & Parker’s.