Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1910, Page 25

" MUSEUM'S OLD RESTAURANT! ' Ancient Mexican Temple of Me!h‘ Reproduced. NOVEL PLACE FOR A DINNER Great Pains Taken to Make the Likes ness Exact—Ruins Now Pro- tected by the Mexican Government. EW YOFK, March 5—In the basement of the Amerfcan Museum of Natural His tory, Seventy-sixth street West very interesting restaurant recently called the Mitla restaurant. which be evidence If any were needed of the ex treme care fn detall taken by the officials of the establishment In appearance the restaurant is a very good representation of anclent Mexl- can temple. Stepping from the elevator you look in a square room walls convey idea of extreme mas- siveness and are in fact several feet thick The lintels and sides of the entrance wh'ch leads from this foyer to the patio or din- ing room proper and from the dining room to a third room are oblong slabs, the plac- 394 TR T 2 e = P P———— Is & finished would an about the A\ whose | Ing of which has required extreme nicety of construction. In the original temple of | Mitla & step some nine and a half inches | trom the ground lowered the head line and conveyed to the explorers a definite | iImpression of the lasser height of the an clent Mexicans. For what use this step | was intended cou not be discovered and in this facsimile of the building it has been | omitted, giving the space required by the modern American physique. he entire coloring of the place Is a cool gray, the plaster composition retalning its rinal tint and for relief are orna mentations of frets of terra cotta placed in a geometrical design which In the original bullding had undoubtedly some religlous significance. Whether the pe- cullar coloring was selected by & primi- tive taste or expressed a symbolic mean- ing is also undetermined The famous Roman key scems to be duplieated in this fretwork and everywhere one s haunted by peculiarities of resemblance between the architecture of the ancient Mexicans and that of the Egyptians, there being an en- tire of curves suggestion of clreuler figures. The ventllating of the place is done by alr currents conveyed around the top and sides and the open alr effect of the anclent temple glven by an arrangement of bam- boo poles over which are tralling vines. In the entrance hall and the annex to the | patio two strange windows of stained glass absence or v, TAMALES AND ENCHILADAS FOR MEXICAN GUESTS. | | with antique figures give THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 6, 1910. light, but are apologized for by the constructors of the | place as being slightly out of keeping with | the ora. The figures are emblematio of the Mexico of a later date than the Mitla temple. They were put In because it was absoultely necessary to make some cessfon to modern needs in the way of light and air. The turnishings of the place, necessarily conforming to the present-day needs, are tree from any startling anachronisms. While chairs are unknown at the epoch repre- sented, the museum chairs made of heavy tropical wood duplicate the angular archl- tecture of the temple stools and the center table, & single enormous slab of wood, is supported by rough pedestais of shortened tree trunks. This table slab is of Sequois gigantla redwood, made from a single tree and is part of the excess of the Philippine exhibit of woods sent by the museum authorities to the Seattle expo tion, the most complete exhibit ever gath- ered, it is sald, for such a purpose. The chairs are also manufactured from this oversupply. The table slab is about ten inches thick and weighs approximately 800 pounds and the chairs are of corre- sponding weight. There s no intentlon expressed by the head caterer, Robert Moulder, who was at one (ime connected with the Department of Instruction of the museum to supply curlosity seekers with dupllcates of MexI- can menus, Their taste for the curious must be satisfleld by the eye alone, but the power of environment has weakened con- this original viewpoint and he finally ner, that he has a regular order with a maker of tamales to furnish him that | catable whenever required and chili con carne, frijoles, mole of chicken may be had it the order is placed long enough ahead to give him time for the necessary preparation. The mole of chicken as prepared in the kitchen of the establishment is certainly & chef d'oeuvre. It consists of the breast | and wings of chicken, practically all white meat, which are boiled In a special pot, jointed and cut and then cooked answ, the final touch being given by a marvelous sauce made of the hot chilis. The ingre- dients are one of the secrets of the place. Simple and severely plain as the Mitla restaurant is to the casual glance, it really represents the work of several months, preceded by that of years, when data were gathered in Mexico, photographs taken and preliminaries perfected by the staft of museum workers under the direction and part of the time under the personal super- vision of Prof. Marshall H. Saville of Columbia university and curator of Mexi- can and Central American archaelogy for the museum. Every one of the several thousand bits of plaster in the mosaic of the restaurant was manufactured in the department of preparation situated in the museum, and | one of the helpers says that while the | architecture 1s generally spoken of as “Az- tee” in design it is really of a period pre- | vious to the Aztec Influence, previous even to that of the Montezumas, and that the | most Interesting data came to them from | old manuscripts written by the Jesults. | In thess writings the Mitla Temple is spoken of as being in existence when Mon- tesuma relgned. To Its great age and the | mystery of its inscriptions and the use to which a great part of its enclosed courts, secret chambers and underground corridors was put 1s added the fact of its wonderful preservation, utterly unexplainable by any climatic reasons, for ruins of later date have crumbled and worn away. Mr. Figgine, who had charge of the con- struction of the Mitla restaurant, comes covered with plaster from the workroom, where & sheath down i3 being fitted to the lite-size plaster cast of a mebra, and lead- Ing the way by a seotion of globe on which are placed some hundred or so tiny sheep | | | anclent architecture, e ! admits, driven to the nearest Mexican cor- | NATURE STUDENTS. of varying breeds, showing the effect of migration, ete., continues the description of the work commenced by one of his aids. “When Prof. Seville made a survey of the Mitla ruins he found one court which contained more than 500,000 pleces of stons that had been cut and ground, of course, without the use of any steel instruments, which were absolutely unknown at that| time, These pleces were put together =0 | accurately that they could without break- | ing or crumbling sustain the welght put | upon them. They did not use cement in | those days, that being also a later product | for architectural use, and altogether the old Mitla Temple, the most important of | the Mexican exhibits, having a facade In one place of nearly 200 feet, is the wonder | and admiration of every archaeologist and | every architect who has seen It or its photographed representation. “The restaurant, duplicating it in part, has been built absolutely to scale, using | the measurements taken by Prof. Saville and the photographs as guides. This has been made easy by the perfection of the ‘where the relation of one plece to another wi accurately maintained throughout. The 'sten that went over the top of the door to the patio in the original temple were twelve and one-half feet long, two and & half feet thick and four feet wide, while six to seven feet was the height of most of the orlginal doorways, including the steps. “There was a Hall of Pillars, which we have not yet duplicated, but may in tlme by continuing the space already allotted us for the purpose. Several of the pillars in this hall are fifteen to elghteen foet high and there was & long covered court, entrance to which was obtained only by & circultous route, which must have been employed for some religious ceremonial, concerning which there is absolutely no data. This, too, we hope to represent, if necessary, in dimensions which will sug- gest rather than duplicate the original. “When Prof. Saville first visited the Mitls temple, in the Hall of Pillars and the Long Court, as well as in the patlo, alcoves and inner rooms, desolation reigned supreme. The Mexicans used the place to camp In whenever an itinerant horseman desired a shelter and horses and cattle were both housed there and allowed to roam at will.' Many of the bits of plaster like this"—and Mr. Figgins plcks up a plece of the original work sawtoothed by some stone instrument of crude make—'were kicked and defaced by the animals and there was danger that the whole place might in course of time lose its wonderful value by mere careless- ness and ignorance of its worth to the world at large. It fcan government that today the horses and cattle have been ejected and an en- trance gate protects the place from van- dals. The misslon fathers near by guard the anclent ruins and the key has to be obtained from them, the small fee re- quired being used to protect further the temple.\The Indians belleved that pieces of stone taken from the temple would in time change to gold. “Before the main entrance of the temple when Prof. Saville first visited it was an enormous heap of voleanic ash and refuse, which he had removed, this work taking 100 men about thirty days. The labor was rewarded by the unearthing of a room which had In the beginning been situated in & court, the walls of which were de- (Copyright, 1910, by Bobbs Merr CHAPTER 11I—Continued. The disappointment was the greater for my few moments of hope. white fury and put on the clothes that had 1) the edge of the berth and put on the ob- noxious tan shoes. The porter, called his dutles, me, to offer assistance and to chuckle a my discomfiture. He stood by, decorour, but with little irritating grins of amusement around his mouth, when I finally emerged wiih “the ved tie In hand. But the owner of those clothes didn't| he | ome them any more than you do,” sa'd, a8 he plled the ubiguitous whisk brocm. “When I get the owner of these clothes," 1 retorted grimly, “he will need & shroud. Where's the conductor?” The conductor was coming, he assured me; also that there was no bag answering the deseription of mine on the car slammed my way to the dressing room, washed, choked my fifteen and a half neck into a fifteen collar, and was back agein | in less than five well as its oce ing on a daylig minutes. The car, ants, was gradually it appearance. I hobbled in, for cne of the shoes was abomina tight, and found myself facing a young woman in blue with an unforgetable face, ('Three women already.” McKnight says: “That's going some, 1t you don't count the Gil She stood, halt turned toward one hand idly drooping. tho other steadying her as eho gazed out at the flying landscape. 1 had an instant tmpression that I had met her somewhere, under different clrcumstances, more cheer- tul onee, I thought, for the girl's dejection now was evident. Beside her, sitting dows, a small dark woman, considerably r was talking 0 a rapld undert . girl nodded indifferently now and then, 1 fancled, althoush I was not sur appearance brought a startied the young woman's face. I sat down and, hends thrust deep into the other man's pockets, stared ruefully at the other man's shoe: The stage was set. In a moméht the our- n was golug up on the first act of the by, And for & while wo would all say i Nttle speeches and sing our MNitle ngs, and I, the villain, would hold center while the gallery hissed. The porter wi standing beside lower ten. He had reached In and was knocking vallantly, But his efforts met with no response. He winked at me over his shoul- der; them he untastened the curtains and bent forward. Behind him, 1 saw him mw even ore nurse.”) that my | a look into | saw the bluish pallor that spread over his 1 sat up.ia & ‘»mnrnln[ sun striking full on his upturned g tace. veen let me. ‘Then, stlll raging, I sat on |z yma)l stain of red dved the front of his I night clothes and tralled across the sheet: 10| his half-open eyes were fixed, without see- made little excursions back to | outwardly | ;4 gtared down to where the train im- | motion. ™Y | man's been murdered'" | 1 as | tak- | ["1s seat. | eurlosity of the ear. face and neck. As he retreated a step thie interfor of lower ten lay open to the day, The man In It was on his back, the early But the light did not disturb him. ing, on the shining wood above. 1 grasped the porter's shaking shoulders parted to the body a grisly suggestion of “Good lord,” I gasped. ‘‘The CHAPTER 1V, Afterwards, when 1 trled to recall our discovery of the body In lower ten, I found that my most vivid impression was not that made by the revelation of the opened curtain. I had an Instantaneous picture of @ slender, blue-gowned girl who med to ense my words rather than hear them, of two small hands that clutched desperately at the seat beside them. The girl in the alsle stood, bent toward us, perplexity and alarm fighting In her face. With twitching hands the porter at- tempted to draw the curtalns together. Then in a paralysis of shock, he collapsed on the edge of my berth and sat there swaylng. In my excitement I shook him. “For heaven's sake, kesp your nerve, man,” 1 sald bruskly. “You'll have every woman in the car in hysterics. And if you do, you'll wish you could change places with the man in there.” He rolled his eves, A man near, who had been reading last night's paper, dropped it quickly and tip- toed toward us. He peered between the partly open curtains, closed them quletly and went back, ostentatiously solemn, to The very crackle with which he opened his paper added to the bursting For the pesscngers krew that something was amiss: I was consclous of & sudden tension. When the curtains closed the porter was more himself; he wiped his lips with a handkerchiet and stood erect. “It's my last trip in this car,” he re- marked heavily, “There's something wrong with that berth. Last trip the woman in it took an overdose of some sleeping stuff, and we found her, jes' like that dead! And it ain't more'n three months now since there was twins born In that very spot. No, sir, it ain't natural At that moment a thin man with promi- nent eyes and a spare grayish goatee creaked up the aisle and paused beside me. “Porter sick?' he Inquired, taking in with stitfen, heard his muttered exclamation, & professional eyes the porter's horror struck face, my own excitement and the slightly gaping curtains of lower ten. He reached for the darky's pulse and pulled out an oid-fashioned gold watch. “Hm! Only fifty! What's the matter? Had a shack?’ he asked shrewdly. “Yes," I answered for the porter. both had one. We've 1t you are a doctor, I wish you would look at the man in the barth across, lower ten. I'm afraid it's too late, but I'm not experienced in such matters.” Tcgether we opened the curtains, and the doctor, bending down, gave a comprehen- sive glance that took In the rolling head, the relaxed jaw, the ugly stain on the sheet. The examination needed only a mo- ment. Death wus written in the clear white of the nostrils, the coloriess lips, the smoothing away of the sinister lines of the night before. With its new dignity the face was not unhandsome: the gray halr was still plentiful, the features strong and well cut. The doctor straightened himselt and turned to me. “Dead for some time," he sald, running a professional finger ovar the stalns. “These are dry and hardened, you see, and rigor mortls is well estab- lished. A friend of yours? ‘L don’t know him at ail* I Never saw him but’once before.” Then you don't know if he Is traveling alone?" *No, he was not—that s, T don't know | anything sbout him,” I corrected myself. | It was my first blunder: the doctor glanced up at me quickly and then turned his at- tention again to the body. Like a flash there had come to me the vision of the replicd | Blasses, he wiped them slowly. | bit aizzy. |alsle and querulously confronted | of this company that will allow a woman untll he gets sick, or an emergency like this arises, and then turns meekly to the nan who knows the ins and outs of his mortal tenement, takes his pills or ‘his patronage, tles to him like a rudderless ship In & gale. “Sulclde, is it, doctor? T asked. He stood ercct, after drawing the bed clothing over the face, and, taking off his “No, it is not sulcide,”” he announced de sively. “It {s murder.” | Of course, I had expected that, but the word itself brought & shiver. I was just a Curious faces through the car were turned toward us, and I could hear the porter behind me breathing audibly. A stout woman in negligee came down the the por ter. She wore a pink dreseing jacket and carried portions of her clothing. “Porter,” she began, in the voice of the lady who had “dangled,” s there & rule o to oceupy the dressing room for one hour and curl her hair with an alcohal lamp walle respectable people haven't a place where they cen hook their—" She stopped suddenly and stared finto lower ten. Her shining pink cheeks grew paety, her jaw fell. I remember trying to think of something to say, and of saying nothing at all. Then—she had buried her eyes on the nondeseript garments that hung from her arm and tottered back the way she had come. Slowty a little knot of men gathered around us, ellent for the woman with the bronze hair and the tregle face, whom I had surprised in the | vestibule between the cars, somewhere in | the small hours of the morning. I had acted on my first impulse—the masculine | one of shielding a woman. Fe The doctor had unfastened the coat of | the striped pajamas and exposed the dead | man's chest. On the Ieft side was a small punctured wound of insignificant size. | “Very neatly done,” the doctor sald with | appreciation. “Couldn’t have done It bet- | ter myself. Right through the intercostal | space: no time even to grunt.” “Isn't the heart around there some- where?" 1 asked. The medical man turned toward me and smiled susterely. | “That's where it belongs, just under that | puncture, when it isn't gadding around in | & man's throat or his boots. 1 had a new respect for the doctor, for any one indeed who could crack even u feeble joke under such clrcumstances, or who could run an impersonal finger over that wound and those stains. Gdd how a healthy, normal man holds the medical profession in half ontemptuous regard most part. The doctor was making & search of the berth when the conductor elbowed his way through, followed by the inquisitive man, who had evidently sum- moned him. I had lost sight, for a time, of the girl in blue. “Do it himself?" the conductor queried, after a businessiike glance at the hody. “No, he daidn't” the doctor asserted. ““There's no weapon here, and the window is closed. He couldn’t have thrown it out, and he didn't swallow it. What on earth are yBu looking for, man Somo one was on the floor at our feet, face down, peering under tha berth. Now he got up without apology, revealing the man who had summoned the conductor. He was dusty, alert, cheerful, and he dragged up with him the dead man's suit case. Tho sight of it brgught back to me at once my own predicament. “I don’t know whether there's any con- nectlon or not, conductor,” I.sald, “but I am a victim, too, in less degree; I've heen robbed of everything I possess, except a red and yellow bath robe. I happened to be wearing the bath robe, which was prob- ably the reason the thief overlooked dt." There was a fresh murmur in the crowd, Somebody laughed nervously. The con- ductor was irritated. can’t bother with that now snarled. “The rallroad company sponsible for transportation, clothes, fewelry and morals. want to be stabbcd and robbed in the company’s cars, it's their affalr. Why didn’t you sleep in your clothes? I do.” he is re- not for 1t people | something. is due to these rep- | resentations of Prof. Saville to the Mex- | stroyed. This room he has left In the most | their beautitul stone work is dlsfigured by perfect condition and It too is preserved by the government from future desecra tions There was also an underground cave discovered and evidences of other ranean rooms “The remains of the Mitla temple are near Orizaba, a reglon particularly fertile in rulns, showing A thiekly populated prov- Ince In former times. Mitla w visited by explorers until a few years ago, but since the completion of the Mexican Southern rallroad the rulns are visited by hundreds of tourists from the United States every year Prof. Saville says that the journey Is a comparatively easy one.and best made during the dry season from December to April, the traveler leaving the ecity of Puebla in the early morning, changing from the oold rezlon to the troples voy- aging the major part of the day through some of the grandest rallroad scenery In the world, the final part of the tour being a thirty-mile carriage ride to Mitla ated in a delightfully temperate zone “The Jesuit father who wrote of Mitla was Motolinia, who sald that Father Mar- tin de Valencia passed through Mitla some time about the year 1537, and gives a briet account of a temple containing a hall of columns and also asserts as one who knows whereof he speaks that the edifice 1s more worthy of being seen than any other of ‘New Spain.' The very first men- subter places its conquest in the year ‘two rabbits' —which |s-Mexican for 144, “The Spaniards ocoupled it after the con- uest,” says Mr. Figgins, again unearthing 1 bit of plaster, this time with a Spanish \seription, “and the now famous ‘palace of the Columns' was then used either for % dwelling or as a public edifice. and a the structure. ' Several of the doorway have been partly walled up and remains of the brick walls may still be seen. One of he most important of the edifices, whish ontained mural paintings of the utmost value, has been partly demolished and a church and curate's house now oceupy the site. A number of other rooms exist, but rarely | | no regularity | for tombs of the anc tion of Mitla, preceding the Jesult account, | 3panish window bullt of bricks still exists | n the southern part of the front wall of | | whitewash the Amerfcan Museum were made In the vicin temple within a radius east to west and about north to south. In the the Mitla mounds are mounds In which ex e, revealing the founda« ntirely destroyed; in which the “Excavations for of Natural History ity of the famous of ten miles from three miles from valley in which located are many cavations were ma tions of bulldings now bulldings partially des rooms were cleancd out, and tombs, the walls of which were of stone with the ‘mosaic’ pattern seen In the rooms of the tempie duplicated in the museum restaur ant, Two burial places were discovered, but for thelr complete exploration more time wae required than was at the disposal of the expedition. In the tombs and burial places more than thirty skeletons were taken out The doorways of the burial chambers faced the west, but there wa in the manner of interring the dead. “Some of the chambers of temple ruins were unquestionably designed ont priests, and they all have the mosaic decorations duplicated by the department of preparation for the Mitla restaurant. No structures ot like character are known in any other part of Mexico or Central America. They are by tar the most elaborate and fmportant burial chambers yet found In the new world, both in size and in beauty of stone work. Un- fortunately none has been opengd by archaeologists and we know of nothing of what they formerly contained. Thelr form lends an ndded interest to these chumbers and analogies might easily be drawn to the | crossas of the old world “The large blocks used in the bullding of the Mitla temple, Prof. Saville belleves, | were transported long distances by means of ropes and rollers, the stones were dressed at the quarries and the ‘mosale’ designs carved after they were placed in the structure, the designs being traced out before the cutting began. Stone chisely might have been used, and probably this tool was used by the anclent workmen; work which has been duplicated here in & | few weeks probably took years to complete | originaty.” situ- | the Mitla THE SQUARE THING AT THE MITLA RESTAURANT. I took an angry step forward. Then somebody touched my arm, and I un- clenched my fist. 1 could underatand the conductor's position, and beside, in the law, I had been gullty myselt of contribu- tory negligence. * “I'm not trying to make you responsi- ble,” I protested, as emiably as I could, “and I belleve the clothes the thief loft are as good as my own. They are cer- talnly newer. But my valise contained valuable papers, and it is to vour interest as well as mine to find the man who stole 1t ‘Why, of cours the doctor sald | shrewdly. “Find the man who skipped out with this gentleman's clothes, and you've probably got the murderer.” “I went to bed In lower nine,” I my mind full again of my lost paper: “and 1 waked In number seven. I was up in the night prowling around, as I was unsble to sleep, and I must have gone back to the wrong berth. Anyhow, until the porter wakened me this morning I knew nothing of my mistake. In the in- terval the thief—murderer, too, perhaps— must have come back, discovered my error, and taken advantage of it to further his escape.” The inquisitive man looked at me from between narrowed eyelids, forret-ilka. “DId any one on the train suspect you of crowd was listening intently. “No one,” I answered promptly and pos tively, The doctor was Investigating the mur- dered man's offects. The pockets of his | trousers contained the usual miscellany of keys and small change, while in his hip pocket was found a small pearl-handled revolver of the type women usually keep around. A gold watch with a Masonic charm had slld down between the mat- tress and the window, while a showy dia- mond stud was still fastened in the bosom of his shirt. Taken as & whole, the per- sonal belongings were those of a man of some means, but without any particular having valuable papers?' he inquired. The | 1 ness, what through the car. The porter remaiued on guerd. With something of relief 1 sank into & mat. I wanted to think, to try to remember the detalls of the provious night. But my Inquisitive acquaintance had other intentions. He came up and sat down bo- side me. Like the conductor, he had taken notes of the dead man's belongings, his name, address, clothing and the gen- eral gircumstances of the crime. Now with his little note book open before him, he prepared to enjoy the minor sensation of the robbery. “And now for the second began cheerfully. What Js and address, please? T eyed him with suspicion “I have lost everything but my and address,’ I parried. “What do want them for? Publication?" “Oh, no; dear no!" he sald, shocked at my misapprehension. ‘“Merely for my own enlightenment. 1 like to gather data of this kind and draw my own con- clusions. Most interesting and engrossing. Onee or twice I have forestalled the re- sults of police Investigation—but entirely for my own amusement.” 1 nodded tolerantly. Most of us have hobbles; 1 knew & man once who carried his handkerchief up his sleeve and had a mania for old colored prints cut out of Godey's Lady Book, “I use that induective method originated by Poe and followed since with such suec- cess by Conan Doyle. Have you ever read Gaborfau? Ab, you have missed a treat, Indecd. And now, to get down to busi- 18 the name of our cscaped thief and probable murderer?” “How on earth do I know?" I demanded impatiently. “He didn't write it in blood anywhere, did he?’ The, little man looked pointed, “Do you mean to say,” the pockets of empty?" . The pockets! In the excitement I had forgotten entirely the wealskin grip which the porter now sat at my feet, and I had vietim,” he your name name you hurt and disap- he asked, “that those clothes are entirely degree of breeding. The doctor heaped them together Either robbery was e reflected, “or the these things in his hurry. The latter hypothesis seemed the more tenable, when, after a thorough search, | we found no pocketbook and less than a dollar in small change The sult case gave no clue. It contained one empty leather covered flask and a pint bottle, also empty, a change of linen and some callars with the laundry mark, 8. H, In the leather tag on the handle | was a card with the name Simon Har- rington, Pittsburg. The conductor sat down on my unmade berth, across, and made an entry of the | name and address. Then, on an old en- | velope, he wrote a few words and gave it | to the porter, who disappeared. “I guess that's all 1 can do." he sald. | ‘I've had" enough trouble this trip to last for a ¥y They don't need a conductor on these trains any more; what they ought | to have is a sherlff and a posse.” The porter from the next car eame in | #nd whispered to him. The conductor rose not thiet the motive," overlooked unhappily caught the disease” he Doctor, & woman baek ther mumps or bubonic plague, or Will you come back? The strange porter stood eside | “Lady about the middle of the car,” ho sald, “In black, sir, with gqueer looking hair—sort of copper color, I think, sir.” COHAPTER V. THE WOMAN IN THE NEXT CAR With the departure of the conduetor and the doctor, the group around low: ten broke up, to reform in smaller )IMUJ has got | K not Investigated the pockets at all. With the Inquisitive man's pencll taking note of everything that I found, I emptied them on tho opposite seat Upper left hand walstcoat, pencils and a fountain pen; walstcoet, mateh box and a small stamp book; right hand pocket coat, pair of gray sucde gloves, new, size seven and a half; left hand pocket, gunmetal clgarctte case sludded with pearls, half full of Fgyptian clgarettes. The trousers pockets econ- tained a gold penknife, & small amount of money In bills und change, and a hand- chie? with the Initial “S" on It Further search through the coat discove ered a card case with cards bearing the name Henry Pinckney Sullivan, and @ leather flask with gold mountings, filled with what seemed to be very fair whisky, adn monorammed H. P, 8 “His name is evidently Henry Pinckney Sulltvan,” said the cheerful follower of Poe, as he wrote it down. “Address as yet unkno Blond, probably. Have you no- ticed that it Is almost always the blond men who affect a very lght gray, with a touch of red In the searf? IFact, I assure you. I kept a record once of the summer attire of men. and 8 per cent fol- lowed my rule. Dark men like vou affeot navy blue, or brown In spite of myself 1 Yes; the suli | man's shrewdness. blue," I sald He rubbed his hands an I R and smiled at me Then wore black shoes, not tan," he sald, with & glance at the aggressive vellow ones I wore. two lead a lower right was amused at the 1ok wes dark—a (To Be Continued)