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By FRANOIS LYNDE,

[Copy ight, 1898, by the Author.) | Tt was my first visit to the Leonards 9 vy had removed from New York to Brankviile, and my eccentric friend bad been showing me an ingeniously contrived electrical apparatus, by means of which »e couid, without leaving his desk, see and bear everything that went on in the sitting room below. Leonard ism novel stand his hobby is a study of life from models.

“What do you think of that for a

achet ' e aid prid fully. al call it : aut stic human analyzer. It’s

Helen's idea, and it’sa brilliant one. | When I want tostudy any particular

Brankvil)s type, she tolls the subject to

the house to a tea fight. or a sewing

circle, or something of that sort, and I

ean sit here and dissect it at my leisure. | Isn't it great?’’

‘It is the most ingeniously abomi- nable thing Lwver heard of,’’ I ventured to say

“IT don't deny that,’’ replied Leon- ard, ‘‘but necessity knows no law. I’ve got to have models if I have to spend the last shred of self respect in the family buying them, but just now I’m ina fix. I've come toa chapter in the new novel where an insight into the personality of a burglar isa sheer ne- cessity, and I don't know what to do. Burglars are not kept on draft in Brankvil e, and Helen can’t help ma with a tea party.’’

“Why don’t you go to Sing Sing and study them en bloc?’’

“You don’t understand. That wouldn't do atall. A burglar ceases tc bea burvlar when he becomesa con- vict. I’ve gotto have the chemically pure article for my purpose.”’

“Then go to the city and investigate him in bs native lair.

Leonard shrugged his shoulders, not without contempt. ‘‘Suggestion isn’t your forte. I might as well study a lot

of lay fguresin acyclorama with a Plain Black Lustre, double

policeman for a lecturer. No; I’ve gotto get aspecimen and analyze it, and I'll be hanged if I know how to do —

Tlaughed. ‘‘Why don’t you put an ‘ad.’ in the papers: ‘Wanted.—A bur- glar to spend a sbort vacation in a country house at Brankville-on-the-

Hudson while he is being taken apart |

and put together again. Must be an

adept in his profession. Terms lib- |

—""

With his usnal obtuseness Leonard did not seem to see anything humorous in the suggestion. On the contrary, he appeare:) to take it seriously, and when bis wife called us to dinner a few min- utes later ha said thoughtfully:

“Say, Tom, you’re not so confeund- edly anverine as you look. Let's go down aud eat on that last idea of poure.’’

A week later I had atelegram from Leouard

“Coma up,’’ he said. ‘‘The B prob lem is solved, and I want you to inter- view me.’’

met me at the station.

‘*Good boy!’’ he said, shaking hands. |

**Pinched for time?”’

I nod:ied.

‘‘All right. You oan do it in 15 min- wtes an catch the next train to the vity if you have to.”’

**Do what?’

‘“‘Why, interview me, of course. Didn’t ; ou read my message?”’

In view of the fact that Leonard had kept up a running fight with the inter- viewers ever since the early dawn of

his little day of popularity as a novel- |

ist, the request wes culte in keeping

with his other « -icities, and I Han be

knew The Daily 2 ouccrspi would glad to have him make his first excep- tion in its favor.

pended. ‘What shall I say?’’ work, but you must pile it on thick

when it comes to the personalities. Make me out the biggest fool of a crank

you cea invent, and wind up with a | ragraph on my abnormal fear of los-

ing the million or so dollars my book has earned. Say that I’m too fdiotically cautions to invest it. Say it’s reported that J \eep it in a burglar proof safe in my becroorm”’

‘*Buc you don’t do anything of the sort,’’ [ protested. Whereupon he cut in impatiently: | ‘Great heavens, man! Do you have to be hit with aclub? Onn’t you ses what i'm driving at? You onght to— it’s your own suggestion, with a little necessary revision.’’

I wrote the interview while he wait- ed, anc. he read & after the down train had whistled

‘That will bring me my burglar if anyth ug will,’’ he said, returning the notebook. ‘‘Don’t you think so?’’

} “IT bope it will, and I also hope that Mr. Michael Horrigan, or Hon. Patey McGonigle, or whatever his name may chano» to be, will scare the foolishness out of you on the model question for a twelyomonth.’’

_ "Thanks. But if you've any sympath~

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