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SHORT STORY.

DIARY OF A POLICEMAN

BY

ALFRED HENRY LEWIS

As he

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You see, I'd been working for obviously weighed too much for a gambling int: and all at once, my height. I was seven pounds one day, I got fired. I was on too heavy noder the rules, and. the door, and I let the wrong train and starve as I would, people get by a couple of private couldn't take at off. detectives for an anti-vice society. Standing in with the official "You're a swell lookout, you who took the weights, I handed are," says the proprietor. "You've them the old boxing triok. It's got eyes in your Lead as blind as a game that has sent many o LYEEMUN," Barker Road stenple bat

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So, for a finish, I bit the street. I sure was sore. I know the old town like a book. There wasn't a Sunshine dispensary on the West Side where I didn't know the mixer. And when it came to gamblers and the sure-thing boys, I had some calling list. I was wise s-plenty, but somehow I much of a "leight-of-hand per- never seemed to get in right onformance to fasten the fifty cont the stuff myself.

piece, by means of the gum, to 1 was pokin' along the old West the bottom of the weight, as Le Side, moaning to myself over that elid it along the steel beam. Re perfectly good five dollare a day sult: a throw-cil of twelve'pounds I'd been grabbing off in the pool on the platform. I showed room, and wondering why I side the weight, with five pounds hadn't shown some judgment and to throw to the birds. That died in the cradle, when who trick, however, cost me an extra should I meet up with but an old fifty bonos for the gum-chawer. friend of mine a police head. quarters detective.

the detective,

"What are you doing?" saye I told him I was on the street, and up against if for fair.

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Why don't you get on the force?" he said.

"Why not?" says the dick from the Central Office. "You're husky lad. If they had more like you, they'd be better off."

He wasn't so far wrong, at that,

The other nifty? No, there was no way of dodging it. Suppose ten-dollar gold piece; suppose I was no right physically as a did all of the jumping and lifting and strong-arm stunts generally. There's still your lungs and your

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thought of myself as a detec swelled with importance when tive, and I at once began to model myself on my glorious chief. He was the inspector who had obarge heart. Oh, there's a dozen ways of the detectives, and I looked op I sat up and took notice. for thom fly doctors to throw you to him and worshipped him as Would you believe me, it nevarlown; and make no mistake-though he were some little tin struck me before.

it's a case of pay or get thrown god. I used to wonder if I'd ever down. It wasn't for me to give become as deep and as swag ger anybody a battle; I'm not a thiof-talker as he was, and I reformer. I picked me for four did my best to look and act and bundred dollars to pass the ex-think and talk like him. amination and land in the top copied his walk, sad puffed out I was as hard as a keg of nails, ve hundred names Later, hy my chest as he did. those days; and when it came to three monilis, it cost me four

One day two Central Office taking care of myself, I was there hundred dollars more to get my dicks brought in a pickpocket; with the goods. In the old days, shield, The final four hundred they'd taken him off a Broadway when I was a kid at the old West dollars stopped at headquarters. car. The thief looked as spick Side athletic club, they didn't any

The money came all "right-and span as though he'd stepped of them have anything on ma

from my policy friend. He's out of a bandbox. There wasn't, when I came to handling my fists. dead now, but he was a prince a mark on him.

"Have you got the price?" says when he was living, and my good. While the two bulls were book- my detective friend, as

Sure," he said, whening him, the great chief himself thinking it over,

I asked him for the dough; "and strolled in. He glanced at the "Not a dollar," I said-and when you get on the force, come thief, and then, turning an eye then I was down in my boots around and see me. May be of agate on the two officers, he again; for 1 knew well enough, might do something else for you." roared: right there at the start, you'd So, finally, I was a fall fledged to come across, or no police force plain-clothes officer. for you.

"Haven't you got unybody

The Hazing of the New "Cop." that'd stake you?" he said after a

If I had time, I could tell you while.

some hair-raising tales of how a

think of anybody.

I

WAS

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friend.

"Is that the way to bring in a man? Why didn't you beat him up? What do you bums think | you are-ladies' maids?"

I Strive to Please My Chief. new patrolman is hazed. Talk himselmydmiring cara were As my glorious chief delivered

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"I dunno," I said. I couldn't of West Point or Annapolis! waving like a field of wheat. It

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They ain't markers to what's was more than a lesson-it was well, don't you ?"

Koow Ed Evans, the policy in a bath-tub to branding 'em wants men who'll give these BIST OF ANcient chinese everything, from drowning em "Odbloke I. "What he king? I should say I did! I had with red-hot irons. As for my pick pockets the rough toss CURIOS, JADES, ORNAMENTS saved him from getting his eyeself, the first night l'mon reserve who'll bear their brains out! knocked out one night by a burch the station-hou-e, six husky Trust me tho-e term to be- belonging to the Gopher Gang officers took me nut of my cot-it come the fair haired boy of the 72 Queen's Road, Central,

was midwinter, mind!and pat Central Office! I'll bring him in Ime on the station-roof, and I was a few thieves trimmed to eait his

kept there twenty minutes in my taste!" Blockin' feet, with just about

A bad bunch, too. It would have

gone hard with him if I hadn't happened along.

"You go around and see him,"

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anya my friend the headquartere enough clothes on me to flag a pick-pocket.

One week later I nailed another detective,

He hand-car. They called it "Best through the crowd at the Brook- So I went around and saw my 4)."

going friend the policy king, with his

lyn Bridge like the grace of haymow of the long green.

They next night I went to bed heaven through a camp meeting. Never mind what he said to me, entertainment committee started pocket up to his elbow, when I with my gun, and when the He had his arms in a woman's but right after that I put in my in to give me the second degrer, grabbed him. application for the civil exams.

Instantly I was set to jumpin' one to put a hand on me I'd shoot Office, I tantalized him and Cannot be Beaten, if Equalled, For

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as solid as a brick switch-shanty passed me up. It was quite as tore into bim anyhow. We were caught me for a hundred, and well; for I'd made up my mind, in Mulberry Street at the time, the civil service examination pro-iron-hard, to murder any man not a hundred feet from the per for three hundred dollare who laid a mitt on mo more. Don't ask me. where it

station. What I did to that went-I don't know. Wiee men something came my way that's knocked him down a dozen times. But right there at the start thief would fill a book! I told me that I'd got to come what I thought then, anyway. and I remember thinking that if Berose or fall by the wayside, and My policy king was right on the I'd only hit half as hard in the The Wastrel By Harold Bindlors, Velled Women naturally I came across The

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case. I put op the fifty pound old head quarters on Mulberry pleased anticipation. Thinks I: man he got me my detail to the looked him over, I smiled in dumbbell with each band, and Street, esa Central Officedetective. "The chief'll simply fold me to A Run away Rlog could have put ap a hundred- and-fifty-pound bell if there had

I was a patrolman still with his heart, once he gets his lampe patrolman's pay; but I was in on his student,"

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been anything in it; I cleared the Central Office. Now, if it (To bo Continued next Saturday.) Ifs & Ands By B, Marriott Watson the tape in the high jump at didn't lever up my pay any, it four feet sir, and could have certainly raised my conceit. added a foot to that if it would have helped fatten my mon, every-day harucen officers I took to looking down on com-

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