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SHORT

STORY.

DIARY OF A POLICEMAN

BY

ALFRED HENRY LEWIS

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1913.

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(Continued from last Saturday.)[s cloud of newspaper men, blew As I was dragging my captive. My gallant chief stood me up the steps-bleeding at every up between two of his heuchimes, SHIEL Barker Road, No. 124,

pore, he was, like Marco Bozzarin straight ist in demanded ingerek, 5 rooms from last March, TO LET on 2nd Floor No. 2, in the poem-two of my fellow at mo, demanded:

dioks camo along. They know my man; he was one of their stool-pigeons. They begged ino to throw him, loose.

It was right there I made a mistake; ought to live book- ed him the inore, since I'd нo exhaustively beaten him up. Bat I was young and green, anu to please my two detective friends

let the crook go. That was about six o'clock in the evening. The next morning I picked up a paper, and there, in big black type, was the head: Brutal Assault by a Central

Office Man...

It bold my interest in a moment, "Who's going to get it now?"

I wondered:

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tion. my crook, the moment he Taking advantage of the situs- had cleared me, sneaked out. Hongkong, 25th Feb., 1913

3rd bur, Alexandra Building.TLET use in Knutsford had my eye on him, and was out 7

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Office man, and that it was my He was weak-minded enough Hongkong, 28th Mar., 1913. [264] Brooklyn Bridge "gon who had to come. The moment he stepped beenbrutally assaulted." The aside the stairway, i emasbed

awful fuct was, I had pounded nim with my blackjack. Down thing if the powers that be could up my crook light under the ho went, too dead, apparently, to learn it. If you've got to reduce eyes of what reporters had been skin. In a fish I'd gone through a mañ, don't do it.. Dismies him! detailed by their editors at Head-his jeans and retrieved my five The reduced officer is never any quarters. They had an office hundred dollars. In another good.. just across from the Mulberry fish I was back in the station But that wasn't the worst with Street station, and while I was house, looking as though I'd me. I was sore clear down to the battering my poke-getter to anover been out of it.

bone; and I began talking about point which I figured would make Ten minutes went by, and my glorious inspector of deteo-| me popular with my gallant chief, was talking pleasantly and, I tives. And there's where I made there were those newspaper think, convincingly with the my mistake. I had broken, a young men, their eager noses newspaper fleet, when in stagger-capital part of the copper's pressed flat against the panes, ed my crook, blood from head to ancient confession of faith: taking it all in. Ae I read on foot, and full of new complaints. through the tale of Central He undertook to tell how I had Office brutality," and found my-bashwhacked him in the stair self paraded as the stur performer, way; but I interrupted him in to say that sweat blood would midswing.

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Eat, driak; pay nothing. But I didn't care. I talked, and of course it went straight back to the inspector.. And then but faintly describe how I felt. "There, you see, gentlemen," they started after me. The word When I reached the Central I cried, addressing the newspaper came down from Headquarters to Office, there, glaring like a people. "It's just as I said. This get me, and right off they started wronged panther, stood my man's crazy, literally insane! Isetting traps to, job' (trap) me. gallant chief, Ho, too, had been haven't been outside the station, One night I was detailed to a reading the morning papers, as some of you know, and here's beat on Thirty-third Street. WE Shaking a copy of one of them in this liar again with fresh varne my frightener face, he shouted about being slaughtered. It's too What are you trying to do? | bad in the face of this sort of Put me in a bole? That party thing, I ask you, what's an honest

you pounded 'll be here at two follicer to do?" " o'clock this afternoon to identify This time I had my audience you, and if he picks you out I'm with me. Perceiving which, my going to send you on to Sing glorious chief, his confidence Sing."

restored, fired the complaining crook out of the room with his own high and mighty hand..

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"That was a swell lookout for a bard-working officer who had been trying to do his duty as he had heard it expounded by his gal lant chief!

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Before I left, the captain of my precinct tipped me the kindly wink that needn't bother about Tue doing that tour. Taking him at his wink, I went to the theatre. Then what does my friend the captain do but plant cas of his sergeant and two plain-clothes men on that. Thirty-tbird Street beat for four mortal hours!" "The next day I was handed chargon for being "eff past." When I

As I was loyally returning the borrowed five hundred dollars to sought sympathy from the captain

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Some quick moves had to be during the brief space it had been cast me from him as one in whom BEST OF ANCIENT CHINESE The in the fruitful possession of the dwelt neither moral worth nor CURIOS, JADEs, ORNAMENTS made, and I made 'em. crook I'd punched had been taken crook it had pleasantly grown. I truth.

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which was trying to make a big the upshot of that adventure. sure, that time; but I was play. 72 Queen's Road, Central. story of the business. Its crack But thirty-five dollars was aliug in luck, It happened that. reporter had been told off to heel poor reward to me for that day's the deputy commissioner

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and handle him. When the re-work. My gallant chief, it would tried me was all right. He had OSMAN V CASUM. portera came at me, I kept a stiff seem, was not wholly pleased. Ile upper lip.

called me in on the carpet, and "There's nothin' in it," I saya. took a squint at me out of the cor- If he says I beat him up, he's ner of his eye. nutty, that's all."

Then I sent out,, through the two dicks whose stool-pigeon he was and who I turned him loose! for, and I got hold of my orook inside of an hour. I asked him how much the newspaper was giv- ing him to identify mo.

"A hundred dollare," says my bold plakpurse.

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"I'll give you five hundred," said, "to fall down with the identification.'

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"Why, sir," I returned, "these His face lighted up, even With that, he turns me out of men tell the truth, doubtless. through the several yards of headquarters for good. For that The trouble was that I misunder bandages. He said he'd take it. little business of masking up the stood the detail. I thought the I told him where to be at half past crook, a strategy that was to win lieutenant said Twenty-third one o'clock to get his money. Ime immortal glory from my Street, when it seems he anid put the hour as late as I could, gallant chief, be sent me back Thirty-third. I was on pont in The Wastrel By Harold Bindloss. Velled Women for two reasons. I must have again on the sidewalk as a patrol: Twenty-third Street all the time. Come Rack! Come Rope 1 time to dig up, the five hundred man,

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