A FRENCH DETECTIVE STORY

In ISG7, the year of the Exposition—of the interview of the two Emperors and the King of Prussia—the sun of Austerlitz shone for the last time in the heaven of the Second Empire.

Napoleon 111., inviting Europe to his fetes, was startled in the midst _of his theatrical glory by the spectre of Maxi milian. The Prussians returned to their country, their hearts bitter with envy. All Europe was dazed by the splendour of the Paris of ISG7. ..... One day I was walking in the cylindrical departments of the Exposition, on the look out for the numerous pickpockets who ran over from London with a view to picking every well-lined pocket in gay and festive Lutetia. After having strolled through the numerous and splendid cufes of all nations, conducted by schemers gathered together from the four quarters of the world, I struck the department reserved for German in dustry. In quitting this department I jostled against a gentleman. This person had ob served mo.

After having designedly gazed at me, as I learned by the first words he uttered, I set myself to study him in turn. He was a great big man, with the face of a drayman, red-bearded, and with immense shoulders and long legs. Every look, every gesture, proved him to be an inhabitant of (.I roat Britain.

"Sir," lie said to me, "excuse me for trespassing upon you : but I have only this mode of making myself known, since time presses, and 1 have, as a stranger, a great need of both your advice and your aid. You will excuse mo, I am sure, when you learn that I am of the Fame profession as yourself. My name is T) ,1 am attached to the detective police of England. I came from London here, in my capacity as chief of tli<; English police, with a view to arrest ing the numerous —to me—well-known pick pockets who are infesting your Exposition. Should you feel inclined to doubt my iden tity, here is my card." And the English oliieer, with his long fingers, handed me lii-i card, upon which I read, in gre:it letters, his name and rank. In returning him the card, I said :

" Be good enough to say how I can be of service to you. after having told me how you came to recognise me." " 4: -3- -^8 —— "Certainly," replied the English officer. In London, at Scotland Yard, we possess not only the photographs of distinguished robbers, but also of the most distinguished police officers. Hence, my dear sir, your features are distinctly engraven upon my memory."

" Nothing can be clearer," said I, in my most amiable tone. "And now please tell me what it is you require of me." " I want you to make known to me the bandits of your country who de.sjwil the English visitors, and in return I will gladly point out the brigands of ray country who despoil the French." At tlmt particular moment this meeting with Mr 1) was for me an interposition of Providence. Had I not received number less complaint*! from visitors t£ the Ex position denouncing the detective service bec-iuse of its inability to protect the public from the depredations of these brigands ? Among other complaints was one from an Englishman, which referred to a notorious English pickpocket, who.in league with a very beautiful English woman, his accomplice, had despoiled him of a pocket-book contain ing over ten thousand francs. I ascertained through my agents that this victim found the young lady attendants in the various ra/is in the building so very attractive that he spent most of his time in roving from one to the other of these establishments, and, having been deeply fascinated by a young and beautiful English girl, attached to the English cafi, to whom he gave a most elaborate and costly luncheon, he found himself, the meal over, minus his ten thousand francs.

It was with .1 view to recovering this identical pocket-book that I was prowling through the Exposition Buildings. I repeat that, in the difficult task imposed upon me, this meeting with the chief of the English detective force was a veritable stroke of luck. Between colleagues there is confidence, and I did not hesitate to tell Mr D my object in visiting the Exposi tion.

My colleague invited me to breakfast with him in tho English restaurant where the robbery had been committed. "Come with me," said he, "I think I have got your female robber. Her name is Palmer —a very pretty girl, with hair as yellow as the gold she so skilfully extracts from the pockets ot the unwary." In return for the service Mr D was about to render me, I begged him to be my guest; but he refused with considerable decision, saying that in the English restaurant his feet would be on his native heath, and that he could permit no foreigner to ofTar him hospitality on such hallowed ground. We entered tho Cafe Anglais. It was composed of a series—as varied as it was interminable —of cofes, representing every civilised nation on the surface of the globe. From the dusky Moor to the fair English woman, one passed through these attractive saloni, rendered dangerously alluring by the very beautiful young girls who acted the rOle of Hebe.

The cafe in which these goddesses mustered in greatest force was tho Cafe Anglais. I am fain to confess that I never beheld so many rosy, fresh, and beautiful girls to gether as in this celebrated restaurant. It was a perfect bouquet of healthful beauty. Scarcely were we (D and I) seated at the table, when he drew my attention to the buffet, at which six girls were engaged in serving champagne.

" The handsomest of that lot," ho said, " the last girl, is Miss Palmer. I suspect that she has taken the ten thousand francs. When the place thins a little, I shall call her over to me. It is well that she should relate her past career to you. From her past you can augur as to her future." I ventured to express my astonishment that a lady of such unsavoury reputation would be permitted to gain a position such as she now held.

"Happily, or unhappily," said D , " criminals in England are not, like yours, subjected to eternal repudiation. When hey hare finished their tsrm, society definitely acquits them. Infamy only lasts for them during their incarceration. A robber with us is not pointed at as a robber ;he is as you and I are. You will see this practically illustrated when I shall presently invite Miss Palmer to a seat at our table."

Wo had arrived at the end of our repast, formidable as is every English meal.nncj were about to enjoy our champagne, when ray obliging colloague made an imperative sign to the Venus of the bar.

instantly she quitted the nymphs.obeying the gesture of my colleague as a soldier obeys the word of command.

Upon another sign from D—— she coated herself beside me, after having filled a glass of champagne. She was indeed a very superb woman. Her grout eyes, almost black, fringed with long lushes, gavo to her dreamy phy siognomy a strange charm. Her aquiline noee was perfect in its .shnpe,

Her large mouth was well guarded by lips as vividly redaa the ripest cherry. Her figure was one that the Venus de Milo need not have been ashamed of.

Her grace was singularly seductive, and she threw co much expression into her words, and so much delightful pan tomime into her gestures, that when her arm touched mine I could almost feel her quirer. As for my colleague, he remained cold— deaf, I might say, to the vivid and frank recital of the beautiful creature, as became a chief of police. I, on the contrary, was faithful to my rGle of the stranger, to which I willingly yielded myself, the better to study this curious and fascinating creature. She emptied her glass of champagne, which I had just filled, and having placed it on the table, declared she felt unwell. Placing her hand to her forehead, she complained of the heat, and begged of me to open the window against which I was sitting, our table giving upon the Exposi tion Park.

1 hastened to rise and do her this very small service, for which the beautiful English girl thanked me with an almost overwhelming effusiveness. On perceiving that the buffet was sur rounded by strangers, claiming her presence and attention, she quitted us. With a particularly gracious air, she said to me, and with a ravishing smile : "Good evening, sir. Bon soir, monsieur." Scarcely had she left us, when a man suddenly entered, and in an agitated manner addressed the chief of the English police. D heard him without moving a muscle. Then, rising, he exclaimed : "Pardon, colleague, but I must leave you. A most important matter has been told me by my detective. We shall meet to-morrow. You will be surprised to learn " here he leaned over and put his lips to my ear. while he paid for the dejeuner — "that this Palmer is still a pickpocket. She is only attached to the bar in order to signal her confederates what pigeon is to be plucked. It is she who has robbed your Englishman. The matter on which lam now summoned concerns another robbery, which will concern you as much as it con cerns me. To-morrow you shall learn all, if not this evening. All rcvoir, my dear confrere." And my colleague, without giving me time to ask what the affair might be in which I was equally concerned with him self, had gained the extremity of the hall. I turnod my eyes towards the buffet where the beautiful Englishwoman was enthroned ; but I found that she, as well as my colleague, had disappeared. At first I paid no attention to this coincidence —this in spite of the inherent suspicion in my character.

It was only when I regained the galleries of tho Exposition that I recalled, with a certain aversion the hang-dog face of the detective.

"The Englieh police," I said to myself, " must be very hard up for agents when they employ inspectors who so strongly resemble criminals."

I did not pause over this thought: it inspired me with no suspicion. I knew that the Englieh police was in ite rudimentary state, as was our own in the time of Vidoeq. A quarter of an hour after leaving the Cafe Anglais, still moved by the recollection of the beautiful English " girl, and still charmed with my new acquaintance with the chief of the London detectives, I stopped opposite a jeweller's stand, and being struck by a remarkably cheap scarf-pin, put up by the proprietor as a "decoy duck," I placed my hand in my pocket for my purse. My purse, with a pretty large sum of money, had gone ! I no longer doubted that the beautiful English girl was still a pickpocket. It was during the moment that I raised the moment that I raised the window to give her air that, leaning heavily against me, she had helped herself to my nurse. --'i'vKSS The crimson of shame was on my brow. I bit my lips in bitter rage in thinking that this cool and deliberate thief, this pretended chief of the London police, with his skilful accomplice, was at that moment engaged in laughing at me. Without doubt, this pickpocket, who must have been a thorough expert, had made a wager to rob a French police otlicer for the national pride of the tiling. Had lie not said to me on leaving that the affair in which he was interested equally affected myself These words were but a sarcasm, a de fiance flung by this mistifying bandit to his mystified dupe. These two pickpockets had only robbed me for the sake of art, but they robbed all the in the rafts Exposition for the sake of robbing. They wound up their nefarious designs by easing me, and the contents of my purse added to the three hundred thousand francs of which it is calculated they relieved the Exposition.

Curious Scene in a Cemetery.

A curious incident which has not hitherto found its way to the papers is reported to have token place lately at a metropolitan cemetery. At dusk, just before tho gates were closed the other evening, the keepe •"was astonished by the appearance of a man "of respectable appearance,"' as they say in tho Police Courts Intelligence, who had strung upon his left arm a number of im mortelles and other floral leaves of a funereal character, whilst in his arms he carried a large marble urn full of fresh flowers, which had evidently been doing duty on one of the graves. He was at once stopped by tho officials, and told it was for bidden by the by-laws of the cemetery to remove any object, decorative or otherwise, from the graves. "But these are my own pro perty, from my own wife's grave," returned the offender ; " I bought and paid for 'em all with my own money." " Can't help it, sir," insisted the attendant. "You must really take them back and leave them where you took them from." "Never!" ex claimed the man with a flourish of his wreath-encumbered arm. '' Why I've found out that my late wife used to carry on with her cousin !" It was not until something akin to force was employed that the aggrieved husband was induced to return the portable property to its former resting place. —" Figaro.''

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, MARCH 8, 1884.

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"VTEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TIME TABLE On and After July 6. 1833. AUCKLAND AND ON'EHUNGALINK. - 3|:S. .88 *. | cS, « » ««. « •O 1 as:a. .s| ■ a "5 1 as.«. ,gs gg ° I j3'j|' ' ' ' = i as.s■ ■ a s s Jl «d • » • ' <> « Xi an:*.: : j , ■ t'J3 : 3 : | o w ■? 2. j, a-1 — ««„ i gS.S. . a - g £ aSS ' S 2 g Z gst : S ..3 8 a 1 2«3•oo• •«s ob =-: | jl •: ' »i • • »: ti ►: _ j j : : : :^ —■g— —; — a o _| £ | I Ii: i | X ' 111 f 1 ill I©c_:_!gH 1 , c J ]a 3 3 • > 9 • 9 ! , s I. [ f •Hi? S q 3 S ;, 3. , g 1° a a 5 3 I a : : i i i£ : g | Jo O « ■ CO CQ (£J (Q (0 Q , | isss, .s . c 3 H«s«Sui' 'id • <ri -» j »o « o c* o |333" ! _ '3 CD X , m I' • ' ! !3 : 3 § a _ a s° s a ~ s . s s g3S3' -3 ■ s | H O us o o _ g3 3 3 " 5 'S- 1 s - _s s , | (j °* a °» o> o5 _ a" sa s ~s . s s « »* ' »• s & I •■•■••■■■ b | "1 g a I : I I I I to MAIN LINE. AUCKLAND —MERCSR—TB AWAMUTU SOUTH.—Week Days. ____ a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. 0 Anckland dep. 6.15 6.W 8.25 tls 6.0 2 Newmarket Jnnct. 6.25 6.M 8.37 4.25 6.10 3 Remuera .. „ 6.30 _ 8.14 *.30 6,15 •4 Green Lane.. ..„_.. •5 EUerslie 6 PenroseJunction.. 6.45 7.16 8.59ti.4516.30 9 Otahuhn .. 055 .. U.lO *.57 6.42 11 Papatoitol _ .. ~ZT 9.18 5.6 "15 Manurewa _..__.. 19 Papakura _ 9.15 5.33 .. •21 Hunua 2v Drury.. „ .. .. 8.1710i3 6.53 .. *23 Runciman ,30 Pukejcohe 9.i510.35 R25 '.'. ■33 Buckland 86 T"aka'l 9.« 10.53 6.43 .. •37 Whangarata 40 Pokeno 11.12 7.3 40 \fprrpr i arr- •• 10-251122 7.15 .. ..o «rt ".^acp. 1 10.JO 11.42 TTi .. *4S Whanßamarino -51 Wairangi _ •56 Kangiriri „ •Si! Ohinewai .. 65 Huntly 12.5 1.0 .. -. GO Taupiri 1.15 .. 74 Ngaruawahia .. .. 1.15 1.35 .. •78 Pnketo •81 Toßapa S4 Hamilton Junction .. .. 2.13 .. .. 8i Hamilton 1 DO Kuknhia Dl Ohaupo 2.50 .. .. "TO Lake Hoad "!)S Ngaroto KKJ Tc Aw_rtvnlii_arr. ■. v_3__^_-_!_^- NORTU.—Week DiYS. ijl I B I a.m.'a.m. a.M. p.m. p.m 0 TeA-wamutu dep. ].. .. 9.2U .. 2 Ngaroto .. .. 1 'i Lake Road 7 Ohanpo .. 9.50 .. •!l Knkuhia - „-• •• 17j Hamilton • 2.5 lfi! Hamilton June 10.33 2.8 .. •-'(>! Te Rapa "2;^ Pnkete -• •• 26 Ngaruawahia "•'* •• 31 Taupiri <}•*? •• -• 35 Himtly »-5» 3.45 .. il! Oliincwai .. .. - •15! Rangiriri •J6 Wairangi •51 Whangamarino . .. .. • -57 Mercer ■■ j dc p. 6.15 .. 1.30 5.20 .. ■60 Pokeno .. •■ I 6-» .. ».« •- •• «63 Whonsarata .- •• •• , 65 Tuakau .. •• 6-4« •■ 2-» •■ • •C R'.ickhind .. •• •• •• -■ •• •■ 70 Pukekohe .. •• 7.1 •• *•» 6.20 .. •77 Runciman .. •• •■ •• •; . ■• 78 Drurv.. ■• •• *"*3 .. 3.3 7.5 •80 Huniia .. •• •• •■ -1. •• 81 I'apakura .. •• 7-M .. 3." • ll RiS..MnCtIOTI <9.0 _15t1.1.v 8.20; :.f '&. iiiiib"":: :: »:« : li*;** «i Vv'mll-fcriJlinO. K--'! •■ ILIIK *.*ll 7.S' ,™ A |,,. K ]M.rt urr.!_9.» I CW g.^'i :.r



KAIPARA. BRANCH. AUCKLAND—HENDERSON-HELENS OUT.—Week DATS. 6 . . ~ „ a. in. turn p.m« 0 Auckland flep. 7.1511.0 4.M 1 Newmarket Jauction _ _. 7.2611.12 1.41 *4 Mount Eden _ _ .. _ 5 Kingsland.. _ _ .. . •5 Morninßßide _ _ .. _ •7 Mount Albert _. 8 Avondale „ .. _ „ 7.1711.37 fi.s •9 New Lynn_ _ _ „ „ _ "11 Waikomltt_ _ _ .. „ ~ *M Henderson- _ _ .. 8.10 12.2 _ *17 Swanson .. _ _ .. _ —T ~ •20 Waitakerel _ _ L •22 Taupaki -_____" 25 Kumeu Janotion _ _ .. .. g.17 •29 Waiinauka .. _ _ .. •31 Reweti _ _ •33 WoodhlU .. _ _ _ .. .. •31 Paeroa „ _ _ _ .. ~ 88 Helensville _ _ arr. 9.55 _ 7.20 IN.—Week Days. - „ „ , a.tn. p.m. p.m 0 Helensville dep. C.25 i 30 *1 Paeroa _ _ _ *6 Woodhill ..__!" •7 Rewiti _ _ •10 Wairaanku .. _ ~ .. .. ~ 14 Kumeu Junction _ . 535 •17 Taupaki _ _ •19 Waitakerei .. _ I ™ ~' Z *21 Swanson _ _ _ „ _ _ _ "25 Henderson.. .. _ .. 8.10 2.0 "27 WaikomiU.. _ _ 1 _ .. " •29 New Lynn™ _ „ _ „ 31 Avondale ..__.. 8.10 2.27 6.17 •32 Mount Albert .. _ .. _ .. „ "331 Mcrningside •■M< Kingsland.. _ "35| Mount Eden _ _ .... 36 Newmarket Junction .. _ 9.10 2.53! 7.15 38 Auckland _ urr. 9.20 3.2 7.25 C—Goods Train—a Pr.tsonijer Carriage is at tached to thia Train v>'JUicb tiops for iJ adacugera by Signal only. • FLAG STATIONS. - Tn.ms do not atop at these unless reqnired. Notice should be given to the Guard at the previous stopping Station. t Charge for Onehanga. B—Gooas Train—a Passenger Carriage is attached to thia Train which stops for P-ssenßera by Signal only, and runs from Hußtly to Hamilton on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturduye only, li Change for Auckland and intermfcdiatc: Ftations. I Cn&Ege for Helensville find intermediate Stations. CENEKAL CONDITIONS. The Railway Department does not pledge it self to the despatch or arrival of the Trains at the exact times notified in the above Tables, " and. in the event of any circumstances arising, either during or prior to the journey being made, which may render it impossible or inex pedient for a Train to proceed, will return the Fares paid, but does *»ct undertake to forward the Passengers. LUGGAGE.—Each PeEStnger is allowed ta take 1121bs. of PERSONAL Lugwvu'c free (not including merchandise of any kind), and for every 561b8., or fraction (if Sfilbs., above this weight, for every 50 miles or fraction of 30 miles, the charge will be One Shilling. No Luggage will be allowed to be taken into the carriages, unless of such a size th^t it can be placed undei the seat without inconvenience to other Passen gers. Passengers are utrongly recommended to nave their Names and the Station to which they are proceeding distinctly marked on their Luggage, and to satisfy themselves that it is placed on the Train, as the Railway Depart ment will not be responsible unless it is booked and paid for. Passengers can be booked at Stations only on condition that there simm in the Train. Children under thic-o ■ rars of a«e travel free; above three and umUr twelve yuars of age, half-fare. HORSES, CARRIAGES, &0.-The Railway Department does not undertako to toward Horses and Carriages by any particular Train; but when sent, they ncrast be at the forwarding Station half an-hoor before the departure of the Train. The Owners of Horses must provide means for securing them in the Hor3e-box, and the Railway Department will not be account able for any injuries sustained through their breaking loose or otherwise, nor will it under take to carry unbroken or vicious Horsea,' At Country Stations requisitions for Horse-boxes or Carriage-trucks must be made the day before they are wanted. DOGS must be provided with chains, or other sufficient means of securing them. They Iwill not be allowed'in carriages, and tlio. sender must obtain a Ticket, to be given up zi the "end of the journey, and before the Doc is delivered. RETURN or PERIODICAL TICKETS will not bo available for Special and Excursion Trains, except when iie Ordinary Time Table is suspended. ■ ■ ~ . SPECIAL NOTICE.— To ensuro despatch, Parcels, Extra Lugfcage, nnd Doim ihust be at the Station at. least THIRTY MINU > ES belore the Advertised Time of Departure of Train. All Time Tables issued prior- to this date are now <-u r , ce u e (l. .'. P. MAXWELL, ■ General Manager. A UCKLAND DEUTSCHEK A'ER^IN. Gesellige Zusammenkunfte jeden Jlittwoch Abend, 8 Uhr, im Vereins Zimmcr. Park Hotel. Wellesley-street. Deutsche Zeituugcn und Journale. Deutsche Bibliothek. MAX KOBER. Schriftfuhrer.



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