Don Horacio 



pawnbroker's shop, without any sat- 

 isfactory information as to where it 

 came from or how it got there and 

 with a plainly implied suggestion of 

 " No questions asked or answered." 

 Under these circumstances it was 

 thought desirable that the helmet 

 should be identified before accept- 

 ance, for which purpose it was sent 

 to the country home of the friends 

 most competent to judge, who recog- 

 nized it positively as the missing 

 basin of Don Horacio, otherwise 

 known as the " Helmet of Mam- 

 brino," whereupon its purchase from 

 the dealer for the price of seven dol- 

 lars was completed and the basin was 

 forwarded to New York. 



With it came also sundry bills of 

 incidental expenses, notably that of 

 the detective agent who rendered an 

 account for his professional services 

 in recovering what, by queer mis- 

 nomer, he erroneously describes as 

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