Before the end of the afternoon the maker was found on the Bowery, near Houston Street.

This was his story: A couple of weeks before, a young man had come in and ordered a certification stamp, drawing at the time a rough design of what he wanted.

The stamp, when first manufactured, had not been satisfactory to him; and on his second visit, the customer had left a piece of a check, carefully torn out in circular form, which showed the certification which he desired copied.

This fragment the maker had retained, as well as a slip of paper, upon which the customer had written the address of the place to which he wished the stamp sent--The Young Men's Christian Association! The face of the fragment showed a part of the maker's signature.

The superintendent ran his eye over a list of brokers and picked out the name of the firm most like the hieroglyphics on the check.