Smart Detectives.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 10 December 1901, Page 2

Smart Detectives.

Paris, Oct. 26. Iwo dashing American women, twin sisters named Holland, suddenly fell from nobody knew where three months ago and captured the American colony. They were dressed stunningly, and moved from one fashionable hotel to another, which latter circumstance, though suspicious, was ascribed to their originality. °

Nobody could vouch for them, yet they were so winsome, witty, and entertainin'' that they Boon secured invitations everywhere. J

Then it being found that they were experts in matters of feminine dress, they were called upon to act as advisers to many American women in the purchasing of gowns, bonnets and jewellcy, until gradually through social gossips, dressmakers and jewellers they knew absolutely every purchase made. Now it is discovered that the Holland twins are detectives who were sent here by the Treasury at Washington to inform the American customs officers of probable importations, and also to make a general study of the methods and extent of stnugghng by fashionable people and by the buyers sent here three or four times a year ny many American firms. The twins identity was disclosed in a warning letter sent to friends here by one of the chief officials of the New York Custom House.