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A = OF CRIMINAL Cr MYST MYSTERIES 2 a <
i bt The Mvstery of the the Trust Builder Builder Builder
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HEN I took up upm upm upm
m y residence residencewith ruldeneewi residencewith
with wi th CarltonClarke Carlton CarltenClarke CarU n nClarke
Clarke telepa telepathic teletNlthlc telepathic ¬
thic detective I Iadmit Iadmit Iadmit
admit It was waswith waswith wa wawith
with certain certainmisgivings c e r t a I n nmisgivings
i I misgivings Im Imn magine m magine
n agine II living v I re ti g gwith e ewith
f with a mAn roanwho mAnwho manr
r who In h caseyon case caeejrou ca cayou
you w were r out outthe outtlM outthe
the Might be before hefore before
fore could tell tellyen tellyou telly
yen y e u wltheutQuegt without withoutquestion wllhftutQUNtlIlI
question Quegt i where you Y U had been beenand Iteenand beenand
and what hat you had been doing debugSurely doingBurely
Surely I should have to sacrifice both bothprivacy bothprivacy bothprivacy
privacy and individuality A few fewweeks fewweeks fewweeks
weeks howeve taught me that my
fears were grotJidless groL1 < dl If Clarke em employed emploed employed ¬
ployed his hi wonderful powers were In my mycase m mcase mycase
case it was w we only onl In anticipating my mywants myV1U1 mywants
wants wantsWe V1U1 wantsW tll tllWe
W We e had been house mate but a asnort alinort ashort
snort time when I discovered l that his hieclientele hkicliEntele hisclientele
clientele already wa was a large one on and anddrawn anddrawn anddrawn
drawn from widely wldel different circles circlesWhat eirclesWhat circlesWhat
What their troubles were or r In what whatmanner whatmanner hat hatmanner
manner Clarke was able to aid them I Iwas Iwas Iwas
was unable to guess Once when I Isuspect IU8p Iauspeet
suspect U8p t my mind vc WUI dwelling on the themystery themyter theMystery
mystery myter with rather rath a morbid interest interestClarke IntereetClarke interestClarke
Clarke turned to me and mktThese said saidThese aidThelfe
These case co are too t o commonplace commonplaceto mmonplaoeto
to Interest you Wait until we have havesomething haveBomethlna haveeomething
something big < and I will rill take you into intomy Ifttom Intomy
my m confidence By the way ti7 I expect ex expect expect ¬
pect a client this evening who ought oughtto
to be worth orUt while He U is the Ut head at atone DCone ofone
one of the beet known knoMock stock broker brokerage brOkerage brokerage ¬
age nouse houses in the city and in his h note notehe notehe notehe
he says he hopes I may be able to tosolve to80lve tocove
solve a mystery anecting < some 1IHt of the thegreatest thegreateat thegreatest
greatest corporate interests of the theeountr tt ttcountn theCounti
eountr eountrXsuring countnLilrtng CountiLuring
Luring the evening a severe elec electrical eleetr1cal olectrical ¬
trical storm broke over th the city As itsClarke S
Clarke aid not expect hie It caller until untilbalfafter ItftttlIlaltafter untilhalfafter
balfafter eight I retired to my room roomto roomto roomto
to snatch an extra hour for some work Ork
I had ha in hand Soon my typewriter typewriterwas
was clattering away to ibe accompani accompaniment accomputlment accompaatment ¬
ment of the artillery of the heavens heaV tNi I Icuid Icuid
cuid hear Clarke nervously pacing etB <
the library Without U the e lightning
kept up one 0 continuous clDU iuoas ua nn Aeeh h A bolt boltrnaily
finally tinall struck so near that th the flash Itehfind flashand
and the th report seemed to come co almost almostal
al l the same e instant Tin
was wa too toomuch 18ftmuch toomuch
much for my nerve nervee and I decided decidedtnat
tnat work was w out of the question qUfStioDItg question1ta
Its a fierce eree night out Im r afraid afraidyour afraidyour
your man will not coma coma I suggested IlUClre ted
to Clarke going to the d or orl1arkt doorClarke kK r rClarke
Clarke stopped his re restless mareh
I had begun to think so myself he
said but if I aw not mistaken Jftl ta he e is
Just now no turning turnl turnln into Chestnut street streetat streetat
at Clark ClarkA ClarkAa ClarkAss
A Aa well mm I knew Clarke and with
all my faith in hi hM wonderful powers
this thl was a trifle beyond yond my compre ¬
hen hension ton la IeM tees than ftv Ave minutes
however we e heard a carriage c rnage drive
up to the entrance eftt ra nee I rushed rush t to the theIng the1lndow
window and saw the coachrnan cover vr
Ing a steaming pair lot of handsome tand ome
blacks with their rubber blankets
I suppose e you scarcely expected me
surh a night as this Mr Clarke Clarkmaid
said our caller as he h laid off o hi his rain ¬
coat and top hat I
assure you my y
coming serves to show that the mat ¬
ter is of great importance I am
H Henry nr A Bolton of the Ant > of Belten
Co You doubtless had my note
this afternoon I was referred to you
by a friend who te tet1 lt me that you
have had
considerable
success In n con ¬
fidential case caseA e1MHiIA caaeaA
e1MHiIW
W J
A MaD of Affairs AffairsI
I took Mr
Bokons hat
and coat coatthem
and when I returned from stowing
them away a in the reception hall I had
my first opportunity to make a care ¬
ful survey it J f hla person
Our visitor was evidently a man of
affairs He was round to the verge of
corpulence e A keengray keen gray
eye yea a men ¬
ey eye If there is such a distinctive dl tlncUve
orb orblooked looked ttraight at me His HI cheeks
glowed under a healthy tan
and his hiswhite hiswhite
white hlte hair mustache and neatly trim trimmed trlmmtd trimmed ¬
med imperial gave ae him something of t
a military bearing For the th rent he hewas Itewas bewas
was a member of the Mystic Shrine Shrinewitness Shrinewltnesa
witness itnt the handsome seal 1 on his hi
heavy teav sold watch wa h chain he was a golf
enthuaiastwltDNs enthusiast witness the tan and the
callouses on his otherwise white whitepalms whitepalms hlte hltepRJm
palms and his tailor taU t was the best In
the t hf city cityWhen elf elfWhen cilyWhen
When my confrere had set out the thegenerally thegfnfral1y thegenerally
generally prescribed ant antidote Motes for a apt awet
wet pt night and our cigars wsrs were wit going ng
well Clarke asked Mr Bolton for an anexplanation anexphnaUcn anexplanation
explanation of his hi note and visit
Let u us have the tb story tOI Mr r Bol ¬
ton he said and d I will question you youas youas
as is I necessary necessaryWell neeeuai7Well
Well began Bolton
as you eu per ¬
haps know I am the senior member meM of
the stock brokerage broker firm flri of BoKon
Co Possibly you do not know kno the po position poaition ¬
aition my Arm hotf hods in n the financial flnanclalorld financialworld IlnancMlorld
> world orld for our work is confidential COQ denU1 in inthe inthe Inthe
the extreme To the world at large Ir we weare weare weare
are members of the
principal exchang ex exl x xliiangts
liiangts l chang s both Here and in the Kaat
doing doin a general jr n ral stock brokerage heel business ltuelDtRI heelness ¬
ness wild Itb a branch house in New
Yurk and private telegraph nrrfeeAu serrtoe serrtoeAs Wttoea
As a matter of fact though and I Itell Itell Itell
tell it to you in confidence which I Iam Iam Iam
am assured by my In friend you will not notbei 80tbttra notbetray
bttra betray bei ray our actual busine is organis organising orwaablIn orwasisIng ¬
In ing trusts trustsi trua truai
i wet a > KU > by way of parenthesis parenthesisthat pttf
that the business deals of Bolton ItCo A ACo tCo
Co have ha wnce become so well known
to the world through Uro U the e investiga investigations Iye Isveetlgatiuns tlga ¬
Lions of the Department of Commerce Commerceand
and Labor l abor that I am not violating c this thisconfidence tkiscon thisconndence
confidence con dence in the course of this lb nar narrative narrative Mrrative ¬
rative11e rative rativeWe rativeWe
We are closely affiliated with the thewell Utewell thewell
well known Arm of P J Forgan ForganCo 10 10Co
Co of New York continued Mr DlLon Bol Bolton Dolton ¬
ton Moat of t the combinations b1eaatJou of ofcapital ofcapital ofapital
capital which w lch t th house of Forgan Ha Habacked has hasbacked
backed openly nave v la reality reaUt had hadtheir hadtheir I Itheir
their inception in our eftice office I may
say aIL without egotism that I am the thefather tltefathfr thefather
father of the mOdem trust tt idea ea forI for forI
I had it worked out in detail twenty
five years ago agoRecently apRe agoRecently
Recently Re ntb our moat fortunate yen ve vetUIfS ¬
turns have been In
cornering the
asstdufacture man manufacture Jt JtutA ¬
ufacture utA ture of minor articles which whI t art
however important necessaries neces alea in inAugust laA iriAugust
August A u g u s t 16 1 6 J 1908 1 9 O 8 8i
< i i
= n <
household economy There Th re T ras a the thelamp thelamp thelamp
lamp qhimney trust the potato mashr r rtruflt rtruAt rtrust
trust the canopener and corkscrew oorksorewtrust oork corkscrewtrust sorw sorwtrust
trust and many others which I might mightmention mightlftenUon mightmention
mention all of whten were ideas of ofmine ofmine ofmine
mine and were ere organized in our office ot84have offleeWe officeWe
We have also had a hand In practically practi practically pracUcally ¬
cally all of the better known kft WR combina combinations combinations combinations ¬
tions of capital within the last half halfdozen halrdozen haltdozen
dozen years yearsDetails yearsDetails yearsDetails
l
Details of Concern ConcernI
I am telling you this not in Inboastful a aboastful aboastful
boastful way but because it is BeeN necessary BeeNsuy noosenary ¬
nary that you should have a thoroughunderstanding thorough thoroughunderstanding thoroughunderstanding
understanding of the details of our ourbusiness ourbuslneH ourbusineea
business and because it has an Impor Important Importtlllt important ¬
tant bearing I believe on what Is to tofellow tofollow tofellow
fellowNaturally fellow fellowNaturally followNaturally
Naturally we receive a large daily dailymall dati datiman dallymall
mall from from our house hou in New York Yorkwhich Yorkwhloh Yorkwhich
which as you y U doubtless doubU know ie in incharge illcharge incharge
charge of James H Haaen ft my son soninlaw son1ftlaw sonInlaw
inlaw The mall invariably includes includesa lnelud lneluda
a dally report of the business done by bythe bJthe bythe
the New York house I give this thi this malt mailmy maltmy maltmy
my personal ersonal attention attentionIt
It was about six months ago that thatI
I first noticed something peculiar p Inthis in inthis tnthis
this department of our business bu One Oneday 0day Oneday
day tn going through the New York Yorkmatl YorkI Yorkmall
< mall I observed ob an error In the spell spellIng epellInK spelling
Ing of some common word in the tb fatlyreport daily dailyreport tlMlrr1J
report r1J rt It rather grated on me and I Itook Itook Itook
took my pen and corrected C rreebHI It It As I Iturned Iturned Iturned
turned the sheet over upon th the blotter blottermy 1ttotterm blottermy
my m eye e e was as attracted by a sentence sentencelightly Mflt MfltUrhtly sentencelightly
lightly writter in pencil on the backThe back backThe beklhe
The hand was the met childish childishscrawl ehlkUshIleraLwt childishscrawl
scrawl and the substance BUb taac so utter utterly utteriy utteriy ¬
iy foolish tooll h that I paid no no attention to to1L toIt to1L
1L I thought It likely that one of the thechildren thechildren thechildren
children of o the clerk whose hOM duty It Hwas Itwu Itwas
was to write up the report had been beenIn heenIn beenin
In the office scribbling on the blanks blanksHere blankHere blanksHere
Here is the report reportMr reportlr reportMr
Mr Bolton took a document from an anImposing anImvo anImposing
Imposing Imvo lnc pocketbook and laid it upon uponthe uponthe uponthe
the table We read upon it the follow following Collowlag following ¬
ing sentence sentenceI
I see two black eats on the backyard back backyard backya
yard ya fence fenceWell fenoeVell fenceWell
Well what do you think of it itasked Itked itasked
asked ked Bolton after Clark bad stud studied studIed studied ¬
ied the scrawl for a few minutes minutesRvidently minuteJCvklently minutesk
Rvidently k a disguised hand an answered anw answered ¬
swered w red Clarke This new system of ofvertical oCcortical ofvertical
vertical writing is the easiest 8 penman penmanship penmanshlp ¬
ship 11111 Imaginable under which to hide a acharacter acharactBr acharacter
character hand But go on This Thiscertainly Thiscertalnl Thiscertainly
certainly certalnl is not sufficiently excuse for forcalling torcalhnl forcalhng
calling in an expert expertCertainly expertCerUlnly expertCertainly
Certainly not answered a swered Bolton BoltonI
I should have thought nothing of ofthin ofthl ofthis
thin thl had It not been for the events eventswhich eventswhich 11 11wblch
which followed folie wed I do not say that I Iimmediately IImmedtately IImmediately
immediately connected those t events eventswith evtawith eventswith
with this scrawl but you will SU so see how howI
I was led to this inference a as I procoed pro proceed trocew ¬
coed ceedAt At the Ume this report reached reao me mewe m mwe mewe
we had just eoneluded with the house houseof eot houseof
of Forgan Oo an arrangement to tobuy tobuy tobuy
buy up all of the broom factories in inthe Intbe Inthe
the country and organize them into a aUnjst aUNat atrust
trust The broom as you know is an aninsignificant anInslgnlftcant aninsignificant
insignificant article but it is l found In Inevery Inevery Inevery
every home in America Our plans planswere planawere planswere
were going ng nicely We e had every fac factory tactory factory ¬
tory in the country save v one 0 This Thisone Tb Tbone Thisone
one however M wever had an output equal l to tethe tothe tothe
the combined output of all the others othersand otbersand othersand
and its purchase was absolutely aD olutely neces necessary n8085sary neeessary ¬
sary to our plans plansDealt p plansi M MDoalt
i tt4 tt4Dealt
Dealt a Serious BIoRWhen Bloir BloirWhen Dlo Dlohen
When hen this dally report came we wewere wewere wewere
were Just opening negotiations for Its Kspurchase Itspurcha Itspurchase
purchase e with every prospect of sue succees Hecerfl sueceee
cees The day after the receipt of t the thereport OMreport thereport
report I met the owners and their theirterms theirterms theirterms
terms nearly knocked me Into a heap heapNothing hMPNothing heapNothing
Nothing less than the presidency pretld nc of ofthe oCth ofthe
the th trust a majcrlty of the board of ofdirectors oCdirectors ofdirectors
directors and 51 per cent of the stock stockIf BtockIf stockIf
If you ou know anything about business businessyou hou4Hr buekreeayou eN eNyou
you know that these the e terms were im impossible ImpoHIb1e hitpoesible ¬
possible No o amount of persuasion persuasionwould per persuasionwould uaslOn uaslOnwouJd
would shake them or disclose their theirreasons theirreasons theirreasons
reasons and the upshot was that we wegave wegave wegave
gave up up the project the house ot otBoton ofBoston f fBolton
Boston t Co lost t more money than thanI
1 care are to think about and my m credit creditwith creditwUh creditwith
with Forgan Co was seriously serl ul dam damaged dJned damaged ¬
aged agedA ed edA A few e weeks afterward we eseayed eseayedthe eeeayedthe yed yedthe
the launching of the souvenir postal postalcard poJitaltaro postalcard
card trust It may surprise JUrlr you when wknI
I tell you OU that the business don in insouvenir inIOUvenlr insouvenir
souvenir postal cards in this country oouiUryruns oounUYrutUi countryruns
runs far up Into the millions annual annually ¬
ly I bad watched the progress of the thefad thetAd thefad
fad and thought I saw a chance for a apretty apretty apretty
pretty speculation We Ve had bought boughtup bouhtup
up a few small houses h ruses as a baste but butthe buttht butthe
the business was practically controlled controlledby d dby
by the big printing firm of HoUawell HoUawellA HollaweltEubank
A Eubank whoso ho stock passes INUMl on the thecurb thecmrb thecurb
curb The stock had been hovering hoveringaround hoerln hoerlnreund hoveringar
around ar + und par and I had given Iv en my brok broker brokfrtI brokers ¬
er ers orders to buy the fh minute it drop dropped dropped dropped ¬
ped below M We had picked up but butR butMn1l
R small block of shares at that figure figurewhen ftgureone figurewhen
when one morning In looking Iookl ever everthe oyertb overthe
tb the mail I saw another notation on onon 91lOft onon
on the back of t th the dally report Her HerIt H HIt re reit
It We teWe Is Ve IsVe looked at the paper JMll r wINch he hehold heheld heheld
held out and rend In th tn same 8 chile ehltaish ebUQhAnd chilelilt
lilt hand handTwo hAndTo hnndTwo
Two boys on the t e grass playing pteyingmumbledypeg playlMCmumbledpeg playingmumbleedypeg
mumbledypeg mumbledypegWhat mumbledpegYbat mumbleedypegWhat
What happen a 1 queried dene ikerxeEnaugh deneEnttigii ckrxtlEnM1811
Enttigii answered Bolton The Thenext Thenext Thenext
next d day y H A X Jumped J IP to 11 under underf WIerfeverl underfeverish
feverl feverish f verl h h buying bu lng The next to t lie 11t1th 11t1thnext thenext the thenext
next to 1 115 M the next to toll m In a aweek ak aweek
week k a hitherto neglected stock could oouldnot oeuklnot couldnot
not be had at KO > The souvenir lwstal IMM IMMtal 1 1tAl
tal card eardtnMt trust v vrs s stillborn Our Ourmoney OUrJftOnel Ourmoney
money JftOnel lose M1 was IUI no great t but our ottrIn loseIn low lowIn
In prestige t1ge was WA eoiudderabA eoiudderabABut C con I ld4era1ia ld4era1iaBut siderabt siderabtBut
But It Is useless Mt s to multiply ultlpI casesTo cases casesTe caaesT
Te T epitomize wh when n New X W Yerk wrote wroteTwo wrotelw wroteTwo
Two lw g geese eflse we are ar in the pond the safe safety Mltety safety
ty pin truat tt eat went wenluncler under When WhenA WhenAfox A Afox Afox
fox ate two chicken appeared the thebrick thebr thebr
brick br k trust t failed with rUh great l tees teesCo u uDol w wDel
Del n A ° Co This brings it down dfn to tor towhen toyes
yes rday r When this inerlptt tMn m ap appeared apJHNUed appeared ¬
peared and Bolton laU a third re report re repeiot repert ¬
port before wa waThe 1t8Tbe weThe
The line was wasCaUMne WAilCaw wasCatwtine
Caw CaUMne line et forte aix aixFaced hx hxM hxCO fluxi fluxFaced
M i
Faced CO Financial fnanciaIRnJn fnanciaIRnJnNeon Ruin RuinNew RnlnNow
Now Mr > 1 Clarketuid Mr Saxton SaxtonI
I may al Y add addas 411 ac you seem em to be e equally equallyIntereeted uaMy uaMyInterested aJtT aJtTtlllereete4
Interested I have b given 1eA you a pretty
full account of the case I can never
tell you ou the worry It has caused me meThe merite meThe
The blows delivered my house recently recentlyhave recentlyhave recentlyhave
have been heavy and many times I Ihave In Inhave Ihave
have seen financial ruin staring me in inthe Inthe Inthe
the face tac If you can explain this mys mystery m78ter mys mystery ¬
tery ter and put a stop to these occur occurrences oocurrene ooourrrecess ¬
recess rene you may save me from the thebankruptcy thebankruptcy thebankruptcy
bankruptcy court which with me memeans memMftS memeans
means a suicides grave graveLet graveLet graveLet
Let me ask you ou first Mr Bolton Boltonsaid BoltonIt1d Boltonsaid
said Clarke If any similar notatlone notatlonehave n nbtationshave tatlons tatlonshave
have appeared on any PAper which you
long 10n friends When I was taken Into Intothe Intothe intothe
the firm at the age of thirty we were wereboth woreboth wareboth
both clerks together One of my first firstorders flr8 flr8orden firstorders
orders was to place plM him In the post position p posttion st sttlon ¬
tion he JI now nowtold holds and to give him a asubstantial asubstantial asubstantial
substantial f increase Jf crease in salary He Is Isa Isa isa
a very religious man a deacon deaoon In the thechurch th thchurch thechurch
church besides being greatly gr rtUy Inter Interested Interetited Interested ¬
ested in city mission ft work His sal salary salary salary ¬
ary ifs ls 10 1310 10 a year which Is mush rauohmore muehmore mushmore
more than th suth positions usually com command commAnd cornmend ¬
mand but he is more than a mere mereclerk merec mereclerk
clerk c rk He lives in his own home home a avery avery avery
very handeome one la Riverside Hi Hison His Hilison Hisson
son by th the way y Is attentive to my myyoungest myOungNt myyoungest
youngest daughter clabptfH so you see we ve e are arebound areboultd arebound
bound together by family as welt as asbustawMi asb asbusiness
business b ties tiesHave tleHave tiesHave
Have you ever known him to dab dabhie dabhle ab abhIE
hie In stocks asked eeI Clarke
stocks of companies which we have havebeen bayeboen havebeen
been after tter have been bou bought Jit by small smallbrokers smallbrokers smallbrokers
brokers practically unknown on ft the thestreet th thstreet thestreet
street and evidently acting for some someperson someparson someperson
person or persons who are strictly inthe In Inthe Inthe
the background Now Mr Clarke I Iam Iam Iam
am a man of business 81ne8s ai J y I recognize resogntsethat recognizethat re ogm28that
that you have your your own methods So Sotake Sotake Sotake
take your time and I will give I you youovary youevery youevery
every advantage in getting g to the thebottom t1lebottom thebottom
bottom of this If yeu uced you youraaywrile 701may yonmay
raaywrile may wrle your own check for your yourservices Ourservtoe yourservices
services Is I there anything els else you youwould youWGuld youwould
would like to ask me meNo met meruNo metNo
uNo No I shall look into the ease to tomorrow tQmorr01 tomorrow ¬
morrow I shall doubtless call at your youroffice YOliroeftoe youroffice
office In the capacity ef one Making Makingadvice HeklDgadIce seekingadvice
advice regarding the placing of some someseeuriUe samesecurities somesecurities
securities It will be strange tran e If we do donot flonot donot
not turn up something
l i
send 4 daily ally t te your New York Y rk office offlcfeI 1 1I
I thought t Mlght you would ask that and andI
I am prepared for you U Some S me months monthsago moRUSago monthsago
ago my soninlaw Mr r Hazen com complained complained complained ¬
plained that our daily confirmation of ofwired ofwired ofwired
wired messages was being defaced defacedand detacedand defacedand
and suggested u gellted rather sarcastically sarcasticallythat
that we keep children out of our of office office office ¬
fice As soon as my suspicions began beganto
to take form I asked him to send me meall meall meall
all of the daily confirmations w which wlflchcontained whichcontained lch lchcontained
contained anything any thin In any manner out outof outof outof
of the ordinary I have made a list of oftbeee ottb8lle ofthese
tbeee sentences scntenee and here they the are areThree areu areThree
u Three cats eating catnip catnipIf catnl catnlU
U If a farmer sold three chickens chickensfor chickensfor
for forIt
If the feathers of sixty ducks will willstuff wUlIJtutc wiltstuff
stuff stuffThat
That IB i the list and if you can canmake canJfke canmake
make make anything out of such ridiculous ridiculousnonsense rldloulouRnonsense rldloulousnonsense
nonsense you ou are smarter than I am amand amand amand
and thats considerable of an adnglssbn admis admission admJMon ¬
Mon for t r Henry Bolton to make to any anyrsan Anyman anyman
man rsanWere Were these th se sentences In a hand handsimilar handstJnllar handsimilar
similar to the one oftehlch which penned the thelinee thelines thelines
lines on your da daI1report lyv report Inquired InquiredCUrke InquiredOike inquiredCi
CUrke CUrkeHere OikeHere Ci rice riceHere
Here Is one of the th originals an anti antiyou antiyou t tyou
you may see for yourself said Belton Bol Bolton BottOIl ¬
ton again drawing his ponderous ponderouswallet ponderouswaU1 ponderouswallet
wallet walletThe waU1 waU1The walletThe
The writing was very similar being beingvertical beingvertlcA beingvertical
vertical Clearly the same effort to todisguise todlaulse todisguise
disguise a well formed hand com commented comted commented ¬
mented ted Clarke Now Mr Bolton Boltontell Boltontell Boltontell
tell me exactly thrpugh whoso hands handsthese handsthe handsthese
these e papers are accustoms to pass passFirst passFlr passFirst
First t take the report which you re receive receive receive ¬
ceive daily dailyIt
It is opened by my m personal file fileclerk fileclerk fileclerk
clerk My confidential man then thenbrings thenbrin8 thenbeings
brings the report to me in a basket baskettogether tsket tskettOlether askettogether
together with other mall In fact I Iunially Iurualiy
unially 11 find this basket on my desk deskwhen deskhelt deskwhen
when helt I arrive In tho morning After Afterhave Afterhave Afterhave
have glanced over the report I put putIt putit putit
It In another basket bRsket bss cet together with withother withother Uh Uhother
other papers to be filed This te re removed removed removed ¬
moved by my confidential man who whoin whoin ho ho1ft
in turn urn gives the papers to the filing filingclerk filingclerk filingclerk
clerk who no puts them In their proper properfiles properIlles properflies
files The dally confirmation list Is Ismade Iem ismade
made up by the chief clerk comes com to tome tome tome
me through the hands of the confidential confi confidential confidential ¬
dential man and Is returned by me to tohim to1dm tohim
him He then givoa it to the file fileclerk ftlecllKk tileclerk
clerk who with Uh his other duties at attonos attnd attends
tends to the sealing and stamping of ofall ofaU ofall
all the mall which leaves my private privateoffice privatefAG privateoffice
office fAG I am not familiar with the thasmaJter thBnar thesmarter
smarter details of the New York of office otace oface ¬
ace ace but I
Imagine much the same samemethod sarnamethocl samemethod
method Is employed thereNow there thereNow thereNow
Now tell me something of o these theseemployes theseemployes theseesnpbyes
employes beginning with the coalition confidential conlldanUal coalitiontial ¬
tial man manTobiae JRanTob manTobhts
Tobiae WJ Hippie our confidential man manhas mauheW mattbas
has heM his present position P for forthirtyfive forthirtyfive forthirtyfive
thirtyfive years e1S We have been liCe
Never It Is a capital crime In n my myemee myoffice y yoffice
office for any of the working force feresto terceto
to have any dealings on the tit exchanges exchangesBeidee exehasBe exchangeslieeldea
Beidee Be Hippie te opposed to the stock stockmarket stockmarket stockmarket
market on principle Several e eral times ttllMlleo timeshis timeshi
hi his conscience eo has troubled t ubl him M Mregarding 110reganllng soregarding
regarding the nature of the business businesswith bu businesswith ne newith
with which he IS s connected conneit ed that only onlyby onlyby onlyby
by reminding him of t the stronger duty dutyto
to Ms family have I prevented him himfrom himfreM himfrees
from resigning reel sing But it is needless te tequestion teqU toquestion
question qU lItion me me a regarding Tobias Hippie HippieIf
If ever a man was the soul ef honerhe honor honorhe hRltrhe
he is and I would ould as soon OftJMOt OftJMOtnleU suspectmyself suspect suspectmyself
myself as suspect him himNow hilLNow himNow
Now for the chief clerk then said saidClarke 8a1dClalke saidClarke
Clarke ClarkeTne Clalkefte ClarkeThe
The chief clerk Gordon Wiley is isus Isa Isa
a a youni youn man who h has onl only been fttth fttthWI withtie
us about six month He came from fromthe fromthe fromthe
the New Ne York house and is a protege protegeof
of my my soninlaw nInla I know very little littleabout littleILMut littleabout
about him other than that he does his hiswork hisork hiswork
work ork well and seems Invariably civil civiland civilaftd civiland
and aftd willing wlUl I have felt slightly pre prejudiced preJudiced prejudiced ¬
judiced against him at times because becausehe
he h wears more expensive eXen tve clothe than thanhe thanh thanhe
he h should on 13S l a month but I have havefound Iavefound havefound
found no reason to let that weigh weighagainst weighagaJnst weighagainst
against him The file clerk I think you youcan youcan OU OUoaR
can count out altogether He is an anovergrown anovergrown anovergrown
overgrown boy and I am satisfied SflUS ed that thatif thetif thatif
if he lives to be as old as Methuselah Methuselahhe
he will still un be filing papers at the rate rateof ratet rateof
of t J6 a week weekIt weekuIt
uIt It Is clear commented Clarke Clarkemeditatively ClarkemadtaUv Clarkemeditatively
meditatively madtaUv ly puffing pulftn ins cigar that thatyou thaty thatyou
you y have stumbled upon somebodys somebodyssecret 8Omeboil somebodyssecret s sHcret
secret coder cod Your reverses In business businessare
are doubtless the result of Information Informationgiven Informationgiven informationgiven
given and received through this method meth method ¬
od What I fall to understand un Is why
ti th the parties patU to the conspiracy conaplra < y for such
It appears to be did not adopt the thequicker thequicker thequicker
quicker medium of telegraph or r the thesafer thefer thesafer
safer fer method of the private letter letterThis letterThis letterThis
This point doubtless will be clear ir irwo sra ifwe
wo a can get at the th root
roots roo 8 of the mys mystery mystery mystery ¬
tery Did It ever ever
occur to you that
you youmight youmlht youmight
might break the thread of Information
by pocketing the report Immediately Immediatelyit
Oft It receipt a and never letting It out
0 your hud7 hud7No ands
ig igNo it itNo
No One Benefited by Losses LossesBut LossesBut
But it only dawned on me gradual
ly that there was any connection be ¬
tween those t e writings and my m f cosiness
losses I have ba Ve taken that course wtth wtthyesterday w lth lthyNtemllJC h hyesterdays
yesterday r i6pOrt port and It has h ha never Acv r
been out of r my possession possessionThen pebseggbnnThor I
Then it will be
Interesting to see lee e
It tHe developments are the same al ¬
though thou h I am Inclined to believe thatwe that thatwe thatwe
we will have the whole matter cleared clearedup clearedup clearedup
up before we will have time to teat teatone teatthat testthat
that plan Now let me ask yoU It any anyone anyone
one In your office of Ace or any ot
your 7 P com competitors competitors competitors ¬
petitors has apparently benefited by byyour byyour byyour
your toseee toseeeAbsolutely eAbeolutely lossesAbsolutely
Absolutely none and that is one of ofthe ofthe ofthe
the things that mystify me The
When the sound ef BeUons carriage carriagewboeta carrluew carriagewheels
wheels w Had a died avyf and ft Clarke and andI B BI
I were again seated in our eery little littlelibrary littleHary littlelibrary
library my oompanton oo pan1o 1 sat t for many manyminutes manyMiRutes manyminutes
minutes gazing fixedly ftxe l at a list of the themysterious theJftyMe themysterious
JftyMe mysterious o sentences which he bad badhastily ltadhtlly hadhastily
hastily scribbled scribbledAn
An n apparently simple ease Seer Seerton SejCrton Se Seton
ton he finally sM But there are aredepths uedepths aredepths
depths to it which we have not round rounded itwnded uBd uBded ¬
ed Belton was wa as honest with tre e as asit uIt asIt
it te possible for a man to t be who is isdaily Isdally isdaily
daily in the mad vortex of t money moneygetting JftOftygetting mousygetting
getting There was something omethln in his hismind hismind hismind
mind however which hlch I could not notgrasp n notgrasp t tup
grasp up Several times I had a stray straythread atraythre straythread
thread d and then it was w gone I fe feel teeltbAt feelthat I Ithat
that before we are done we will willwitness wfllwltDHtl willwitness
witness a drama of human hearts heartsyep beart8i beart8iy8t heartsyoe
yep perhaps a tragedy tragedyCan tragedyCan tragedyCan
Can you make anything out of the thecipher thecJpherr thecipher
cipherNo cipher cipherNo cJpherruNo
uNo No and I have little hopes of doing doingso
so It Is obviously an arbitrary code codeand codeand codeand
and the fact that the sentences always alwaysatop alwaysstop alwaysstep
atop short 6 ort of ten words would suggest suggestIt S 86t 86tIt
It was devised for telegraphic pur purposes purPOSH purposes ¬
poses despite the use to which it was wasput wasput wasput
put putWhich
Which of the clerks do < you BUS suspoet BUSpoet SIiSpect
poet pect I aked as Clarke tossed away awaybiz awaybls awayhis
biz cigarette and seemed Inclined to toend toend toend
end the conversation conversationOh oonversatloniOh
iOh Oh that deals with the rabid of ofman ofman ofman
man something upon which it Is Im Impossible Impo impossible ¬
possible po to speculate According to toBol toBoItons toBoltons
Bol BoItons tons judgment Hippie and the file fileclerk tHeelork fileclerk
clerk are out of the question This Thisleaves TIllsleaves Thisleaves
leaves only Wiley Ute expensive dress dresser ¬
er But we shall see New you ou had hadbetter hadbetter hadbetter
better go to beH and get some sleep sleepI
I will alt up A while and think it aver averBy At eturBy OP OPBy
By the way way Sexton If you want ant to topick topick topick
pick up some money and tNt tb the cash cashvalue ca cashvalue dl dlyalue
value of telepathy tele Ath at the same time timebuy timeDUY timebuy
buy Boxboard early tomorrow Belton Bol Bolton Bolton ¬
ton Is going to bull It ItAt It ItAt Itiii
iii it itAt
At Work on the Case CaseWhy Casey Caselithy
Why y dont you buy it nT I asked aakadOh utadOk askedOk
Ok It to not in my line and I have havoa
a horror of these money changers changersStill changerssun changersStill
Still I shall not balk at Boitenscheck Bokons Bokonscheck Boltonscheck
check If I succeed It will 111 only on I be bespoiling beSpoiling bespoiling
spoiling the spoiler spoilerWhen apoUerWilen spoilerWhen
When I went ent to bed I loft Clarke Clarkestudying Clarkestudying Parkestudying
studying Intently his favorite piece of ofbrleabrae otbrbrae ofbrieabrae
brleabrae the skull of a woman wemaltpolished womanpolished w8llllU1pollsh
polished d to the whiteness of Ivory and andrichly andrlebly andrichly
richly Inlaid with silver This odd reminder re reminder reBlinder ¬
minder of human untan mortality m rtaUty daftly daftlyfashioned dlllUyCa deftlyfashioned
fashioned Ca hl ned into a receptacle served servednormally servednormal1 servednormally
normally normal1 as a container for Clarkefavorite Clarke Clarkesfavorite ClarlceStavorU
favorite brand of tobacco t bA but now he heseemed heseemed heseemed
seemed to look to t the silver preoent preoentment preeentment ent entment
ment of a womans bead eacl and beat buetwhich buathkh beatwhich
which hkh ornamented the cover for a so solution 110luUGft solution ¬
lution of the mystery mysteryI
I awoke late and when I reluctantly reluctantlypiloted r reiubtantlypiloted aatly aatlypiloted
piloted my m sleepy way wa to my morning
bath I found Clarke was already alreadyaway aJrSyaway alreadyaway
away awayAbout awayAboUt awayAbout
About 3 aoclock oclock he returned returnedBIs returnedBIself His Hisdrrk Hisdi
drrk elf rk 11 < Handsome lta dHme face was iruerutsole iruerutsoleand I lnsermtdbteand 18 18and
and he vouchsafed no information informationfurther Infonnatlofttrt informationfurther
further trt er than that he had spent th thmnjer tbs tbsJftj themajor
Jftj major r pertjon of the day In Boltons Boltonsoffice Boltonsoftc BellOWsoffice
office and had seen Hippie Wiley and andtb andtbe andthe
the tb file eiefk whose who a name turned out outto outto outto
to be Bobus I judged that he had not notbeen notbeen notbeen
been able to engage either of them In Ina Ina Ina
a conversation sufficiently 8ut denUy intimate to tomake temake tomake
make his peculiar third degree dr ef offeotive eff etteoUve
f active teoUveVe feotiveWe activeWe
We Ve ordered a 690 dinner after tar it I Iintended IIntend Iintended
intended Intend to go to the theater theaterAs tbeder800n theaterAs
As soon as vt ws w re see 9eeted ted at the otable thetable thetable
table Clarke juried ruried hi his lace in Ms Msevening dsevening hisevening
evening papc looked up It tat nt onoe to tosay toMY tosay
say BoxbJarfl is up tc to ton points potaUDid poIaUJDid pointsDid
Did you buy buyI
I confessed that I had flat fatSuddenly flatSuddenly l et etSuddenly
Suddenly the telephone bell rang mngviolently lIaRgvlolenUy rangviolently
violently violentlyAh
Ah I expected that no o theater for foryou forYOU foryou
you tonight exclaimed Clarke jump jumping jumpIng jumping ¬
ing up so suddenly that he sent a river riverof merot riverof
of soup across our spotless cloth The Theends TIlends Theends
ends of the conversation I caught were wereas wereu wereas
as follows UOWS Ye Y s this is Carltoe CarltoeClarke CariteeClarkeWe CsritoeClarkeWell
Clarke ClarkeWe Wall I be down right away awayBehind awayBehind awayBehind
Behind the door of the private office officeDont orne orneDont atticDont
Dont fear We shall come armed armodCome armedCome armedCome
Come on Sexton were wanted wantedhe
he then said to me while hlle he took hi hifavorite his blsfavorite hisfavorite
favorite revolver from the rack of ofarms 0 0arms ofarms
arms and handed me a weaponBy weaponBy weapon weaponBy
By the ears It will be quicker than thana
a cab takes us to the door Soxton SoxtonIm SStonIm toa toaIm
Im afraid Ive made a terVlbn t SWetke mis mistake mistake ¬
take Ive turned a fiend loose on Bol Bolton Bolton Batton ¬
ton His life te In danger 4 a Oller God send sendwe dwe sendwe
we get there In l Ume It will III be all allright allright allright
right if he follows my advice advieeBy advloeBy adviceBy
By this time we were on UM oar oarand Qrand oarand
and my companion comp nlon relapsed Into taci taciturnity taciturnity tadturntty ¬
turnity turnityThe turnityThe turnttyThe
The great office building wan almost almostdeserted aJatostdeserted almostdeserted
deserted when we reached it Hereand Bore Boreand 1Iereand
and there a light on the diszy facade facadeshowed r rshowed facadeshowed
showed where some belated worker workerwax workerwu workerwas
wax closing dosn ap the days business As Assafe Assafe Assafe
safe a place for a crime I thought in inthe Iatbe inthe
the heart of that cavernous structure structureas
as in the depths of unbroken aa forest fonatA forestt forestA forestA
t
A Heated Discussion DiscussionThe
The one elevator which was still sUllrunning sUlIrunnbtg stillrunning
running took us quickly to t the floorthe floor floorthe oortho
the whole w ole of which was devoted to theoffices the theoffices theotflce
offices or Bolton Co The outer outerdoor out outdoer outerdoor
door was closed Clarke silently sllenUyopened 811entlyopened silentlyopened
opened It with a key evidently evld Uy hav having havIng having ¬
ing prepared himself for such an enter entergoney 8Ift8lgoney eatergooey
goney Quietly Q letly noiselessly nol9lf sly and with withknowledge withk withknowledge
knowledge k born of his previous prev visit visitClarke V18ftClarke visitClarke
Clarke guided me through the dark darklabyrinth darklabyrinth darklabyrinth
labyrinth of Email rooms rOO until we wereaohed wereaoh6d wereached
reached the door leading le lng to Boltonsprivate Boltons Boltonsprivate BoitonsI
private I office officeWithin ot officeWithln ce ceWitAta
> Within we heard the sound of angry angryvoices ftgIyvole angryvoices
vole voices in dispute The door was slight slightly slightly slightly ¬
ly ajar and lifting a warning Sneer to tome toMe tome
me Clarke applied his eye to the crev erevlee crevice orevSese ¬
ice while I noted lI that he had bin binweapVro hieweaxJon hisweafon
weapVro In hand with the barrel IB line linewith linewith linewith
with the opening openingPlacing 9penlngPlacing openingPlacing
Placing his mouth close to my ear earhe erbe earhe
he whispered He has my promise promisenot
not to Interfere unless absolutely ab lutely necessary nec necessary n80essary ¬
essary essaryFrom essary essaryFrom essaryFrom
From the heat of the discussionwithin discussion discussionwithin n nwithin
within there was no danger of his hisbeing hisbelBg hisbeing
being overheard overheardDo
Do you ou mean to tell me that I can cannot cannot cannot ¬
not read sir Do you dare tell me meyou meyou meyou
you did not write those words wordsThis wontsTals wordsThis
This was the first connected sen sentence sent sontones ¬
tones t I was able to distinguish The Thevotae Thevolee Thevoice
voice was Boltons BoltonsYou BoltonsYou BoltonsYou
< You have browbeaten me long longenough longenough longenough
enough answered his companion companionCome companionCome companionCome
Come with me to tbo tb vault ut and I will willprove willpreve willprove
prove to you that every one of the thedalty thedalty thedaily
dalty reports for years contains the thesame thetne thesame
same line as that paper Daily Dall Report Reportfrom Reporttrom Reportfrom
from New York YorkIt Y rk rkIt
It is a farce you scoundrel but I Iwill Iwill
will 111 give you every chance to prove proveyour proveyour proveyour
your innocence innocenceWe inocenceWe innocenceWe
We heard them step Into the vault vaultwhere vaultwhMe vaultwhere
where the conversation was continued continuedin
in now muffled mut tones tonesSudde tonesSuddey tonesSudden
Sudden Suddey y we heard a curse a loud budcry loudcry loudcry
cry and the sound of a falling body bodyClarke bodyClArke bodyClarke
Clarke was In the office at a bound boundwith bOundwith boundwith
with myself at his heels He had hodscarcely hndscarcely hadscarcely
scarcely reached the center of the theroom theroom theroom
room when a tall t l1 angular gray graybearded grayboarded graybearded
bearded man sprang frost rom the vault vaultWith va vaultWith lt ltWith
With a demoniacal laugh he h swung swungthe s swungthe ng ngthe
the heavy door shut and rapidly spun spunthe spunthe spunthe
the dial which threw the combinationThen combination combinationThen comblnatonThOll
Then he h straightened up to find him himself h1mHIt himself ¬
self looking into the muzzle muzz of Clarkes Clarkesrevolver Clarkesrevolver Clarkesrevolver
revolver revolverNow revolverOWf revolverNow
Now OWf Mr Tobias Hippie well have havethat havethat havethat
that vault open at onoe and let Mr MrBolton MrBolton AirBolton
Bolton out outu said Clarke in about the thesame thesame thesame
same tone he would have used In ask asking aakmg asking ¬
ing anyone to pass the butter butterWho butterVho butterWho
Who are you 7 demanded the con confidential confidental confidentlal ¬
fidential olerk for little as I was able ableto ableto ableto
to aredit it such lie seemed to be beNever b bNever beNever
Never mind who I am Just quietly quietlyrun
run that combination Mr Bolton will willbe willbe willbe
be needing n tng air airThis airThis airThis
This doubtless s was true as we heard heardthe heardthe heardthe
the Imprisoned man who evidently
had revived from the blow Hippie Hippiestruek HIppIestruck Hippiestruck
struck him him gasping and beating Wild wiidly Wildly wildly
ly on the steel door with his flats flatsWJt 1 fistsi t tWIt
i tE tEjit
WIt Against Wit WitIll WitIll Jt
Ill not up upon n u snarled HippteYou Hippie HippieYou HippieYou
You can ca shoot me but that wont got gathim gothim althim
him out Ive been waiting tbirtynve tbirtynveyears t 1rt tirtyLiveyears t1e t1eears
years ears for this moment and ha h can iot iotIn 1OtIn tutin
In there Ill listen to his dying dJn gasps gaajiaand gaSIsand gaspsand
and it will be music In my m ears JJaj JJajha 3afha QI QIha
ha You can shoot me but yea yo = cant caretgat cantget cantget
get him out outSuddenly outSuddcnly outSuddenly
Suddenly Carkes eyes blazed in infury tnfury Infury
fury Cant I 11 Grab him Sexton SextonWith Sutonlth SextonWith
With lth a rush I caught the old man manfrom mantrom manfrom
from the rear and pinioned inloned his arms armsDespite armBDasplte armsDespite
Despite my advantage in years 8flrs and andweight andweight andweight
weight I had no easy task He strug struggled struggled struggled ¬
gled and twisted and turned and it ittook IttOOk ittook
took all my strength to hold thosewiry those thosewiry thosewiry
wiry arms Gradually he ceased to tostruggle tostruggle tostruggle
struggle and looking up I saw Clarkes Clarkesayes Clarkes68B Clarkeseyes
ayes shining like thOM of an animal animalin
in the dark He had thrown his re revolver re revolver revolvor ¬
volver on the table ant his rigid arms armswere alIIUIwere armswere
were stretched forwai d almost to the theface thotace theface
face of my captive capUveNow cnptlveNow captiveNow
Now then you are coming down to totho totho tothe
tho office In the morn ig ha said In a alow alow alow
low tense voice You are opening the thevault thevault thevault
vault You are think ag of the comb combination comblnatloll combnation ¬
nation Lets see is first to the theright theright theright
right to K KClarkes iClarkes itClarke
Clarkes right ban I dropped and he herapidly herapidly herapidly
rapidly spun the dla dlaNow dlaNowthree dinNowthree
Now Nowthree three to th left loflto to ST 37 Now Nowtwo Nowtwototherlght Nowtwototheright
two twototherlght to the right o 08Newbaok 08NewbaokHlpj11e 2S Nowback Nowbackto New back backto
to to to toHippie
Hippie began t struggle again againNever agatnNever againNever
Never never he muttered
Suddenly with a sup superhuman rhumsn effort effortwhich etrMtWhIch egertwhich
which took mo by surprise and 111 sent sentno MfttMe sentlee
no headlong against aPift the wan wa ue il ilt wasOut was wasOut
Out t of my arm ana At a bouni he had hadrwcbyl hcIreadId hadreached
reached the table seised laed lakes I jke kas revolvo re revolver r8YOer ¬
volvo and glaring and panting panti like likean Uk UkII likean
an aairaal 1 at bar he ne brought th the muz muzzle muIe muzzle ¬
zle In II Mae with Clarkes headMy head headlly Jle4lIaDd
lly hand was on my pistol but bjutgUmefrom butboM a atIetron
gUmefrom boM ClArke eye held me meTtett m mTbC meThin
Thin TbC began a battle between the theevervrougbt theevenrottght theeverysought
evervrougbt brain of the strange old oldman oldJDPI oldmNt
man and Clarkes eyes e7 in which the theafaa theu thesiLk
siLk was two live IIv lives My heart atooo atooostilt atOOGtU stoodstill
stilt tU awaiting IIwJ nc the report that would wouldtoll wouldtell wouldtoll
toll it wan all ever The lIa knocking or orthe orthe orthe
the lmprtao imprisoned el man which beat a tat tattoo tatteo tattoo ¬
too to this weird ttrd drama was becoming becomingfatator teeorn1ngttM becomingfainter
fainter and fainter Hi Hia last ast audible audiblegasp audiblepop audibleSeep
gasp ended In a pitiful pitifulAt mo6tn mo6tnAt moan moanAt
At butt the stronger mind conquered conqueredIlfcpUs conqueredH
1 H IlfcpUs AIIe flnles right arm fell t n gradually an4 andtfce an4t an4the
the t e pistol 01 crashed to the floor from fromate t fromhis m mhIa
ate nerveless WY Angers He tottered and andI
I nun to S mire Ye T him from Calling qJ A loo looof 100eN 1oot 1ootof
of ocntyUJon Itt came into Chtrkos a awIdcIt tec tecwnteb fcacOwhich
which I knew meant t victory victoryTo vlctolJr victoryToto
r Toto To tof bo cried carefully spinulag spin splnatas aplnilia
atas the Ueft tftaL tftaLTbsr din dinThere
There ft was a click Ctfcrfce swung swungtho awungtllie swungthe
the door onon and rushed into me mevault UleYau4 thevault
vault while w Hippie slipped through my myamM mylato myarans
amM Into a limp I heap on the floor IGorTJI leerR floorTjiftt
Tjiftt R was wa a close cl shave Mr Bol Bolton Bolto Belton ¬
ton to aid Clarke after at he had slipped slippeda
a n pair lr 1 of handcuffs on R the still Il U uncon unconciotts IIDCOftHtMu unconadeas
ciotts Hippie telephoned for the pol1ea po poHee p0 p0llee
Hee and we wore w seated tecl at the bro brokors brok brokers
kors k desk Why didnt you send for forme fore forme
me e ofcrttorT It to a wonder he did not notattack notattack notattack
attack you and find some way to kill killyou kinHow killhow
you
How tho Ruse Werkou WerkouI
I dont t imdorotnnd 4ut it at all Mr Mrdarka Mrcaadte MrQarrite
darka answered end Bolton panting pantingwith pantingWfth pantingwith
with ejocttamoni I followed follo your our in instruction tusatructioae ¬
struction to tIN letter We talk talkIt talkIt l lIt
It over for an hour or more Nafter after tm tmoffice b boIke t toffice
office closed and then th I asked him to toIndorse t ttadone toladorse
Indorse the dummy dally report with withth witht1N withthe
th the Nut Daily Report From 1 NewYork New NewYorlc X tW tWYorJt
York Here Is what be wrote in a aband ahIId ahand
band a as you see Eee similar to what I Ishowed Ihowec Ishowed
showed youc oue Two guinea guln boas in the thetall tl1etaU thetall
tall gr grass < ts8 Then be brazenly denied deniedthat deniedthAt deniedthat
that ne bad written it and insisted he hebad hebad hebad
bad written wrltt what I told him to We Wewere Wewere Wewere
were having aa vlng It hot and heavy when I Isent I118ftt Isent
sent him out of the room by a ruse ruseand ruseand ruseand
and phoned pheftedou you I really I8 ly believe he hethought hethougbt hethought
thought he was right rightYes rlgbtYes rightYes
Yes he did believe he was right rightsaid nsbtsaki rightsaid
said Clarke ClarkeBut ClarkehBut ClarkeBut
But what in the name of eommon commonsense eommonHnH eommonsense
sense is the explanation of it all allasked allasked U Uasked
asked BoltonFipple Bolton BoltonHippie Boltonumpple
Hippie himself will be the beat bestone beatone beatone
one to ton us that said Clarke He Henow Henow Henow
now is oompiotsty under my influence influenceand l influenceand uence uenceaad
and 1 believe eaw I can make him divulge divulgetho dtvulptit
tho tit whole story storyStepping torySt9tfJhlc story13tepptg
Stepping over to the pr prostrate oetrate form formof fonnof formof
of th UM dork he said Get up Mr MrHippie MrHIppie MrRipple
Hippie and take a chair at the desk deskThe deskThe
The 7 gaunt old man obeyed 0be7 mechaa mechaalanlly meehanlouJly mechani
i lanlly lanllyNow louJlyh sly slyNow
h Now OW Mr Hippie I want you to tell tellitsi teUtS tellusr
itsi as briefly as possible e the cause of ofyour otOur ofyour
your Our attempt to ruin Mr Bolton and andthii andthn andthe
the method yen took to do it itThe It ItThe ItThe
The story s oame tame e In a quiet voice lit little little little ¬
tle In keeping with the set and staring staringoxprei8ton atarlnsexprltli staringexpeer
oxprei8ton expeer 1fa k n of the narrator narratorThirtyfive ArratorTklrtyfto narratorThirtyfive
Thirtyfive years ra ago he began beganBolton beganHBeiten beganBolton
Bolton and I were both clerks tor this thisliroC twrtreR thisilrm
liroC ilrm We wore friends and inseparable inseparablecompanions JDHIMlrableoomp Inseparablecompanions
companions oomp nleBs I had U030 which had hadbeen hadeen hadbeen
been left me by my father I was In Inlove inlen inlave
love with a beautiful girl and believed believedthat DeUevedthst believedthat
that she was equally in love with me meand meaDd meand
and that shortly we would be mar married JrUUned marrled ¬
ned I was ambitious and Intended Intendedwith Intendedwith intendedwith
with my nt patrimony to buy myself Into Intoth Intoth Intothe
th the II firm firmMy tlrmuJly firmMy
uJly My ruin came in a day through this thisman thJ thJDt8B thisman
man Through his advice and on a alegged al alleged sl1tged ¬
legged Inside information lnto maUon furnished turJ llbed by byhim byhim byhim
him I Invested ted my little fortune In Inthe Inthe inthe
the stock of a railroad buying a large largeblock largebioek largeblock
block of mares oa margin The up upward upward upward ¬
ward turn of the market was to make makema mIIkeme makeme
me Independent for life The Th next day daythe daythe daythe
the company was in the hands ef c crooeiver a arooeiver areceiver
rooeiver the stock fell twenty points pointsand pointsand pointsand
and I was penniless pennilessThis pennU pennUThls pennilessThis
This delayed my marriage mrr1agtn In the themeantime themeantlJI8 themeanthao
meantime I had intnfluoed Bolton to tomy tomy toray
my intended wife He seemed emed to take takethe takethe takethe
the los of my fortune as much to toheart toheart toheart
heart as I did and I believed him himMy himMy himMy
My suspicions were not aroused until untilI un t11 t11I
I learned that he had accumulated accumulatedSMC0O accumulatedsaofiXJt accumulatedsieit
SMC0O and 00 was to be taken takf = t into the thefirm thoDrm thefirm
firm For lack of evidence I smothered smoth smothered smothered ¬
ered my wrath and 1 accepted the posi poeltion position poalUon ¬
tion of eoafidential clerk with appar apparent appartint apparent ¬
ent gratitude gratitudeTh gratitucHThftthe gratttlgdeThen
Th Thftthe Then n the love of my intended bride bridebegan hrldebegan bridebegan
began to cool because I thought of ofray oftY ofray
ray fall in fortune I was ugdaceived ugdaceivedwhen ugdecelvedwhen updecetvedwhen
when her engagement to Bolton was waaannounced wuannounoed wasannounced
announced Again I stifled lrt1 ed my hatred hatredand hatredand hatredand
and took his hand in ongratalatin ongratalatini eongratulat1tnFlans
i M Ji JiFlans w wPlans
Flans for Revenge BerengeA
UA A few months tAs after they were mar married married married ¬
ried I found among his papers damn damntog damnIng damning
Ing evidence that he had deliberately deUb rataty
led me into a trap with the Intention Intentionof
of ruining me and profiting by my myruin myruin myruin
ruin and that the money which whichbought whichbought whichbought
bought his place In n the firm was ray raymoney m1money mymoney
money The Idea 14 of revenge took root rootin rootIn rootin
in my heart I meditated murder but butwhat butwhat butwhat
what Is death oompared to a crushln crushlnblow crushing
blow to a vain mans pride Besides Besidesho
he was safe from om me through the love loveI
I bore the woman who oould never be bemine bemine bemine
mine While she he lived I made no nomere nomOTe nomove
mere against him I went steadily steadilyabout 1 steadilyabout 00dUyab
about ab ut my duties learning leamln his business businessIntimately businessIntimately buetneseintimately
Intimately that I might strike the thebarder theharder theharder
harder when I did strike raising a atmllr afamily
family as I was raised la the fear and andadmonition andadmonition andadmonition
admonition of the Lord and withal withalawaiUng with withawaiting withalawaiting
awaiting my turn ef the wheel of fateWhen fate fateWhen tateVhttn
When a year ago the dear heart heartthat heartthat heartthat
that was my first and only love was waslaid waslaid waslaid
laid in tho t e grave I set my machinery machineryin m hnry hnryIn
in motion I made a connection with a ahouse ahouse ahouse
house In New York city which Bolton Boltonwould Boltonwould Boltonwould
would never suspect We W arranged a atelegraph a atelegraph atelegraph
telegraph code oed In which the names of ofvarious ofvdOUS ofvarious
various domestic ctome tlc animals stood for forvarious forvarious forvarious
various stocks We thus were en enabled enabled enabled ¬
abled to block every deal which the thehouse thehouso thehouse
house ef Bolton Ir Co started and andbesides andbesides andbesides
besides by unloading in time to make makea makenl
a nice nl e profit of our own la a few fewmonths fewmonths fewmonths
months we would have driven Bolton BoUonOo BoltonCo BoltonCo
Co to the t e wall but I suppose I got gottoo goltooanxt9us gottoo
too tooanxt9us anxious and gave gaY the plot away awaysomehow awaysomehow awaysomehow
somehow somehowThrough somehowTrouga somehowThrough
Through this strange interview Bol Bolton Bolton Bolton ¬
ton sat with bowed head and closed closedeyos closedS closed8yM1s
eyos S
eyosI I tenet that you can defend yourself yourzoUContinued yourae1tCOntinUed yourselfContinued
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