The Red Cloud chief., 1881-10-13

boz 3 pried into. bureau-drnwers pul ed
out, cupboards r~ansacked. and iinaiiy
went through her W room. Under the
carpet under her bed ! found in \ com.
pact wad twelve 9IO0-dollar bills. Now
the total amount kown TO he missing
was only 4l.0I5. Where had the sl55
Gomez Where had the gold coins gone
tor Was the bureau-drawer paying in
terest on its deposit?
'Now I've got you, Mollie," I said
Is / confronted her.
"Mollie tainted.
"a bottle of camphor anu a little
cold water brought her speedily to.
yet she sturdily proclaimed her limo.
I cence.
81 didn't take Miss Smiths money:
no. i did not she convulsively en-
| claimed between her sobs.
Miss Smith would not allow me TO
take her TO jail. where I reasoned con-
hnement would soon compel her TO con-
fess.
my work. however was but partial
ly done. for the gold coins had not
turned up.
81 determined that those coins must
be in the house. and resolved upon q
thorough search from cellar TO garnet.
The cellar disclosed nothing. and at
last | stumbled upon a small stairway
leading To the garnet, the door TO which
was a common trap-door, securely fas-
tened by a paddock. to which was at
tached three links Of a chain.
".GiSc me the key l said to Miss
Smith. to that trap door uD in the at
tic.
"'Oh, no use of looking there, the
keys have been lost for over five wears,
and no one has eve been up there
since. There were cobwebs on the door.
but l noticed that over the crack of the
doors edge they appeared to have
broken away. caused by the door hav-
ing been recently opened. With an AK
l speedily got the door open and saw
large footprints in the dust. BY the
aid of a lamp | followed the course of
the tracks owe the boards which Law
across the shaky rafters to the furthest
part of the garnet, where over an old
cross-beam. hung a pair of old-fash-
Toned saddle-bags. The dust on the
bags had been recently disturbed. In
n of the pockets l found the five 300
bills which disappeared on the night of
the 3Oth OF MAY, the 1855 that was
missed in the summe of 1879. the 1920
that was lost IN 1880, and, better than
all, the rare old gold coins upon which
Miss Smith set such store as an heir
loom. ] had found the money, but I
found 81. 200 too much. The mystery
deepened. resolved upon one thing, |
and that was that Mollie must know
something about the money that was
hid under the carpet beneath her bed.
/ talked kindly to her. told her that
Miss Smiths money had been found,
and urged her to tell me how the 81, 200 /
came under the carpet of her bel.
"'YOu will not believe me il | tell :
you. but if Miss Smith will 90 out 1 will
| put that money there; it
was my lovers. He had saved it out
of his wages and given it to me to
keep. / destroyed his letters, for fear
my aunt would find it out There's
the story"
"'But how did the old lady's money
get into the garrett
"'She carried it there herself. She
was a somnambulist and walked i'm her
How did you prove it, Mr.. Morris?
Did the old lady let you occupy the bed
room and catch her:?"
"Oh, no.. l got the old lady to take
her shoes and stockings and place
No. 6 foot down on a sheet of white
With a lead pencil ! marked
,ut her foot on that sheet of paper.
a pair of scissors l carefully cut
he exact shape of the old lady's foot,
fitted exactly in the tracks in the
on the garnet boards. Besides
hat Mollie's foot was much smaller,
The only wearing a No. 2! shoe, and
would not fit the track. 1 also. on
,areful examination, found traces of
,Obwebs i'm the frill of the old lady's
light-cap, while Mollie wore no night
zap. So you see l proved it by both
'nds the old lady's head and by her
eet. / explained all 10 the satisfaction
# the old lady. she paid me my money.
md l predict a wedding soon at the
smith mansion, with Mollie McCann rs
he bride" Cincinnati Enquirer.