Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-25
who cashed the check might meet

cashier who cashed the check might meet
you in the street.
IN take care of that" replied the
stranger; and after a few more words had
passed the two men left the office.
All this time Carter had been standing
half paralyzed, first by fear of discovery,
and then by establishment. But he under
stood this much, that this stranger was the
man who cashed the forged check under
the name of Beekman that Mr.. Mason
knew it, and so far from ~denouneing him
to the police was giving him money to hold
his tongue. Yes: and more than this, the
stranger was threatening to split upon
Mr.. Mason
What 1t could all mean Carter could not
comprehend but he saw n thing plainly
enough. The important point was to find
out who this man was, and where he lived.
In a moment Carter ran out of the room,
seized his hat, and rushed down stairs.
He was Just in time. Mr.. Mason was
leaving the foot of the stairs, going up the
street, while a well-dressed man, who had
evidently Just parted from him, was walk
ing rapidly in the opposite direction. Car
ter followed the stranger to the Mansion
house, and saw him take q Bayswater ON
nibus. This suited Carter exactly. He
went round to the front of the vehicle and
got up beside the driver. Then he clam
bered along the roof and seated himself
above the door.
At the Holborn restaurant the man
whom he was following got out and
stopped TO refresh himself, while Carter
waited patiently outside. At last he reap
peared, and Carter quietly followed HIM
down Holborn, up Gray's Inn road, and
into a dingy street in the neighborhood of
Kings Cross. Here the pretended solicitor
stopped at a door, which he opened with G
latch-key.
"AhP' said Carter to himself, al have
you noww
He waited a few moments, and then
knocked at the door.
1t was answered by a dirty, slip-shod
girl.
docs Mr.. Williamson live here?n in
quired the young man.
mo, he Doesn't
Wasn't that Mr.. Williamson who came
in just now-Mr. Williamson, of Peter
borough? p
NO, it wasn't. That was our first floor,
Mr.. Cromer. You've made a mistake"
80 | have. Beg pardon, I'm sure" and
Carter turned away.
From Kings Cross he went straight TO
Scotland Yard and narrated his expert
ences. That night Mr.. LiveSey received a
visit which caused him some surprise-and
so did Mr.. Cromer. No sooner was the
latter gentleman in the hands of the police
than he confessed the whole matter.
Mr.. Mason had known Cromer, who was
a scoundrel with a respectable appearance
and e plausible manner, for some time, and
had selected him to be his tool. He had
sent poor Crump to the docks on the after
noon before the morning when the check
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after the clerks were gone, and had then
opened Crump's safe with his own KEY and
distracted the blark check. This check he
had himself filled up and signed with the
firms signature in the usual way, so there
was little wonder that the Cashier at the
bank paid 1t without any suspicion. He
had, no doubt, calculated that the bank
would nave to bear the loss but as it was
he had cheated Mr.. Livesey out of $1,000,
for, as he himself had but q third share in
the business, only 81 900 out of the $500
had to come out of his own pocket.
Mr.. Mason saved his partner the trouble of
trying whether he could make him crimi-
nally responsible for what he had done;
for when the police went to look for him
he had disappeared. Probably he had seen
Robert Carter following his accomplice, and
seeming danger, had saved himself while
there was time. 1t turned out afterward
that he had been specializing largely on the
stock exchange and was sorely in need of
money TO pay his losses. 1t was some on
ISOLATION to Mr.. Livesey to think that his
dishonest partner had not p%rofited much
by his theft.
As for Walter Crump, he was offered his
old place, with an apology and a handsome
present to boot and he still keeps the
books which he had so long under his care.
He has not quite overcome his prejudice
against Robert Carter, and he always re-
garded it as 4 hard thing that he should
have to owe his reputation and his
deliverance from poverty to that particular
young gentleman. However, as things
were, he could do no less than inform Car
ter that he had done him an injustice, and
that he would be happy to see him in the
evening whenever it suited him to call.
The color came back to Armies cheek and
the light 20 her eyes when she heard the
good news; and it was not many weeks be-
fore she became the promised wife of the
young man who discovered the secret of
the mysterious forgery Whitehall Reuieu.