The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-09-27

f1S. II m 10 become uemDeT VI Lie
triangle, as you call it, want the bottom
facts.
But YOU know"
Next to nothing. l know that you
and Martin Bloom, here, came to me at
midnight last night and proposed a
scheme for half million or SO. You
had located the bonds purchased by the
First National Bank for St. Cyr LAST
week. | agreed to rssc:iat them, though
If viii lie risky business, and YOU under
took to produce them. Besides doing
that you seem to have killed the old
man"
Don't affect innocence, Max. That
was part of the original plan, and you are
as deep in the mud as we are in the mire
l hate hypocrisy"
Not more than I, SO tell what you've
done, and what the chances for detect on
ore.
There is no danger. After l left you
| struck an idea-an inspiration"
L judged, SO since the papers announce
that the police know the perpetrator to be
one Cole Winters. with whom / have q
slight acquaintance.
The man smote his thigh and laughed
coarsely, though at the same time he took
care to moderate his voice.
Yes, but the burden fell on him
through the merest accident"
How so?"
He rescued Berenice--"
Il lead all about it.
TIE old man took him home and, in
my hearing. told him that the bonds were
in the safe. Then he engaged him to
care for his property during the prospect
i've absence of himself and daughter in
Europe"
Quite proyidential
10 crown all, he presented him with q
ring which he had worn for more than
twenty years, and invited him to pass the
night in the house."
and the inspiration2"
Was the ring"
Il don't see"
This morning it was found in the
death locked hand of the old man."
You're genius, Al. But tell me all
about it."
After we left you last night, we went
at once TO Calumet avenue, where | en-
tered the house by means of keys with
which l was shrewd enough to provide
myself months ago. We found the old
man still in the library, and-dont say
there's nothing in luck after this-actu-
ally en8a led in looking over the bonds
and making memoranda for his new
steWard-eurSe MIN!
so You could have got along without
me, an my alb lily to pick lock and
crack gopher. to say nothing q little
toy safe like that interjected Bloom
Well. III In the deal, an / propose to
stay there till the last cards dealt and
the game won-or lost
Don't croak." snarled Sears. we'll
we made bargain. As Martin wouldn't
be called on TO blow open the safe, |
traded work with him and let him tend
to the old man. He was weak and
couldn't have lived long, anyway"
Hist" warned Bloom, nervously.
Not so loud. You're just as guilty as /
am, both OF YOU"
Nonsense. This isn't question of
guilt. ii S a matter of business"
Go on urged Morris imp a.iently.
After I'd appropriated the bonds and
what other valuables Mart hadn't already
slowed away III his pockets, / went up
stairs to look after the young man, your
former clerk, who, besides capturing the
old man, seems to have made decided
impression on the susceptible heart Of
my charming little Berenice."
You didn't kill him there?'
Don't be stupid, Max. l didn't kill
him at all"
Then you've bungled matters in way
di3nt think possible,"
Stop croaking. / had better scheme.
Cut with it.
First. l put him under the iuf1n-
ence of chloroform. This done | closed
the ring IN the hand of old Paul. and when
Winters had revived little forced good
dose OF your elixir down his throat"
apital idea. And them"
He become as tractable as lamb and
went With us 10 aroom in the block below
here"
And is there now
cant say.
You don't mean"
That We left the door open so that
he could walk out when he wakened."
That was foolish"
why so?'
he will tell all he knows"
Which Is nothing
And what then?'
He will be convicted and hung
But the case against him-how strong
will it be2'
lie will plead guilty"
Talk sensibly,"
i so. When he is searched the most
evidence will be found u, on
him. In his pockets there are numerous
articles taken from the ST. Cyl louise.
including the old man watch aud d 4
mond pin. Besides, sewed ~ in his
shirt are one Of the bonds and the beau.