The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-07

and false beard were torn off, showing
tho supposed Big Bill TO be IN entire
stranger.
Tom sworc roundly when he dis.
covered his mistake, for he would
rather have had Big Bill than all the
countericiters put together llawlcy
laughed ut him and then I laughed,
too, when picked up certain little
trophy which ! happened TO light upon,
half hidden among tho coin; but still
didn, say anything, for | was mad, too,
for thinking that the fact that We had
spotted Fury and could lay our hands
on him had blinded mo rs well Us Tom.
Hawlcy and his friend took the pris.
oners TO the county jail the next morn
ing, but not before the former had SAID
few private words 10 Inc. Tom do.
clared he had some business to settle
before he could leave, and ut last got
1t ont OF him that he was going TO
marry his little country friend.
"When?" asked.
Tomorrow, ii we can get away.
Those brutcs would work her TO death
II they got the chance; but she likes
me and | like her, SO we've arranged
1t between u.s."
suggested that il was rather quick
work, and that upset him; he knew it
was quick himself, but hated to hear
anybody else say it.
That same afternoon, to all intents
and purposes, | left, never minding
Toms request that should stay and
leave with him and his bride. But the
next night | watched him help the girl
over the stile to where old Tuttle's fleet
est horse stood harnessed to the trap u
little way up the read, and just us the
distant sound OF tho wheels died away Il
mullled figure came through the gate
and III another moment Hawley and
his posse were in the house itself, while
the two trusty he had left outside aided
me in telling Big Bill TO tho ground and
slipping the irons OH him.
llawley's friend saw that Tom came
to no harm, for he was waiting for them
ut the railway station; and when Tom
drove up he arrested the bride oil.hand
as one OF Bill Fury's 0ccomplices, and
at tho trial it came out that she was
his wife. never discovered how it
leaked out, but it seems the gang heard
OF our being on their track, and sent
the men and money to the cellar rs de-
coys, the real work being done in the
house itself. To save her husband,
Polly formed the plan OF meeting us in
the train, getting us in the house
which was owned by her uncle, who
was another accomplice OF Bill's-and
then enlisting the sympathies OF one or
both OF us, when Toms unlucky love
nonsense gave her Il new idea.
Dillsescapc from his hiding place was
to have been effected on the night we
made the raid, ii possible; but Hawley,
who was fresh man, and stranger to
the gang, though they were known to
him, checked that part OF the pro-
grammc by having his friend and an
other man guard the house. They ex-
pectcd to have captured Fury then, but
Polly's sharp eyes spied the watchers
and put her on her guard. Perhaps the
shrewdest part OF her whole plan was
having decoy Bill; that took me in
completely. for l thought had already
tracked the man to his lair, and OF
course never looked for him anywhere
else. The first suspicion I had was
aroused by finding one OF the bows /
had seen on Polly's head in among the
coins, and then | understood Hawley's
GOODNESS.
She worked the whole affair, decoys
and all; but believing only two detec-
tives were in the place, she never
thought to guard against him, and he
readily discovered her identity. She
was good wife, was Polly, and q tai
cntcd, clever woman, too; only, unior-
tunately, she turned her talents to bad
account.
Poor Tom was hard hit; but it cured
him OF flirting, and little while after
wards he married pretty lassie and
settled down rs good, steady husband.