Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-10-09

| necessary 10 dwell lie contr1yed 10 r-os
cess himself without suspicion Of several
thousand pounds in ready money, for be
had no intention Of being left pcnniless
during ri ence that might be pro
longed He had TO make up his mind a
90 whit country he should select for the
scene Of his adventures, and. after much
elaboration. he fixed upon America. with
n view Of enjoying SOME wild sport in the
Rocky mountains and elsewhere.
Now. Sir Toby wis smart. dapper
man who dyed his hair black and shaved
clean his face, 30 he argued that if he
bought a red wig and beard they would
| effectually disguise him until his own
beard and mustache had had time to
grow, When this happened he would
exhibit his undyed hair 10 the public |
and with a white head. grizzly beard |
and mustache. and pair of spectacles |
instead Of his eyeglass, he felt sure that
he could defy recognition. The mere
question of getting away was simple, the
main difficulty, of course, being how to
furnish Jack with proofs Of his death
strong enough TO enable him TO take pos
session OF lis inheritance
But Sir Toby knew TINT queer things
could be done in America. and once
there he thought he could easily arrange
by bribery that the body Of some un.
known traveller should be identified as
. that of Sir Toby Bunskin. Bart. Mind
full of this necessity he armed himself
with pocket book containing papers
calculated to place the identity OF the
person carrying them beyond reasonable
. doubt. lie also carefully destroyed every
: will that he had ever made. for he
I wished his nephew to inherit as much a.
possible. The greater the rise" le
!. chuckled. ".the greater the fall Upl 4
: q rocket, Jack, my boy, and down like
a stick
: When all these preparations were made
!. SIR Toby quietly left his home in Fallow
!. land one day and did not return to it
= His ostensible destination was the hous'
"A i'm Grosvenor square but he passed tn
:. night at hotel and started the mex
% morning for Liverpool. In his red Wi
! and queerly cut clothes his own vale
would not have recognized him. A
!. Liverpool he took steerage passage fl
~ New York, for he was "a man who rattle
-. liked ''roughing it than otherwise, and
i once on the voyage, he began To feel tina
~ half his plan was accomplished. But Oh
~ question ~ 10 how he was to prove hi
IN own death bothered him considerably
~ The ship had not, however. been day d
~ sea before u most remarkable and fortr
roy nate circumstance occurred.
90 Sir Toby was light sleeper and WI
~ not very much ut home in his uncomfor
ma able quarters. SO the first night aft,
mt leaving Queenstown he paced the dec
ck for several hours In the course Of Ii
os- nocturnal rlmble he kept meeting IA ma
whom he could not help noticing fro
ak the fact that he seemed desperately an
ed ious TO avoid his, Sir Toby's, observation
nre "Some thief or forger boiling" thougl
,od Sir Toby, and he kept his eyes on q
an. man from idle curiosity and gradual
10 fell ~ lodging about the deck NJ
ota watched him closely. Presently the MAJ
ma when he thought himself unobSerye
vas did very strange thing: he took off Ii
mo coat and laid it carefully on the dec
Ma Then he glanced hurricdly round. noun
ity ed the bulwarhs. and leaped into the Sc
md One of the ships officers just caught sigl
!. of him rs he disappeared, an alarm VI
it'll quickly raised. and the engines were T
,;aa versed
his No one had time TO notice or to thin
ing Of the coat. but Sir Toby always pria,
: to himself on his presence Of mind.
ted stantlv he seized it, tore off his own COZ
ons which contained the pocket book and Il
-ent papers laid 1t down ON the deck and =
Sir ON the coat left behind by the sulcid
The Ii was master stroke, Il yeritable !
spiratien, and Sir Toby retired TO
nj a berth knowing TINT the odds We're
kin. least hundred TO one against "a rescr
mic At his leisure he examined the pockt
With OF the stranger garment. the only thu
ON of Importance 1t contained was u lette
,sly apparently addressed to the dead MAI
cen wife AS | thought" said Sir Toby
on. himself, when he read 1t at leisure; Z
sti. binary case of forgery, cannot live N
ded longer-the usual bosh! don't thil
me. Mrs. Bowston will ever get this letter
mex And he burned it carefully, and mig
ncb or two later took an opportunity
adv throwing the coat itself overboari
he Now | am really all right, he l
lied fected.
bee There was great hue and cry III Io
ant don when 1t was reported that Sir Tnl
-Om Bunhkln Hau ActniiIN hiS3tnIshffh+ Iii
an the detectives We're employed Ia look {
ant him, advertisements We're inserted
the score. even plaeards were posted.
In exertion, in fact. and no expense we
ing spared to discover his whereabouts. b
10 not the slightest result followed uni
ich the news arrived from America that :
zee. Toby had jumped from an Atlant
md steamer and had. Of course, bes
Ter drowned, leaving behind him con
ira in the pocket of which was pocketho,
an. containing cards and private papers. o
he viously belonging to the unfortuna
ms. baronet.
,dy Il was nine days wonder: but as II
, in body cared straw about Sir Toby Wit
He alive. people soon grew tired of specula
tn. ing M to the cause which had prompt,
IN. the rash act" And rs soon as csrta
necessary legal formalities had been cor
of piled with Jack Bnnskin found himse
So Sir John Tobias Bnnskin, Baronet,
nav Bunskin Hall and Grosvenor Square, m
be- the possesSor of a substantial rent re
lay and goodly sum of ready money. NOV
e. Ii was not very likely that Jack shou
lie feel any profound grief for his unel
rte The manner Of the old mans death &C
20 ta;niy shocked him considerably hut II