The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-05

ris. III I'm to become member OF the
triangle, as you call it, want the oo'tom
facts"
But you know
Next to nothing. I know that You
and Martin Bloom, here, came to me at
midnight last night and proposed
scheme for half o million or 80. You
had located the bonds purchased by the
First National Bank for st. Cyr last
week. I agreed to negotiate them, though
Il will be risky business, and you under
took to produce them. Besides doing
thst you seem TO have killed the OLE
man"
Don't affect innocence, Max. That
VAS part of the original plan, and you are
as deep in the mud as We are in the mlre.
! hate hypocrisy"
Not more than I. so tell what you've
done, and what the chances for detection
are."
There is no danger. After I left you
I struck an idea-an inspiration
7 Judged, so since the papers announce
that the police know the peTpetrator to be
one Cole Winters. with whom I have q
slight acquaintance" .
The man smote his thigh and laughed
coafsely, though ut the same time he took
care to moderate his voice.
Yes. but the burden fell on him
through the merest accident"
How sop"
He rescued Bereniee-"
Il read all about it."
Inc olo man TOOK ni1s tseme. 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 providential."
TO crown all, he presented him with o
11ng which he had worn for more than
twenty years, and invited him to pass the
pight in the house."
y Sand the inspiration2"
Was the ring"
i don't &c.,
This morninss it was fonnd in the
Death. licked 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 I was shrewd enough to provide
myself months ago. We found the old
man still in the library, and-don't say
there's nothing in luck afte- this-actu
ally engaged in looking over the bonds
and making memoranda for his new
steward-curse HIM"
so you could have got along without
me, on my :lity to pick O lock and
crack gopher, to say nothing Of little
toy safe like that" interjected Bloom.
well, I'm in the deal, an I propose to
stay there till the last cards dealt and
the game won-or lost"
Don't croak!" saarled Sears. well.
We made bargain. As Martin wouldn't
be called, on to blow open the safe, J
traded work with him and let him tend
to the old man. He was weak an6
couldn't have lived long, anyway"
Hist" warned Bloom, nervously
Not SO loud. You're just as guilty as
nm, both Of you"
Nonsense! This isn't question OF
guilt, it's matter of business.
Go on!" urged Morris impationt!y.
After I'd appropriated the bonds and
what other valuables Mart hadn't already
slowed away in his pockets, I went ur'
stairs to look after the young man, your
former clerk, who, besides capturing the
old man, seems to have made q decided
impression on the susceptible heart o,
my charming little Beronice."
You didn't kill him there2"
Don't be stupid, Max. I didn't kill
him at all.
Then you've bungled matters in way
didn't think possiblel"
Stop croaking. I had better scheme. >
Out with it.
First, I put him under the inhu-
ence of ohloroform. This done I closed
the ring in the hand Of old Paul, and when
Winters had revived little forced good
dose Of your elixir down his throat"
Capital idea! And then?"
He become az tractable as lamb and
vent with us to room in the block below
Ihere."
And is there now2"
Cant saw.
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