The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-13

gets healthier he'll be jollier mother says. And she says. too. that by and by. when he don't have to work-auits so such-nights. at the bank"
 Work nights at the bank!"
 'on the books, you know, sir?"
 "The books"
 The banker almost gasped this. and the lad looked up at him so puzzled. re- gretful and confused. lest he had let ar ungrateful implication escape his lips that Mir. Billingsby altered his tone and manner instantly.
 "oh. yes. yes. yes. Of course. The books-at night. hera at the bank Well. well, Harry. Say nothing te your mother or father about having mentioned these things to me. l ought to have been more thoughtful. Your father isn't strong man, Harry. Yes yes! I'll see about it--directly, directly But. mind now; not n word of this not a word to them that you have spoken to mew
 He even bent down and pressed his face against the boys fair head as though the young worker had been his own child, saying tenderly:
 Be brave, true lad yourself, Har- ry-wbatever happens; and all will be well"
 | The door opened, closed with a soft click and the proud. happy lad was gone.
 | Well for him that he saw not the face of the banker; for when 1t turned to the window above the court, 1t was as white as the stone walls that shut the strong place In.
 Here was new and overshadow- ing complication.
 The president of the Trust and se- curity bank was now plunged into an entirely different and far more distress ing series of doubts and misglvlngs. l Old John Everett's unaccountable pretense to his family regarding night work at the bank, and his plainly hope- less fatuity in relation to certain social questions, as innocently revealed by Harry, seemed far more alarming to Barrett Blllngsby than all the petty depredations that the bank had so far suffered.
 Nor had these wholly ceased, despite the constant presence, for more than a week now, of Dingleton's most skill ful operative in the guise of bank ex- aminer. Added to this, Dingleton's "shadowing" reports, which for several days had been pouring in upon him, had neither changed the satisfactory status of any employe, or developed other facts than those perfectly credible | to the two persons who filled the bank CTS mind and heart with the keenest | anxiety and concern.
 Il cannot bear this suspense any lon- ger. T am going to know the truth!' These were the bankers words and this was his determination as he sat one morning before g. half-read package of the voluminous Dingleton reports. He immediately passed out into the street and shortly returned with a wal let well filled with bills, procured dur ing his absence at another bank. He left orders in the outer office that he was was not to be disturbed for an hours time. Then he sat at his desk, carefully marking the bills he had se- cured; and when this task was done he strolled with apparent unconcern among his busy employees with the wal let in his hand.
 With a word to this one, nod to an- other, and brief but kindly greeting here and there, and with pauses of ap- proval or interest among the different departments, he at last casually en- gagged in conversation with the cashier regarding some slight improvement in rapnr1 in, of ,soI, old John Everett was occasionally go- ing and coming with various burdens of books.
 Here, as if by accident, he left the wallet, and soon returned to his private office, where numeron9 demands upon him occupiedhis attention until a late hour
 "How contemptible one feels when endeavoring to entrap other human beings" he exclaimed as he finally re- sumed the reading of the Dingleton re- ports.
 He had taken one in his hand, given it cursory glance, and was about to toss it discouragedly back upon the desk when his eye caught John Ever ett's name. In another moment he was bending over it with startled eyes and trembling hands; for this is what Bar rett Billingsby read:
 Reports of Operatives Jamieson and
 Zowbrinski.
 Operative Jamieson, detailed by Su- perintendent Prang, took up John Ev- erett as he left the Trust and Security bank. Shadowed him to his home, 1O5S Eighth street. Waited in hallway of apartment house until Everett's reap peanance at apartment door with his wife, who urged him to return early from his work Ion the books at the bank" Shadowed Everett across town, to the East Side, where he was occa- sionally halted by men of foreign ap- pearance and language, with most of whom he engaged in earnest conversa- tion. Everett finally entered the noted anarchist resort of Herr Probst, to which admission was refused Operative Jamieson. who thereupon immediately reported the facts to the agency and was relieved from duty. .v Operative Zowbrinski, detailed by As- sistant Superintendent Robertson, ar- rived at Herr Probst's anarchist head quarters at S:46 p. m., and was admit ted to the Circle in manner which the | rules of the Dingleton agency prohibit | him from relating. From description | recognized John Everett as Number 27." Number 27 paid in a large sum of money to the Circle treas-