The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-12

and we've been defrauded by the same
man. Now here's my proposition. You
want your money back. know where
your cashier has gone and you don't.
j and my pal can chase and overhaul
him and make him give up. We can
Get at him by tomorrow whereas IT
may take the police a month or year.
How much is il worth TO you to have
us do itY
"'Half the money! exclaimed Tracy.
with flashing eyes. Bring that rascal
back or knock him on the head If you'd
rather, and I'll give you $4,000, and be
glad 10 do il. Not word about this job
either. The ungrateful rascal! Why,
/ made him. picked him up when he
hadn't cent. Get after him. Cause his
arrest, and recover the money, and you
have my word for what I'll do
I'D already told Danny that the
cashier had taken train for Montreal,
and he was wild 10 get started after
him. OF course whether we returned
any OF the money to Tracy would de-
pend OH whether we had TO have Wright
arrested or could work him alone. /
was in favor of working it legitimate
ly, for was willing TO trust 10 Tracy's
word
"But here was the rub; both Danny
and I were nearly broke. We hadn't
enough TO make the, chase, for as a mat
ter of fact we needed special train to
make a sure thing of overhauling
Wright. i thought the ease over for
half minute, and then told the colonel
frankly how we were fixed. He went
through his pockets and raised fifty
seven dollars. Danny and i between
us had about as much. 1t wasn't
enough.
al asked Tracy II there was any place
where he could raise money so late, and
he said he might get it at one of the
clubs. Danny said he could borrow
fifty, perhaps, of barkeeper that he
knew, il the colonel would agree to
make good. win or lose. The colonel
said he would. Then he suggested
that there might be Il little In the safe
We'd been so ratified that we hadn't
thought of that. Sow all went through
the safe together, but we didn't raise
any except few dollars in change. We
had about decided that Danny should
go TO his friend, the bar-keep, and the
colonel to his club, and that the three
of us should meet at the Grand Central
station, when our deliberations were
interrupted by loud sound of voices
at the outer door, which Danny and L
had locked.
"'It's all right said the colonel.
recognize their voices. They're friends
of mine, and it's blessing that they've
shown up just at this hour. We can
borrow the money of them
Danny glanced uneasily at the safe.
"'Shut the outer door, said the col
onel. They'll never suspect anything.
Just sit down and make yourselves at
home. You're friends of mine, you
know, and you've come to do a little
business. Thatll be all right.
"He ran to the door, while Danny and
/ sat down and tried to look as If moth
ing had happened. l felt comfortable
enough, for it's no hardship for me TO
play the gent, but Danny-well, he has
not what you'd call high society
countenance He looks like a crook,
Danny does, I'm sorry to say. ] told
him to straighten up his neclStie and
pull down his cuffs, but he didn't have
any cuffs. and his necktie wasn't so
suitable to his complexion as if it had
oeen made of rope
.In came the crowd-a lot of Jolly
fel!ows-laughing and talking.
"'Friends of mine, said the colonel,
indicating us; and we got up and shook
hands all around.
"'Well, Col. Bob said one of the new
comers, when the hand-shaking was
over, can we get right down to busi-
ness?'
"'Sure,' says the colonel.
"Then the first thing is the money,
the hundred thousand plunks,' re-
turned the other man. Where are
they?'
fright here remarked the colonel,
and he went into the inside pocket of
his coat and pulled the money out!
Mother of Moses, think of it! He'd
had that money in his pocket all the
time we'd been fussing with that safe,
and rigging up plars for chasing tho
through him; he'd acted so cool when
we came near him, and so nervous when
we got around to the safe that he'd
fooled us completely.
"When the colonel showed the money
his friends jumped on us. 1t was the
signal that they'd agreed upon in the
outer room while Tracy was bringing
them in. AS for me, l never raised
finger. Danny made little half-heart-
ed fight and then went under.
I'VE got five years for the job, and
I'm just out. Danny died of heart dis
ease soon after we reached Sing Sing.
| suppos" he must have got 1t when the
colonel flashed that roll. did"
And the burglar laid his hand upon
his ample bosom, and sighed.