Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07
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BY HUGO ST. FINISTERE, M. D.

| I waited patiently, ard, after some
hesitation, he showed his hat from his
forehead, jammed both hands in his
trousers pockets and leaning back in
his chair said:
"There's so little Of it that it won't
take me long. You remember last sum-
mer that down at Sheepshead you put
up 1000 and won $4,000? Jake and
me had our money on the wrong horse
and got it in the neck. While you were
cashing in your tickets we noticed your
roll of money. You were in high spirits
over your good luck, and Jake remarked
that if you wanted a good thing he
could put you on to it. You said you
was ready and would divide. That night
we met you at the Brunswick and ex-
planned the game. which was showing
the queer"
"Ah, yes. It's all coming back to me
now," I interjected without helping
matters in the least
"Our plan was not to do the work
here in the east, but in the west. Jake
and me were to 60 out to Kansas and
the Dakotas, making the Auditorium in
Chicago our headquarters When every
thing was ready, we we're to let you
know"
"And I was to do what?"
"Of course in our business we must
have good money to work with, but
there's nothing mean about Jake and
me, and we agreed not to call on You for
your share"-
(Which was how much?'
"Ten thousand dollars, until the
thing was on its feet and fairly going.
It took us a good deal longer than we
thought. Jake got pinched, and it was
tight squeeze. So things drifted along
until this spring" "
"And you kept me informed3"
"Of course I called to see you sew
eral times in New York, and all three
of us had a meeting some months ago
at the stone house. When you came out
to Chicago last winter, we had long
talk-the three of us again-and you
pledged your word that when we needed
it you would let us have the $40, 900,
for which you were to receive one-third
of the profits and take no risks at all. "
"And l have never given it to your"
Never given it to usl should say
not. There's where Jake and me made
- fools of ourselves. You offered it to
US twice. and VIC refused to take it. L"
why did you refuse?"
eve were so dead sure of you that
We were content to wait, being as we
did not need it. You set 'em up every
time and acted like the royal fellow we
believed you to be instead Of the sneak
you are.
And Tom Discoe's fingers twitched,
as If he could no longer keep them of
me. I was on my guard, but he did not
know it.
"Are you sure I have never advanced
you anything on account?"
He could hardly restrain his anger.
mot cent? Don't set up that
claim. You owe clean $40, 900 and not
penny less. Why, reminded you Of
the whole thing in my last letter"
1.-THE one sent before this last note In
answer to my telegram"
"Yes; I went over the whole ground,
moving that you hadn't paid dollar,
though you offered to do so when we
didn't want it. You remember that we
agreed to refer to the money as farm
ers, so that no one could get on to it. "
A mountain rolled from off my heart.
In the eyes Of the law Harold Westcott
had committed no crime. He had
thoughtlessly agreed to do so, when in
the excitement of his success on the race,
course, and, possibly, while under the
influence, too, Of wine. In his sober
senses he shrank from the dangerous!
Itep, but lacked the courage to back
but. He was afraid Of Tom Discoe and
Jake Huke, who no doubt had threaten
I'd him, as one had already threatened
me.
Harold was lacking in moral stamina,
Tor he as much as confessed it when he
declared that he was pestered hall t.
death by the parasites Of society. Most
likely, too, these evil men believed that
In meeting with them and planning
this wicked business he had gone too
far to withdraw. If he attempted to do
30, they not only meant to expose him,
but to visit personal violence upon him.
AS the only way out of bad situa-
tion he weakly fled to Europe. Aware
that the crisis must come within a few
months, he left me to meet 1t, without
giving the slightest intimation OF Its
nature.
Therein I condemned him, as / had
the right to do, for had he made 1t clear
I would have been prepared at every
point, but he was ashamed to do 80,
and now the all important knowledge
was mine.
And with it came q feeling of graft
tude beyond the power of language to
express. would find out the address of
Harold and tell him everything, add
ing that there was not the slightest
cause to fear these two miscreants Be-
fore he returned to meet them would
have a settlement with Messrs. Discoe
and Huke, which, to say the least, would
leave them in demoralized condition.
AS If fortune was playing into our
hands. this same Discoe had written
me q letter in which the whole truth
was told, and this letter was now in the
hands of Detective Cone. True, he was
amenable to the law for pilfering the
missive, but he would not be made to
suffer, since it had turned out SO we'll.
81 presume you came to New York to
get the $40, ,OO0."
"You guessed it the first time, and,
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