The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-09


netrate that swindle he had had mar
row escape. and he realized that in
way he was still under the surveillance
of the police, but put him down rs 3
man not to be easily frightened. ]
found | was right in this. When l
had stated nay GRAND, he laughed in
my face and called me fool. Between
ourselves he did not deny the Swindle.
On the contrary, he boosted of the slick
way in which it had been worked. He
had furnished the brains. and John
Saunders was the catspaw. lie had Sc
cured t19,OOO of the money and cscap-
ed the law, while his partner had fled
to n foreign land with the remnant and
died among strangers.
MY dear sir" he said as he smiled
and rocked to and fro, you were dolt
to come on any such crrand. You have
papers, but | would not give you the
price of dinner for them. | am solid,
and you can't disturb me. Go to Scot
land Yard, go to the attorney, do what
you will, and | shall only laugh at
you"
Neither Scotland Yard nor the attor-
neys could help me in the case. While
it couldn't be called blackmail, it was
an attempt to squeeze money out of
Swindler. The one interview satisfied
me that my mission was Il failure, and
babe Mr.. Smallwood good day with
as much courtesy as | could assume.
1t was about lunchtime when left his
office, and dropped into a modest res
taurant for light meal. | had scarce
ly got seated when a stranger who had
n scedy gentecl look about him asked
permission TO take the opposite side of
the table, saying he had some iEforma-
ton to give me. When we had begun
on our meal, he said:
81 saw you leave old Smallwoods Of
flee and followed you. Has he done YOU
a bad turnE"
| did not give my case away in re-
plying, but gave him TO understand
that the money lender had refused to
do the square thing by me,
Hes n eur, a cheat. Swindlcr and
all that's mean and contemplate" con
tinued the stranger, with a coed deal
of feeling. He has cheated and
wronged NE, and can got no Satsfac-
ZION To-day. however. learned Of an
incident ~ his past life that viii give
me good hold on him. | must go to
Liverpool TO complete my information.
If You will 90 along and become re-
sponsible for expenses, l will share the
Information with you"
For awhile was chary Of the man,
thinking he might he in the pay Of
Smallwood but | finally decided that
could lose nothing by trusting bin.
SmallwOod had once lived in Liverpool
under another name and had been
guilty of a crime for which he had to
fee to Brazil and remain for several
years. This man. who gave the name
Of Duff, proposed to 90 down and look
up the matter and put the police on the
scent. He was going to do this out Of
revenge. but in my case had no re-
vengc to crafty. l thought il u!cht
be good thing to hold over Smallwood
rs a bluff, however, and | promised to
reward Duff if anything came Of it. In
the course of a couple of hours | re-
turned to the money lenders office lie
greeted me affably and laughingly said:
Il have heard that you Yankees are a
persistent race, but in this case you are
simply wasting your shoe leather. |
suppose you have come to make a new
offer?'
II have come about that Liverpool
affair" l replied, and l went on and
stated the nature of his crime and the
name he used to sail under
The shot told. The man grew nerv-
aus and pale faced. and when | had