Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-08

inst stripped them from the plate on,
/ fba d4tlIngsl | counted them over one
after another. each one the more beau
| nful Cor being so perfect a copy OF us
beautiful predecessor; FIVE hundred
seven hundred. nine hundred and nine
| ty-nile
oTrere's $4,000, old man." | shouted,
ne picked up the last bill. And then
| nav heart dropped as heavily as II had
hounltd lightly for that bill had been
branded across Its face 1t was a coun-
terfeit
rTbe 1ueer. the whole queer, and
nothlpg but the queer" groaned, after
n hail hours close and critical eNamin-
| alton
swell, what Of it?' retorted smithers,
stolldy 81 don't believe In beln' so
blame partic'lar Think Of the sloons
and faro banks, Cargo, that would
swau,r them bills In gulp and reach
FOR more.
shook my head. for l was younger
then. with ideas about personal liberty.
zone was detected and so another
might be declared II won't go up
against the United States authorities,
Smithers,'
but they look so good he pleaded.
Ave so they did. My study had 70
vealed certain defects IN the drawing,
but the paper. the ink, the general
mechanism the tout ensemble-whY,
they we're magnificent. II was the ped
ding process | feared the becoming
associated with bills OF the same large
denomination
"Tf could only find someone having
a wad of these twentles" | murmured,
eve might substitute ours for his, and
nobody the wiser"
Gee" cried Smlthers, that reminds
,.,o 10 what ou-, Ntacoi.~ 'voe a-teii'-'
the iodder evenin'," and then he went
on % relate that this person renowned
among cracksmen for the dellcacy of
his ear and the iineness OF his touch,
had recently been employed by n firm
Of safe manufacturers TO open a safe
defylng their skill in a private house
out In the suburbs, and that. in an in
ner compartment. he had seen n pile OF
crisp new twentles. 'like to make your
heart bleed lost no time IN Dispatch
Ing Smthers for this man, nor did he
lose any time in returning with him.
Slim Macces. tall cadaverous with
skeleton face and long, skinny hands,
as supple az osiers. was quite the most
melancholy object I had ever seen off
the boards Of "As You Like It."
"Hope" he responded to my first
hints, I'm on the retired list. balled
and chained to responsibility by my
own talons In coorse | cud t'row the
lock with a twist and a twirl OF these
ere dukes; but what then? I'm the unly
one In Amerlky that cud do Il. and
there isn't headquarters or an agency
or plain clothes man. but knows II.
Cuss genus, says l. that keeps a workin'
for the makers, when he might have the
makers workin for him" and he
heayed a sigh like an electric fan
Then | explained that / wanted the
excitement and danger OF an ordinary
burglary as little as he did that my
idea was TO substitute the bogus bills
for the genuine ones, through his open
ing and closing the safe, so secretly
that there could be no suspicion Of
tampering; and that, In consequence,
the chances were that the counterfeits
would pass unquestioned from hand to
hand In this direction and that, until
there would be no possibility Of the
frauds being traced, were It dlscov-
cred here and there.
The mans fshy eyes glistened, more
! believe, from pride IN displaying his
skin than desire for booty, though we
promised him a full third and he con-
sented at once. We thereupon resolved
ourselves into committee on ways and
means
The report made by Slim Maccles
was gratifying In the extreme. The
house, he said was accessible, stand
ing In a secluded plantation, with piaz-
zas on all sides. The bolt on the IT,
brary window could be easily pushed
aside with thin steel bar. Once In
side, the safe, though really an up-to-
date AFFAIR, and proof against any or