The Glenwood post., 1906-04-07
Does Tony think me a defaulter.~

Does Tony think me a defaulter!"
No, he does not. He and Con-
stance-and-and-myself were the
only ones who believed you innocent.
Henderson, too, thought as did; but,
of course. we were obliged to settle
the bonds"
Bonds? Did it go so far as that?
Then something was taken from the
bank. 1t must have been a burglar
who entered and deceived Tony some
how"
mo. not that. Nothing was actual
ly missing, and the pass-books were
all right But it was the notes, one
of Bowles G. Estes. the other of C. B.
Cotton"
What of them?"
Simon Low declares you presented
those very notes, 1 mean Bowles Il
Estes, which he deposited in the Ma
tional Bank, and he says that he paid
you five thousand dollars for it on the
spot as collateral. The note was but
five hundred dollars originally, until
the amount was altered"
He got up and walked the room in
great agitation.
What about the other note?"
THAT was presented in the same
way, the face altered to read four
thousand dollars instead of four hun
dred dollars. The cashier could not
swear it was you, but he supposed ev-
erything to ,e all right. Low declares
he could not have been mistaken, for
he knows you as well as l do"
Yes, Low knows me, but l be-
lieve he has been deceived. will
see him and talk with him. Nine
thousand dollars. Is that the sum?"
YES"
"And my bondsmen had to pay it?"
yes"
well, it shall be paid back, every
cent of it, if it can be really proved
that it was l who took it. But as the
matter now stands, it looks to me like
foul conspiracy to rob me of my
good name. Though why any one
should want to do it l can't conceive.
Tony must have been mistaken. 1t
must have been a burglar"
so we thought until we heard from
Low"
Have you had detectives at work."
asked Mr.. Hamilton, after period OF
deep thought.
Yes, two of them; private detective
Bruce, and Swan, of the police head.
quarters in Boston,"
Swan followed the river affair
You were thought to have been
drowned or murdered And Bruce
looked up the defaulting matter. He
fancied at one time that he got on
the trail of you, or some one that
looked like you, in the West, a man
named Ashley"
What sort of a man was Ashley"
Bad sort; a bank swindler. Bruce
saw his photograph; looked like you.
Bless my soul! who knows but he was
the man Low saw"
Il thought of that: but it seems too
unlikely for belief"
Ashley had a wife named Lenora,"
said Mrs. Hamilton. Is the name new
to you?" she asked, keenly.
at is. l never remember to have
heard it."
And yet you said in your dreams
the night before you went away. 'Le-
nora-Nora-a pretty name"
He looked at her in amazement.
Are you sure?"
"Yes; and the green-haired woman
who spoke to you was named Lenora,
and she was Ashley's wife"
Il have no recollection of any such
name. Dreams are hard to explain.
But how do you know all this about
Ashley and wife named Lenora?"
at was brought out by Bruce's in
vestigations," said Mr.. Carter. You
see there was reason for suspicious"
$50 it seems. This Ashley may be
my double. Well, 1 shall look into the
matter, tall. with Low, and if find.
beyond doubt, that have been guilty
of altering notes and other question
able acts, will set them right"
Ito be continued.)
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