The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-02

Vei0pmentSI he Chilly remarked. with
q fleeing glance at Hammond and the
several bank officials. Il infer that
Jimmie yonder has told you how we
landed your expert accountant. Mr..
| Hammond A bad mess he's in, too,
| imagine. Still. / hope to have helped
you out after a fashion. [ can't say
/ just how much of the stolen stuff is in
this bag, but 1 hope Ali yes, most
of it, surely. Capital work for two
short hours, Ell? Congratulate me,
Hammond
Amid startled cries from all sides.
Boyd had dumped the contents of the
| bag on the table, nearly half million
in cash and bonds and stock certifi-
Gates. With his last remarks, how
ever, his left hand glided under his
coat. while his right was extended with
a smile toward the amazed bank ex-
aminer.
Hammond, dumfounded, with coun-
tenance words could not describe, in
| voluntarily accepted Boyd's proffered
hand. Then he suddenly heard the
clink Of steel, and caught the CLEAN
of pair of handouts nearing his
wrist. With the yell Of one suddenly
frenzied, he tore himself free leaped
back few PAGES, snatched out re-
volver from his pocket and clapped the
muzzle to his brow.
Boyd sprang at him like a staghound
/ at a deer, however, and the crash OF
both men to the floor was mingled with
the ringing report of the weapon, and
the noise of wasted bullet tearing
through the ceiling.
Quiet, my man." Boyd sternly COM
manded. There's nothing in suicide.
Let go your toy Here, lend hand,
Jimmie, Now you have him-the irons
/ first, old chap! There you are Mr.
| Hammond, as fast as steel can make
you. Now have a chair and be calm.
You should have known at the outset
that he who dances must pay the
piper"
why Hammond, Jimmie, rather
than any other?" queried Mr.. Felix
/ Boyd, as the two sat in mis- Pine street
office an hour later. well, Jimmie, it
looked to me like Hammond from the
outset"
But why?" growled Coleman. gazing
perplexedly through a cloud Of cigar
smoke. I'm bleNsed If / once thought
of him."
''I'll tell you why" smiled Boyd. re-
moving his pipe from his mouth ITO
begin with, Jimmie, he plainly aimed to
turn suspicion upon Volney. the miss
/ ing accountant. For several reasons.
however, l soon decided that VoIney
would not have taken chances of sue
] d
/ could not have been sure that Ham
mond would employ a stranger for
/ such important WORK, merely upon the
| recommendation of an Introductory let
! ter. Furthermore, the game fight ne
put up against writing the letter con-
WINGED me of his entire innocence. Had
| he been guilty, aiming to shield him
self from suspicion as you so quickly
/ inferred, such very rough usage would
| not have hnarl T1PcQSSa
We'll, there's something in that" ad-
mitted Coleman.
so from the beginning" continued
Boyd, Il suspected Hammond himself
of being Scanlon's confederate. This
was indicated by the fact that ne so
readily employed Moseley, and assigned
J him the work of examining the bank
/ securities, thus enabling him TO re-
move some and leave worthless substi-
tutes for a temporary blind. Despite
that precaution, however. the fraud
was accidentally discovered sooner than
/ the rascals expected, and If the bank
officials had kept quiet, instead Of
| spreading the news so quickly. they
might easily have arrested all three ex-
aminers when they returned from lunch
As it was, however, Scanlon got wind
of the danger and promptly vanished.
Il now begin to see the point" nod
| ded the central office man. yet YOU
| got after VOlney first of all"
Certainly, Jimmie" laughed Boyd
with toss of his head. LAS soon as
fixed upon Hammond for my man, and
saw that VOlney's letter had been writ
/ ten at home. I decided that he probably
had received no wire from Troy but
still was at his house and in about the
shape We found him. The scheme the
rascals were working, assuming that
Hammond knew Volney was to be at
home alone Tuesday night, at once ap-
pealed to me and led me to act upon
the possibilities presented"
| Namely"
81 reasoned that Scanlon would an
| ticipate an early visit of the detectives
to Volney's house and that some spy
| in his employ would be watching the
same in order to learn what was done
there, and whether Volney was sus-
| pected and placed under arrest In
/ case could discover such a spy, fore
saw that 1 could possibly shadow him
to Scanlon'S concealment and at least
/ recover a part of the stolen property
So 1 treasured Hammond by appearing
much excited over the hopeless pros
! pect the case presented. thus tnsuring
that he would not resort to flight be-
| fore / could get in my work, and 1 then
/ bolted with you uD to Volney's house
| to try to locate some chap worthy of
my suspicious. / had no great trouble
in doing So Jimmie"
/ II should say not" laughed Coleman.
Had I failed in that. however. still
had another resouTce-that of shadow
| ing Hammond until / could track him
| to a rendezvous with his cOnfederates.
I'm not so sure but that would have
been the better plan. Jimmie. since
Scanlon succeeded in giving me the
slip. 1 was fairly forced into the last
moves, however, and was compelled TO
let him go. or lose the plumber. could
not suffer that, you know"
We'll, hardly drawled Coleman.
Yet YOU marked him with a bullet, I
think you said"
Boyd's eyes took on again that Gu
rious, subtle CLEAN.
Marked him?" said he slowly. Yes.
/ Jimmie, l marked him. So we'll that
within another month 1 shall land him
behind the bars"
"Humphl That sounds good, Felix
Recalling their past experiences with
the Big Finger. the central office man
smiled doubtfully. by no means dream
ing that Mr.. Felix Boyd had declared
what was destined TO prove the truth.