Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-17
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH IL. 1907

tunately was dragged into this affair: Now, have
no doubt that the prisoners here will give the
location of the counterfeiter's plant?"
He glanced at the man and woman. They looked
at each other, but remained silent.
Il have never met counterfeiter yet who would
give up the hiding place of his plates remarked
Detective Mallory.
said The Thinking Machine; they are merely
thieves. Bardetto, the man who was found uncon-
scious, who owned the monkey, is one of the
counterfeiters Let explain briefly how every
fact considered clears up the problem. First the
inevitable logic of the affair shows that these
two prisoners learned in some manner unknown
that Bardetto was either principal agent for
some big counterfeiting scheme for can't believe
that they thought this real money. But instead
of reporting the matter to the police they resolved to
benefit by it themselves. How? By stealing the
bills from Bardetto this to be followed, perhaps, by
immediate flight to Italy. They both Italians,
and you may know that clever American counter
for that matter these bills would pass in circulation
readily here.
Granting then that they did know of Bardetto's
part in the scheme can readily imagine that they
learned that Bardetto had quantity of the money
in his possession; the robbery planned. The
man here did the work, and was to meet the
in the vacant rooms of the tenement where Mr..
Hatch her
We'll, Bardetto was attacked and his pockets
rif1ed. Evidently prisoner did not find what he
sought and yet he knew that the money had passed
into Bardettos possession, and perhaps too that
he had had no opportunity of getting rid oft.
Was it in the organ? He smashed it to see.
1t wasn't Then, the monkey was the money
concealed about the animal clothing? That
was the next question in the robber mind.
Half dozen reasons such
approaching, would have prevented this
nm making search there; he broke the
monkeys chain and took the little brute
along with him. In the vacant apartments
the man did not meet the woman-we know
why-perhaps presumed that she did not
come, and went with his search. 1t is
pVtra r11n1E TnrO h1b1 hot he oEaIS
gled and fought in the hands of stranger,
SO the man stabbed it. He had no for
it, anyway. Now, matter of fact
and the scientist turned to the whom
he had personally taken prisoner, you
took pouch pocket from beneath the
monkeys clothing, didn't your
The prisoner stared at him instant,
then nodded
SO he got that counterfeit money which
+ he knew had been in Bardetto S possession,
Il continued The Thinking Machine. 1t was
not great deal SO much as he had
anticipated, We'll say-then he and the
woman planned to search Bardetto's
for more, knowing he in the hospital.
Perhaps the woman went ahead to recon-
hotter. | didn't see her enter, but knew it
woman because her skirts swished,
| and told Mr.. Hatch to lose time in arrest
Al ing her,
II The minute found the money knew
| the solution of the affair-the solution that
L must be correct Up to that time 1 had
II imagined dozen other thngs-je jewels,
letters papers of some sort. That is why
| | | told Mr. Hatch l didn't know what
! searching for" There pause.
T. i think, perhaps, that explanation covers
81 it all
p Il still don't see why Hatch should have
been held up remarked Detective NAL
lory:
-. 1T might have been merely excess of
caution, was the reply, 'tOr the woman
OH haye adj cd him. fret undo