The Washington times., 1908-12-28
By CHARLES CAREY
Author of The Scarlet Warning, "Down the Toboggan
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a new crowd OF hlm-hammers want to
get hold Of the old scheme and give it
another whirl over the track? This
may merely be a bait 10 get the suck
ers to biting"
NO." and once more Starr Spencer
shook his head. ~ thought of that;
but the facts don't jihe. No one would
risk that much money to exploit
scheme so thoroughly discredited and
turned inside out as Santa Teresa mas
been. Besides, the Invincible Trust
would never stand for a shady connec-
ton. They must be thoroughly salts
fed that the parties behind the propo-
sition are all right, or they would not
lend their name 10 it,
You believe, then, It means dan
ger TO us?"
Frankly. I can't say. It may. That
depends entirely upon who is back Of
the Offer
But with all your financial pull,
can't you find that out?''
II could at most places. At the In
vincible Trust, no. They guard their
secrets like the Bank OF England"
Mr.. Bailey pulled thoughtfully at Cap
tain Northcote's long. dropping mus
tache
''Feu. I'm free to say I'm graveled."
he acknowledged at length II pass,
Pete. You take the deal. and. see what
you can make out Of it
We'll" said Starr Spencer, reaec-
lively, after going over the whole mat
ter. can see but two possible solutions
that is, if we bar the one Of insanity.
" hich the connection OF the Invincible
Trust would seem to preclude"
YES" cried Bailey; 'anG what are
they?"
zone. that it might be the act OF a
wealthy philanthropist whose sympath-
les had been stirred by all this news
paper gufr about robbed widows and
orphans, and was trying to make UP in
this way their losses 10 them
Mr.. Bailey's comment was an en-
PhatiC negative.
Wrong dope" he characterized It
This isn't any public library or Chi
cago college where a man can have
mis- name carved over the door. or his
statue set out in the front yard. Who
ever heard of a wealthy philanthroPist
giving away real money 10 anybody that
needed It? You'll have 20 do better
than that, Pete. What's string No. 2?''
The only other explanation I can
think Of is restitution
Restitution uncertainty. you
mean conscience money like one Of these
guys that sends back $12 to the city OF
Brooklyn he got overpaid twenty years
before2"
YES" assented Spencer; something
on that order"
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other. The only people that ma de any
crowd; and it's a cInch that Miller and
Ferguson amt giving up anything"
Pete" he burst out with sudden sus-
picion. pete. you're not trying to tell
me that you"
Starr Spencer merely looked HIS con
tempt
Il said that did not believe tAis the
freak Of an insane man." he returned;
but il it were, am surely still in my
right senses"
'Well, 1 didn't know grOwled Bailey.
After giving up five thousand for that
Brazilian concession when you told me
you were only going to give one, and
when you needn't have paid more than
s.. can't always tell just where TO find
you
However hurriedIy, as a glance
from the other warned him that he was
treading on dangerous ground, that's
got nothing to do with this matter. II
you're not back of this offer, and Miller
and Ferguson aren't, and since it's a
/ copper-riveted certainty that I'm not,
what I want TO know is who you think
has sufficient interest to want to make
what Won call restitution = -
well, there IS one man who might" ;"
''Who?"
lin Harrison"
Jim HarrisonP Bailey looked up
/ startled. why, he is food for fishes
long agoV'
1--WE think 50. yes: but how do we
know? The sea has more than once
given up men thought to be dead for
years"