The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-08

only what the remarks mentioned,
together with evidence l presently shall
submit, have led me to infer" replied
Donald, drawing his chair nearer the
table between the three. while you
presumably are still ignorant of the
fact. owing to the illness and sudden
death of Royce, L am convinced that a
/ very large deficit exists in the funds
OF the Westside bank, as well as those
OF the First National. of which your
friend MIR. Tamworth is president"
The latter shrank as if struck while
Martin Coyle, with countenance grown
black as a thundercloud, sprang out of
his chair
You insolent scoundrel.' he cried,
half ehoked with volcanic rage. Have
you come here to insult and black
mail us2''
Not at ALL Mr. Coyle," answered
Donald, without a change of counte-
nance. II have merely stated that Mr..
Archibald Royce was an embezzler.
Nor was he alone. Though you may
doubt all this. gentlemen, 1 am pre-
pared to prove it. Sit down, Mr..
Coyle.'
Under these flat assertions and the
subtle, threatening ring that had crept
into Donald's voice, Martin Coyle
1 dropped back into his chair as If his
knees suddenly had weakened.
What do you mean, Mr.. Donald?
gasped Tamworth. stretching gaunt and
yellow over the table. God above, you
cannot mean what you say"
Morris Donald gazed coldly from one
| to the other.
Have patience, gentlemen" said he.
Il presently shall tell you on what
my opinion is chiefly based. That
Royce was heavy embezzler / have
not the least doubt. / am fur
Their convinced that he was one of a
ring of officials who have secretly mis-
applied their bank funds and been ut
terly ruined in the recent panic in the
stock market"
"A ringr' Coyle hoarsely cried, still
! shaking with depressed passion. do
you forget, sir, that Royce was our
most intimate associate in business?
Your assertion is equivalent to an in
sinuatiOn, Why do you say that ring
existed, you blackmailer?"
"Cut out all inappropriate epithets,
Mr.. Coyle" said Donald. with a slight
frown stealing about his cold gray
| eyes. II presently shall show you that
such a ring existed"
Impossible"
II also shall convince you that prob
ably, with a view to attributing the
GitlD6ZLAEultllL
young assistant cashier was. after the
sudden death of Royce, foully murder
ed by the latter's confederates in the
said ring"
Equally impossible" reiterated Mr..
Coyle with asperity.
I'm point of fact" continued DON
aid, with hardly a change of voice or
countenance, I shall do even more"
Again-impossible
Il shall prove to you, gentlemen, that
dastardly scheme also was devised
by the members of this ring, by which
to fix the murder of FaxOn upon John
Boyden, with a design either to pro-
woke his lynching or to drive him to
permanent flight, in order that his
books at the Westside bank might be
so manipulated as to hide the knavery
of the true embeZzlers, and substanti-
ate the determination of Grant Faxon.
OF course, you are well aware that it
is no new scheme, gentlemen, that of
using the funds Of two banks in such
way as to preclude the discovery of
a deficit in either. through an ordinary
visit of the state bank examiner"
With a greenish palloT settling on his
haggard face, TamwOrth sat mute and
quaking in his chair, an exhibition of