The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-07


! ster | retired TO my upstairs sitting
room and got out Eliza Klinefeltcr' s
| lavender slippers. All, well, the fos-
ter motherhood would soon have to be
put away in camphor again.
The next day, by degrees, / got the
| whole story
Paul Armstrong had n bcsetting evil
the love Of money. Common enough,
| but he loved money. not for what IL
would buy. but for it's own sake. An
examination of the books showed no ir-
regularities in the past year since John
| had been cashier, but before that, IN
| the time of Anderson. the old cashier.
who had died. much strange Juggling
had been done-with the records. The
railroad in New Mexico had apparently
drained the bankers private fortune,
and he determined to retrieve IL by
one stroke. This was nothing less than
| the looting of the bank S securities,
turning them into money, and making
| his escape.
But the law has long arms. Paul
Armstrong evidently studied the situa,
ton carefully. Just as the only good
| Indian is a dead Indian, so the only
safe dcfaultcr is dead defaulter. He
decided TO die, to all appearances, and
when the hue and cry subsidized he
would be able TO enjoy his money al
most anywhere he wished.
| plicc, The connIvancc of Doctor Walk,
err was suggested by his love for Lou
| Isc, The man was INSCRIPTIONS, and
with the girl as bait, Paul Armstrong
soon had him fast The plan was ap.
parently the acme of simplicity; small
town in the west, an attack Of heart
disease body from a medical college
dissecting room shipped in trunk to
DR.. Walker by colleague in San Fran.
cisco, and palmed off for the supposed
dead banker What was simpIer7
The woman, Nina Darlington, was
the cog that slipped. What she only
suspected, what she really knew, we
never learned. She was a chambermaid
IN the hotel at c., and it was evident
~ her intention to blackmail Doctor
Walker. His position at that time was
uncomfortable; to pay the woman TO
keep quiet would be confession. He
denied the whole thing, and she went
TO Ealsey,
It was this that had taken Halscy
to the doctor the night he disappeared.
He accused the doctor of the deception.
and, crossing the lawn, had said some.
thing cruel TO Louise. Then. furious
at her apparent connivance. he had
started for the station. Doctor Walk
er aud Paul Armstrone-the latter still
lame where | had shot him-hurried
across TO the cmbanllment, certain only
of one thing. IIalsey must not tell
the detective what he suspected unit.
the money had been removed from the
chimney room. They stepped into the
road in front Of the car to stop it,
and fate played into their hands The
car struck the train, and they had only
TO dispose Of the unconscious figure in
the road. This they did as I have
told. For three days ITalsey lay in
lbe. box car. tied hand and foot, suf.
ferin2 tortmes 'of thirst, dclirious at
times, and discovered by tramp at
townsville only in time 10 save his
life.
To 90 back to Paul Armstrong. At
the last moment his plans had been
frustrated, Sunuyside, with its hoard
IN the chimney room, had been rented
without his knowledge! Attempts 10
dislodgc me having failed, he was driv-
en- 10 breaking into his own house. The
ladder in the chute, the burning of the
stable and the entrance through the
card room window-all were in the
course of a desperate attempt TO get
into the chimney room.
Louise and her mother had, from the
first. been the great stumbling blocks
The plan had been 10 send Louise away
until II was too late for her TO inter
terc, but she came back to the hotel
at c Just at the wrong time. There
was terrible scene The girl was
told that something of the kind was
necessary, that the bank was about TO
close and her stepfathcr would either
avoid arrest and disgrace in this way,
or Kill himself. Fanny Armstrong was
UcakIlnG, but Louise was more diff.
cult TO manage. She had no love for
her stepfatbcr, but her devotion TO her
mother was entire, sacrificing
Forced into acquiescence by her moth.
az c l. LII
uallon, the girl consented and fled
From somewhere IN Colorado she
sent an anonymous telegram to Jack
Bailey al the Traders Bank. Trapped
as She was, she did not want io see an
innocent man arrested. The telegram.
received on Thursday had sent the
cashier 10 the bank that night in "A
frenzy.
Louise arrived al Sunnysidc aud
fonnd the house rented Not knowing
what TO do, she sent for Arnold al tho
Greenwood club. and told him little,
not ALL She told him that there was
something wrong. and that the bank
was about TO close. That his father
was responsible: OF Ibo conspiracy she
sand nothing. 10 her surprise, Arnold
already knew, through Bailey that
things were not right Moreover, he
suspected what Louise did not. that the
money WAS hidden al Sunnyside. He
had scrap Of paper that Indicated
a concealed room somewhere
His Inherited cupidIty was aroused
Eager TO got ITalsey and Jack Bailey
out OF the house. he went mp 10 the
cast entry, and in the billiard room
gave the cashier what he had refused
earlier IN the evCninG-thc address of
Paul Armstrong in California and a |
telegram which had been forwarded 10
the club for Bailey, from Doctor Walk |
er. II was in response 10 one Bailey
had sent. and it said that Paul Arm
strong was very i'll.
Bailey was almost desperate. ITc
decided 10 20 west aud find Paul Arm
strong. aud 10 force him 10 dsgorgc.
But the catastrophe at the bank oc-
Cured sooner than he had expected
On the moment of starting west, at
Andrews Station. whore Mr.. Jameson
had located tho car, he read that the
bank bad closed, and, going back, sur
rendered himself.
John Bailey had known Paul Arm.
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