Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-04

or the stable and the entrance through
the cardroom window-all were i'm 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 To send
Louise away until IL was too iG,e for
her to interfere. but she came back
TO the hotel at c. Just at the
wrong time. There was terrible
scene. The girl was told that some.
thing OF the kind was necessary; that
the bank was about 10 close and her
stepiather would either avoid arrest
and disgrace in this way. or kill him.
self. Fanny Armstrong was a weak
ling, but Louise was more difficult to
manage. She had no love for her step
father, but her devotion to her moth.
er was entire. self-sacrficing. Forced
into acquiescence by her mothers APP
peals, overwhelmed by the situation,
the girl consented and fed.
From somewhere in Colorado she
sent an anonymous telegram to Jack
Bailey at the Traders bank Trapped
as she was, she did not want to see
an innocent man arrested The tele-
gram. received on Thursday, had sent
the cashier to the bank that night in
q frenzy.
Louise arrived at Sunnyside and
found the house rented. Net Knowing
what TO do, she sent for Arnold at the
Greenwood clut, and told him a 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 the conspiracy
she said hothing. To her surprise.
Arnold already knew. through Bailey
that night, that things were not right
Moreover, he suspected what Louise
did not, that the money was hidden at
Sunnyside. He had a scrap of paper
that indicated a concealed room some
where
Ills inherited cupidity was aroused.
Eager to get Halsey and Jack Bailey
out of the house, he went up to the
east entry, and in the billiard rom
gave the cashier what he had refused
earlier I'm the evening-the address of
Paul Armstrong In California and
telegram which had been forwarded
TO the club for Bailey. from DR. Walk.
err II was in response to one Bailey
had sent. and il said that Paul Arm.
strong was very ILL.,
Bailey was almost desperate. He
decided to go west and find Paul Arm
strong and to force him to disgorge
But the catastrophe at the bank oc-
Cured sooner than he had expected
Nm no %
Andrews station, where Mr.. Jameson
had located the car, he read that the
bank had closed. and, going back. sur.
rendered himself
John Bailey had known Paul Arm.
strong intimately He did not believe
that the money was gone in fact, II
was hardly possible in the interval
since the securities had been taken.
Where wac it? And from some chance
remark let fall some months earlier
by Arnold Armstrong at a dinner.
Bailey felt sure there was a hidden
room at Sunnyside He tried to see
the architect of the building. but. like
tie contractor, If he knew OF the
room, he refused any information. II
was Halsey's idea that John Bailey
come to the house as a gardener. and
pursue his Investigations as he could.
His smooth upper lip had been sufH-
cient disguise, with his change Of
clothes, and a haircut by a country
Sarber
So it was Alex, Jack Bailey. who
had been our ghost. Not only had he
alarmed Louise and himself he adj
mitted-on the circular staircase. but
he had dug the hole in the trunkroom
wall, ana later sent Eliza into hysteria
The note Liddy had found in Ger
trude's scrap-basket was from him.
and 1t was he who had startled me
into unconsCiousness by the clothes
chute, and, with Gertrude's help. had
carried me 20 Louise's room. Ger.
trude, ] learned. had watched all
night beside me, i'm an extremity Of
anxiety about me
That old Thomas had seen his mas.
ter. and thought he had seen the Sun.
nyside ghost, there could be no doubt
OF that story 70 Thomas about see
ing Jack Bailey In the footpath be
tween the club and Sunnvade. the
night Liddy and 7 heard the noise on
the circular STAIRCASE that, too. was
right on the night before Arnold
Armstrong was murdered Jack Bailey
had made an attempt to search for
the secret room lie secured Arnold's
keys from his room at the club and
got into the house. armed with golf
stick for sounding the walls lie ran
against the hamper az the head OF
the stairs. caught his cuflink in 81.
and dropped the golfsGck with
crash He was glad enough to- get
away without an alarm being raised,
and ho took the owl" train TO town
The oldest thing to me was that
Mr. Jameson had known for some
time that Alex was Jack Bailey But
The face of the pscudogardeucr was
very queer indeed when. that night
in the cardroom, the detective turned
TO him and said
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