Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-12-22

days aalsey lay in the box car, tied
hand and foot, suffering fortunes of
thirst, delrious at times. and discoy.
cred by a tramp at townsville only in
time to save his life
To go back to Paul Armstrong. At
the last moment his plans had been
frustrated. Sunnyside. With it's hoard
IN the chimney room, had been rented
without his knowledge, Attempts to
d1slodge me having failed. he was
driven to breaking into his own house.
The ladder in the chute, the burning
OF the stable and the entrance through
the cardroom wjndow-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 to send
Louise away until it was too late 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 to close and her
stepfather 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-sacrificing. Forced
into acquiescence by her mothers ap-
peals. overwhelmed by the situation,
the girl consented and fled.
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
frenzy.
Louise arrived at Sunnyside and
found the house rented Not knowing
what to do, she sent for Arnold at the
Greenwood club. 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 nothing. 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 scrap of paper
that indicated a concealed room some
I,where.
I His 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 room
! gave the cashier what he had rafrsad
earlier in the eyening-the address of
Paul Armstrong in California and n
telegram which had been forwarded
to the club for Bailey, from DR.. Walk
err. 1t was in response to one Bailey
had sent. and it said that Paul Arm
strong was very i'll.
& Bailey was almost desperate. He
iaaecidsasto SO west ind find Pau; Arm.
strong and to fierce him to disgorre
E But the catastrophe at the bank &C.
scurred sooner than he had expected
On the moment of starting west. at
sAndrews station, where Mr.. 5amieson
had located the car. he read that the
bank had closed, and, going back, sur
rendered himself. ~
Z John Bailey had known Paul Arm,
strong intimately. He did not believe
that the money was gone: in fact Fl
twas hardly possible In the interval
3slnce the securities had been taken
r fF5Ayh ne was At And from some chance
EC0mark let fan Soma v,,r,.xks,s
by Arnold Armstrong at dinner.
bailey felt sure there was a hidden
froom 81 Spnnyside. He tried to see
me architect Of the building, but. IKE
Ithe srontractor. Z. he. knew 81 the
room. he refused any inferno tfon II