The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-05-07

money You must something pretty bad"
He tapped the letter that / bad written. That
what you'n get" he returned III you'll cough up the
Ellington letter that Cowcu talks about here In his
Of Monday Five hundred. Not dollar less"
The risk" vcnturcd.
"Psbaw" he laughed there eight ar nine poo
pie in your Office and you've got the rottcncSt system
vintage Of lSIG-of any law office in New York
Wonder you don't lose everything II tnS gets lost
who's TO blame? Not YOU,
and snuntercd toward the door. He followed
me Ike bloodhound. "Gcrtie." he whispered. will
You do it-for meif
tossed my head I'm not going to put my head
into n noose' retorted You don't catch putting
myself into the power of Cohen * Flanncry.
Five hundred dollars unused, NV. how l would
have liked to have fiye hundred dollars clear just
then I'll tell you why. I've got a sister Alice. He:
back Is mighty bad. And over In Paris there was
Grondon q surgeon who could do the trick for Alice.
Five hundred might do It, \ thousand certainly. On.
yes, l would have liked to have FIVE hundred But
Il won't deal with agents, Mr. Flannery.' said. Il
Talk to principals. and talk alone"
"You Bilngtonl" he asked.
81 mean Just what say" I answered, and I mean
something else. You must think me pretty cheap at
five hundred dollars. Mr., Flnnnery.
'You want n thousand?' he gasped.
"IlI talk TO your principal" retortcd.
'Where?" he eagerly exclaimed.
"Not in any public place" 1 went on. mot where
you can spy on me- You know where live. I'll be
at home tomorrow night There's nobody but my
sister and you know she sticks to one room most a
the time"
You'll do the trick" he exclaimed,
say nothing" returned; IF your principal wants
to see me let him come
Good girl" he exclaimed you're tbc right stuff.
all right. Vol have YOU back at Cohen Flannerys
I'm less time than 1t takes to tell"
"One minute Mr. Flannery,' said. lust for curl
osity would like to know how much your firm VIII
get IL this deal goes through
He grnncd I'm looking for n Judgesh!p, you see'
he answered land when I'm Judge; gee whizF he eX-
claimed 81 shall have to pick out little Wfey one OF
these days" guess he thought that fctched me-
'To-morrow night at nine T. NJ, said
Well tomorrow night Mt nine p NJ came And Ia
the afternoon had opened safe after everybody
had gone and / had taken from II something that
needed and that something was hidden In my BOSOM
And 1t nine to the minute when |, sitting In the
parlor (Alce in the dining room two rooms away
heard the heavy tramp tramp, pun. puff. puff OF
Marcus Ellington coming up the stairs
The End of 1t All.
He stalked into the parlor pretty confidently. /
guess he used to buying people. probably right
and left OF course he knew who was. but he
seemed a little startled when he came In and saw me.
Little GcrtIc Gllroy' he exclaimed Well well!
how you've grown 80
He held up his hand Now look here Gertie.'' he
exclaimed in a low voice you can't hold me up for
more than thousand Understand7 That's the limit
No haGSle. SceN
wantf''
He pulled out the letter had written. "You give
me the letter referred To In that letter. he said and
I'll fork out the thousand so quick ltI take your
breath away
He passed over to me the letter had written and
read it casually enough had read the carbon copy
OF II down Mt the Office think hundred times This
the sentence that was IndelIby stamped upon my
brain
1--WE may state without prejudice that we are In
possession of letter signed by You which 1t is our
purpose Introduce IN evidence upon the trial. You
may recall the contents Of this letter"
/ held out hand, "Where Is the thousand dol
lars?' quericd He held out his hand Where Is
the letter." he asked.
/ shook my head. "You are a big. strong man.
said. and don't trust you If give you the letter
you may give the thousand dollars, II you
give me the thousand dollars you can get 1t back
again"
He counted n thousand ten hundreds, and l
counted them and thrust them Into my bosom, Then
from the mantelpece behind me took piece OF paper
and passed It to him and then darted Into cor
ner of the He seized the letter eagerly. He
opened It, He read 1t. Then he grunted In despair
This isn't the letter that wanted he said.
Do You know what letter had given him: The
letter had given him the letter not In which he
that-the letter l gave him the she had
shown me frst-the one in which he had rejected her
He grew red In the face why" he repeated 'tbs
is trick. This Isn't the right letter at all"
'Read my letter. | Insisted. You what we
say. that have a letter In our possession that NE
shall offer at the trial. the contents OF which you may
remember. The letter have given you answers the
description"
wrong. You've botched it. The letter want Is the
letter In which promised to marry Flea, Lorraine
Thnt's the letter, and you know 1t too"
He charged down upon savagey. But I
treated before him II haven't any such letter" /
replied He caught at that.
'Is IL destroyed" lie asked. Didn't she show you
that?"
Then persisted. you wrote letter promising
10 marry herr
That's the letter that want" he answered
Very we'll" | answered; 81 haven't 1t, but
Introduce YOU 10 the person who has"
And at that. though it her n
stepped forth from the window curtalns-it
Eleanor Lorraine. She had been hattened out In n
space narrow that no could have suspected of
her presence in that room. ! leapcd TO her side mud
thrust the thousand dollars non her
"Snews Of war. Miss Iorrnlne" shouted. NOW
Cowcn. Coyingion Z Black Will take your case"
farp Xyppl reuI al liz N
plant. is - he yelled 'Wcl. III show You. That
letter that | Il between You two women. some
how Give up that letter I've paid for II, and r.
oh, there murder In hs eyes &C bc charged
down upon us defcncclcss women. But we darted
across TO the other window md stood there facing
him. And Just he reached us. beside himself With
anger something happened
Tim Derringer-my Thn-steprcd out from the
other window curtain with n hnmmcrless revolver In
each hand.
Its all over, Mr.. Blinston." he cooed. mildly.
Hope you hive enjoyed thc show Come again when
you can stay longer. There's your hat"
oh, could have huggcd Tim then. But didn't.
just sized big Ellington w and down With my eyes
and said: :-'Mr Ellington. YOU know me. I'm the