The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-11-25

days Halsey lay in the box car, tied
hand and foot, suffering tortures of
thirst, delirious at times, and discov-
cred by 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
dislodge 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 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 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 a 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 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
a 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 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 a
t Sunnyside. He had a scrap of pape1
! that indicated concealed room some
4 where.
4 His inherited cupidity was aroused
e Eager to get Halsey and Jack Bale.
5 out of the house, he went up to tn
east entry, and in the billiard room
$ gave the cashier what he had refuse,
Y earlier in the evening-the address O
e Paul Armstrong in California and
: telegram which had been forwarde
S to the club for Bailey, from DR.. Wall
il err It was in response to one Bale
e had sent, and it said that Paul Arm
l. strong was very i'll.
/. Bailey was almost desperate. H
e decided to go west and find Paul Arm
strong and to force him to disgorgt
v But the catastrophe at the bank o.
D. Cured sooner than he had expected
e On the moment of starting west, &
d Andrews station, where Mr.. Jamieso
q. had located the car, he read that tn
e, bank had closed, and, going back, su
r. rendered himself.
t. John Bailey had known Paul Arr
- strong intimately. He did not beliey
t, that the money was gone; in fact,
st was hardly possible in the intervt
s. since the securities had been take
e. Where was it? And from some chanC
" remark let fall some months Garlic
lie by Arnold Armstrong at a Dime
10 Bailey felt sure there was a hide
n. room at Sunnyside. He tried to 81
le the architect of the building. but, lii
is the contractor, if he knew of Il
ea room, he refused any information.