The Ordway new era., 1910-10-21

OAyb 11Albey Jay III tuo UOA CoIs Sse0
hand and foot, suffering fortunes Of
thirst, delirious at times, and discov.
cred by a tramp at townsville only in
time to save his life.
To 60 back to Paul Armstrong. At
the last moment his plans had been
frustrated. Sunnyside. with its 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 we're in the
into the chimney room. e,
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 q weak
ling. but Louise was more dim cult to
manage. She had no love for her step
father. but her devotion to her moth
er was entire. self-sacrifcing. 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 telc-
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. or 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 a scrap Of paper
that indicated a concealed room some.
where.
His inherited cupidity was aroused.
Eager to get Halsey and Jack Bailey
out Of the house, he went up to he
east entry. and in the billiard room
gave the cashier what he had refu,"d
earlier in the evening-the address Of
Paul Armstrong in California and a
telegram which had been forward
to the club for Bailey. from DR.. Wa K
er. It was in response to one Bay
had sent, and 1t said that Paul A. III
strong was very i'll.
Bailey was almost desperate. lie
decided to go west and find Paul Arm
strong and to force him to disgorac.
But the catastrophe at the bank c.
CURED sooner than he had expect 4.
On the moment Of starting west. It
Andrews station. where Mr.. Jamic~un
had located the car. he read that ne
bank had closed. and. going back. r.
rendered himself.
John Bailey had known Paul Arm.
strong intimately. He did not believe
lhdl the iHoHey WAS gone. IN 1acl II
was hardly possible in the interval
since the securities had been TAX n.
Where was 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 Sre
the architect of the building, but, like
the contractor. II he knew of the
room, he refused any information. 1t