The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-10-28

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 its hoard
III 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 despe ate 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 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 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
a frenzy.
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
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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 concealed room some
where.
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 refused
earlier in the evening-the address of
Paul Armstrong in California and
telegram which had been forwarded
to the club for Bailey, from DR. Walk
er. 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
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.
On the moment of starting west, al
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, 1t
was hardly possible in the interval
since the securities had been taken.
Where was it? And from some chance
remark let fall some months earlier
by Arnold Armstrong at dinner,
Bailey felt sure there was hidden
room at Sunnyside. He tried to see
the architect of the building, but, like
the contractor, if he knew of the
room, he refused any information. 1t