El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-25
CONTINUED From Yesterday.
Copyright 1908 by the Bobbs-Merrin Co.

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 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 a
telegram which had been forwarded
er. 1t was in response to one Bailey
had sent, and it said that Paul Arm
strong was very FL
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, at
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, it
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 a dinner,
Bailey felt sure there was a 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. It
was Halsey's idea that John Bailey
come to the house as gardener, and
pursue his investigations as he could.
His smooth upper lip had been sufl-
cient disguise, with his change Of
clothes, and haircut by a country
barber
So it was Alex, Jack Bailey, who
had been our ghost. Not only had he
alarmed Louise-and himself, he ad-
mitted-on the circular staircase, but
he had dug the hole in the trunkroom
wall, and later sent Eliza into hysteria.
The note Li6dy had found in Ger
trude's scrap-basket was from him,
and 1t was he who had startled me
into Inconsistencies by the clothes
chute, and, with Gertrude's help, had
carried me to Louise's room. Ger
trude, learned, had watched all
night beside me, in an extremity Of
anxiety about me-
That old Thomas had seen his mas
ter. and thought he had seen the Sun
nyside ghost, there could be no doubt
OF that story of Thomas, about see
ing Jack Bailey in the footpath be
tween the club and Sunnyside, the
night Liddy and 1 heard the noise on
the circular staircase-that, too, was
right On the night before Arnold
Armstrong was murdered, Jack Bailey
had made an attempt to search for
the secret room. He secured Arnold 5
keys from his room at the club and
got into the house, armed with golf
stick for sounding the walls. He ran
against the hamper at the head c.
the stairs, caught his cuff-link in it.
and dropped the golf-stick with a
crash. He was glad enough to get
away without an alarm being raised,
and he took the owl train to town.
The oldest thing to me was thai
Mr.. Jameson had known for some
time that Alex was Jack Bailey. But
the face Of the pseudo-gardener was
very queer indeed when, that night.
in the cardroom. the detective turned