The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-22


some three maid servants and juvenile
help, and he felt himself stranger to
nc control OF staff. indoors and OUT.
OF between thirty and forty; but he finalS
~ decided that he liked II. and on the
FOURTH morning had arrived at definite
decision TO retire from business alto
as country gentleman. He had a clear
400 600 invested. and with hut an only
daughter 10 provide for. he felt that It
But the one think that irked him, the
little tiny fly In the pot Of ointment, was
ms envy OF the painted escutcheons in
the WINDOWS and I'm the gallery. and the
scuIptured shields on the embattled gate
way. Those. he knew, no money could
purchase for him. He could leave them
as lie intended to do-wherc he found
them. bur he knew he had nothing TO
do with them. The great sculpturcd
achievenent over the entrance was his
bur this always challenged his attention
as mark of ownership. and on the
fourth morning. he had sent into the lit
Tie town for the local dealer in grave
stones and told him TO erase the whole
ining from the stone. and carve up in
stead gigantic monogram OF the let
In the course OF an hour or two the
workmen arrived. Ladders and light
scanoiding were quickly in place, and
koodoorian strolled out. to gloat over the
signs OF the past ownership were removed
The mason placed his chlsel against the
seulptured stone, and his arm welding
the mallet was uplifted TO strike. A dog
cart tore through the gateway into the
courtyard and a strident voice called out:
Damn you-stop thatH
But II was too late The lion which
had ramped above the doorway for a long
SIN hundred years shivered beneath the
blow; and fell IN a thousand fragments
on the pavement below To his dying
day, Captain lie, Mesurler, who loved his
home as n mother loves her first born,
cursed the whisky and soda he had
stopped in town TO procure, the oms-
sion Of which would have made all the
known In the neighborhood. and the
Worllmen. recognizing him. at once
dropped their tools, In spite Of the fren-
zied orders OF koodoorian to proceed. For
half an hour the two men storned at
each other In their inadequate attempt
each 10 convey TO the other their respec-
tive opinions Of the situation. Finally
the captain strobe up the steps. and
grasping koodoorian by the collar. shook
him as terrier shakes rat. and final
" kicked him down the steps, 1t is Idle
convey the faintest Impression of the
splutterins storm OF indecency that fol-
lowed. Bat through 1t all Captain lie
M Mes1rier began family to realize that
that there was not sign OF bluff about
what he said. He forced himself to lis
ten to the explanation he extorted from
koodoorlap. and 1t dawned upon him
that he was face TO face with colossal
swindle.
Mortgages! $4,000! why, man. I'VE
Riviera on March 10. and 1 never an
swered your last letter because / got the
money ! wanted In another way"
And then Koodoorlan understood. The
date or the telegram was burnt into
his brain for many reasons. and through
constant reference to It he knew 1t was
March II. He slowly realized the whole
thing had been gigantic fraud. and that
been y
The collapse of the little money lender
was pItiable. and while tears OF anger
tions followed Captain lie Mesurier felt
a queer, unaccountable pity for the man.
and did his hest TO soften the blow.
Neither invited the other. but both, when
"Mr. koodoorian, OF course 1 recognize
that you won't give all this up without a
fight but there is no reason why we
ny on lawyers. Stanger & Strangman
never heard OF before-my lawyers are
Proctor g. Brltton. The whole point will
hang upon le whether my my signatures are
point without running each other.
know It's fraud and forgery. and I think
you would be wiser to meet me as n
to get your money back. It's all been
a carefully planned swindle-Muggns
and Stanger & Strangman are all part
of the fraud Don't waste time lighting
your fight when you want It; but put a
good detective on 1t al once"
That night Dennis Yardey had been
instructed in everything that Koodoorian
or Captain lie Mesurler could tell him.
1t was some months afterwards when
Yard]ey called at Koodoorian's office,
I'm sorry to say I've failed again,
Mr.. Koodoorian. But it's not my fault,
It's simply this. that whoever did it
planned the whole thing SO carefully that
every trace has been methodically de-
stroyed, But / am as positive as I can
be that Sir John Kynnersley is behind
this
''Why do you think that"
Sir John did you in for $500 over
Kelgbley Watson, and owned himself as
responsible for that affair, which was
as clever as IT could be, Now. you lost
over the countess's bracelet; you were
done over your daughters presentation;
you were. done over the diamond duties; |
and you are done over Mansion castle. |
Now a professional criminal never swim
dies the same person twice-the risk is |
too great. But, with one exception. you |
are the victim of all the only recent un-
explained swindes of any magnitude.
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