The Caucasian., 1911-06-04


recognized Hayward and an instant
later Sterling bye his side. The burly
figure of Eich brought up the rear.
| saw that Hayward and Sterling
carried their hands behind them, then
that they were tied together with
rope, an end of which was held by
Eich, who had Il large revolver in his
other hand.
"Ah, these bachelors" cried he
''they are no good. Respectable peo-
pie are married and have families"
He spoke jovially, in excellent hu-
NOR with himself.
whoa, therer' he cried to his team
and brought them to a stand. Then
he addressed US. For some time
yet" said he, 81 have my eye on this
Hayward There have been many
robberies about When / see you two
go to his house tonight | think to my
self. Why? | hear some months ago
already when the banks are all in
trouble that Professor Conrad draw
out his money and buy himself safe
very quiet. So There is but one wo-
man in his house this evening that
sleeps in the attic. like a log. while
the two men are at Hayward's And
the dog that used to drive away the
children is dead" I
"You caught these people in my
housev exclaimed Professor Conrad.
"Since 0 o'clock" replied Eich, Il
have sat myself in your garden. but
| see nothing till little while ago.
Then a man came and whistled soft
under a window. try to catch him.
but he gets away. Then two men
come out. They had been in l don't
know how long. They find revolver
looking them right in the eyes. 1t is
surrender or be shot. They put up
their hands in a hurry. these two"
At this moment | made discovery.
The Sterling who was prisoner was
not the one whom | had left with
Professor Conrad when went out to
look for Hayward. He was the brown
eyed Sterling, the one who had jump.
ed out of the window.
Hayward" said l. 'are there two
Sterlings?"
There are two men," he answered.
Neither of them is named Sterling"
"Brothers?
He nodded
"One has blue eyes, and the other
has notified brown and blue?"
He nodded again.
They're couple of crooks that |
happened to fall in WITH" he said.
'"They look so much alike that you
can hardly tell them apart. That's
what suggested this job to me-"
"Shut up.' said Sterling.
| 'Oh, what's the use2" said Hay
ward. We've got this old birds mon
ey in our pockets"
And they had. no less than $4,000
of it.
When the case was finally cleared
up we found that Hayward had
| brought the blue eyed Sterling to town
openly and the other secretly, con-
cealfng him in his house. On the
evening of the robbery blue eyes had
/ got into Conrad's house early and had
done some work on the safe, but, find
Ing it stronger than he supposed. had
returned to Hayward and made a
signal. Upon this brown eyes had
Jumped out of the window and after
brief word with his brother in the
inn garden had gone to Conrad's,
wnere be was speedily joined by Hay
ward, and the two had succeeded in
! Inafinp the safe.
All. this had escaped Eich's observa-
ton, owing to the skill of the opera
tors and the darkness of the night
but when the moon came out Eich had
detected blue eyes returning after his
trick upon Conrad and had subse-
quently captured brown eyes and
Hayward as they came out Of the
house.
Eich would not accept reward OF
even thanks from Conrad