The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-01
The Window
By MARY ROBE2TS
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 Butler WAL not a business man. He let too much responsibility lie with hls subordinates, and then, according to the story. he couldn'ttdo much any bow against Schwagtz. The cashier was entirely under machine control, fnd Butler was neglectfa1l. You re- member, Knox, the crasht when three banks, rotten to the core, went under Ind it was found q large amount of stRte money had goue, too? It was Fleming who did 1t. am sorry, Mareery, but this is no time to mince words. It was Fleming who deposit cd the money in the, wrecked banks. knowing what would happen. When the crash came Butlerfs sureties to save themselves .confiscated every dol lar he had in the world. Butler went to the penitentiary for six months on come minor count, and when he got ont, after writing to Fleming and Schwartz protesting his innocence and asking for enough out of the fortune they had robbed him of to support his wife. he killed thimself at the White Cat"
 Mareery was very pale, but quiet. She sat with her fingers locked in her lap and her eyes, on Wardrop.
 t1t was a bad business" Wardrop went on wearily. Fleming moved into Buffers place as treasurer and took Lightfoot as his cashier. That kept the lid on. Once or twice when there was am unexpected call for funds the treasury was almost empty, and Sehwartz carried things over himself. I went to Plattsburg as Mr. F1emings nrivate secretary when he became treasurer, and from the first I knew things were even worse than the aver sss state government.
 ~schwartz and Fleming had to hold together. They hated each other, and the feeling was trebled when Fleming married Schwartz's divorced wife, . Margery looked at me with startled, incredulous eyes. What she must have seen confirmed Wardrop's words, and she leaned hack in her chair limp and unnerved. But she heard and compre- hended every word Wardrop was say ina.
 aThe woman was a very ordinary person. but it seems Schwartz cared for her, and he tried to stab MT. Elem srg shortly after the marriage. About a year ago MT. Fleming said another attempt had been made on his lifewith poison. Things were not going well at the treasury. Schwartz and his crowd were making demands that were hard to eupply and behind all that Fleming was afraid to go out alone at night. He employed man to pro- teet him, man named Carter, who had been q bartender in Plattsburg. When things began to happen here in Manchester he took Carter to the home asa butler. -Sir @3M
 Then the Borough bank got shaky. If 1t went down there would be an ugly scandal. and Fleming would go, too. His notes for half million were there, without security, and he dared net show the cancelled notes he had with Schwartz's indorsement.
 I'm not proud of the rest of the story, Margery." He stood looking down at her. q was engaged to marry a girl who was everything on earth to IuSs 41Q-L WAS pE1VddG SEG1UtdIy OO ehe state treasurer, with the princely galary cf such a position.
 's'Mr. Fleming came back here when the Borough bank threatened failure and tried to get money enough to tide over the trouble. A half million would have done 1t, but he couldn't get it. He was in Buffers position exactly, only he was guilty and Butler was in- pocent. He raised little money here, and I went to Plattsburg with securi- ties and letters. It isn't necessary to 60 ovar the things suffered there. brought back $11o,O0O in package in my Russia leather bag. And-I had something elss."
 Re wavered for the first time in his recital He went OF more rapidly and without looking at either of us
 TT carried. not in the valise, bundle of letters, five fin all, which had been