The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1912-07-05
CHAPTER xvI.-(contlnued.)

I have nothing further to say at
'rresent than to repeat that you will
repent of your idiocy later" was my
Arlgid comment. He laid aside the
card case as having been disposed Of
and began toying with the bookma-
,fer's ticket.
Being now thoroughly convinced
'of your guilt l began worrying my
head for good. tangible proof of it;
proof that would convince ~ men
who would be naturally prepossessed
An your favor at the beginning because
aof your appearance and good record.
I hated to believe you capable of a
thing like this, but was forced to;
and as you know when I tackle q man
IN any contest, friendly or otherwise, |
am going to down him if I can; leav-
Ing the matter of what l will do to
him after have thrown him depend
lent a good deal upon his own actions.
1T he yells quits I am always inclined
TO help him up, but If he wants to
night 1t out to the end of course | am
not going to give up. Now your de-
'votion to Mrs. Dace was we'll known
about town and when I became adj
vised Of it ! began thinking hard. 1t
went without saying that it was cost
lug you money to court her. and did
not believe that your salary was suffi-
cient for you to be able to keep up
the pace long on that alone. There
Gore l naturally wondered where you
got the rest. When in tracing you back
wards / found out that you had been
to the Derby, another bright thought
occurred to me. You remember the
mysterious man who came to your
house with the forged note and got
the suit of clothes you had worn on
that day? Well, that was another
sartifiee of mine. l wondered II there
could possibly be any evidences In
your pockets Of gambling transac-
Stfon on that event. / know from per-
asonal experience how apt a man is to
rcarry around expired passes and
worthless truck of that kind for
considerable period before destroying
them, so l sent an employee of mine to
your house with an order written on
zone of the cards had found calling
for the Derby day suit, not knowing
Show else to describe it. He got it
without trouble, and intercepted him
ION the way to the tailor and searched
sthe pockets. In them l found your
worthless ticket on Eagle Boy. You
had bet $1,000 on that race in the
hope Of winning ten thousand; had
lost and failed to destroy your good
9or nothing ticket"
Il suppose in your infinite wisdom
sou also know that had money left
tme by my father which was at lib
,erty to use as l saw fit" / broke in
'cuttingly. He acknowledged that he
possessed that information.
Yes. found out that you had su,:e-
thing In reserve: but the most i'm
sportant fact 1t conveyed to me was
that you had taken to secret gambling
fin the hope Of winning enough to en-.
able you to keep up your new life.
And knowing somewhat of the nature
of men, knew 1t was improbable 10
suppose that having made a Zig loss
you would stop without an attempt to
regain it. There is no public gam.
bling to any extent going on in town
except on the board of trade and
stock exchange; so the chances were
If you were doing anything along that
line it would be at one of those
places. BY few days of shadowing !
you I ascertained that you went to a
certain brokers' office, and having |
found that out It did not take me
long to learn what medium you were
backing. 1t was the same stock that |
Bruce went broke on the day before
the robbery, and knew in the nature
Of things that you had gone broke at
the same time he did. You we're,
therefore, as hard hit as he, but |
showed splendid nerve and never
turned hair or let hint drop.
AAd now uncovered your sudden des-