The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-03-30
CHAPTER xvl.-(continued.)

~ nave nothing further TO say at
present than to repeat that you will
repent Of your idiocy later was my
frigid comment He laid aside the
card case as having been disposed OF
aud began toying with the bookma-
ker's ticket
''Being now1 thoroughly convinced
OF your guilt began worrying my
head for good, tangible proof OF It,;
proof that would convince II men
who would be naturally prepossessed
in your favor at the beginning because
Of your appearance and good record.
i hated to believe you capable Of
thing like this, but was forced to;
and as you know when ! tackle a man
In any contest. friendly or otherwise, I
ing the matter of what will do to
him after have thrown him depend
ant good deal upon his own actions.
liz he yells quits am always inclined
10 help him up, but Ii he wants to-
fight 1T out to the end OF course | am
hSt Eoih5 ~ EEF0 9oh& AC
votion to Mrs. Dace was well known
about town and when | became ad-
vised OF it began thinking hard. It
went without saying that it was cost
ing you money to court her, and | did
not believe that your salary was sufti-
cient for you to be able to keep up
the pace long on that alone. There
fore I 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 maj Gwho came to your
house with the forged note and got
the suit of clothes you had worn on
that day? Well, that was another
artiflce of mine. wondered if there
could possibly be any evidences in
your pockets OF gambling transac-
.tion on that event. | know from per-
sonal experience how apt man is to
carry around expired passes and
worthless truck of that kind for a
considerable period before destroying
them, SO sent an employee Of mine tc
your house with an order written on
one OF the cards I had found calling
for the Derby day suit, not knowing
how else to describe it. He got il
without trouble, and I intercepted hin
ON the way to the tailor and searched
the pockets In them ! found your
worthless ticket on Eagle Boy. Yol
had bet $1,000 on that race In the
hope Of winning ten thousand. hat
lost and failed TO destroy your goot
Tor nothing ticket"
Il suppose in your infinite wisdom
you also know that l had money lief
me by mNoather which / was at lib
erty to use as saw fit," I broke Ii
cuttingly. He acknowledged that h
possessed that information.
Yes. found out that you had so1::e
thing in reserve: but the most i'm
portant fact it conveyed to me wa
that you had taken to secret gamblin
in the hope of winning enough to er
able you to keep UP your new life
And knowing somewhat of the natur
of men. knew it was improbable I
suppose that having made q big los
you would stop without an attempt t
regain it. There is no public gan
bling to any extent going on in tow
except on the board of trade an
atock exchange" so the chances wer
ii you were doing anything along tina
zine it would be at one of thos
places BY few days of shadowin
you ascertained that you went to
certain brokers' office. and havin
found that out it did not take NJ
long to learn what medium you wer
backing It was the same stock thu
Bruce went broke on the day befor
the robbery, and knew in the natur
OF things that you had gone broke
the same time he did. You wer
therefore, as hard hit as he. b1
showed splendid nerve and nevt
turned hair or let q hint drop.
had nav uncovered your sudden de