Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-03-01
CHAPTER XVI.-(Continued.)

Il have 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
and began toying with the bookma-
ker's ticket.
Being now thoroughly convinced
of your guilt l 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.
] hated to believe you capable of a
thing like this, but was forced to;
and as you know when l tackle q man
in any contest, friendly or otherwise.
am going to down him if l can; leav-
ing the matter of what l will do to
him after I have thrown him depend
ent good deal upon his own actions
If he yells quits l am always inclined
TO help him up, but if he wants to
fight it out to the end of course | am
not going to give up. Now your de-
HOtion to Mrs. Dace was we'll known
about town and when | became adj
Nised of it ! began thinking hard. 1t
went without saying that it was cost
Ing 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,
lore | 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
artifice of mine. I wondered if there
could possibly be any evidences in
your pockets of gambling transac-
zion 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 to
your mousse with an order written on
one of the cards l had found calling
for the Derby day suit, not knowing
how else 70 describe it. He got it
without trouble, and intercepted him
on the way to the tailor and searched
She pockets. In them I 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
for nothing ticket"
Il suppose in your infinite wisdom
you also know that l had money left
me by my father which l was.at lib
erty to use as l saw fit" l broke in
cuttingly. He acknowledged that he
possessed that information
yes, found out that you had some,
thing in reserve: but the most i'm
portant fact it conveyed to me was
that you had taken to secret gambling
in the hope of winning enough to en-
able you to keep up your new life.
Aud knowing somewhat of the nature
of men. / knew it was improbable TO
suppose that having made a big 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 a few days of shadowing
you | ascertained that you went to
certain brokers' office, and having
found that out 1t 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 l knew in the nature
OF things that you had gone broke at
the same time he did. You were.
therefore, as hard hit as be, but
showed splendid nerve and never
turned a hair or let a hint drop.