The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-25
io per ceA, of tie rlscoant', inherit.

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 Your plan would fail However. 1 can give you 8 scheme of operations by which you can work with me. shall need a confederate. You may name that confederate"
 Proceed"
 q shall require a few carpenters tools, which l shall take with me on the ship, and a tiny pot of paint. I suppose from what you have told me that the moment the papers leave your vaults the enemy will know It."
 q have been told that we have spies here in this office. and the best Lon don detectives are watching us
 "Very well. send the papers to the ship in any way you like and deliver them to me In my stHteroom. which you will engage for me. As soon as you have secured it cable some one you know in New Yorl, Co enEaEr it for the return trip Thl, done. we shall pro ceed further"
 'I will attend to the r.i.Cr at once. How about your ronTrGHr- .r:
 He may go with u.,. on lhr trip and will take the papers lrnur ule in New York"
 But don't understand tbe necessity for these details
 They are more necessary on my ac- count than on yours long expert ence enables me to get these papers through for you, but that experience makes me q suspicious character. l shall be searched by the customs of icers in New York But there Is this advantage fin your employing me. Like ly your opponents will get on to the fact of my taking the papers to Ameri- ca. If they don't prefer that you should see that they do. This will concentrate suspicion on me."
 And Insure failure"
 Ii took some time to convince Mir. Collamore of the cxpediency of em- ployIng me Tn faCt. l was obliged to give him my whole scheme before be would do SO. When ! told him all he engaged me at once.
 l was given the papers Iu his office and went direct to the ship. watched by several detectives. who remained on the dock till the ship had sailed. Once in my stateroom took my carpenters tools from a satcheI Io1seued board in the floor. put in the papers and, putting back the board. dabbed little paint on it. so that its removal would not be noticed To make more sure l removed the board under the berth.
 was conscious of being watched all the way over. but l did not know whether my watchers were in the service Of the London or the New York parties interested in the papers. One man. a middle aged gentleman, sus- pected of being my confederate, who was not to make himself known to me, but I was not sure. It didn't matter to me how closely was watched, for as soon as ] had concealed the papers under the floor of my stateroom my work was done. When we arrived at New York and I went ashore was accosted by a customs man who knew me well by:
 Hello. Bobi What racket are you working on this timeT"
 He took me and my baggage into private room and went through every thing He found nothing dutinble. not even my carpenters tools. for had thrown them overheard. Finding noth- ing. he let me go. had not got a block from the dock before was attacked by a gang of rouChs. one of whom, doubtless disguised. searched me A policeman picked me uP half dead, put me in a cab and sent me home.
 My confederate had received full in structions from Mr CoIlamore. A couple of hours before the ship sailed the former went aboard the ship, ac. companied by one who purported to be bis daughter. but who WIS really a typlst in the employ of legal firm who were Mir. Collcmnre's correspond cnts. The confederate. having obtain ed the key to his stateroOm the one [ had occupied on the Inst trip from Ercland-went there and. with tools he carried in hls suit ease. took up the board in the floor. secured the pa- pcrs. the typist concealed them on her person and. when the All ashoreE bell was rung. bidding fearful good by to him who purported to be her father. she went down the gangplank. and in another hour the papers were deposited in the vaults of safety de pOsit company
 According to the contract I had made before leaving London. was given S2OO a month till the estate was set tied. when I was to receive a million. I was paid the S20O regularly. but when the final settlement was made l was put on with a beggnrly half mil lion on the ground that after all the viscount had been obliged to compro- mise with the American heirs.
 However, am quite comfortable and do not need to practice any more schemes, for I can get on very well from the income I enjoy from the pro ceeds of my last venture. I live in London and am much respected, though I am known to be a retired