The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-10-17
The Window at the
White Cat
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1.-THE things that looked black against
me were bad enough, but they had
nothing to do with Miss Jane. j will
have to go back to before the night
she went away, back 70 the time Mr..
Butler was the state treasurer and
your father. Margery. was his cashier
Butler was not a business man.
lie let too much responsibility lie with
his subordinates. and then. according
to the story, he couldn't do much any
how against Schwartz. The cashier
was entirely under machine control
aud Butler was neglectful. You re-
member. Knox. the crash when three
banks. rotten to the core. went under
and it was found large amount of
state money had gone, too? 1t was
Fleming who did 1t. ! am sorry.
Margery, but this is no time to mince
words 1t was Fleming who deposit
ed the money in the wrecked banks,
knowing what would happen. When
the crash came Buffers sureties to
save themselves confiscated every dol
lar he had in the world. Butler went
to the penitentiary for six months on
some minor count. and when he got
out. 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 himself at the White
Cat"
Biargery was very pale. but quiet.
She sat with her fingers locked in her
lap and her eyes on WardrOp.
at was bad business Wardrop
went en- YEARLY. FLEMING moved
into Buffers place as treasurer and
took Llghtfoot as his cashier. That
kept the lid on. Once or twice when
there was an unexpected call for funds
the treasury was almost empty. and
Schwartz carried things over himself.
/ went to Plattsburg as Mr.. Fleming's
private secretary when he became
treasurer. and from the first | knew
things were even worse than the aver
age 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 back in her chair limp and
unnerved. But she beard and compre-
hended every word Wardrop was say
ing.
1.-THE woman was a very ordinary
person. but it seems Schwartz cared
for her. and he tried TO stab Mr.. Flem-
ing shortly after the marriage. About
year ago Mr.. Fleming said another
attempt had been made on his life with
poison. Things were not going well
at the treasury. Schwartz and his
crowd were making demands that were
hard to supply and behind all that
Fleming was afraid to 90 out alone at
night. He employed man to pro-
feet him. man named Carter. who
had been a bartender in Plattsburg.
When things began to happen here in
Manchester he took Carter to the home
as a butler.
''Then the Borough bank got shaky.
II ii went down there would be an
ugly scandal. and Fleming would go.
too. His notes for half million We're
there, without security. and be dared
not show the Cancelled notes he had
with Schwartz's Endorsement.
I'm not proud OF the rest of the
story, Margery." He stood looking
down at her. 81 was engaged to marry
a girl who was everything on earth TO
me. and-I was private secretary to
the state treasurer. with the princely
salary of such position.
"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 it. but he couldn't get it.
He was in Buffers position exactly.
only he was guilty and Butler was in
nocent. He raised little money here,
and | went to Plattsburg with securi-
ties and letters. 1t isn't necessary TO
90 over the things | suffered there. |
brought back $4,000 in package in
my Russia leather bag. And-I had
else"
He wavered for the first time in his
recital. He went on more rapidly and
without looking at either of us.
81 carried not in the valise. bundle
of letters, FIVE in all, which had been