The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-05-11

cote says that they trim him good on
those shipments. wonder how IFS
done"
ut could be money &c your pocket
if YOU knew" said olo OF the men
with a laugh There's standing re-
ward Of $4,000 for the discovery oil
the way it goes.
81 should think some OF you fel-
lows would have pulled that money
down long ago." suggested Dunseith.
There must be some one who knows.
The ones who are In the know are
getting more than the $4,000 remind
ed the other man with a laugh.
Some talk CT the conversation
reached the assistant superintendent,
Blasser, and he promptly reported II
to Ogden and his daughter. He was
glad of an opportunity to turn Ruth
against the stranger, for until Dun
seth had come Blasser had paid Ruth
assiduous court Now she seemed to
prefer the man from the east and
! Blasser was quick to press his adj
| vantage.
I'm going down the road this
! morning. ne Sdlu llShIit. ''NA
| you'd fix it so that | could ride in the
! engine" said Dunseith one morning.
Ogden nodded his assent without
speaking, and after the meal the two
men went across the grounds to the
storehouse Already the engine was
attached to the express car, and the
messenger was on hand to check up
the invoice. Dunseith watched as the
boxes were checked off and slowed
in the car. Then the seals were put
on. and Ogden impressed on the soft
wax the impression from one OF the
seals. At the end of the run these
seals were removed entire and re-
turned to Ogden. who checked Them
up Dunsefth ciambered aboard the
engine after borrowing a suit OF over
alls, and the engine pulled out to
hook on to the train OF ore cars that
completed tho load The express
messenger took his seat on the ore
car nearest the express car. ana the !
train pulled out.
1t was a twelve-hour run to the /
smelters and 1t was late in the eve
ming when the camp was thrown into
an uproar by the announcement that
the leakage had been discovered, but
beyond the bare facts nothing was
known until the following day when
Dunseith turned up on the train and
hurried across to the office
did you get Murphy as l wired?"
lie asked as he entered the room.
Ogden nodded Il don't think that
lie did it." he declared
Not at ALL assented Dunseith,
but he made it possible for the man
Who did to get along a bit easier. Did
t ever occur to you that you had a
;0-foot car that measured a little
hort of SIS inside?"
What's that got to do with it,"
grunted Ogden
The ends were false" explained
They contained some
plain ore, pair of steelyards and-a !
man
Il don't see what good that was
when the boxes were scaled was the
reply.
Send for one of the boxes, sug-
gested Dunseith and when 1t came
he knelt on the floor beside it
The shipping boxes were of wood
bound with metal. The metal rims
We're bolted TO the sides and ends and
one of these bolts Dunseith rapidly
unscrewed with an odd shaped tool
that grasped the irregular head like
a wrench
Il am something of an amateur ma
gieian" he explained The construc-
ton of the boxes seemed TO me peeu-
liar and this was the first clue | sat
over here smoking with Murphy and
when he went on his rounds TO touch
the clocks | had a chance to investt-
gate"
As he spoke Dunseith drew away
the loosened bolt and showed that it
ran through the side OF the box to the |
opposite metal band Once the rod
was removed the bottom could be
lifted up without disturbing the seals
in the least. Ogden uttered a cry of
establishment
Under cover of the noise made by
the train explained Dunseith the
man In the car slipped out OF his
compartment in the end He weighed
out the ore and replaced it with exact
ly the same weight of vaIueless rock.
At the end of the run the boxes were
undisturbed and Of the same Weight
as before. but there was an exchange
of from two to three hundred pounds
of ore that ran almost pure gold.
There were three men in the game
at the other end One was the yard.
master, the second the station agent
and the third the express messenger
on another run. After the doctored
ore was delivered at the smelter the
car was run up to the yards and
emptied Of the stolen ore This was
+ taken into the freight house by the
agent and the express messenger
+ took 1t up the road and then shipped
{ II to another smelter az ore from a
( little mine which the freight agent
/ owned Murphy was taken into the
game TO make things easy for the
man in the car in case there was a