Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-03-12

syringe and plunged it into Young's
arm. The prisoner breathed a long
sigh of relief. The color came back
into his face and strength to his
voice. His muscles stopped witch
ing. /. Y 5..s
"Now," said Davis gently. where
are the yellow letters hid?"
S..In a tin-box under a fiat stone near
the spring." Young replied.
(Which stone?' 5.5 ss,'s
"It's the third from the spring com.
ing this way"
Davis was up like shot and out
the door, reappearing quickly with an
ordinary document box.
IS" And the Parrish papers where are
they?" he asked sharply.
They are in the box, too" said
Young YEARLY. May have anoth.
er shot 2"
Davis studied his face and felt his
pulse and then reached for the
syringe. q.
where's the key?" he asked as he
finished administering the morphine.
"In my left trousers pocket"
Young answered alphabetically.
Quickly Davis possessed himself OF
the key and opened the box. In the
top tray were perhaps fifty letters,
type-written on yellow paper, with a
blank left for the name to be filled in.
Without stopping to read the letters,
which seemed to be all after the same
form, Davis lifted the tray. In the
bottom Of the box was type-writ-
ten list of names and bulky sealed
legal envelope, marked on the out
side Papers in the Parrish case"
Here, Kent" said Davis, handing
me the envelope, take charge OF
these and give them to- Miss Louise
or Miss Katharine. You're entitled
to that"
Joyfully slowed the envelope in
my breast pocket, my heart bounding
at the thought of the relief the sight
OF the package would bring to the
Parrish family. But as yet the whole
affair was a blind puzzle to me and
I waited eagerly for further develop
ments.
Now. Young" said the inspector,
tell me all about your scheme"
.If the damn thieves hadn't been
such towards as to go and kill them
selves" said Young with glow Of
enthusiasm, Il would have been mil.
lionaire within year. Read one az
the letters and you can see for your.
self just how good the scheme was =
Lifting the topmost sheet the IN
spector read the yellow letter aloud u
DIX. Lock Box IT,
Ardway, Nj, Feb. s. 1910.
Dear Sir: 5s.5 E &. II ..T
I am writing to you In pursuance Of
my duty as executor Of the late Edwin
Green, who died here recently. leaving
$3.50, 900, in my hands for what he was
pleased 70 term "Defaulters' Fund
I can best explain Its purpose by briefly
summarizing the founders life. In his
early youth Mr.. Green was employed for
a short time in a bank in a small city in
another state. Becoming involved In
speculation he used several hundred doll
lars of the banks funds He had no rela-
tives but q sister, to whom he knew It
was useless to apply for aid. AS dis
tcovery seemed inevitable he was con-
templating suicide, seeing nothing but
prison anu OlSSTdC6 duedU OIL But
an old friend Of his father, who entirely
by accident learned Of his plight ad-
vanced him the money he needed to make
good his defalcation, exacting from him
a promise that he would help others in
similar plight whenever he had oppor-
tunity. ~ t&5&
His subsequent life was of the highest
recititude. Though he amassed q fortune
he never found opportunity to aid any
one in plight similar to the one in
which he once found himself It became
almost a mania with him and resulted in
his leaving his entire fortune to aid first
offenders in turning back into the right
path. ~ l Z t
know of no way OF reaching the per-
sons he intended to aid. I am sending
out this letter to persons employed in
banks and positions of trust, hoping that
you or others who receive it may know
of some man, young or old. who has
made the first misstep and Is wrongfully
using funds belonging to others, but Is
DESTROYS of making good his populations.
If you should know of any such will
gladly make good his defalcation and en-
daavor to save him from exposure, dis
grace and imprisonment. asking only his
word that he will not err again, for Mr..
Green, in the deed Of trust, expressly
specifies that this is the only security to
be exacted. I am. sir.
r-g Very truly yours, & st.55
HENRY MALCOLM STEWART.
H. (TO BE CONTINUED.)