The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-08-01
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hank, but murdered the night watch

Imogen Marsden.
"You poor child! locked n with =
robber and = murdercrT
Imogen shuddered. "Horr1ble-hOr-
rible, wasn't III BY that timesI was
perfectly wild to fn6 soms way ont
Of the bank. That money padded
wretch had gone quietly out Of Mr..
Devlin's door and. Of course. by that
time had made good his escape.
fortunately he had not locked Mr..
Dsvlin's door. Through It ! got Into
the corridor. From the corridor +
knew / could get into the teller's Of
nee. It opened into the space where
the big safe stood. II ! could get to
one Of the windows l could unfasten
It from the inside and let myself drop
into the alley behind the bank. a
street lamp vent . faint light through
the grated space. / saw q man lying
in front Of the big safe. My nrst
thought was that the night Waterman
had got drunk. It was my duty to
wake him up. / rushed at him for
that purpose. I could get out Of the
bank by his help. I stepped into some
thing Shiny. screamed. and then I
got curiously alert l sprang at the
nearest bulb and turned on the light
There lay our faithful old Tim In .
pool Of his own blood. ! looked again.
It was not Tim. It was Mr.. Devlin in
his fne cashmere clothes. Just 40 10
had left the bank that evening. His
bag, with his name on it-what did It
all mean? I was getting beyond the
power of thought. Here was the presi-
dent dead. But l had seen the presi-
dent Disgusting himself not q quarter
OF an hour ago after stunning himself
with money.
by that time I had but one idea left
in my kaleidoscope. i turned OF the.
light. trembling in every limb. I crept
back toward Mr.. Devlin's DON l No
membered having seen q rope attached
to his window frame. II was to be
used in case Of fre. The room was
lighted just as he had left II. That
wretch l mean. / saw IN envelope
on the door. Now. girls you both
know that I am not at all given to
picking up dropped things"
"Pins: decidedly mott"
..Needles: neyer!"
.But. frightened a. I a | did
stoop for that envelope. / shall IL
ways believe In 'leadings' after this.
Inside / found 4 railroad ticket. Il
"a. - Hamilton. Ont. uppose he
had dronned Il when he was examining
mnnev into everv :, Avice. 90 them
with : look Of tragic triumph-I was
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track ~ tha rohher.mnrderer. I knew
vrhere tina criminal VS. booked FOR"
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