Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-05-16

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That didn't die with him. what De-
came of it 2"
"He probably hid it away some
where before he swallowed that last
dope. 1t has been searched for, all
right. The floor of his room has
been ripped up, the walls have been
literally torn open, the furniture has
been broken up-there were oniy
three pieces in the room. 1t hasn't
been found"
"Well, you find it, Shaughnessy'
and ten thousand of it is yours. Ian
you get back to the city tonight
yes; if Mr.. Moreaux will send me
to the station. The last train is due
in half an hour"
Birge Moreaux went out to the ga
rage with Shaughnessy. When the
car was ready he waved the chauf-
feur aside.
"I'll drive you to the station my
self, Shaughnessy," he said. The
cool air feels good to me. Get In"
AS they passed between the gate
post, he asked: "Did you see the
body"
"Shannon's? No. What was the
use? Cleary, at headquarters, gave
my message to the Inspector. He
sent Holderness, Baxter and Marine
after Shannon. They had it all
cleaned up by the time | got there.
The body had been sent away. We
made a second search for the money,
after | got there. But il wasn't any
use"
"Do you think that you can find
tSe money!"
"If Shannon hadn't been a hope
fiend. / might. As it is, don't
know. You can't fiGger out by al
zebra what dopell do.
That's so. | heard you say that
you saw Shannon today. How was
that ?"
81 was at the station when he
landed in New York from the one
eight, which was late. Holderness
had seen him in the back room at
Crewe's gin-mill last night, dunk,
or dOped, so he said. | knew that
Holdy doesn't make mistakes about
such things, and it struck me as
odd that Shannon should be coming
in on the Occidental, apparently all
to the good, if he was a wreck last
night Then, when l got out here
well, you know the rest, Mr.. Mo-
reauX."
Glow did it happen that you were
sent out here if you were at the sta
ton, and on duty, when Mr.. Bran.
tons request was made ?"
Il blew in at headquarters at the
right minute, that was all. Bingham
,,fA he 90
as | got there, and the inspector
turned him over to me-"
81 see. What do you know about
Shannon ?"
"Only what's on the records-and
that's enough. He used to be the
slickest, smoothest, quietest PROPOSE
ton ever, till he got the dope habit
That's why ne was called the 'Shad-
ow.' He was just about as easy to
catch as a shadow. But he has
mostly laid around, doped, for the
last six months or more, and we've
just let him alone. We knew that
he couldn't last long. Even his wife
threw him down, and the other guns
tagged him whenever they could.
There were enough old charges
against him to have put him away
Tor a thousand years, but he wasn't
worth sending up. Nobody thought
he'd ever get another graft. Too
doped. But he sure did pull this one
off all right, all right. Probably he
just fell into it. But you can't ex-
pect that headquarters is going to
foresee that somebody's going to
leave a wad of money lying around
the way G. Mortimer did"
Are you quite sure that Shannon
hasn't been fooling you, down at
headquarters Moreaux asked rs
he brought the car to a stop at the
station platform.
Shaughnessy jumped out before
ne replied. Nevertheless it was ap-
parent that the character of the
question had disturbed him.
"Of course we are" he said Their.
"lt's a cinch, Mr.. Moreaux. Ask
anybody who knew him. They'll tell
you the, same. There comes the
train. Good night, sir"
Good night" Moreaux replied.
Then, as if addressing the steering
wheel, for Shaughnessy had gone. he
added: I'm not nearly so sure about
that, m. friend"