The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-08-30

man supposed 10 De OnarleS N. DauOig-
ny, arrested in London for the embez-
Element of $4,000 from the Wheat, Ma
tional Bank Of New York, mad estab-
lished to the satisfaction of the police
at Scotland Yard that he was not Charles
NJ. Daubigny, but another, wholly limo
cent person altogether. | was aStound-
ed. could not believe that the types
read as they did. / had taken $4,000 in
bonds, and $4,000 in cash-SIoo,ooo n
all-but here was an embezzlement at
tributed to me eight and half times as
large. There was a difference of three
quarters of a million dollars between
the two sums. What had become of that
difference There seemed but one an
swer to that-Barn-stablel
We'll, in June" he resumed, Barn
stable came up here for a months fish
ing, and on the second day after his ar
rival | asked him what the thing meant,
and he merely laughed.
What's the use OF post-mortems,
Daubigny?' he said. What difference
does it make to you now whether you
took $4,000 of $4,000 or $,5oo,ooo.
You're a defaulter just the same, amt
YOU: OF course, he went on, If you
amt satisfied, and you want TO go back
to town and stand trial, come along. It'll
be money in my pocket if I don't have
to support you here and your wife and
family in Switzerland
He knew he had me there" groane0
Daubigny. IF il had been only myself
| could have stood up against him, but
] didn't dare when | thought how wholly
dependent Mrs. Daubigny and my boy
were upon him"
That funds it in their assumed
name asked Rawson-
Yes" said Daubigny, but Barnsta-
bic could easily withdraw II if he saw
fit. At any rate, he used that whip over
me.
Personally said Barnstable, = like
a good sport, and if were ever caught
in defalcation Id rather have II Tor a
good round million than for a piking
little dab like hundred thousand
And that" finished Daubigny. is all
the satisfaction have ever been able to
get out Of Horace Barnstable."
viii you put all this in the form of
an affidavit for the grand jury If | get
a promise of immunity for you from the
district attorney" asked Rawson.
III do anything under heaven to get
away from this hell OF a paradise" said
Oaubigny.
That night Rawson and Daubigny
and returned to New York, and with
in four days OF our arrival in town
Daubigny'S story was in the hands OF
the district attorney On the fifth day
the unhappy man had told It to the
grand jury, and save for his obligations
as a witness at Barnstable's trial was
practically free man. On the sixth day
Barnstable himself had his hour OF trial
in the private Office OF the district at
torney, from whose examination he
emerged a shaken man; and when on
the morning OF the eighth day the Of
hcers OF the law went 10 the Barnstable
residence to arrest its lord and master
it is a matter OF common knowledge
that they found him lying dead in his
bed with the top OF his head blown
off and a smoking revolver griPped
tightly in his right hand.
My heavens, Billie" said l. when it
was all over, and we had seen Daubigny
Of on a steamer 10 Genoa, whence he
could easily run up to his family in
Switzerland, what a whirl it has been!
How the dickens did you ever get on to
all this"
Oh said Rawson, 1t was ioolishly
Easy. Do you remember that Sunday
afternoon up there at the Northern
Pines when you and l first came upon
lake Sparkle on our tramp through the
woods"
Yes" said I. Il remember it per-
iectly. Barnstable himself was there"
That's just it, said Rawson. There ,
we're two men sitting on the veranda-
and chatting together. One
vas Barnstable. and the other a chap
whose face was familiar to me, but
whom for the moment | couldn't place.
/ bothered me all the afternoon. until
III OF d sudden that night Barnstable
anne back to the hotel on his way 10
New York, and somebody mentioned !
rs former connection with the Wheat
National Bank-and then | knew That
nan was Daubigny. 1t seemed rather
TRANCE that Barnstable should be hob
obbing of in secret that way with a
nan for whose arrest he himself had
fered $4,000 a man who had pretty
early wrecked his bank and by his
Publications had ultimately forced its
OhSOllldl4OH WIFI SOlllC OlIlCI NIulOuo
roperties into the reorganlzed Com
lercial Exchange Trust Company of
he North; and | Immediately began
skiing myself questions concerning the
TRANCE affair. Why was this thus, If
MS was not evidence OF collision OF
ONE kind. either subtle or direct,
idn't know what it was, and made it
~ business to find out
But how did YOU get the real facts
/ your head" | asked.
Il hadn't any facts, JinksAnot a
looming fact, Laughed Rawson. only
lot OF deductions, but one thing did 4
elp me out. | learned one thing when
was at school that has remained with
lie ever since, and has helped me in
very case l have ever tackled"
Which is WHAT" | asked.
Simply that not only do two and
yo make four, but that every sum.
rye or small, is nothing more or less
ian the aggregate OF its parts. Five
Id FIVE make ten, but so also do nine,
I'd one. The parts edo not have to be-
lual parts-and SC in this particular
Ise granting that poor insignificant old
aubigny was only one, there was all
e more reason for believing that Barn
able was the other nine"
ct was a big haul, old man" said |.
Some whale" said Rawson, but
} wish I'd caught him alive