Evening star., 1914-07-26


have been putting back what they'd taken
out for margins in specializing But there
was evidence that MIR. Troy had spent lot
of overtime in his office, working there at
night; and night was the only chance for
stealing from the mint. He used to keep his
evening clothes there, and that gave him
good excuse to have a fair-sized bag in his
office. 1t would have been rather easy, 1t
seems for a cashier to miscount the sacks
of gold in the vault, when his assistant was
bit off guard, and place extra bags on the
truck Then, when it was passing through
his office, he could secretly shove off the
sacks and hide them-or, at least, so MIR.
Conway pointed out in giving evidence
against Troy, which he did in the end.
"He himself ought to have known, though,
whether the pigeonholes behind the trucks
were full; for that was part OF his business.
He'd taken that for granted, he said and
the time lock being tampered with, and
little instrument that might have done the
work being found in Troy's office looked so
black against the cashier that he was ar
rested. The scandal had been kept quiet up
to that time; but the girl Troy was engaged
to had to know, and she threw him over.
He shot himself as the detective arrested
him; but before he died protested his inno-
cence, and said it was losing the woman he
loved that ended everything for him.
CERALD'S brother, the Mr.. Troy who is
~ here, was away off in some strange
mining place, where he'd made pots of
money, and was just ready to start back for
his brothers wedding when he got the news
of the suicide. He travelled East, all the
same, and when he got to the spot where
everything had happened he began investi-
eating, to see if he could prove his brothers
innocence He couldn't do that, try as he
would; but somehow by bribery he managed
to get talk with Morton the doorkeeper in
prison, and heard from him details which
made him morally sure Mr. Conway was the
guilty one, who had saved himself when the
loss was discovered, by putting suspicion on
the cashier BY that time Mr.. Conway had
resigned his position, and had left America
His friend the superintendent had died.
@Troy-the Robert Troy who is here
determined to follow Conway, and revenge
his brother Gerald the only way he could
Emmons pretended to me that he had
learned all these details about Mr.. Troy and
the prisoner from the doorkeeper's handsome
young wife, whom Mr.. Troy had been to
visit, and had given her money, as well as
promising to punish the man who'd brought
about their ruin. EmmonS said he had got
on the track of things that made him sure
Mr.. Conway, not Troy the cashier, had been
guilty He said he was in Skye to watch;
that ne q Deen IOllOWlIlS NODelC llOy, VIII
had tracked Mr.. Conway's movements
through the newspapers and had bought a
motorcar to chase him, if he was too late to
catch him here. But he was surprised to
find Mr. Troy staying in the house, enter
tanned by Lord Gorme, and all the family so
kind to him. The idea he had was, sup
pose, that Troy would try to have talk
with Mr.. Conway, and he himself would
contrive to overhear it. He wouldn't have
been sorry, perhaps, to see Troy take re-
venge; for somehow or other he didn't seem
to like Mr. Conway. Anyhow, it was
shock to Emmons, seeing Mr.. Conway go
tonight-and Lady Annira with him.
when began to think things over went
to Emmons' lodgings again; but he wasn't
there. Then it came into my mind that if he
was Morton the doorkeeper, who had es-
capped from prison ION Mr.. Troy's charity
to his wife, maybe) and disguised himself,
he might have come here for try at re-
venge on his own account. But of course all
this rigmarole may be false in every word.
MO wonder George had tainted at sight of
~ Troy, thinking he saw one risen from the
dead! Daura hardly dared to doubt the truth
of Emmons' story to Conal, and she guessed
that George had not known of Robert Troy's