New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

, f his cruelty % me by his disgrace and bis DEATH
w., doyil'~ cried Troy. Beside himself With fury
to ,eorld have fired had not Daura rushed between
them ,,- .,.-.:t ay
II have given him my word. she saiI. fou must
snare him. He IS mine now.
ar,-,ive me-" Troy answered. u was mad FOR an
:u.,,,t Don't be afraid that it will happen again.
g., Merton You're safe from me; though you de
80 worse death than this weapon of mine could
g;yc Speak out. and lets hear the end
= xopTOV was lvid under the red stain q bis dis
M mise II wish RI got you before the gir creaned
- tho ygalll~ ne snared "Yo1rc your brother
l.cr s,an. 40 touch Of pity for poor man III your
t1,-+T And Conway's rs bad. Blu, I've gwen him
l,o fl,ck hours Now fOr the story, though van.
.b,.c ioyclsl I've got use for everyone l guess i
oct them I can afford 70 cry quits with The Troy
family. and Conway too. NoDody Dreamed David
G-oy the superintendent Of the MINT was m any
trouble. but he got into precious mess HLh his f.
close onto year ago He never specu.ated in his
l name. too foxy for that. His lawyer did bis odd
$50 r,avfc. ANYHOW, they went wrong. So much the
'rso for hi, charities. 50 much the worse for him.
a,J for his family who looked up % him as a sam, =
-. ;f who'd been mother % Conway. AMI The girls
% ,y-c ike his sisters. Grey had 20 keep his end up
somehow.
aTbcn came the great chance az the mint He MUS,
have thought Of il while Conway was on Holiday in
Tn-ooc He'd have brought of the coup alone if he
co,li. but ne had % get help. IL was case Of tie
lion and the mouse in the fable was the mouse The
doorkeepcr had % help FIX things up. knew before
GEORGE Conway came back what was dong But Con-
WAY himself hadn't an inklng, when ne conlded his
love troubles % his old friend and Grey oere 70 lend
him twenty thousand dollars, % carry throuZ deal
Conway saw fortune in Grey believed IN hE young
fr;cnd's I,ck. and risked his own honor il; though
CONWAY wasn't in position 70 appreciate the comph-
rncnt 10 its full extent.
aTwcntv thousand for Grey, twenty thousand fot
Conway in the venture That's the way II stool And
thew won. | followed the whole thing, because Grey
used 10 confdc bit in me- at the time was 1elpng
him get out the gold and put it back again INTO the
vault, later when luck had turned He was Eeak in
conc ucavs and il did him good 10 talk-rele.ed the
pressure. And had a right to know how things were
Going Once in awhile Grey handed me a bit Of his
y,inn;ngs 10 keep me sweet; and the bargain as that
Z the shortage was found out, 20 stand the racket
Ten thousand dollars were TO be put in bank lr in
= certain name, and I was to find the money Taitng
for me when got out Of prison.
aWen the gold had 20 be put back slowly where It
came from and it was almost all in, as right as rain.
when one day the blank space where the missing
sacl,s ought 10 have been was discovered. Then the
fat was in the fire for US all. But stood pat, and
tool, nv cruel like a gentleman, counting on Greyis
word for the ten thousand, and his promise TO look
after my wife.
EXACTLY what happened when / was down and
l. out | don't know; but my idea IS that when old
Grey was taken sick with pneumonia (which carried
him off pretty quick after all his worry, and the ne
ous strain he'd been through he must have con
fesed to Conway where the money 70 start their for
tunes came from.
al guess Grey let out at the last that Gerald Toy
was innocent; and Conway, rather than ruin MS best
friend and the family that like his own Kept his
.f.1I l-,t--f. .r,f FAR
Conway knew not relation was left alive % mourn
him He must have felt considerable Of sneak though,
keeping dark about thing like that, especially when
without knowing what was up, he'd shared the whole