The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-12-02
CHAPTER 10.
10 Triumphe!

10 Triumphe!
Once safely in the street. Kenneth
Griswoid. with q thousand dollars In
his pocket and the packet OF bank.
notes under his arm, was seized by an
impulse TO do some ~eNtravagRn thing
TO celebrate his success. II had proved
To be such n simple matter, after all
n bold stroke: a tussle. happily
~bloodless. with the plutocratlc dragon
whose hold upon his treasure was so
easily broken; and presto! the hungry
proletary had become himself a power
In the world, strong to do good or
evil, rs the gods might direct.
This was the prompting 10 eXulta
ton as It might have been set in
words; but IN GriswOld's thought it
was but a So III suggestion, followed
instantly by another which was much
more to the immediate purpose. lie
wa hungry: there was a restaurant
g door to the bank. Without think.
Ing oycrmuch of the risk he ran. ard
perhaps not at all OF the audaciUus
subtlety Of such an %eXpedient at such
u critical moment. he went in, sat
down at one OF the small marble.
topped tables, and calmly ordered
breakfast.
Since hunger IL a lusty special
pleader, making itself heard above
any pulpit drum OF the higher facul.
ties, 1t is quite probable that Girls.
void dwolt less upon what he had
done than upon what he was abou, to
eat, until the hue and cry in the
street reminded him that the chase
was begun. But AZ this, not TO appear
suspiciously injurious, he put on the
mask OF Indifferent interest and asked
The waiter concerning the uproar.
The serving man did not know what
had happened, but he would 81 and
ind ont If M'siou' so dee ed. "M'sieu'"
said breakfast first, b. all means, and
Information a%ftcrward. Both came In
due season, and the hungry one ate
while he listened.
Transmitted into the broken English
of the Gascon serving man, the story
Of the robbery lost nothing In its sen.
sational features.
It was ye:y evident that the pluto.
cratic dragon did not intend to accept
defeat without q struggle, and Girls.
void set his wits at work upon the
problem OF escape.
ITS n little queer that hadn't
thought OF that part OF II before ne
unused, slipping his coffee as one who
need not hasten until the race Is actu.
ally begun. IL suppose the other fel.
low, the real robber. would have fg.
ured himself safely out OF tor would
have thought he had-before he made
the break. Since | did not, I've got TO
do II now, and there isn't much time
TO throw away. Let me see" he shut
his eyes and went into the inventive
trance OF the literary craftsman-"the
keynote must be originality; must
do that which the other fellow would
never think OF doing"
On he strength OF that decision he
ventured TO order n third Gun of cot.
fee, and before II had cooled he had
outlined n plan. basing II upon a cross
questioning OF the Gascon waiter
There had been but one man con
cerned In the robbery, and the side
walk gossip was beginning to describe
him with discomforting accuracy.
Griswold paid his score and wen,
out boldly and with studied noncha
lance. He reasoned that, notwIth
standing the growing accuracy OF tho
I street report, he was still in no imme
date danger so hong as he remained
In such close proximity to the bank
I II was safe to assume that this wa,
, one OF the things the professional
"~strong'arm man" would not do. BIZ
1t was also evident that he mus
speedily lose his identity II he hope,
- TO escape; and the lost identity mus
leave nc clue 10 itself.
Griswold smiled when he remem
bered how, In fiction OF the felon.catch
Ing sort. and In real life. for that ma,
9 ter, the law.breaker always did leay,
3 a clue for tho pursuers. Thereupo,
arose a determination to demonstrat,
practically that It was quite as nos
d sible to create an inerrant fugitive a
to conceive m infallible detective
Joining the passers-by on the side
walk. he made his way leisurely L
Canal street. and thence diagopall