Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-04-07

Here Was an Operation That Needed
All His Care and Skill.
| the success Of this venture. It took
! him ten minutes to crawl from the
| summer house to the veranda, and to
have detected this approach Jones.
had he been watching, would have
needed searchlight. Beggs Rugged
the lattice work for another ten min.
utes and then drew himself up and
| wriggled to one of the windows. Here
| was an operation that needed all his
care and skill; to lift this window with.
out sound But he was an old hand
| and windows with ordinary locks were
| playthings under his deft touch. He
! raised the window, stepped over the
! Sill into the library, and crouched
down. He did not close the window;
house thieves never do. They leave
windows and doors open, because
sooner or later they have to make
their escape that way. ss....
Presently he stood up, flashed his
torch found the library shelves, and
tiptoed toward them He then selected
three or four volumes, opened them
at random and laid neat packages ct
money between the leaves 1t was
not real money but only bank clerk
could have told that. TITS done. he
moved towsrd the window again.
"Stop!" said Jones quietly.
Spider" Beggs gasped, it was 90
unexpected; but at the same time al
most instinctively he plunged head
long through the window, and the bull
/ let which followed shipped lock of
his hair. He threw himself OF the
veranda and scurried across the lawn,
zigzag fashion. But no more bullets
followed
Jones turned on the lights and in
vestlgated the room, but he could not
find anything disturbed and naturally
came to the conclusion that the in
truder had been Interrupted before he
had begun his work. He turned of
the lights and sat up the major part
of the night. Nothing more happened.
Florence came down, but he sent her
back to bed, explaining that some one
had attempted to enter the house and
| he had taken a shot at him.
'SSrider' Beggs had letter to write.
He was in high feather. He had
| tackled a difficult job and had come
away without a scratch But he had
the misfortune to write his letter to
the secret service officials in a hotel
| often frequented by Norton And so
Jim, On finishing his own letter, blotted
it and casually glanced at the blotter.
\ Eing1e word caught his eye Being
an alert newspaper man, always on the
| hunt for stories. he examined the blot
ter with care. 1t was an easy matter
for him to read writing backward.
having fooled away many an hour in
the composing rooms The word which
had awakened the reportorial sense
in him was counterfeit He held
| the blotter toward the mirror and
read enough to satisfy himself that
the Black Hundred had become active
once more. And this was one Of the
best ideas they had yet conceived.
Hargreave had always been some
thing Of a mystery to his neighbors.
| Where he had lived in other days was
unknown: neither had any one the re-
hottest idea from what source his
| riches had been obtained. And moth
! ing was known of Jones or the daugh-
ter. 1t was a, very shrewd method
Of clearing every one out of the house
and leaving it to be examined at leis-
ure. And he had fallen upon this
/ thing; he, Norton, all because his
tailor had written him a sharp note
about his bill and he had been pro-
vcked to reply in kind! Counterfeit
money. There was quite furry these
days over certain issues of spurious
paper. 1t was SO good that only ex.
! perts could detect It, There were two
| plates, one for ten and another for q
twenty. For while he was pulled be-
i tween duty and love. Well, it would
only add another interesting chapter
to the general story when he published
It. He started out to Riverdale to &C.
quaint Jones with the discovery
"Humph" said Jones; mot bad
idea this. So that's what the sneak
was doing here last night I've been
wondering and wondering Let's have
q look"
He went through the books and at
length came across The three volumes
These held thousand in excellent
counterfeit. IN
Mighty good work that. What
are you going to do?" asked the re.
porter. s 4. # II NJ