Meade County news., 1915-09-23

body has got to be mean and sneaky
and find out Would you rather It
would be l than someone else who
might care even less than l do?"
The sleeping man opened unseeing
eyes and closed them again heavily.
81 found the money, Carlotta mia; you
didn't know that, did you?" he NUT
tered; and then the narcotic seized
and held him again.
His clothes were on chair, and
when she had carried them to light
that could be shaded completely from
the bed and its occupant, she searched
the pockets one by one. 1t was little
surprising to find all but two of them
quite empty; no cards, no letters, no
pen, pencil, pocketknife, or purse;
nothing but a handkerchief, and In
one pocket of the waistcoat a small
roll of paper money, few coins and
two small keys.
She held the coat up to the electric
and examined 1t closely; the workman
ship, the trimmings. 1t was not tailor
made, she decided, and by all the little
signs and tokens it was quite new.
And the same was true of the other
garments. But there was no tag or
trademark on any of them to show
where they came from.
Failing to find the necessary clue
to the castaway's identity in this pre-
liminary search, she went on resolute-
ly, dragging the two suitcases over to
the lighted corner and unlocking them
with the keys taken from the pocket
Of the waistcoat.
The first yielded nothing but cloth
ing, all new and evidently unworn.
The second held more clothing, a
mans toilet appliances, also new and
unused, but apparently no scrap OF
writing or hint Of name, With a
little sigh of bafflement she took the
last tightly rolled bundle of clothing
from the suitcase. While she was lift.
ing it pistol fell out.
In times past, Jasper Grierson's
daughter had known weapons and
their faults and excellences. THAT
places him-a little," she mused, put
ting the pistol aside after she had
glanced at It: Hes. from the East;
he doesn't know a gun from piece
of common hardware"
Further search In the tightly rolled
bundle was rewarded by the discovery
of a typewriter book manuscript, un
signed, and with it an oblong packet
wrapped in brown paper and tied with
twine. She slipped the string and re-
moved the wrapping. The brick
shaped packet proved to be thick
block of bank notes held together by
heavy rubber bands snapped over the
ends.
While the little ormulu clock on the
dressing case was whirring softly anc
Ginning the hour she stared at the
money-block as II the sight Of 1t hac
fascinated her. Then she sprang W
and few to the door, not to escape, but
to turn the key noiselessly in the lock
Secure against interruption, She
pulled the rubber bands from the
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layers, each layer banded with papel
slip on which was printed in red the
name Of the certifying bank and the
amount. Bayou State Security, 50,
000." There were twenty Of these lay
ers in all, nineteen of them unbroken
But through the printed figures on thu
twentieth pen-stroke had been drawn
and underneath was written $4,000.
Quite coolly and methodicall!
Margery Grierson verified the bank
count as indicated by the pape
bands. There were one hundred thou
sand dollars, lacking the one Thousand
taken from the broken packet. Th
counting completed, she replaced tn
rubber bands and the brown pape
wrapping. Then she repacked the suit
cases, arranging the contents as nearl,
as might be Just as she had foun,
them, locking the cases and returning
the keys to the waistcoat pocket iron
which she had taken them.
When all was done, she tiptoe'
across to the bed. with the brown pa
: per packet under her arm. The sic
man stirred uneasily and began t
mutter again. She bent to catch tn
words, and when she heard, the ligh
: Of understanding leaped swiftly int
the dark eyes. For the humble
7 words were the echo of fierce threat
l. "Sign it: sign 1t now. or, by God, +
shoot to kill"
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I The robbery of the Bayou State 81
D. curity bank was already an old stor
Z when Mr.. Matthew Broff1n, chief {
the New Orleans branch Of notabl
L detective agency. took over the cas-
8 Of the bank robbery few days afte
his return from Central Americ'
e Since two members of his own sta
# had fired and missed their mark in s
e Louis, there was blunder to be r
)" trieved.
& After week Of patient gropin
g Broffin was obliged to confess that tf
t problem of identification was too diff
g. cult to be solved on conventional line
o 1t presented no point of attack. Wit
II neither a name nor pictured face Il