The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-09-03
Al EVEN DIVIDE
BY ELLswoRTH LEWIS.

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~well7~ q.erted NJ James Nonros
Wallace as his son Philip cane
slc4chlag into the library and dropped
into chair WITH tired look.
~foa wanted to see ne. father
-Humrh' Phillp, y0a d0nt amount
to putty
Right you are. father
7 think OF hshworn every time
zee you
And ! feel like one But there's
another side to IL II an q fshEorm
I an harmless one
The young man rose and took two
or three turns around the room. and
.hen halted TO say.
Father. should ! make Eve thou
sand dollars In the next year. besides
winning a good wife. what viii the
bridal gift be-"
"A thirty-thousand bruwnstons
,ront--
Thanks In advance"
When Philip left the city he rode q
aundred miles by rail and got on at
a town Of 1000 Inhabitants. Why7
He could not answer.
Al the hcsel they wondered xko the
5oung man was and what had brought
him there. but he made no expIana-
-sess He must make s., Gee and sze
bride within year. and he realized
Z would require heap Of thinking.
He was In the ONCE Of the hotel
me morning sLen the telephone rang
and the operator al Benton. ten miles
away, said: TEL the sheriff that the
bank was robbed last night
"Of how much.+ the young man
asked.
The robbers got $4,000 Of the
banks money and about the same from
the safe deposit vaults
And have the officers there got
clusw
They know there we're three rob
bers and that they passed the house OF
farmer three miles out an hour after
midnight"
81 see"
They were 10 a one-horse buggy
and had driven SO fast that the horse
dropped dead"
ANY reward?"
Yes. 81 900 for each OF the robbers
and 5000 for the return Of the
money"
Young Wallace did not start for the
sheriif's Office on the run. 1t was
laughable. even 70 himself. that a
young man who had been charac-
terized by his father as a fshworm
and totally without energy should find
himself breathing Ike runner as he
thought CT pitting himself against
three desperate men. That was what
1t might come to.
After having arrived at this deci-
sion, the putty man" went to The
livery stable and got a horse and
buggy and started for Benson He
reached the town to find II seething
with excitement Officers and anna
teurs were on the hunt. and the
farmer who had seen the robbers and
Witnessed the fate Of their horse lad
to tell the stsry over again score
Of times. When he had learned where
this farmer lived. young Wallace
drove out there. He asked no ques-
tons OF anyone.
II bis theory was correct. the rob
bers would find a safe hiding place |
Tor the plunder and then separate and |
come back later to divide the spoils. |
They would realize that every town I
Ior fifty miles around would be noti-
led before noon. They would have
10 conceal the plunder at once and |
within a mile or two Of where they I
ost their horses. AS every farmer |
kept his barn locked. and watchdog
besides. the fellows would be driven
back to the strawstacks or the woods /
Philip drove back to Benson TO
hink it over. On the way. he met a 1
Toung woman driving a horse and
buggy. In passing each other they i
.lmost came TO halt and the young
nan was so attracted by the girls
Igreeable personality that, for the mo
nent, he almost forgot his role OF anna
eur slsuth.
An hour later note was handed
lin BY a boy He was asked to call
N Miss Hazel Drayfon at a certain
Iddress. Ho found her to be the girl
Ie had passed on the highway. He
lad scarcely given her his name when
he said:
"You are looking for the bank plum
err
'sweIl,p
-Both Of US know where It is"
Perhaps"
Lets work in partnership and d.
ide the reward"
I'VE may find the pIunder, but not