Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-05

Neii. pSilo. Foe! Giad 70 see you back from the wilds Of New Orleans and Mexico" greeted Mitchell. Presl dent os the Bankers Protective Asso- ciation, as Poe stepped into his private room. unannoanced. the second day after his return from Mexico.
 T was just on the point of calling you up" continued Mitchell.
 Saved you . nickel. then" drawled Christopher Poe. dropping into caair. and beginning to fan himself slowly with his hat Whats new? You look as though you'd just side stepped & bomb"
 Something interesting" Mitchell announced. glancine uneasily at the door, & trife open. Rising abruptly. he stepped over. and shut 1t securely. Coming back. he reached out mechan- icaliy, as though he had made the same motion . hundred times that day. and drew from a piseon-hole handful of crisp five-do!lar bills. thrust ing them into Poe's fingers with nerv- oQs quickness.
 Is this hush money. or @ donation to the head office boy of the Bankers Protective. which capacity I so hum biy fll:" asked Poe. lifting a highly arched eyebrow. and holding it culver ering for a questioning moment
 Lock it over." said Mitchell. turn ing s!dewise. and drumming neryously on a magnifying-slass he had dropped a. poeIs entrance
 Christopher Poe separated one of tae bills from the package. held Ii first to the light. started slightly. and then quickly turned the bill face up, and smoothed it over his knee, bending close to examine 1t Quick as thought he snatched the masnifying-lens from Nitchel's fingers. and studied the bill and smiled
 Why. it's at least a millimeter out Nobody's ever been sble to get old General Jackson's jaw lust right. except the man who made the genuine plate. It's been tried often, hasn't it?'' There are two other counterfeits Of that biIl." answered Mitchell. Neither of them any good at all. But this is different They found out the bill was bad by that lengthy jaw. But that bills been slipping through sev. eral banks for a week or more. Think Of 1t! Just discovered today. Good. looking bill, isn't 1t? Paper fine. prin, has the proper snap: everything righ, but that jaw: it's just a hair less than a millimeter too long. as you noticed knew it wouldn't escape you"
 How much of the stun is out?"
 Nearly twenty thousand is ini' cried Mitchell. Its fine mess. God knows how much Is out! Think of it! Think of New York banks being fooled on punches of this stun; theyv taken in twenty thousand dollars, and the roll you have there contains sam pies of it ail."
 But it's the best paper I've evel ssen," exclaimed Christopher Poe slightly flushed. having turned agair b the bill. The counterfeiter hasn't missed on a thing but that jaw, ant how any man could duplicate that is more than l can tell. President Jack sons jaw was lucky thought on that '0T note; nobody could ever copy hii head exactly as it's reproduced on tht b.ll It's lantern jaw, so shaped that i can stand the extra millimeter ana escape notice. But that paper is wha worries me It looks just like the req taing. That fellow must have go hold of a batch of the real stuff some uhere. Measurements are exactly right. The two scatter-siik lines run ning through the bill are correct By
 
 mans trouDle!"
 Its a remarkable bill" replied thchell. Do you notice the web stitching on the back is exactly right too?"
 Poe turned the certificate over.
 "Pemarkable." he exclaimed, hay ing examined the green and white webbing, put on with the effect o fan-tracery in the cathedrals. in in tricate design. difficult to initiate.
 There's nothing else out of propor tgon but Jackson's jaw?" queriet Christopher Poe. glancine at the in' printing on the green back of thu note. which begins: This note is ; l.zal tender at it's face value"
 No. they didn't report anythinl else. and I haven't found thing"
 Poe paid no attention to the reply hs seemed deeply interested in tn p.!n.ing, reading 1t carefully througl the magnifer. Suddenly. right at tn cad. he stopped. and looked at Mitchell .uizzicaliy-
 Handing Mitchell the bill and point fog to the printing. he aaeried:
 Have you read this:"
 s'No, I dare say that's all right Tn fellow wouldn't likely be such sarewd engraver and make any mis take on the plain printing"
 ~suppose you read it. then" Pc handed him the bill and picked u smother. holding it far from his eye! and staring at 1t absently.
 Meanwhile Mitchell read. the follow ing usual form. printed on the bac of the 1907 fivedollar note:
 This note is a Legal tender at 1t face value for ali debts public an