The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-12-16
TENTH EPISODE
THE LIVING DEAD

I'm opposed to your plan. sir"
Enoch Golden declared with heat. and
! always will be opposed To it"
David Manley. as he stared across
the table at the ruiled old millionaire.
tried to control himself to patience
But you acknowledge that you are
equally opposed to Legar's intrusions
into this house. TO having his secret
agents planted about at your elbows.
But when | work out plan that offers
a reasonable promise OF trapping Le-
gar and his men, you stop the whole
business by declaring it's lacking in
dignity"
Dignity is something which depart
ed from this house the day Legar first
forced his way into it," was GOlden's
bitter retort.
PRECISELY" cried young Manley.
His whole campaign has been one Of
intimidation, of threats and assaults
and reprisals They have been try
ing 20 fight us with terror. So my
contention is. why not give them a
dose of their medicine? Why not
fight them with their own weapons
and in doing so, perhaps go them one
better?"
But ! can only repeat my COnviC-
lions that your plan cant succeed
protested the tremu!ous-voicc old
financier
Why not leave that to me?" cut in
IL Ia, %
Impotence.
I've left good many things to you,
Davy; but | don't encourage men to
plan their own funerals"
Yet I've thought this out, sir. and
! maintain that it's worth a try. You
know as well as | do that these men
who work with Legar are an ignorant
and illiterate lot They're not afraid
of force. But when you confront them
with the supernatural, you get them
face to face with something they can't
understand And what they can't un,
derstand they are going to be afraid
Of"
EnOch Golden came to a stop as he
paced back and forth across the room.
But giving a gang of cutthroats
cold chill doesn't put cold steel
around their wrists" persisted the OBJ.
durate old millionaire And | never
had much love for flirting with funer.
ais. anyway. You may be very hand
. some young man. Davy. but I've no
special desire to see a wax cfIigy OF
mine. don't like the idea It's not a
mans way of doing things"
Il have every reason to believe
Legar. at this very moment. has paid
spy among your household servants
II not two of them"
And YOU think you're going tC
brighten 'em away with a casket."
IN goIng To make them believe that
David Manley. having departed this
life because of an attack on his per
son by one Mauki. with poisoned ar
rows, is about to be duly inferred in
the Golden mausoleum. and -"
But you couldn't even get a wax
figure that would fool fve-year-old
child You couldn't"
I've already got the figure, inter
rupted Manley. And it strikes me as
being an exceptionally perfect one"
But what's all this funeral business
TO lead to-" demanded the old finan
cier.
1T leads to the fact that Legar and
his men will be duly informed OF my
death, for | want all the servants in
20
and see me in it, And Legar's spy
will be one of them SO Lcgar, you
may be sure. will get the facts as soon
as they are known. He will be tipped
OF as to the day and hour OF the
funeral He will also be told that the
cortege. say OF three carriage. is 10
proceed to the Golden mausoieIm. and
that Margery Golden Is 10 60 IN one
Of the carriages. And that lonely spot
will strike hin as precisely he right
spot for making a coup
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