The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-04-08

IA secret service employee" he
blurted out, desperately, and
raised his eyes to hers, expecting
to see them fill with horror and
hate.
Well" she answere. slowly,
And what of that"
Gould it be possible. after all
that she did not fully know of her
fathers schemes" he thought.
Ii seemed 50, and he must tell
her, there was no other thing TO
do.
In hurried, stumbling sentences
he told her of all he had seen in
the basement coinins-ro0m at Ar
gyle House and of the message he
had already dispatched to Chief
Hike. Her eyes never once left
his face; to save his soul, he
could not have held any part of
the story from her, once he had
begun.
Kerry Mallabee came closer
and rested her hand on his Shout
der. Her sad eyes held his as
she said:
Boy, Boy, | know all about
it. knew II from the first"
You knew. You knew" he
stammered. And you deliberate
~ brought me here to Camp Ar
gyle after you knew? / can't I'M
derstand"
Listen. them" she said. ut
was my father who made the
counterfeit money-or, rather,
helped to make it, for only the
base metal centers were made
here
The enormity of thisAstatement
fairly staggered Jensen, spoken,
as il was, in her calm, even tones.
But your father a criminal"
he exclaimed. 1T is unbeliev-
able. "
My father is not a criminal"
she answered proudly. His later
life has been dominated by an
idea; il was that the United
States and the Dominion should
become one undivided nation
and that all America should be
one united colony of England
Yet father is as bitterly opposed
TO war as he is possessed, call II
obessed, II you prefer. with this
idea of an undivided America.
Ten years ago father discov.
cred this mine here and began
experimenting, secretly, with ra.
dunn. During these experiments
he isolated large quantities OF
ithite, found that IL had the same
specific gravity as gold and could
be made to give the true ring Of
gold, even when combined with
/ that metal.
About this time your famous
American gold king, ]. J. Kerri
son, whom father has known since
boyhood days, came to visit u'
while we were in Quebec. He was
a morose old man. very bittel
against his own country. Father
told kerrison OF his dream of {
united America. Mr. Kerrisor
Offered to donate his entire for
tune to that end, and I believe h,
is almost a Millionaire. He ever
proposed that Canada make wal
upon your country and invade 1t.
Father would not even con
slider war, but he continued II
study the matter during the tim,
Mr.. Kerrison was visiting us
Finally. together, they evolved {
plan which father called 'Th,
| Bloodless War II was yer,
simple.
MIR. Kerrison, with his broth
er, controlled large share of tn,
gold mines in the United States
His product was delivered at tn,
United States minis in the shap,
of bullion; for this bullion h
might receive either coin. pape
money or bank drafts. He usu
ally elected to receive coin.
Their plan was to. manufac
ture counterfeit from the com
paratively cheap ithite and grad
ually substitute 1t for the perfec
money, until practically all tn
gold coin in the United State
would be spurious"
But how was II possible t.
Substitute bad money for good?
asked Jensen, In wonderment.
ut was easy enough to do thi
during the transfer of Kerrison'
good gold from the minis to tn
various banks where he deposit
ed" answered Kerry Mallabe1
Somewhere, while the none
Kerrison received from the min
was in transit, spurious coin Will
ithitte centers was cleverly sub
stituted for the minted money
and this they delivered to tn,
banks. The banks they selected
were always large repositories o
government funds as well as I'm
stitutions over which Kerrisor
welded control. He was tnni
able to influence the officials
without their being aware n
what he was actually accomplish
ing, so that the ithitte none.
eventually became a part OF tn,
United States gold reserve"
Then this false coin is merel,
substitute for the real money!
put In Jenseen mot counterfeit
manufactured for the purpose OF
gain?"
Precisely" she answered. "Sc
far, Mr.. Kerrison has kept every