The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-06-09
TENTH EPISODE
THE LIVING DEAD

'Pm opposed to your plan. sir"
Enoch Golden declared with heat, land
j always will be opposed to it,"
David Manley, as he stared across
the table at the ruffled 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 to 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 can't succeed"
protested the tremulous-voiced old
tinancier.
why not leave that to me?" cut in
young Manley, with his first touch of
impotence.
I've left a good many things to you,
Davy; but don't encourage men to
plan their own funerals"
''Yet I've thought this out, sir, and
j maintain that it's worth a try. You
know as well as l 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 I'M
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 cut-throats
a cold chill doesn't put cold steel
around their wrists!" persisted the OBJ
durate old millionaire. And l 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 wax effigy Of
mine. l don't like the idea. It's not a
mans way of doing things"
Il have every reason to believe
I-egar, at this very moment, has paid
spy among your household servants.
ii not two Of them!"
And you think you're going to
brighten 'em away with a casket!"
I'm 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 a five-year-old
child! You couldn't"
I've already got the figure. inter
rupted Manley. And 1t strikes me as
being an exceptionally perfect one"
to lead to-" demanded the old finan.
cier.
TT leads to the fact that Legar and
his men will be duly informed of my
death. for l want all the servants in
this house to pass before the casket
and see me in 1t. And Legar's spy
will be one of them So Legar, you
hn will he 20 otC
as they are known. He will be tipped
off as to the day and hour of the
funeral. He will also be told that the
cortege, say Of three carriages. is to
proceed to the Golden mausoleum, and
that Margery Golden is to go in one
of the carriages. And that lonely spot
will strike him as precisely the right
spot for making a coup"
And what do we gain by that?"
Wen fill our big thirty-thousant
dollar mausoleum with thirty big police
men, and round up the gang before
Legar can even smell q rat"
But Enoch Golden remained uncon
vinced
We'll, it may be a brilliant plan
but you can please leave me out OF II,
he finally announced.
That's just what I've been asking
for" explained Manley. "All want i
to be allowed to conduct 1t in my owl
way"
well, it's your funeral. isn't it,"
That's what intend to make Lega
believe"
$50 if that's your idea of fun, m
boy, go as far as you like. Conduct
in your own way. But don't count o.
me, sir!"
David Manley. however, did not cor
duct that strange funeral altogethe
in his own way. Carefully as ever
detail had been planned. there wer
one or two minor features which q
the tile escaped his attention.