The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-10-12

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THE check wa, written and the o'
ncc boy was started "a the bank
with o. Carlton followed him a.
4 distance. a, ne had uu other ocCa
SiuuS ready 'u mote the tlrst lgu "l
trouble a, The b0y waited al the teller
Al last the buy va, AT the
head oi the luc lie had passed the
check u and M, ,atohcl wa. lying open.
with y0raCious NAV. ON the ledge below
the wicket Tor the greedy feeding OF
stack, Of bills, Why did the teller not
tale the wicket and shove Ont tho
money iu a coveted pile Carlton
seemed o. feel that something Wa
wrong The line heightened and thoS
at the end Of the queue began 20 grow
r,,uyc at the delay One pt the bank ,
officers walked down and spoke to- the
boy
Carlton waited uo longer The gam"
wa, up He rushed from IN, colgu oi
observation uut ui tine bank building
and dashed into q telephone booth
Quick. Constance he shouted over
the wire leave everything They arc
holding up our check They have dis
covered something Take cab and
drive slowly around the square Non
will fund me waiting lor You at 'hC
north end
Iha, night the newspapers were 'ul'
OF the story There was the whole
thing. exaggerated, distorted. mulup)cJ
until they had become Swiudlcr, OF mil
lions instead Of thousands but never
tEeless It was their story There wa
only one grain OF consolation II va.
the last paragraph of the news item
There seems 10 be no trace OF the ma
and the woman who worked tins clcvcJ
,windle As il BY tclepath,c message
they have vanished at just the tim,
when their whole house Of cards col
lapSed
They removed every ycSuge % the,
work from the apartment Everything
was destroyed Constance even bcgal
d new water color SO that that migh
suggest that she had npt laid aside he
painting
They had PLAYED for a big stake am
lost But the 5000 was something
Now the great problem was to conccl
/ 1T and themselves. They had lost, ye
ii ever before they loved 1t was a
nothing 10 what II was now that the.
| had tasted together the bitter and th
I sweet OF their mutual crime
Carlton went down 10 the office tn
next day, Just as before The anN,ou
hours that his wife had previously spen
thinking whether he might betray him
! self by some slip were cUmparatiS
/ safety as contraSted with the uncertain
/ ty OF tho hours nov But the first da
after the alarm oi the discovery passc
/ otf all right Carlton even dlscusSc
the ease. hi, case. with those IN III
office commented on it, condemned tn
SwindlcrS, and carried 1t of, he te'
proud a. say as we'll as ConStanc
herself might have done had She been
his place
1t was the afternoon OF the sccon
day that a man who, gave the name ,
Drunmond called and presented car
Of the Reynolds company
Have YOU ever been paid a little bl
OF S25 by our company" he asked
Down in his heart Carlton knew TIN
this man was a detective u can't Sa
without looking It up. he replied
Carlton touched a button and an a'
,i>tant appeared. Something outsid
himself seemed to nerve him up, as i
asked Look up our account Wit
Reynolds, and see If VIC have been pal
/ what is it:-a bill Tor SIS Do yo
recall it,
"Yes. | recall it," replied the aSsis
! ant "No, Mr. Dunlap ! don't think
has been paid 1t is small matte
but We sent them duplicate bill We
terday thought the original mu
have gone astray
Carlton cursed him inwardly for sen,
/ mg IN the bill But then, he rcasone
it was only a question OF time, att
all, when the forgery would be dl
covered
Drummond dropped into a halt-col
iidential, hali.quzzlng tone u thoug
not Somewhere along the line IN
check has been stolen and raised
twenty-five thousand dollars, he r
marked
is that soa ga,pcd Carlton. IT,
ing hard to show Just the right amou
oi surprise and not too much &C.
that so"
mo doubt you have read in the p
pers OF this clever realty compar
swindlc Well 1t seems TO have be-
part OF that"
u am sure that wc shall be 81;
to do all IN our power to Co-opera
with Reynolds" put III Dunlap.
81 thought YOU would" comment
Drummond dr,ly 81 may as we'll I,
YOU that icar some one has been tar
pcring with your mail
"Tampcrng with our mall" repea
ed Dunlap, aghast Impossible y
Nothing is impossible until it
proved 81" answered Drummond. loo
ing him straight IN the eyes tarlt
did not finch lie felt a new pow
within himself. gained during the pa
few days OF new association with Co
stance. For her he could face aYthr
But when Drummond was gone
} felt as he had on the night when
lad finally realized that he could ne
, er cover up the deiici,'in his bool
With an almost Supcrhuman effort
srippcd himself lntcrminably the hou
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