The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-25

I sharply You'll be held for forgery,
and that's all there is to it, Let's get
| aboard
! Far away, back IN the Central office
records. long before the days OF finger
Ipruts, McFall came across the por-
/ trait OF a Young man He pointed it
out to Greniell That finishes it. Here
he is way back in the nlneteS Soapy
goods trade at one time but he's an
export forger Got ten years in ~ and
has dropped out OF sight since"
let it alone" growled Wills. "Grcn-
/ tells going to tell Ms how he got on
20 the old man-not hut what we'd have
, got him ANYWAY" he added with
touch OF esprit de corps Once we
nailed the girl it was plain enough"
81 was lucky" admitted Grcniell
modrStly you people have been too
long III the game not to know that
luck counts a lot. But Id have been
nowhere without your backing |
couldn't have told for sure IN my own
that that plece OF paper picked up
On the beach was from forged note
without Your experts behind me- Still
that vas luck to start with hen when
McFall here found out that the mayor
was no CRATER, we both got to thinking
on the same lines
That's right agreed McEall "a
man who's all for purity IN municipal
affairs and lives in the way he did has
got reaSon-you bet
Yes Soapy must have had it all
worked out when he went into politics
II the French police hadn't tumblcd
that the stuff was drifting in from
the States he might have kept on for
ever Who was going to get suspicious
of the high souled mayor OF seaside
town
81 figured thi, out while | was wait
ing to put YOU ON the girl gave Me
, Fall credit for having the same line
. But | wanted to get the thing done with
luICkly. and 1t didn't seem to me likely
| to work ont in a hurry on soft lines
That was how it came into my head e.
break into the house on the off chance
OF picking up something.
"l'll own freely 1t looked as II was
on a dead end till got upstairs There
| was a room therca sort oi study
| with another room leading out oi It,
| The door Of the second room was
| locked, but | got 4 kind Of mixed smell
OF chemicals | knew then that | was
| right and that | had happened in the
| private laboratory 1t was then that
the old man happened on me with a
shotgun
"lIe knew who washed been talk
| ing to Burchnall and at first looked
like qualifying Tor funeral bulied
that McFall wa, living in wait and wc
called a truce We shook hand, and |
| came away
1T was pretty obvious he wasn't go
lng to SIT around once he'd GO, me ou,
| ot the house. and # he made a yet
away he wouldn't want Ia leave any
| evidence behind him. either That was
how ! came 10 think OF a fire call
Lucky YOU did" observed Wills
"Ihc frcmcn had lust broken into the
| laboratory when got there. He'd
| mply piled the place with Junk, emp
| tied can oi Kerosene over ii. chuckcj
in a match and locked the door again
| We saved enough out OF the ruins to
get hold OF the whereabouts OF their
| crooks in France We've cabled tn,
address over He was supplying then
| with phony paper at so percent dis
| count
| "Nou haven't told me about the girl
said C,rcnicl whats happened t,
hcr''
| shes safe enough" said Cam
| The old man seems to have got some
| what disturbed when he heard tha
| McIall and YOU were ON the warpath
| He Is a wary bird and had no deal
| ING, direct with those who were hand
ling the paper tie had a lutte ciea
| store IN the Bronx under the name o
! George James. with manager il
charge The manager had no kuowl
edge oi ANYTHING wrong he didn'
even know where his employer lived
| Soapy never came toathc town himself
| He always sent the girl aud she col
lcctcd letters of the manager and post
| cd every mail tha, was To go out Well
| rs ! say, he Smclt something and sen
her of to New York to destroy an,
| mail she found there pulled he
actually IN the store She's his daugh