Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1916-08-03
TENTH EPISODE
THE LIVING DEAD

"Tm opposed to your plan, sir,
Enoch Golden declared with heat, IAN,
ALWAYS will be opposed to it,"
David Manley, as he stared across
the table at the ruffied old millionaire
tried to control himself to patience.
But yoReacknowledge that you ar,
equally opposed to Legar's intrusioni
into this house, to having his secre
agents planted about at your elbows
But when work out plan that offers
= reasonable promise of trapping LIE
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 q
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
fnancier
Why not leave that to me?" cut In
young Marley, with his first touch of
Impotence.
I've left good many things to you,
Dayy; but l don't encourage men to
plan their own funerals"
yet I've thought this out, sir, and
l maintain that it's worth q try. You
know as well rs / 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"
And you think you're going to
highten '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 Mauld, 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 f1ve-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 TOT" 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
this house to pass before the casket
and see me in 1t. And Legar's spy
Will be one of them. So Legar, you
may be sure, will get the facts as soon
as they are known. He will be tipped
on 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 coup"
And what do we gain by THAR"
We'll fill our big thirty-thousand
dollar mausoleum with thirty big police
men, and round up the gang before
Legar can even smell rat"
But Enoch Golden remained uncon-
vinced.
Well, 1t may be brilliant plan, :
but you can please leave me out Of It,"
be finally announced.
That's just what I've been asking
Tor" explained Manley. "All want is Q
10 be allowed to conduct 1t in my own 2
way"
David Manley, however, did not con. I
duct that strange funeral altogether q
n his own way. Carefully as every Il
detail had been planned, there were
one or two minor features which st y
The time escaped his attention.
The most inconspicuous and yet the
most vital Of those was, perhaps, the
personality Of the driver OF the third ?
;afrtage in that small cortege which
gended its way 30 decorously from the
holden home. For under the funereal
'utht Of this placid-sysd driver re