The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21

clew as to her present whereabouts.
She has vanished completely
The letter asked for" said Mar
vel briefly, in his mandatory, decisive
way; and when ! had prepared and
delivered 1t he left the bank without
another word, his thoughts envelop-
ing him in a silent, battling mood
knew his habits too well to intrude
upon.
The loss of $4,000 was not much
for an institution of our financial in
tegrity, and so far as he was person
ally concerned our president would
ordinarily have been content to
charge it off to profit and loss &C
count However, when Resilius Mar
vel entered a case he was certain to
bring to light "the goods" or at
least some development that express
ed lucidity and satisfaction.
The bank was just closing that aft
ernoon when my friend reappeared.
AS he came into the private Office the
president was just putting on his
gloves preparatory to taking his au-
tomobile for the club. He paused
with his usual genial nod to Marvel,
and stepped within the room and lin
gered for a moment.
II presume it is plain case, and
the bank is $4,000 out?" he observed
Hardly" was the prompt response.
'The case, however. calls for some
attention possibly several thousand
miles from here"
Then there is a chance?" was sug-
gested hopefully.
Il shall want the best man in the
bank and my good friend" replied
Marvel, placing his hand on my Shout
der.
= THAT is foregone, since you say it,"
smiled our president. Its the girl,
suppose-the forger?"
ut is the girl, yes" assented Mar
vel GAS to her being the forger-
l doubt it,
What's that" demanded the pres
ident, with start. You don't mean
to say"
II mean to quote from the CONNER
cial agency patter: considerable con-
servation should be exercised in deal
ings with
Warner Clay?"
Take it So"
'Is that a warning?"
you might act on that basis until
you hear again from me-" said MAJ
vel.
You amaze mel"
The president departed, thoughtful
ly drawing on glove, an awakened
distrust in his bearing that indicat-
ed a shock.
Nov, then, you and l will thrash
this thing out" he began First
though, make your arrangements to
bear me company"
How far?' 1 inquired, sorting over
my short and long distance travelling
satchels in my mind
'Galveston-frst. You will have
time for preparations. The train
leaves at 8. 1 only want half an hour
just now. That is Miss Farrar" He
said, and drew card photo from his
pocket.
''The young lady" ventured.
"Is at Galveston, or thereabouts
saw your esteemed bank client, this
Mr.. Warner Clay. 1 found him as l
had pictured him: an elfish, misery
being with no thought outside of his
money and getting more. The man is
a financial pervert and sly and
shrewd as a fox. He positively well
coined me. Then he lied to me and
had him. 1 left him so well salts
fled that his word was gold with the
bank, and that my brief visit was
cursory and superficial bit of routine,
that he will gloat over his fancied
success for a week to come. When 2
stated that we wanted to go over
his returned checks as a matter of
business system, he landed them
down on me with frank willingness
that was almost painful. 1 even got
him to give me several samples of
his handwriting. BY the way, did you
ever notice his right hand forefinger
and thumb"
Of course had not. Perhaps the
paying teller had, and I said so.
Sometime and somehow our Mr..
Clay has slipped the upper joint Of
that forefinger out of plumb" mar
rated my informant. "It does not
trouble him in eating, or cutting cou-
mons ar Aippipo ovor 3nforoct xooro1
Nor when he writes a screed with
letters does he expe-
rience any difficulty. A lower loop,
however, is his Nemesis"
Nemesis" repeated vaguely.
mot too strong, that, in this case.
The lower loop is the pit I dug for
him, and he fell into it. To be plain,
when Warner Clay signs his name it
Is plain sailing. Even when he makes
that downward stroke to form the
In his last name, he is all right.
Where he comes to turn, however,
call 1t looping the loop'-that mis-
placed joint in his forefnger jars the
nerve. If he let the pen have free
play it would wander and scribble all
over the paper. By study and train
ing, however, he is enabled to in.
stantly stop the pen by. pressing down
upon it, give his lame joint rest
and twist, get new start and wind
up the quite creditably Only
Resilius Marvel drew from his peck
ct check 953, also sheet of paper on
which he had the recent handwriting
from our client, also the re-
turned May checks. He placed them
before me.