Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-09-07

ordinary jump around the u.o., s@ua'
he had not been a spendtbr;s. Il
would have been a millionaire ne
AT last my eyes rested on ~
exiled, butterfy-chasing ne SELF
king. AS first saw him no alued
crouching over a blazing oil ston was
squalid room behind the sbon Ii
pawnbroker. If his wife's faco h VI
sembled dusky mahogany. his ~ It
was more of the hue of ebony H. o"a
thin and wasted. furtive, frlgbta was
look in his shrinking eyes. The '' sS
peration OF the prodigal down r. 10
last husk was expressed in every Hnaa
ment of his shrunken face.
In some way Ducroix had ,ran.,
the pawnbroker to advance snseu
sum on his majesty. The latter -.
insisted on retaining personal posaas
sion of the collateral. Warm a. rs
the weather, the thin, tropical Ms
of the king demanded constant heat
and in the bill which Marvel na,s
there was an item of Kerosene en-
In corner of the room, a Marco
wreck, was what was left of the :"
nous doll.
1t was to the Office of the upitoa
Bankers Protective association tba.
the king was at once conveyed M
croix accompanied US, and Lafort Wa.
Immediately sent for. The two fe-v
Frenchmen came very near to hlow.
but Marvel sternly held them down to
the Importance of the occasion and n
strict business.
was sent to the home of the presi.
dent of the bank, and brought him
back with me. The institution waa
visited, certain documents pertaining
to the Jebel River & Great Jangeb
Railroad company secured, and a new
deed of trust was made out.
IF you can influence Queen Inf
Zwoa to sign that" observed Marvel
to Lafort, 'she can come and see her
husband here. If not, she will sec
him behind steel bars
1t was all arranged within a few
hours-the possession of an absolute.
ly valid deed covering the Jangeh
property. And that meant a new pro
motion, and the saving to the bank Of
its ill-advised original investment.
The president could well afford TO
be liberal, and Ducroix went away
with enough in his pocket to stake
him till he found a decent job, if that
was his inclination, which it probably
was not. Lafort was ecstatic over
the possession of a thousand, and it
was arranged to get King Zwun ZhI
and his wife back to their home pos
sessions in a respectable way
was with Resilius Marvel when he
wound up the last strand of this re-
markable case. 1t was at the desert
ed offices of Ralston & Co. We found,
fallen behind one of the dust-laden
desks, mans cap, and written in red
ink on the inside lining was the name
Clinton Durham"
The big safe of the defunct promo
ter held nothing but useless Office rec
ords. the vault in which it stood only
equally valueless litter. The climax
however, arrived when a second vault
was opened.
Upon it's floor lay q prone figure. It
was the owner of the misplaced cap
dead-dead for many days.
We could only conjecture from
crumpled document in his cold hand
what it all meant. The unfortunate
mercantile reporter had become suS
picious, had suspended the rating OF
Ralston & Co., and had revisited their
Office for proofs to sustain his Iudg'
ment of the condition ne concern
The paper in his hand y IS private
balance sheet, showing the house IN
solvent. He must have had an oP
portunity to slip into the vault to Sc
cure it. He had been discovered
probably by Ralston, with the indlS.
putable evidence of the Insolvency 0.
the concern in his possession. Inc
door of the vault had been crasneu
shut, and then; within twenty-fouf
hours, gathering up all he could lay
his hands to, Bernard Ralston naa
vanished.
A week later Resilius MarVCi
showed me a telegram from LOU
dated at Los Angeles. He was on tne
trail of Ralston, who was aiming !"
get cut of the country.
There was longer wire two Gays
later-again from Lott, close on tuo
track of the absconder. The la'Iei'
hemmed in, had tried to escape over
narrow mountain road. A wrong turn
sent the automobile and its driver
thrAe hundred feet below to the OOF
tom of a rock-strewn canyon. The ma,
chine had turned turtle, shutting OUT
from sight the frightful end of the
man who had been Open for ka'lns'