The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-02-15
Fifteenth EPISODE
The Mystery Of the Counterfeit
Tickets.

after them the Raiders reached their
autos and made of. When Helen and
her friends had restored Roy to con-
seriousness they returned to the trains
where Helen urged haste into Noun
tain Springs. Once there, Helen with
Roy and a detail of police repaired to
Desmond's home to await the Raiders.
The Raiders, however, ~suspecting, no
doubt, that the police would try to trap
them, were afraid to return to Des-
mond's.
Instead. they went to their old rooms
and began to dismantle them. Des-
mond, noticing the printing press, or
dered It taken and a new retreat was
found In q cabin on a BLUM above the
railroad track on the outskirts CT
Mountain Springs. Here, having in
stalled the press, they began counter
feiting rnilroad tickets.
Helen and the police watched Des-
mond's house without results. They
then went to the old quarters Of the
Raiders where they saw there had
been q hasty departure. A dragnet
was spread about town but the Raid
ers. safely hidden, continued to our
terfeit Kay and w. tickets. Disposing
Of these to scalpers they reaped a dis
honest revenue for themselves and
harassed the new management.
Satisfied though Roy, Helen and
Webb were that the Raiders were re-
s~ponsible, they could prove nothing,
and SO notorious and extensive did this
activity become that the credit of the
Wilson management was further i'm
paired. It was really IN accident that
revealed the plot.
Masters, who had lost none Of his
crooked ingenuity. and who fed on all
sorts Of duplicity, decided he could
make extra money for himself without
his companions knowledge. He coun-
.terfeited a batch Of short-trip tickets
and himself braxenly went to the sta
ton where he sold them to inQuiring
passengers.
How long he might have succeeded
In this without being caught by the
railroad men II hard to shy. What
actually happened was that Desmond,
happening to drop into the station,
saw Masters selling q ticket to a coun-
;tryman.
Desmond waited till the transaction
was complete and without being OBJ
served BY Masters went to the buyer,
asked to see his purchase and at once
saw Masters game. He returned to
the cabin very angry and told his on
federates exactly what the ex-conf-
dence man was doing. It did not take
long for the other conspirators to de-
eide that Masters must 60. When he
returned they were waiting In an ugly
'humor.
Desmond was spokesman. He nc
cused th~e-ex-leader Of the gang and de-
nounced him roundly for his treachery.
Masters never at q loss for assurance,
dened him and there was an angry
scene In which Masters IN the end was
forced to get out The remaining Raid
err, then ignoring the new danger to
they would be exposed In their
former leaders resentment. went
ahead with their criminal work, blind,
~ II proved, to consequences.
Masters made his way sullenly to
Mountain Springs. It had not taken
him long to make up his mind that il
he could not work with his confeder-
ates he could at least get even win
them for good, and with this idea Of
revenge firmly fixed he took enough Of
his ill-gotten money to buy q whole
box OF dynamite, "a alarm clock and
all the paraphcrnal!A for setting or o
heavy charge.
He then repaired to q livery stable,
hired q horse md buggy and getting
his stun together drove up the road
toward the cabin. Secrcting himself
near TIM shack. he waited his oppor-
tunity u reach the house nnobscrvcd.
This came when the Raiders scattered
Tor town in the afternoon and Masters.
nscen by anyone. planted enough dy-
n0mite nnder the house to blow up IN
0rsenaisT The time fasc lie set for early
~fQaf0Hing morning. sure that the
Raidf14a ut that time would mn be fast
asleep IN the shack.
Having donc everything IN safety