Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-15
CHAPTER xxv11.-oontinued
BY HORACE HAZELTON


CHAPTER xxVu.-Oontinued.
ITS good to see you both again."
Brooke told them, as though it. had
been months instead of days since
they parted. 1t was wonderful how
intimate they had all grown in less
than a weeks time.
And such news for you, old chap!'
Moore cried excitedly. "And such a
surprise! I'll give you the surprise
last. I'm keeping that in the back
round But I'm awfully anxious to
from first to last. Do you suppose
these girls will listen. and be duiet. or
shall! we Danish them to their own
gossip?" !"
We refuse to be p%antshed,' Conc
stance declared with decision. 1--WE
are very much interested. And, be
sides. am Johns nurse, and I mus,
not leave him."
So they found chairs and grouped
themselves about the convalescent,
and Moore plunged at once into his
chapter of revelations.
First and foremost" ne said, "I'll
tell you that your polished friend
Stoughton is in the Fombs, and that
the fellow who dragged you from a
Watery grave was Kennedy. and not
Smith, and that because they tried to
make a scapegoat of him he has turn
ed states evidence. and has given the
whole business away from first to
last " ~
Brooke shook his, head confusedly.
Please dear boy" he pleaded, be
gin at the beginning and tell me, az
succlnctly as you can, the whole
business that ho Oo1,o or,.. HrH-A,-
what I'm dying to hear. Whose
money was it? Where did it come
from? If Kennedy had it. and didn't
all from the train, whose body was
that picked up in. the Mott Haven
yards and buried for mine? Those
are the things I want TO Know"
And In all honesty those were the
things that Moore did try to tell;
but ne ran off at tangents at times,
Brooke grew impatient, and Con-
stance did her best to soothe him,
and Annette tried her utmost to keen
Jackie Boy to the straight line of
facts.
FILTERED through this process, how
eve by the time the dinner bell rang
o OF what Brooke wished to learn
mad been conveyed to him.
The money it seemed. was the pro-
ceeds OF a rather ingenious o on
the part of a gang or interruptions
schensers, known as tine Burleigh
crowd" which had It's HEADQUARTERS
n Chicago, and branches In most of
the large cities Of the country, with
Stoughton at the head OF the New
York branch.
This particular game had been
nearly four months in the plavfnR
In thai time they HAD been able to
establish an altogether artificial mar
ket price Tor a mining stock which
they called "Tourmaline." Their
method was to notify certain brokers
~ snares OF this class that they had
.Iourmaline" stock for sale at one
dollar q share, and would be glad to
supply n orders. The "Tournaline"
of1ces were in Chicago.
n brokers' notiffed we're in Cleve-
Cincinnati. Detroit and lesser
places. Then, q. week or so later. the
would receive from one Of
the gangs agents N a distant place
an order for certain mining stocks: a
hundred shares Of Tonopah Exten-
sion; two hundred Of Golden Anchor.
dfty Red Top; five hundred May
Queen; and q hundred Tourmaiine.
AND the brokers' would order the
Tourmaline from Chicago. and tie
stock would be sent wsrn a draft at
tached, the brokers In turn sending n
with the other stocks to their chs
toner and attaching a draft for, thA
value Of the lot.
These drafts, were. Of. course. In
yariably met promptly; and when.
week after week, this roces was
continued. and Tourmaiine was order.
ed and paid for without question 1t
q dollar a share. the. brokers came
to regard that a its established mar
ket price. and did nos bother to In
yestigate- whether lourmaline waS
really g paying mine or merely q
prospect hole in an unproductive dis
trict. (,
There came a day. however, when
the orders for Tourmaline were ia
advance Of the orders for all the 9TH
stocks. and It happened as a
strange coincidence ftnat though the
brokers paid cash on delivery for the
eF~otrrna1lne certificates their drafts
when they were ent but to their Gus
torEysra u mott honofed ana the
stock WIS not calledsfor
Then had come q hasry l~nvestsga.
ton. b brokers' compared notes
and Aw very elearfy tnaf they had
buncoed. The people af the
ofices IN Chicago, of
c9nn1lns. ncthins. but 49,
Ie4fnSd tKSy hAd takentCSsh ff1H tkN
banks when the money came back for
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