The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-05

r.rri Heres your story There
vas waifrr ~ business yru can
easily rFgre aHt what It VAS ttat
HUerszitslti 2uur frlglhaHinE Gar
BON. ilis EHusrkrrura fr yEur
amsErmsut t0iI SOD thar yaa tad o.
ready tF'trHHuri ana made au up
paiutmeut aF Ihr yfuer AHgg sus-
Plaans were aroused AEu ucti 49,
emo gfiicf You found loNuHIa
poekeIbook You RACED 9gfdaaIr book
.HE Tor "a policeman N0u tan iHi9 "a
stranger ana told him What bad hap.
ptnrl he suggested tbai foEauH
might So away lIe volunteered 10
So with sou to raEauuIa apartment
pagannI confessed The stranger
went out t6 SEE "a policeman
1 looked around che ROOM There
was "a table On ts center . ortnca "a
drawer. q waa rsmmri with thr i1ri
- Garbou's safe D turned hack io
UTfil Tho tUn mon we're H'.l un-
conscious on che floor
"AdI your tlh1a1 fa th's pile ~
money We can't steal from "a man
sffs~ he's dead. any more than we
could while Dc was alive fuEaunt
ana Harris viii IF surprised to learn
that there was tlop19 more IH their
booty than they thought No uue
viii ever know that sea usri the
money Tel the poiics that the bet
sou made today -.t'a yesterday now
was made by yuu aetiug Tor Carbon
az bis request and with hia money
ITS a be-. said T.utIL ought !
not tell the TRUTH
you have mo- right ~ tcll The
truth. you owe something 60 Rose
What ruoi will BE- Do to trl thr
truthP Col has saved sou Tor lilr
oWn reasons WIN you defeat IFS
purpose
You saved me. De protested,
'-rhr greatest detective that ever
lived would NOT have been Justified iu
assuming PoFluuis guilt ii was ara
inspiration. aud Inspirations come
from OUTSIDE % ua saim no credit
Tor b. Coodby
"Goodbyt7 where arc you going
be asked
ITO get a policeman The nsgru
elevator man viii testify that l came
.l with you"
but why won't you come hack
with a Policeman ho inquired
THAT I'm "a thief" I said. NOW
can you understand why / am Will
Ing 20 part with ten thousand dol
lars 20 Stranger II is because
1 know what temptation -. /
know that only once IN a thousand
times can one withdraw from one
aftcre ono has yielded 20 temptation.
You can withdraw, ] know that
you will
You arc the finest man ever
met" no cried You can't BE- a
thief"
"Ah. but I AIN" said, And l
had rcEalnsd my own iauniiness oi
manner. Don't plty me" told
him. And don't ten the little sir.
Il won't" he promised And he.
who had not Wrpt during his own
tragedy. shed frank tears ~ mine.
went downstairs EEcItsdly I
told the elevator man that two muir
dercrH wcru in tho apartment W.
stairs Outside / INV a policeman,
and told him that he waE wanted In
the building Then ! walked over
10 Eighth a. and tool, Tho Gle
vatei downtown A. Park Piaco I
ieft tho train, found a taxi and
drove 10 the C~ic1tc's dock aud board
cd ms steamer.
I did not SO 10 bod until after We
had steamed Down the East River
and out into The hay. I was leaving
America behind. But though ! went
as thief IN tho night. I also went
M ono who had done a decent thlnF
1 had saved one soul and made hu-
other happy. Few good people have
n better record. Tor one evening. than
!. John Ainslsy, master thief
Only, wc arc all Instruments In tho
hands Of q higher power. Perhaps I
had been used 20 save others In order
that ! might learn how 20 save my.
self Could ! fayn myreif. I. a
thlet2 Wei. m a new land. would
try 20 find the answer to that ques.
ton. somehow / felt that tho an.
swer would be m tho affirmative.
II had Rose Pctart,. Il would BE-
possible. Wen. was Btul
young. and tho garden grows more
than ono rose.
TIE END.