The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-01-30
CHAPTER VIII-Continued
Illustrations by
IRWIN MYERS

AS SdlQ III Il leNSl voice 10 UOIn VI
them, swell, tomorrow or today,
rather, will tell more than we know
now. Good-morning, children. Here
comes August"
The secretary walked toward the
dining room door, and after moment
Roberta Joined him. She did not
speak until Sir George moved toward
the stairway.
Decent of you not to tell. But you
see ii wasn't necessary"
Il don't know" he answered slowly.
81 am sorry you spoke"
"Why?" she challenged him.
He shook his head. Just have an
idea that it is the last straw-to your
father. | don't think he will sleep
tonight
'HOw about you?"
"Oh. | won't sleep, either. I'm going
up TO get club, or, as it's America,
maybe a revolver. and watch his door,"
Roberta laughed. How melodra-
matte and how unreal Look out on
this soft countryside, still and quiet.
What could happen between now and
daylight"
Nothing" Sir George said noncom-
mittally. and turned to leave her.
"Or anything?" Roberta called after
him, challengingly-and when she saw
him safely up the stairs she went
swiftly out to the landing place. If
she could only get there and tell Jack
to go away before Sir George came
out again on the terrace!
Jack, looking his picturesque best in
the moonlight on the tiny beach. was
not so easy to send away. He had
something to find out before he went,
and something to tell the girl which
would make his own position stronger.
1t took him some moments and much
tact to get the information. When he
knew at last that tomorrow Macbeth
had planned to send his secretary to
the bank, he reluctantly released the
nervous girl after a burst of furious
jealousy, which terrified Roberta.
Vehemently he had told her that it
was because of her fathers other
guest-the cursed Englishman-that
he had refused to come to the dance
tonight. To meet Sir George was to
denounce him publicly as a scoundrel.
Then had followed a long bitter tale
of Sir Georges meeting with, conquest
and destruction of a certain Senorita
Mercedes.
What Roberta finally gathered was
that Sir George had met this Senorita
Mercedes on the steamer, bound for
New York, had heartlessly singled her
out and as heartlessly thrown her over
when he found how little money she
had. The tale was cunningly told. 1t
made Sir George seem cheap indeed,
yet somehow the story also cheapened
the story teller.
Roberta was glad when Jack Navar-
70 finally padded noiselessly away.
She was inwardly raging at him, at
Sir George, at the whole world. and
she was half-sick with lack of sleep,
fatigue and the fear that Sir George
might find her there.
The gods were kind to her. She
discovered that her father and his
secretary were on the other side of
the terrace Guiltily, and vowing she
would never do this again for Jack
stairs.
whats wrong with you, lad?" Mac
Beth asked sharply. "The last thing
you said had no sense"
II beg pardon" His secretary
turned from the window. 81 forgot for
q moment, because" he hesitated, ''be-
cause am trying to put a scheme into
words that will make you see how
feasible it is"
swell, let me have 1t and I'll sort
out the wheat from the chaff."
The secretary looked at his chief
with a cool eye. Its almost all
wheat" He drew a long breath and
sat down beside MacBeth's chair.
1.-THE men you have reason to fear are
after the payroll will be looking for
two things: First, that the cash will
travel from New York and pass
through long stretches of lonely coun-
try in Jersey, before it crosses the
river here"
Macbeth nodded.
"Or second, they will have gotten
wind, through some source, of the
fact that you have an account at
the local bank, and although it may
be given out that it's merely a house
hold account, they will have their sus-
picions. If so, they will be looking
for a car coming from the bank in
the village TO the construction camp"
Again Macbeth nodded. WELL" he
said, Sense so far. What's your
plan?"
"Send an armored car from New
York at the usual time only there
won't be any money in that car and
the men will be armed
Macbeth merely raised an express
give eyebrow.
'And in the meantime" finished his
assistant, his eyes swapping, II will
walk up the towpath with the money
in my pocket and deliver it to Ray
Browne on time"
Macbeth whistled and stared at him.
81 don't want to expose"
You will not be exposing any of
your men," Sir George said hastily.
~ wouldn't for a moment propose that.
1t would be well worth the expense of
the armored car, sir, if we notified the
state police and they caught some of
the rascals."
But you! 1t is Of you 1 was
thinking"