Show 4 I TA I Il n l I B 1 I c DIT DBY BY WA o L S vitt rs take advantage of it tt gathering of people and ns ms of the big fairs and ex cx exire x ire as a rule times of labor r p T P UK d for the members of or the se seIr ser seV V Ir r b n ih J of the government Such Suches k es PS S are line fine opportunities to toj Irk rk 1 I bad coin and if It the records j 7 r they would show that e D I i 1 not been n a single ambitious iti n inc the first of Its kind t fL TI n ri of 1876 that ha hal not no been i i il by the appearance of f a at ar r t ot of some bill or coin o nr v d J by b the national government i J p ill ii and I 1 were again T lit ring in front of the th cheery I j tin i t his home and with the above i 1 N 1 introduction launched into a astory ator atory tory story tor of counterfeiting Jn n high hight pi T y once stati stationed in the tile city of a at af 1 t f exposition to watch 1 1 fi f hints that were expected to t put putU ay U Ul 1 counterfeit For the ek rrt rt i nth or so 00 of o the fair fall there was hat hatS i u to do 10 hut but lounge about the of lert eIt i 1 like Mr IrU awber wait watt for J tWig to turn up The four of us usi ush I i h rf rc r assigned to this monotonous u l u n n fl grew ear of the inactivity 01 n I v re Ip I on the point of asking for a fn r when an excellent otc imitation of th t dollar gold piece made its ap jaT n II e in large numbers After that l I Tin n f the four of us had any an cause causer tr kr J r on the score of Th rein foin was a beautiful piece of ofik ik r bi b aring the small maIl o 0 the symbol 10 jf if th tit t V Xv w Orleans mint and It was wa wasi i i I i Jf it 1 executed that it would have haTe i almost anywhere an where There i J F ron orf of them in iii i circulation be bei bel i l r th was waR detected ami and I I v iff or it was reported by the teller i of nf f the banks the bogus coins 1111 11 if to tt pour pout into the stream of the they thein y in at a rate that threat threatt i i in t flood the nation Altogether i Rang gang must have put out some some 10 a o we secured the slightest clew fn t f th thc probable source of the spurious pt p s and even the slight s ight bit of in for 1111 we WI picked up seemed absolutely for It pointed to the i nt rt i o if f one Ol of the largest banks of the thea tv ty A man whose who reputation was as the thet st t and anti whose hose character hara ter was above J gentleman owned a large fac facIn tr In the outskirts of the city where t craT hundred men were employed Ti e i it Ion n were pre paid by the week and ande ands e re rc chiefly Germans German or persons S 1 r rn n extraction They The lived In a af Ie ic i f the city whre there UHrE wore j ret rett t i L T cr I gardens and and corner forner saloons and it was through these places that tho the bulk of the tile bad coins were were finding their way wa to the banks An Investigation showed that the factory operatives were receiving the queer money mone from the cashier of the factory In their weekly pay pa envelopes It long having been a custom cust m of the factory factor to pay Its em cm in gold and it was easy to trace It from the factory to the bank where the pay pa roll was made up each week upon the requisition of the cashier of the factory factor Saunders and McGrath two of my m companions by b means of a miserably scrawled anonymous note to the chief of police pollee secured information of mys ms mysterious boxes coming coinIng by night to the bank and It required but a small flight of the imagination to evolve a plot in which the great financial mag magnate magnate nate nae the president nt of the bank was the th central figure regardless of his high social standing his reputed fabulous fabulous lous bus wealth and ami his Irreproachable character Air Mr Murphy and I Ithe the other two as assigned assigned assigned signed to the case did not accept this theory theor For my own part my most successful work has resulted from fol following following following lowing suggestions of my m intuition what newspaper men call the sixth sense and while I 1 have often been car carried carried ried ned far afield by b this inward monitor I r have hae won out by following if it more times than l 1 have failed thereby and andIn andin andin In consequence I have come to rely reI im implicitly implicitly Implicitly upon it Somehow It seem to me that the solution of the case required the Implicating of the bank president and although suspicion pointed generally in his direction I was not satisfied nor was Murphy So we set out iut ut upon an entirely different tack I selected the cashier at the factory factor as my m man and Murphy took the teller of the bank the man who made up the pay roll each week For ten days das we shadowed them with dogged persist persistency persistency persistency ency They The were both men of the town and both were members member of the better class of clubs and an moved in the most exclusive circles of society These mat matters matters matters rather strengthened than weakened our suspicions for neither of the men mel mep was wealthy wealth and playing society Is an expensive game at best Morton the cashier ashier of the factory factor was a handsome young oun fellow about 30 years of age and a man of or most en engaging engaging engaging manners He was a favorite with the ladles ladies and possessed to the fullest f degree that easy grace of man manner manner manner ner which I have often known to serve sene as a shield for the most dangerous criminal Tarley T the teller was a man manof manof I of the same saml stamp In the ten days I that we had these rare birds under sur s r they the led us an amazing chase I It was a round of calls and social functions functions functions and dropping in at clubs and things of that character which taxed the Ingenuity of ot both Murphy and antI my myself myself I self to the fullest extent During all this time we gathered nothing of con consequence consequence sequence except the Information that I both men were Inveterate gamblers Either of them stake magnificent sums upon any an proposition of or chance that offered itself whether it was vas a poker game at the club a horse race or the probabilities of a change in the weather They had the reputation of being be ng real sports and it was w s said of them by b their admirers that nothing was too hI bi or too stiff stitT for tor them to tackle takle if it it possessed p an a element of or chance But in all our pursuit and in all Il tit th lavish expenditures of these young oung spendthrifts not once did either of them pass or attempt to 0 pass paRS one of the coun counterfeit coins so s far as we could gather I r dont think they the could have lve h ve done s SI without its being discovered so thor thoroughly thoroughly did we track them in every ever turn and move moc they the made mado during the period we ye had them under observation They lived together in I a handsomely fur furnished furnished nl hed flat fiat with a small army of or ser servants servants serVants and they entertained lavishly Their table was of the best and their wines of the rarest vintages All of these the l things argued that we were Wore on the right tracK and we realized that our game was to be of the tho waiting kind for we were now no thoroughly con convinced convinced vinced by b that selfsame sixth sense that Morton and Tarley Tarle were the indi individuals to whom we must look for the clearing up of ot the th mystery surrounding the appearance of ot the bad gold pieces Saunder nd McGrath had confined their attention to the bank president and he had led them over oyer a long trail He had left the city soon MOn after they the be began began began gan to pay him such particular atten attention attention attention tion that one or the other of them was wasas wasas wasas as constant a companion of his as was hi his 5 shadow Both had followed him He had announced that he was going west for his health and they th tagged along in secret S Cret attendance on him while he crossed the continent They kept him under watch while he be dawdled about one of the coast resorts of Cal California CalifornIa fished for sharks and sea bass bassand bassand bassand and paid rather particular court to some of the budding beauties that were sum summering summering summering mering at this point Never a suggestion suggestion suggestion tion of anything suspicious did they thc pick up In all this monotonous wander wandering wandering ing ingBy By B a ruse rusl that need not l be e detailed Murphy and I 1 gained access to the apartments of our precious social lum manes and although we ransacked ked every nook and corner w j found absolutely nothing tha confirmed our sus i regarding them There was no I place about their fiat flat where the money mone could have hae been manufactured nor was there the slightest trace t cc of chemicals or metal of any an kind In the drawer of a secretary secreta in n Mortons ortons bedroom we found a large amount of money mone but it was the genuine article and paper mon xuon money monC ey cy C besides There were werm no suspicious papers in fact nothing beyond what might prop properly properly properly erly be met with in the tho apartments of or two young oung men of fashion and wealth My Iy suspicion had now become a n certainty C certainty r for the more tantalizing became the pursuit and the less le s of or suspicious circumstances surrounding the teller i and cashier the more firmly did my In Intuition InI Intuition tuition point to them as in some way wa I connected with the counterfeiting Job JobI I did not believe bellen they were the manu manufacturers manufacturerS of the coin but rather that they the were the hands of the gang that their business was to put it into cir circulation circulation We e decided that nothing was to be gained by b shadowing them further so sowe sowe sowe we left them to their frivolous tr olous social duties About time Saunders and McGrath came tagging home hom convoy convoying c convoying ing the bank banI president tuckered out and anti disgusted with their fruitless jour journey journey journey ney The night of their return Murphy and I r held a conference with them at which it was practically agreed ed that the bank president was wa innocent and antI that there was nothing else to do but take him Into our confidence and make the bank Itself our point of operation This was risky of course for if the bank president were In fact one Gf of the gang this ibis move mo would certainly queer our game gane beyond repair With our Q our r knowledge at his disposal dh if he were in inon inon on the deal he be would be In a position to so 10 muddy the th water liter that all aU hope of capturing the culprit would be b lost for good and all aU We had bad no evidence that would be accepted In court and it seemed to be this or nothing The next nest morning I r waited on tIe fie bank president and ancl spent an To ls eted with aim during which v vI I imparted to him Information that made his eyes ees bulge bul out like those th of cf ofa f fa a J crawfish When en I left him bun it was with ith his hearty beart assurance of every even p e in his power an md aimi 1 with th the hi finn in n on my Jr pa that he know knew a t f ty tf nothing abut abu nIl Ilie le ease cate ex opt what I had told him higi f Cr 1 plan rilan of f action had I been figured out so the following morning the janitor at the bank was j to the factory and I took over the vacant sob job ob Saunders was given a 1 con lOn berth r i the tJ manu iv in to unit I n nd 1111 l of the gang The queer coin had ceased c to be put in circulation for some time now and except for foY occasional floaters as we called them the steady stream of false gold which had flowed so steadily from froman an unknown source for the past month had stopped as abruptly and completely as a wet weather spring when a bad drought sets In This had added to the difficulties which surrounded the case for it had taken away from front us the only on sure means by which the gang might be run to earth I watched the teller t ller very yer carefully that week and especially on the day da when he h made up the payroll I a roll for the factory factor which was called for by Saunders Saunders Saunders ders The sack contained both gold and silver but there was not a single coin in the lot which had not been given len birth legitimately legitimate at some one of the governments mints Saunders made sure of tills this before the sack reached the tho factory Hem again we were baffled led As a n alast alast last resort I went to the president and asked him to direct me to clean out the big chrome steel vault where the cash reserve of the company was stored I had previously examined the last state statement statement ment meat ot of the banks condition and an the daily cash slips which showed the amounts of or coins and currency current and on hand but these rec ret records records had showed little that was valuable valuable valuable able further than that there was some something something something thing more than of ot money In Inthe Inthe inthe the vault ault of which more than was in gold coin It was this gold that I 1 wanted to get at atThe atThe atThe The cashier a man named Powell and the teller both kei kent kert t close watch upon me while I worked in the big vault as was their duty and this gave me scant opportunity to investigate the sacks of gold piled away awa in a preten pretentious pretentious pretentious row on ona a low shelf In moving them I thought that some seemed lighter In weight than others and as this would be valuable information if true I 1 hit upon what I thought was a amther rather ingenious way wa of determining if It my m surmise was correct Concealing Con m my penknife in the hol hollow hollow low of my 01 hand with the blade open I selected one of oT the sacks of ot coins which seemed to be lighter than some of Its it mates and as I moved It from the shelf I 1 cut the cord which fastened the mouth of or it while the at attention attention attention of t the Inquisitive cashier and teller was was directed elsewhere Having shaken the mouth of the tho sack ck open and frayed the ends of the cord so that my ruse would not be detected I purposely stumbled and fell feIl fellas fellas as I crossed the vault The coins poured out upon the steel floor of the big vault ault in a bright blIght yellow stream rolling hither and yon on while I sat de tie dejectedly In the midst of at the golden flood fiod and antI rubbed my m knee and cursed The two bank officials showed lively concern at my stupid accident end nd both set st about gathering up the th coins I r assisted a them as much as possible but my m pulse was beating too t fast for formy form formy my m help to amount to much Aly My Iy ruse tuse had fully served my m purpose The ting of the coins upon the steel floor of ef the vault had not been true They had bad rung dull and heavy hean and I knew Im w them at once for their real false chara ter The verification of this fact came ame when I fingered them deftly as I restored ored them to the sack whence they had come There was no mistaking the feeling of them They were ere greasy re lS and slick that slimy shiv touch which discloses es esthe the sr urious coin in the lark dark as ns well as In the light Every Even Ee one I touched had that slippery soapstone surface which counterfeiters cannot o except by the use of metal of the same fineness as that of the genuine colt cola colaAs As I r replaced the sacks after aft r clean clan cleaning ing the shelf sh lf I was careful to weigh each of them in my hand There were fifteen sacks each containing a thou theu thousand sand dollars In half balf eagles which were w light ll ht in weight I now felt sure of my m ground but It was still necessary that we Lecure proof against the teller I had not suspected the cashier until this evi |