| Show EBS a F fhe THE D defalcation E FA LC A TO A AT THE eake BOROUGH RO U GH taken of from m in lh the A archives ch of bolln B ailts L limited im the greatest great es inquiry I 1 and ald detective d U ce agency age ny of 0 f modern tunes es y D dv by v F F 7 ER I 1 CX R REDVALE ea too 1110 by br N G pa mank ark MAN LEY he of 0 the white lahr hair and the 3 loune looking face was as in reminiscent d mood that sparkling october morning as we me sit in i I 1 window ot of the 1 park rov roll building overlooking the busy and bustling down domn town vista of broad way from st pauls paul s chapel to now ing green for halt half a genera don he be hid bid been bul livanis chosen man to cover the territory below inspector arnes fa dead line from fulton street to whitehall inclosing the richest square nille mile on earth including the diamond and JeN jewelry elry houses of john street and maiden lane equally with the great banking centers and the stock exchange in all these sears many famous cases criminal and otherwise had come under tinder his detec detective tle ken yet vet be cause limited preferred to work ork sub ab rosa few of 0 them hid bid be come public property kiso also because the great agene mido made a specialty UL ot those more or less hopel hopeless cases where ordinary police methods lailey or ivete not available A As I 1 glanced him over and ana sensed that he be must be at least sixty though he looked not a day da over forty fort me live I 1 realized perhaps more than ever that mark minley mariley was vas about as tar far re moved flom dom the traditional traditions ona I 1 detective or of fiction as a divinity student from a sw ell quiet in dress smooth shaven soft spoken with tile the inimitable drawl that only comes from south of I 1 mason and dixon s line he bo was nas one of the large colony colon ol of south erners who have helped along with N it men from ever every state in the union to mike make new york the empire cit add to this an almost indescribable habit of quiet au authority thorit which pr proceeded 0 from the backing of one of the greatest crime detecting and mastel 3 unraveling cling agencies on earth and vou nou can perhaps account as 1 did forman for man ley ie a air of strength and authority all these were in mind as I 1 watched matched him blui carefully full select a long thin black cigar snip ot off the end WON blow through it to expel epel the alie dust and blosl light it front a pocket fusee ue lor for there was vas 1 a I story ston lit in the air I 1 prompted by b in last ques question and I 1 meant to have it X ell suli suit lie drav led about the queerest qu errest case I 1 ever handled domn there was what we may mai cill call the do de lal catlon at the bodiou h Nati nationiel onil cashier and a hundred thousand dol lars missing 01 OM ol r as iou ion might sai ea no 0 o it 11 never neier got into the pit cis and seeing that the chief actor died last in fit his wan own led bed mind sou I 1 bucs no anell be hurt it if I 1 give sou on the stor atoo I 1 nodded my comprehension at this introduction antl but ur ebore to disturb manic manceb b current of 0 tall fall tor for this nas one ot of choie e occasions occasion s ihen silence vas golden bo lie he vent on the borough national anas as one of our ur smaller banks but possessing very ars strong connections connect loni there was vas a sui EUI plus ot of something some lhing liki twelve million dollars and a board ot of directors em bracing halt half the solid na names on the etrest thu the pasing teller NN vis is named john irisdale horn hom I 1 id d knon knox n lor for eats one 0 of the whitest men that god cod ever made ell suh sub just ten ears ago this fall there d been nasty I 1 inicis times all su summer rumer no real ical trouble as aull le ie member but good deal of uneasiness Ill sdale had stuck to his cage through the hot spell refusing to take a vacation which was reck cued up against him blut afterward with bilth out on an reason far as I 1 could see sec lied ile d sent his family faill am awa a i afa ire and little daughter and bad been batch ln inh in flat on the IN pst side bide I 1 ought to tell on thit the little girl hid had some sort of incur able at least no doctor on this side could cure it thoutle there nas an expert in paris or vi III calla I 1 torbit who all but guar cures of that de dormit hillsdale Ill sdale and his wife mire aimed to send or take the kiddle but th it meant mone more inure than john had been able to lay b out of his lift dollars a week one di along about this time ot of lear ear irisdale int i nt out to lunch at 12 ond and never came back the bank plight igat have haie got over that one toller teller more or less didat t count but he be happened to take a hundred thou saud sand dollars in cash with him and that hurt tso no there d been no jug cling with nith the books nor falsifying depositors accounts the money was as juht lifted out of the cash drawer one hundred thousand dollar bills fresh from uncle sams treasure depart merit dent of caume courbe the shortage was mas dincov ered ihen they tried to balance their cash at the end of the ilay days a bustnes busl nes i but nobody thought then ot of connect ing john therewith ile he 11 vas as above aboe but nhen he filled to shona shoie up next net morning the binh bank b inh people changed their tune 1 Y special m of the directors vias lias bell and in ten minutes the loss if loss it could be called ns nas made rood good ind and bust ness nent ment on as usual just at that time I 1 guess no one wanted any pub licitr licit tor for a mele rumor of 0 double might hale haie resulted in more damage dimege than could be repaired in a month of sundays there h nothing easier to start thin a financial Imn cial panic under certain conditions and once it gets started it usual luns lung its course like a big lire fire until it burns itself out naturally Na the directors vere ere not tak ing in ch dunces inces so they just kept the mitter matter quiet among them ind called in Dulli Bulli Nants limited that s how I 1 cime to be on the case within talib six ii hours well sub it nag is the clein ost and cleverest get avay I 1 ever eer si iN whether hether planned or not after 1001 ing lt it the thing from the outside I 1 rither rather thought it il mas is a cise case of not but then you 3 ou cm can never tell A As I 1 slid id inon lohn john toi foi a long time and I 1 knatt ihnow that lie be N aan t I 1 in n t the lie common embezzler class of course he might liane hae yielded to sud don den temptation or been living in ing a double life but after looking up his bis I 1 home surroundings I 1 couldn coulden t see it that MUL way nay lie ile ind ills his mite nere just a as S much lot loiero era as vi aben len the had been married marred a dozen SPITS before aal lie he never spent a night anna aai from mrs irs and the child there r inabin ei ed one other possibility deacul in the street the reet reef upon which so go bank officers have run aground but not a clur of thit that sort could I 1 U light lit on either ot or mall mail lie he hid bid ner MST mile little and that mostly most irom from counti es addressed to his nut flit the or dinar ethreal thre aji that go to mike make up the criminal skein sein mere not dot to be I 1 picked up in this particular instance and I 1 must confess that for the time being I 1 had tu to acknowledge at fault there remained the possibility that bid become a frequent frequenter ei ot ol a or bial et shops but this theory pro drued ed to be as ar as the rest and yet let the man had van in isad and a hundred thousand collais besides As the agency said tale take sour time and spare no ex e actis p ns P so I 1 ment at the thing qu ic aly an I 1 mrs ga gle e tile me all the help she could nas is might little for the moman N vis ab inight 1 I lit distracted I 1 acl ll 11 they had a fen fe N hundreds in the laings biank so BO there vas nas no ao danger ot of site she she ind and little lols coming to ate i ant of course couise sou could rit t get mis ills to admit for lit in in stint thit that there N as an tiling thing cioci cio oed lied about her john I 1 dian didn didel t blame glicr ter ither either tor for I 1 felt thit i a niela the man mail as I 1 did but 3 ou see ce the best of men do go rong oc casio nall and then there thit that bundled thousand dollard dollar dol larb bl NN ell suit suh I 1 settled dov do n to i a ion lono still hunt bunt for six ai montas I 1 nas on oil the roid road running fal tilse clues to cadilli lot fot the abe onder ot 01 some one resent bling hini him vas nas reported repot ted cd b ma ni corre slon si dents all over the states ally I 1 d sent ills his photo photograph griph broadcast let jet strict Ij on the hie i t you under r tand stand id I 1 d alo had the european Uuro at on tle the other side aide lot but nothing cime came of or it t mis put on bl bi ick inu ind mourned her ter hu hub hand band as but that some somehow hov I 1 dian didn t believe naturals Natural atun ll 3 I 1 id d formed i theory of n my m jovn onn it v lich v x isn t 0 ci fir far varon ft rone as tile sequel proved the kiil trouble i as I 1 couldn coulden t account for that hundred thousand ard rd I 1 guess I 1 let it if 1 badat haan hadn I 1 found john riad bisdale I 1 a e one day I 1 got a N vire ire from our col respondent in Ning kingston ston jamaica say sai I 1 ino n I 1 OUT our in n here working Nv for N bole sale fruit co compin rupin assumed name no mistake letter coule come 3 and bring papers coull reckon I 1 took tin next boat ail aal I 1 landed in kingston athin itcek I 1 v eck sw ins in col coi respondent correspondent mho posted me up Ili idale or boi someone lleone who looked like hlin him vas nas doing ing for a ruit fruit exporting firm and liv ing quite but under thi name ot of oliver hazzard tills u was as a jol e c it if lie vas A as really the man I 1 N as alter after because bac iuso that via nis the nery ery name of tho the president of tb abc borough na tignall I 1 expressed my doubts to clancy our local man for I 1 d been on oil too man wild goose chases anses after john to be over sanguine has he been spending wone I 1 inquired not so 0 o as you d notice it vas clan c s reply ills his pa s only forty shil lings a neek eek and that don t go very tar far in kingston let rat m tell you anell ell abere can I 1 get a look at him I 1 demanded minded de the first thing to settle whether hether he beg s my mm man or not I 1 lie he cats at a little cabaret on prince george strait well drop in there for well sub that a 8 mat w aitt me w e dd and the instant I 1 clapped eeb on him I 1 knew it was as all right although be N vas as thinner and sil lower er and mort stoop shouldered yet et there was nas no mistaking the man s profile his bis aquil ine features his quick nonous wilk w ilk and his bis extreme height at least six feet three or tour four but what I 1 asked no self was he doing in jamacia Jamn cla and N h 9 1 here was nas the mono money I 1 NN hy by the assumed name naturally I 1 minted to beco lecover er the loot is i s well as to nab the criel nal but qually tor for my mi own s tion and the reputation of Pull hants as for tile the sake of 0 that little in nev e giorl orl I 1 wished to solve tile the astery m story for that there N r is a ms ter term something chich took tle the case of john out of the ordinary embezzler clisi I 1 felt sure sur so lor for a deiv te days dam I 1 liy low div and shadowed mr olli r Hi izzard As in neav ew yolk he wa was a pattern of method and nei acer er left ins his at night was always on time to tile the tick in the morning and apparently enjoyed the trust and esteem of his ne neav employ employers er I 1 found he had been in Ix kingston ingston for over a jear ear that he be had bad applied for his bis present job without arid and had been taken liken on sufferance and with some sll slight ht suspicion but oil ap all this hid bid and bullock bullock now trusted him implicit ahe more I 1 learned about 11 izzard and the more I 1 studied him nov near at hand then from a safer dl distance tance the mote my pet pil vate theory wis was strengthened lor for some days das I 1 debited debated how I 1 should put it to the test linich deciding upon a sudden surprise mv min man lodged with a anidow who vho aho ra 11 01 4 A M jr wai aw x V all a E 0 10 I 1 v I 1 W vt f ax n el r IV K XZ 4 I 1 I 1 r t 7 f 4 z N 1 11 1 Z 4 N X J I 1 Z ik f 0 1 A 4 e I 1 V a C r e za b q Y ff 0 fi arte rte afke 14 1 1 it berr F I 1 kept a little cottage pretty well down domn the harbor this was before the earth quake ou oil know ibe eirden ran down to the beach and liere here the de faurer N van b fond of lounging and smoking a pipe after breakfast on bunday mornings moin ings here then quite 1 I 1 decided to make lit mi at tack tacit approaching the cottage on oil toot foot it nestled in a riot not of u tio tropical flowers and foliage i 1 unde made m N a without knocking or ringing by a side path to a little covered colored rustic retreat from which clouds ot of escaping blue smoke told 11 L i thit that my nun mail wis mis at home stepping quickly to the open front which looked out on kingi ton harbor I 1 found him upright in the doorway looking moodie out avei tile the vater ater lie turned and his eyes ees met mine but thare aln rr was vas no sign ot of recognition Nit without hout biln him i chinca to speak I 1 said distinctly yet not loudly john Hi bisdale sdale how are you youa inoue oue seen men stiffen under an all electric shock that h exactly hal he did gripping the of the do doorway doonya door onva wai and looking at me like i 1 startled rabbit my lly god lie he exclaimed pressing his bands over his eyes and letting his bib pipe drop on the ground nhen hen he uncovered his face I 1 saw sam that he be knew rne my mark manley he be exclaimed hoarsely what where aih and lie he looked around him like a roan man sod denb benl awakened from a bad brearn ream that s that a mj ki he cried yet and then feba ain I 1 do lug ing heie ahat hat place 13 this am I 1 I 1 crazy craz not ot net et old mm man I 1 assured him soothingly with ith my hand on bi his arm bit dom doh n here and tike take a sup of 0 this I 1 out ing him out a stiff drink of brindy bandy train from my mv rocket pocket flask amsk lie he gulped it donn don hilt half wiping bis big eyes ces then more quietly and sanely thin I 1 had expected he be says SAS yell ft ill you kindly tell me here I 1 am ind and 1 who ho I 1 am ama sure thing I 1 answered halt half laugh ins ing and hinding binding him a cigar 1 I ou on re john m my old friend ind and this is Wrig kingston ston jamaica hum ho or ou chose to conic come here bore all well talk that over rho sooner the better belter says sas lie he hv anh h baies my ni eife ife and poor little loisa lols all well inell ind maltin maltino tor for daddy dadd to come home bome I 1 assured him IN e ell 11 hive have ou oil out of thi in a jiffy there s i I 1 aueda boat j iou oil lino and ou oure re going back to new it aik oi oik k N v ith me ew ev bork ork lie he exclaimed pressing his finers finders on ins his eyeballs les cs I 1 remember no it vis that damned bank ind and ind yes acs ics s ill john I 1 soothed him auve er been ill III iou on know 1111 he flashed on me sal sai marl mark nhit mint day di is this I 1 gave him the ditc ind the year ear my mi god he groi groined ried under tinder his breath IN hi I 1 saw whit nhit nis MS coming ind wis mis about to temporize temp orise v kihen lit a broke in look here mirk I 1 ou oil used to pose poe is I 1 i I 1 friend of miep it if oil oure re that non no in hein c n nime name tell me what ill all this means I 1 on oa sia si I 1 e been ill perhaps but I 1 there s more to it thin that man alie IN it hi p be hen ou fint spoke I 1 didn dian t kno 11 ill m on haintl kimt claie I 1 been 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