Show I 1 AN EVEH eief DIVIDE I 1 x V A by ELLSWORTH i LEWIS EWIS y y A V well queried mr james monroe wallace RB his so boa aa philip came cama t into the library and dropped anto aiuto a chair with a tired look you wanted to see me father humph philip you dont amount to putty right you are father f 1 i think of a every time I 1 see eee you i and I 1 feel like one but theres another side to it it if I 1 am a I 1 am ama a harmless one the young man rose and took two or three turns around the room and then halted baited to say tather father should I 1 make five thou than mand dollars lol lars in the next year besides winning a good wife what will the bridat bridal girt gift be bet A thirty thousand brownstone front thanks in ad advance when philip left the city ho he rode a hundred miles by rail and got off at a town of 2000 ii inhabitants habitants why he could not answer at th hotel they wondered who the young inan was and what had brought him there but he made no na explanations he must make and glad a brido bride within a year and ho realized it would require ft a heap of thinking he was in the office of the hotel one morning when the telephone rang and the operator at benton ten miles sway away said eald tell the sheriff that tho the bank was robbed last night of how much the young man asked the robbers got of the banks money and about the same from the safe deposit vaults and have the officers there got a clue they know there were three robbers and that they passed the house of a farmer three miles out an hour after midnight 1 1 I soo see they were in a one horse buggy and had driven so eo fast that the horse dropped dead any reward yes 1000 for each of the robbers tad and tor for the return ot of the woney money young wallace did not start for the sheriffs office an on the iun run it was laughable even to himself that a young man who had been characterized by his father as aa a and totally without energy should find breathing like a runner as he thought of pitting himself against three desperate men an that was what it might come ta after having arrived at this decision the putt man went to the livery stable pd got a horse and buggy baggy and started tor for denson benson he reached the town to find it seething excitement officers and amateurs amateur were on the hunt and the farmer who had seen the robbers and witnessed the fate of their horse had to tell the story over again a score of times when he had bad learned where this tanner farmer lived young wallace drove out there ile he asked no questions of anyone it his bis theory was correct the robbers would find a sate safe biding place tor for the plunder and then separate and come back later to divide the spoils they would realize that every town for fifty miles around would be notified before noon they would have to conceal the plunder at once and within a mile or two of where they lost their horses As every farmer kept his bis barn locked and a watchdog besides the fellows would bo be driven back to the straw stacks or the woods philip drove back to denson benson to think hink it if aei 0 ver on the way be met a 11 young woman driving a horse and buggy in passing each other they almost came to a halt and tho the young man was so BO attracted by the girls agreeable personality that tor for the moment he almost forgot hla his role of amateur sleuth 9 0 0 0 an hour later s a note was handed banded him by a boy he was asked to call on miss hazel drayton at a certain address ile he found her bar to be the girl ha had passed on tile the highway ile he bad Dad scarcely given bechis name when che baid you VOU are looking tor for the he bank alun der adert well both ot of us u know where it ta 14 11 perhaps levs lets work in partnership and divide divida vide the reward we may find the plunder but not the robbers you seo see I 1 must have the five thousand to hold father to his bis promise pro mlee then he proceeded to tell her all about it but if we were to divide your father think you had done very well asked the blushing miss ha tel el when ho he had finished father la Is a hardhearted hard hearted mu man miss prayton drayton yes not more than three minutes passed before mr wallace said but you fee bee ive got halt half tho the money or wll will have it and ten months to find the th other halt half and the wife and we will mako make an even divide andl andi will take the chances 0 0 0 0 0 A yielded up the there was wag on an even divide of thi the reward the brownston front fron wai called for and handed over within the tb ier year there are no figh worms in the ali wallies wallace family now 1915 by tho th mcclure mcclur nac per |