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CHAP’ . ei N OUSAND DOLLARS.
T itting a deplorable | } uld have brought my ‘a Casy to subdue this
man who towered above n hose iingers were itching 7 hroat, but that would } ] wf porary advant- us ital Knowledge weuld re- m th him «nd the shadow already darkening my life would quickly be- ce reality ; rst learn all that he hal te te There must be no violence be- veen us until his secrets were mine.
Ignoring his threat, I backed to a crair and motioned him to take an- o.rer.
“Sit down. After we have finish- ec talking it will be thine to act.” He breathed hard, and only by a predigious effort did he retain mas- tery his passion. ie was a violent tempered man, and was so enraged that he longed to chastise the life out
oft me.
But he was after money and could | postpone his wengeance until it was in his hands. After that, look out!
He took the chair to which I waved bim, crossed his muscular legs, and with his glittering eyes fixed upon me, growled :—
“Well, what have you to say ?”
“It is rather, What have you to say ? When I telegraphed you that I hada
no clear recallection of the events in which you were interested, I told you the truth. To save my life I could not recall youryname. I sent my mes- Sage to ‘ Buid,;’.at the Auditorium, be- cause I did not know how else to ad- dress it. The name of Tom Discve Was gone as entirely from me as if I hac never heard it pronounced. Even now I cannot recall the incidents that I know are im -vour mind.”
Nothing was clearer than that he did rot believe a syllable of this, but he evidently concluded to wait.
“ How is it you came out te Engle- weod ?”
“I left tewm ‘hy the advice of my Physician.”
= why T°
“I have inttmateil the reason. Last week I was violently thrown from my horse while riding:in the park. Since then matters have been so confused in my mind that the doctor told me I must go away for several weeks and take a complete rest.”
“Sort of queer trat yeu fix upon Englewood !” he sneered.
“And why ?’ E
“ So handy.” 7) y
“So handy for what ?”
“Come now, that won’t do. I can Stend a good deal, ‘kut you’re piling it on too thick.”
“TI assure you that I am at a loss to understand what you meczn.”
“Have yeu fcrgotten that it is just two miles from here to the Palisades of the Hudson—that ‘there is a certain house on the right of the road, built of stone, and standing well back in the woods and not far’ frem the river, where you met Jeke Huke-.and me last autumn to arrange same business mat- tera ?”
I bent my head, as ‘in perplexing
>a sane nent esti
thought, conscious all the time of the Sreer on the evil face in front of me.
“Mr. Discoe,” said I, with the meek- ness cf a lamb, “if vou will be good enough to go over as repidly as y.m ehcose, the transactions we have hud with each other—that is, from the be- ; ginning—it will heip us to get on. Un- | less you do so, I don’t believe it pos- sible to arrange things satisfactory.”
“Well, I'll te ——t” ‘he growled, lcwering the bent leg and crossing it with the other. “This beat® anything yet !°
I waited patiently, and, after some kesitation, he shoved his hat from his fcrehead, jammed both hands in his
trcusers pockets, this chair, said :—
“There’s so little of it that it won't take me long. You remember last summer that down at Sheepshead vou put up $1,900 and won $5,000 ? Jake and me had our money on the wrong horee and got it in the neck. While you were cashing in your tickets we noticed your roll of money. ‘You were in high spirits over your good luck, and Jake remarked that if ycu wanted a good thing he could put onto it. You said you was ready and would di- vide. That night we met you at the Brunswick ard explained the game, which was shoving the queer.”
“Ah, yes. It’s all coming back toe me now,’’ I interjected without help- ing matters in the least.
* Our plan was not to do the work here in the east, but in the west. Jake and me were to go out to Kansas and the Dakotas, making the Auditorium in Chicago our headquarters. When everything was ready, we were to let you know.”
* And I was to do what ?”
“Of course in our business we must have good money to work with, but there’s nothing mean abcut Jake and me, end we agreed not to call on you for y ip
and leaning back in
ur share "—.
“Which was how much ?”
“Ten thousand dollars, until the thine was on its feet and fairly going. It took us a good deal longer than we thought. Jake got pinche4, and it was a tight squeeze. So things drifted along until this sprirg.”
* And you kept me informed ?”
“Of course. I called to see you e&everal times in New York, and all three of us had a meeting sume months ago at the stone house. When you
last winter, we of us again
Chicago three
came out to had a long talk—the —and you pledged your word that when we needed it you would let us have the $ for which you were to receive one-third of the profits and take no ris sks at all.” ““And I have never given it to you?” “Never given it to us! I shouid é2y_not. _ There’s where Jake and me
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| thoughtlessly agreed to do so,
smaace - TVois Of OUTStives. you UT- fered it to us twice, and we refused to take it.”
Why did you refuse ?’’
“We were so dead sure of you that tre were content to wait, being as we did not need it. You set ’em up every time and acted like the royal fellow we believed you to be instead of the sneak vy A
4nd Tom Discoe's fingers twitched, as if he could no longer keep them off me; i was on my guard, but he did not know it.
Are you sure I have never ad-
vanced you anything on account ?” He could hardly restrain his anger.
or
in answer to my telegram : “ Yes; I went over the whole ground, showing that you hadn’t paid
we that as * farmers,’ on to ®%.”
A mountain rolled from off my heart. In the eyes of the law Harold Westcott had committed no crime. He had when in
on the
didn’t want it. You remember we agreed to refer to the money so that ro one could get
the excitement of his success race course, and, possibly, while under the influence, too, of wine. In his sober senses he shrank frorn the dan- gerous step, but lacked the courage to back out. He was afraid of Tom Dis- coe and Jake Huke, who no doubt had threatened him, as one had already threatened me.
Harold was lacking in moral stami- na, for he as much as confessed it when he declared that he was pestered half to death by the parasites of society. Most likely, too, these evil men be- lieved that in meeting with them and planning this wicked business he had gecne too far to withdraw. If he at- tempted to do so, they not only meant to expose him, but to visit personal violence upon him.
As the only way out of a bad situa- tion he weakly fled to Europe. Aware that the crisis must come within a few months, he left me io meet it, without giving ‘the slightest intima- tion of its nature.
Therein I condemned him, as I had the right to do, for had he made it clear 1 would have been prepared at every pcint, but he was ashamed to do so, and now the.all important know- ledge was mine.
And with it came a feeling of gra- titude bevond the power of language to express. I would find out the ad- Gress of Harold «and tell him every- thing, addjing that there was not the flightest cause to fear these two mis- creants. Before he returned to meet them I would have.a settlement .with Messrs. Disece and .Huke, which, to say the least, wauld leave them in a dernoralized condition.
As if fortune was playing into our hands, this same Discoe had written me a letter in which the whole truth was told, and this letter was now in the hands of Detective Cone. True, he was amenable to the.law for pilfer- ing the missive, but he would not be made to suffer, since at Aad turned out so well.
“TI presume you came to New York
to get the $10,000.” “You guessed it the first time, and,
what’s more, I’m going to have it.
Keep that smoking in your pipe. Why
didn’t you send it before ?”’ “ That I twice offered st to you ought
to be proof enough that I meant to keep my pledge, but three weeks ago matters were so bad with me that I couldn't have raised $1,000 if my life had been at stake.”
‘I don’t believe a —— word af it”
* Nevertheless, it’s true.”
“How are you fixed now ?”
“T’ve got money to burn.”
Are you ready to hand it over?” “Will you take my cheque ?” “Not by a large majority. Them
bits of paper sometimes turn up good for nothing, but coin or green paper hits it everv time.”
‘Do you suppose I carry that amount of money round with me? I have only enough to pay my expenses for a few weeks
“Then you must draw the money anid turn it over to us.’”’
“I will go into town toe-mcrrow take it out of the bank. I will come back to Englewood on the afternoon train and will meet you--where ? Here ?”
He thought for his eyes gleamed.
* At the old stone house on the right ef the road a half-mile this side of the Palisades. You remember it, for it is in plain sight from the road.”
“Yes, and a path leads to it where there is an occasional copperhead. But tell me how you knew I had come to Engiewood ?”
“J didn’t know it. You used to talk of the place as being very pretty, and said you had a notion of making your home there. It wes all guesswork on my part.”
“And mighty good guessing.”
His face hardened again.
It was clear to me why he had se- lected this lonely spot for the passing of the 316,000. here were hundreds of places in New York where we could have met and made he ex- change without the slightest personal risk. But my previous hesitancy con- vinced him I was unwilling to pay over so large a sum. He suspected that I would set some trap by which the money would be saved and he and his pal punished.
But if I were to meet him in the out-of-the-way place, where 10 human being could give me hetp, nothing was to prevent their working their sweet will with me.
Nothing but—of that, however, later.
“Will you meet us at that place tn marrow night eau at 0 o’clack 7’
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and
a2 moment. Then
“Not a —— cent ! Don’t set up that | claim. You owe clean $10,0)0 and not ! | a@ penny less. Why, I remiaded tou of the whole thing in my last letter.” “The one sent before this last note
a dol- : lar, though you offered to do so when
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“Only Frovidence shall prevent me,”
was my firm reply. “I’m tired of this business, and want it settled.” “Sa do we, and what’s more, we're going to have it settled. You needn't think there’s any trick by which you an euchre us. Of course you can zo } to the city to-morrow and stay there You'll Keep us out of the money, but your life will pay the for- | feit.”’ | How he longed to take me by the |} throat, but not half as much as I longed to take him by the throat! tiow easily I could wring his neck, as if he were a pigeon! How I would Ieve to crush him to the floor and ke him bellow for mercy ! But not yet! ‘Don’t mind if Iam a few minutes la but if alive I will be at the ston? } to-morr nicht at 9 o’clock, and il Nave $10,000 in bank bills with
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