Might and Main Library. Number 56, 1907-03-16 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

pokes this eee in othe hall, sir: it was thrown through : transom, a storie tied to it.’ wo ae and as there was no name on it, I tnoaoht I would a it It's awful, sir, awful, and all about young eer : dont talk so loud. You did well to bring it to Do not mention it to any of the servants.” . ‘No sir,” iwyer Zeutgard opened the paper, and saw an ill-writ- document. In fact, most of the contents were printed, id either ‘great care had been taken to disguise the g, or it was the work of a most illiterate man. read as follows: begs to tell you that we've got young tsa We fe) t want him very badly, but will let you have him for 000, and with him all the documents proving who he “how he can get the estate, for it is his by rights. O 4 pelle will answer. We mean business. If you | give the money, put a red. flag or piece of red paper office window. If the paper isn’t ‘there by Tuesday we'll put young Craig in a place where you ‘ll meer him | si the Judgment Day.” ve. corrected the orthography, which: in the origi- was most execrable, but evidently the result of pre- The lawyer read it over several times. e iter got tired of disguise,” that word “Tuesday’ is written by an educated man. his T just the same as I do.” | aes Zeutgard looked at the letter Bea, 2c cS Brigands. do that sort of thing in Mexico or or Spain, but in the United States—never !”” read it for the fifth or sixth time, and smoothed his as he did so. | t where can Craig be? is missing, and—— li I see the: police? No, (ll think it out, and perhaps the blackmailers, for that i is what they are, of course.” when ne got home there was another letter awaiting The writer evidently inee at, ats, had been drone: firbugh the transom. was jin the same writing, and told the lawyer that if ignal was not displayed on Monday, the writer would — es ee ee good faith oe Seeing to the yet one: en you yee one of the boy’s ears, you aig eae ‘we've 1m and you know he is worth $0, ooo if he can get William, and he can, with my help. We ain't. _ Boing with, We: mean 1 business: ee t ets. was an old- Gnvioned: Pe ies te con- fidant of the county families, the man who listened to all ‘secr ts, heard the confessions, drew up. marriage-set- transferred . Benen yy drew one: wills, and ee ae the executors. E20 nein ae Way. 2 3 Zeut ard could not rest eel: he had awat the anony- rs. to his partner. 2 | as after eleven o’clock at night before the junior had cha ce Bie talk with his senior, but time was no os ; he said, sotto voce, But there, what. ‘shall I do? These. pr ellmicary, exclenat oes: over, , the two m Es : ready to settle down to business. “What do you think, aoe ae e Se will Le up be ‘red flag.’ ENO? “Yes; we are too well icfown to be taken ie anarch- ists,” : : “But—the fifty ihalieand dollars?” cd “Abt! that. is another matter altogether.” sg o “What is your scheme?” | ee “We will arrange a meeting, and if the eeitbe! fae. the proofs with him, trust. me for getting them, Bnd. young: Craig, as well.” : “But the danger——” -Of what?” . 3 “Failure.” : Dyes “We “must risk Ses venture, nothing win, , yor know.” “Is it not compounding a felony: > ae “Um! perhaps it is.” Mee hed 7 “And you would do it?” De ee “Zeutgard, you were born some years too envi pose young Craig is in the hands of some wallaiig lose a few thousand dollars; save the boy, ai ne lish his claim to the property. But if we are too virtuous fo that, and, rather than compound a felony, we acquire the knowledge that Craig is murdered and the documents: ¢ S- 3 _troyed, how pleasant we should feel!” “Vou make me shudder.” * a “Do I? Don’t you think Charley | Rose avonld ‘aye be recovered if his father had been allowed to pay the ran- -som? The police interfered, and ‘poor Ebony was doubt. less. murdered.” ee “Then you think we cought to take the risk? ” ie ODF) ae ee ican we raise fifty thousand dollars: ” ee 2 “Do you think you can outwit these fellows ie we otry.? eee Early next morning a bright- red Handkevchied « was pla e as though by accident, in the office WINGO W of the ‘ - firm of Zeutgard & Comyns, sg ie It was in the private-office window, Baa: Comyns if voted all his time to watching all the passers-by in ord that he might detect and perhaps | recognize the WEE .the letter =. 'S Let it not be iscsi that he stood at the winddy the door; that would have been altogether too consp ous, so he climbed into the attic, before the clerks cat and sat by the window, Aering all in the street below out being seen. us _ By noon; he could spesnively ‘declare he not one son had more than glanced at the ‘windows, seemed to be suspicious characters. HG He was getting annoyed, and was as near pba bad temper as possible when, a few minutes later, gard climbed up to the attic, and in a very aie man said that they were making fools ¢ “opaceeya : “What do you mean?” “Only this; read that.” = , ae - Zeutgard held out a ee of paper | on hich the : 2 _ were written: f "You can’t monkey with us. Cal your spy out ve th attic:” : aoe | “Where did you get, that 2” : “Tt was thrown into the hall at home, the same as th ‘other messages.” a “Well, it beats everything. 7 do nbk know what to d “Let the police attend to the matter. ee a Elottyety, A “But you have failed.’ ae : Gs ane Tr will: Sueceed. oh eave all to roe