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By KINGSBURY WELCH
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Copyright, 1910, by American Press
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Farmers ES Merchants Bank
C. W. MONTGOMERY, President. -:- -:- H. C. PROBASCO, Cashier
Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent
Every girl who works should try to
have a bank account. It is as im
portant to learn how to save money
as to make it. If a girl hasn't enough
will power to do this she can get a
small savings bank and here deposit
her weekly sum until she has enough
to deposit in a bank. Helen Ware.
We will furnish the Bank
You can do it if you will
Every Banking Convenience
Open Saturday Evenings 6 to 8 F. & M. Bldg., 1 5 th & O Sts.
When I was a young man I was a
teller in an eastern bank. There I
learned the banking business, and,
having saved some money and inherit
ed a little more, I concluded to go
west and start a bank of my own. 1
chose Nevada and opened up in a min
ing town where I had no competjtion.
It was when the business was in
creasing and I was thinking of taking
on more help that a young woman
came to me one day asking for a posi
tion as stenographer and typewriter.
My unanswered letters were accumu
lating, and it occurred to me that I
had better save time in this way rath
er than employ men whom I would
have to, intrust with the handling of
money. The young woman said she
had just come from the east to find
employment and would begin for a
small salary. She was rather too good
looking to suit me. I was afraid of
passing every day in a region where
women were scarce, especially pretty
ones, with her, but by cutting off a
couple of hours a day on my letters I
would be enabled to hold on to the
handling of the cash. That decided
me, and I engaged her.
Imogen Bradley looked to be about
twenty years old. Her face would
have made a good model for a picture
of a Madonna. From the first she took
an interest in my business, posting me
if she saw anything going wrong and
assisting me to right it. The only
thing I couldn't get her to do was to
handle any cash. She said that she
was not used to money matters and if
she should make a mistake I would
blame her and that would break her
heart.
What I feared when I employed her
came to pass. I was cooped up from
morning till night with a pretty young
woman who in my eyes grew prettier
every day. One evening after banking
hours while I was dictating to her she
made a bad blunder, and I gently
chided her. Tears came into those
"heaven's windows" of hers. The
temptation was more than I could
bear. I kissed them away.
The next two or three days I spent
ruing my folly. I didn't want a wife,
and if I felt inclined that way my
mind was bent on a girl in the. east
whom I thought some day I might
marry. I didn't know what to do to
rectify my rash act. The consequence
was that I did nothing. I simply let
matters drift, though 1 controlled niy
self sufficiently to refrain from any
further kisses. I looted for her to re
proach me either for having kissed her
or for not continuing to kiss her, but
she made no reference to the first kiss
and didn't indicate that she would like
another. Indeed, she seemed to me to
possess that innocence to be found
especially in a girl hovering between
childhood and womanhood.
It was about this time that "Handy
Andy," a noted desperado, was ter
rorizing the surrounding country, ne
worked alone, but did not fear to un
dertake what was usually undertaken
by half a dozen men. He had robbed
an express car single handed and got
away with the plunder. The passen
gers of half a dozen stages at different
times had handed him their valuables.
He had tackled a bank located In the
center of a town of 3,000 inhabitants,
though in this case the only thing he
took away with him was a bullet in
the leg. When I was informed of this
robbery I naturally began to feel so
licitous for my own funds. True, we
had weapons, but bank robbers don't
usually wait for people to use them
I was no hand to tackle them myself,
and with two young boys and a girl
for support in case Mr. Handy Andy
should drop in and ask for the loose
cash lying about my bank I didn't fool
very secure.
"The day the news came of the bank
robbery I have mentioned we myself,
my typewriter and my two clerks-
were talking over the matter of de
fense in case the robber should come
down upon us. One of the boys sug
gested that a gun be fixed on a swivel
at the paying toller's window and one
at the receiving teller's window so
that it could be fired by electricity by
pressing a button on the floor with the
foot. This was. of course, ridiculous,
Who was to aim the gun? Certainly
not the man behind the window, for
he would be covered. The other boy
who was thinking rather of his own
safety than that of the funds, sug
gested that the back door that led
from the space behind the fixtures be
always kept open. Miss Bradley's
face wore a terrified expression while
we were discussing these expedients,
and she put her hands to her ears that
she might not hear them.
I playfully pulled her hands from
her ears and said to her:
"You women are always frightened
when there is nothing to be frightened
at. but in presence of real danger you
often astonish us men by your cool
ness. Besides, women often have bet
ter heads at hitting on devices than
men. Come; tell me what you suggest
in case Handy Andy makes us a vis
it." "I don't like to think about it, and
I'm sure if he should come I would
faint. One thing I would recommend
wnile he is operating in the neighbor
hood. I would keep the funds in a tin
box under the paying teller's desk, so
that in case of a visit from him some
one of us may catch it up and run
away with it. Of course the back door
should be always kept open.
I knew," I exclaimed, "that you
would display more foresight than any
of us. That's exactly what we'll do."
Another thing I would do," Imogen
continued. "I would have some rope
handy. In case it should become pps-
sible to get the better of him no one
could hold him very long. It might be
necessary to tie his hands and feet."'
Bravo'" I cried. "There's more in
that little head of yours than in the
heads of ten men. Where did you get
such ideas? One would think you had
worked with the police."
t'Oh, ' I don't know about such
things," was the modest reply. "These
precautions seem to me to be merely
common sense."
'Common sense! They're just the
thing. You're idea of keeping the
funds in the tin box is a bright one.
No one could keep us all covered at
once, and some one of us might very
likely have a chance to pick up the
box and skip. You, being a woman,
would probably have the best chance
to get away with it."
Oh, I would be too frightened to do
anything like that."
I was not prepared for so much fore
thought in this modest girl. After all,
thought, would not a woman who
has had the energy and pluck to come
out here to earn her own living in
stead of sitting around at home wait
ing for a husband make a better wife
for me than the girl I had been think
ing of? I was very much inclined to
continue my caresses, to be wound up
with an lionorable proposal of mar
riage.
I got a tin box out of the vault and,
scraping together all the loose funds
necessary for making payments during
the day, put them in it and placed it
under the paying teller's desk in order
that he could use it without continual
ly running outside his compartment
for it. But after it had been filled and
placed in position Imogen suggested
that while there it would be handy for
the teller it would not be handy for
the person who was to snatch it up
and run away with it. , I therefore
placed it under a small table by the
back door through which it was to be
carried in case of attack. I also
bought a few yards of quarter inch
rope, which I deposited in a closet.
The only thing remaining to be done
was to see that the revolvers we kept
in the different drawers were loaded
and in good condition. These things
having been attended to, I dismissed
the matter from my mind.
My thoughts dropped from war to
love. I had a problem to settle. Would
I or would I not propose to Imogen
Bradley? I resolved to ask her from
what part of the east she came and to
make inquiries. So I asked her the
question" one day carelessly, that she
might not suspect my intention, and
she gave me the name of a college
town in Massachusetts. I knew no
one there, so I was no better off than
before. The truth is I was pining for
her, and it seemed to me that I would
rather be marrying her than her fam
ily. So I never wrote. I was satisfied
from what I had seen of her that she
was an odd mixture of gentleness,
pluck and natural ability. What more
could I want, especially in a rough
country like Nevada?
It was but a few days after our
preparations to receive Handy Andy
when at 12 o'clock the boys broke off
work and went to dinner. I never left
the bank myself after opening in the
morning till closing in the evening, al
ways eating a lunch in my private of
fice. Miss Bradley usually, went out
for her dinner, but today she said she
had a headache and would not go. She
sat reading a newspaper? As I munch
ed a sandwich I could look at her so
fair, so pure, so gentle and I made
up my mind I would propose to her
that evening.
Suddenly there was a man's step out
side the fixtures. Imogen looked up,
and I saw by her expression that she
recognized the comer. A wonderful
change came over her innocent face,
which took on one of hard resolution.
Quickly rising, she unlatched a door
leading into the space she occupied. A
masked man stepped in and covered
me with a revolver. Imogen darted
to the closet and took out the rope.
and the man who had ordered me to
throw up my hands took it from her
giving her his revolver, which she
kept pointed at me. The masked man
then proceeded to bind me hand and
foot.
This done, he took the weapon from
Imogen. She picked up the tin box
containing the bank funds and, turn
ing to me, threw me a kiss.
"That's in return for the one you
gave me," she said, smiling, "and I'm
much obliged to you for saving us the
trouble of collecting the money, which
would have taken time. Ta. ta!"
She walked out of the back doot
with some $20,000, leaving the masked
man to keep guard over me till she
had got far enough away to render
pursuit unavailable. When she had
gone my watcher said to me:
"Nice young woman, isn't she? Sor
ry for you, but she's got a husband
already, and two is against the law.
She's my wife. Mrs. Handy Andy, and
my cleverest work is done by her."
The boys were not to be expected
back till 1 o'clock, and the robber had
undoubtedly been informed of the fact,
for after keeping me covered half an
hour he loft me at ten minutes to 1.
The boys came in at the regular time
and unbound me.
My funds were never recovered. 1
learned as soon us I was freed that
'Imogen hnrt been seen slowly carrying
the box to a carriage, which she en
tered and was driven away.
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