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in absolute possession of a valuable
piece of property; and fully furnished,
too. With his usual blandness, Dougal
explained that he was looking after
the place for a wealthy spinster who
was away on a yachting trip in the
Mediterranean.

“But why did she leave all her
clothing and jewelry behind her?”
asked Dougal’s amazed spouse, once
she had time to look the place over.

“Oh, she’s got lots of money!”
readily replied Dougal. “She’s got two
or three houses like this—all filled
with furniture and clothes.”

“Will she be coming back soon?”
probed the curious Mrs. Dougal.

“T hardly think so,” said Dougal
drily, and there was a something in his
tone that let Mrs. Dougal know that
the subject had been exhausted.

It was now near the end of May; and
the Essex countryside had awakened
and blossomed to the promise of sum-
mer. In the still of the late spring
nights that followed, when Mrs.
Dougal was safely upstairs and off the
scene, the silence of the Moat Farm
living-room was broken only by the
occasional hoot of an ow] outside, and
the steady scratching of Samuel
Dougal’s pen, inside. Dougal was pre-
paring for the big work. In his
criminal, ferret-like mind, the murder
of Miss Holland was only one step in
his plan. Camille Holland had invest-
ments, she had a bank account. Com-
bined they totaled about seven thou-
sand pounds, about $35,000 in those
days.

Turns Forgerer

Night after night Dougal practiced
with Miss Holland’s pen; practiced
her handwriting and her signature
until the facsimile would baffle an
expert. When he felt his penmanship
would safely pass scrutiny he wrote,
as “Miss Holland” to the manager of
the Picadilly branch of the National
Provincial Bank, and asked for a
cheque book. It came back in the mail
with gratifying promptness. A week
later he sent in Miss Holland’s cheque
for thirty pounds, and asked for the
proceeds in five pound notes, by mail.
Back came the money, addressed to
Miss Holland. When the post boy
brought the mail from the village,
Dougal was careful to meet the lad
at the gate. “It'll save you trouble
with your bicycle, my boy,” said kind-
ly, portly Mr. Dougal. He didn’t want
too many people asking for Miss
Holland.

Month after month Dougal plied
his forgery, and larger and larger
amounts were drawn from London.
Most of the proceeds he deposited in
the name of J. Heath in the London
and County Bank at Bishop’s Stort-
ford, eight and a half miles away.
And as his bank account grew, so did
Dougal—in importance.

He was achieving a nice taste for
expensive brandy, and nothing but
the best in cigars satisfied him. He
even bought himself a steam automo-
bile, one of the first to run in that
part of Essex. Perched high up behind
the steering wheel, with his dustcoat
and goggles, he chuffed-chuffed along
the rural lanes cheerily waving now
and again to those he knew. With the
car he did his own shopping—which,
as he put it, “saved the tradesmen
from making the trip out to Moat
Farm.”

The ease with which his forgeries
were being accepted spurred his ambi-
tion. Now he turned to the list of
Miss Holland‘s securities, and in-
structed W. H. Hart & Co., her stock-
brokers in Old Broad Street, London,
to sell out block after block of stock.
The instructions were promptly exe-
cuted and the proceeds went into
Heath’s account in the Birkbeck Bank
in Chancery Lane.

Then on the strength of a letter
from ‘“‘Miss Holland” he got the ill-
fated woman’s lawyers to transfer the
title of Moat Farm to his own name.
The transfer papers duly arrived for
the dead woman’s signature, and
Dougal neatly fulfilled this require-
ment. Even more conveniently, he
witnessed her signature with his own,

By now Dougal was feeling more
and more the country squire; he was
the ready supporter of any church or

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