CHAPTER 5The Early Bird was waiting for them at the Twelfth National, having already drawn four thousand dollars from his own account to make up the total which Mr. Clackworthy required. The master confidence man, while Mr. Waddington and George Bascom waited near by, went to the teller’s window and cashed his personal check for twenty-seven thousand dollars, which, added to the nine thousand dollars cash in his pocket, made the total of thirty-six thousand dollars. Then the quartet proceeded to the Ironsides Trust Co., where Mr. Waddington banked.
“What’s the idea of this four-thousand bucks?” demanded The Early Bird as the Texan went to get his thirty thousand dollars.
“The truth is, James,” admitted Mr. Clackworthy, “that I began to think that our little financial venture had turned o
