RACEALONG 101 



instead of counting up the interest that a loan will 

 bring in before the principal is paid. 



''Three weeks later my young friend came into the 

 bank and after making a deposit, handed me a check 

 for the loan with the interest to date. During the 

 next three months he also came into the bank nearly 

 every week to make a deposit, after which there was 

 a skip to the following August when he again began 

 to make deposits and continued them to October. 

 His account also showed that the only check drawn 

 against it was the one with which he paid my loan. 



Tinally a third year rolled around and about the 

 middle of July he appeared again. Starting off with 

 a few hundred a week, his deposits soon ran up to 

 four figures. Each of them was also a draft on 

 New York or Chicago, and no two ever came from the 

 same city. As there was considerable bad paper 

 floating around the country at that time, I told one 

 of the secret service men about this peculiar account, 

 as I could not imagine where this money was coming 

 from. All that he could learn was that a man called 

 at each of the banks, purchased the drafts with 

 currency, and mailed them to the mysterious 

 depositor. He also learned that he never received or 

 sent any telegrams, or sent off any express matter 

 and so far as they could find out wrote but very 

 few letters. His mail was limited to an occasional 

 letter and three or four weekly papers. The drafts 

 were purchased in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 

 New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Kentucky 

 and Texas, while the others came from Oklahoma, 



