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Missouri, and Illinois. The account also became such 

 a matter of comment in the bank that the clerks 

 were betting pennies as to where the next draft 

 would come from. 



"The following year my young friend began de- 

 l)ositing about the middle of July and continued until 

 October. The drafts came from the same states as 

 the preceding year, while the amounts, except in a 

 few cases, were about the same, until the last one 

 which was well up in four figures. A few days after 

 that deposit was made I had occasion to go to New 

 York. Upon my arrival, I registered at a hotel 

 near the Grand Central depot and while I was wait- 

 ing for the clerk to assign me a room, a middle aged 

 man, who had occupied a section opposite me in the 

 sleeper on the ride from Cincinnati and registered 

 after me, stepped up and asked if I knew a man, 

 naming the bank's mysterious depositor. I said that 

 I did and not knowing what kind of a game was 

 going to be handed me in the big city, like an old 

 ranger I felt if my gun was in place and turned to 

 walk away. The stranger followed me, however, and 

 in a very friendly way asked a few questions regard- 

 ing this young man and of course there was nothing 

 for me to tell him except that I knew him. Finally 

 my chance acquaintance told me that the name of 

 this young man was well known in light harness 

 racing circles; in the north and that for four years 

 a horse owned by him had been winning regularly, 

 first at meetings in the middle west and during the 

 past two years at many of the big meetings, also 



