CONCLUSION.
Working with the realization of the necessity of haste, the mechanics who had been summoned to liberate young Rozier from his steel tomb in the bank at Ste. Genevieve drilled two holes in the doors and filled them with nitro-glycerine, using soap to keep the liquid from running out.
When the fuse was ready, the people were ordered from the building.
There was a moment of breathless suspense, then an explosion of the detonating cap was heard, followed by a deafening roar as the terrible agent of destruction went off.
The sides of the bank were blown into the street and pieces of the massive doors of the vault were hurled in all directions.
Rushing into the ruins, the searchers were able to get into the safe and found the banker's son unconscious on the floor, where the force of the explosion had thrown him.
His youth stood him in good stead and before night he was up and about, little the worse for his soul-trying ordeal.
When the robbery, the threat to repeat it every year, and the attempt to send to awful death his son and heir were telegraphed to Banker Rozier, at Monegaw Springs, he promptly wired back his resignation and with all possible haste took his family to Europe.
And with his departure from the country, Jesse's desperate game to take vengeance for the insult to him was ended.