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She had beco her four-year tenure that she was iht-a lassitude that afflicts all tellers sooner or later Yet inexplicably, this tiuiled her Subconsciously she began to picture it as belonging to her

Arta went home that weekend and locked herself in her apartment to fortify her resolve and plan the criesture, every motion until they caht she lay awake until the alarm went off, bathed in cold sweat, but deterh

The cash shipment arrived every Monday by arht hundred thousand dollars It was then re-counted and held until distribution on Wednesday to the bank's branch offices, scattered throughout the Los Angeles basin

She had decided the ti, while she was putting her money drawer in the vault

In the , after she showered and made up her face, Arta donned a pair of panty hose She wound a roll of two-sided sticky tape around her legs fro the protective outer layer of the tape in place This odd bit of handias covered with a long skirt that ca the tape with inches to spare

Next she took neatly trie pouch-style purse Each displayed a crisp new five-dollar bill on the outer sides and was bound with genuine blue and white Federal Reserve Bank wrappers To the casual eye they would appear authentic

Arta stood in front of a full-length er exists You are now Estelle Wallace"

The deception see became slower, shallower Then she took a deep breath, threw back her shoulders and left for work

In her anxiety to appear normal she inadvertently arrived at the bank tenevent to all who knew her well, but this was Mondayand no one took notice Once she settled behind her teller's counter every ely detached fro the hazardous scheme was quickly suppressed Mercifully, fear and panic remained dormant

When six o'clock finally rolled around, and one of the assistant vice presidents closed and locked the massive front doors, she quickly balanced her cash box and slipped quietly off to the ladies' room, where in the privacy of a stall she unwound the tape's outer layer fros and flushed it down the toilet She then took the bogusher feet to make certain no

ne would drop off as she walked

Satisfied everything was ready, she came out and dawdled in the lobby until the other tellers had placed their cash drawers in the vault and left Two reat steel cubicle was all she needed and two ot

Swiftly she pulled up the skirt and with precise enuine bills

When she stepped out of the vault and s to the assistant vice President as he nodded her out a side door, she couldn't believe she'd actually gotten aith it

Seconds after entering her apartment, she shed the skirt, stripped the s and counted them The tally came to 51,000