St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-15
This was the closing message from French

This was the closing message from French
in San Francisco.
II am working you pretty hard" said
Morton to the operator, as he turned to
descend the spiral stairs leading to the
private Office, ''but as told you before, if
you hang on, and continue as you have been
doing, I'll fix you SO that you won't need to
work telegraph key for living"
"That's all right, SIR" said the operator.
He would have felt differently about it had he
known that Colonel Morton and others in
terested in deal that meant millions to them
by the plumber of the public, had planned to
get rid Of all their tools as soon as they had
ceased to be necessary to the work.
The colonel went down to the office, made
some memoranda in little book which he
took from the safe and returned thereto when
he had completed his writing. Then he went
out to the library.
The sun had gone down the lamps had not
been lit, and the colonel whose eyes we're not
the best, was about to ring for servant to
make light, when Ellerton called to him:
81 am over here, never mind the light. We
can hear each other just as well, and have
poetic fondness for the cleaning"
Morton took a chair near his friend and
asked:
"Any more news from the patient?'
"0nly that I believe he is sleeping. What's
the news from Frisco?" asked Ellerton.
'French was at the other end of the WIRE"
~ supposed 30; what's up?'
Davidson, the old ass, has wired Commo-
dore West to come on. and he is coming.
'sThe devil you say!" exclaimed Ellerton.
"Coming as sure as shooting"
"And you must see him?'
II will meet him; that cannot well avoid
but as to seeing him, or rather his seeing me,
that is an entirely different matter. would
hardly run openly into the arms of man out
of whose reach have been trying to keep for
10, these many years. But trust me to work
that. He has met me since then without sus-
pecting my identity. But trust me to manage
The most important news French has is from
the East
"And what's the report?"
"Good; all the securities are ready to be
launched at every point, and they are perfect
in their execution. Experts have seen them
without a suspicion. The scheme will work
without fail, and then shall give up all such
work. Then will be able to do more than
ever in the way of helping churches and hos
pitfalls. A man owes it to the world, old fell
low, to do some good" and Morton rubbed
his hands, and laughed in the low, bubbling
way that indicated quiet enjoyment
1--WE might have got along without this ven
ture," said Ellerton, ''We had enough, and
were perfectly safe.''
"True, but our lines have been too full of
adventure to permit of our rusting and rest
ing. planned this, and it will be the last
and the greatest, and most successful. Why
man, it will be worth years of effort to lie
back and witness the dumb and dazed con-
sternation of the business world, as it gropes
blindly about, vainly trying to find who dealt
the blow
At this juncture servant came softly in
and Lit the gas, and so quiet were the China
mans slppered feet, that the partners did not
know of his presence till the jets flared up.
They rose like men startled, they certainly
were, for lying on a sofa, a few yards away,
was Lord Pelham. The partners looked at
each other in amazement, but the English
mans regular breathing, the placid express
sion of his face, and the disposition of his
limbs all told that he was undoubtedly asleep.
And he was sleeping some minutes after
wards, when another servant came IN to an
nounce that dinner was served.