Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-10-24


tTjlhpulty hot.
tie Of claret and bowl of ice standing
on the little washstand and two glasses
all in full view we waited the arrival
of our friends the enemy.
Our door was fiat against the parti-
tion, giving full sweep to the room &c
the eye of the passerby, and George an
waited confidently for the inspection
we knew was inevitable I sat on the
foot Of the lower berth smoking naa
swinging my feet. George sat OF fold
ing camp stool, with his face toward the
door, but not obstructing the view. Soon
the procession arrived, with the ticket
agent in front. When he saw George,
he simply said, How do yen do, Mr.
Wilson," and passed on without look
ing in the room. Braga and the police
followed, casually glanced at us two
and were gone. l put on my coat and
followed the procession, and at IL 80
they went up ON the after deck, evident
ly satisfied that their man was not on
the ship, and contented themselves with
watching new arrivals. / flew down
and gave them the good news that the
search was over, and poor Mac, half
roasted, came from behind the bags Of
oranges. Declaring he was roasted alive
and dying Of thirst, he finished tie bot
tie of iced claret.
Ten minutes before 12 the bell was
rung and all people for shore were warn
cd TO leave. Soon we heard the pleasant
sound of the steam winch lifting the
anchor, and at noon precisely, to our
relief, the screw began TO revolve at
quarter speed and the Ebro to respond
by forging slowly ahead. All boats fell
off but ours and the police boat AT laet,
after giving good look up and down
the bay, Braga and the police entered
the boats, and casting off soon were Lett
behind. Once more and for the last tine
/ flew down to the cabin. They saw the
good news in my face; then, shaking
Macs hand in hearty farewell, we ran
to the upper deck, down the ladder into
our boat, and moment later the big
ship, putting ON full steam, left Us
aStern, we ordering the boatman TO pull
hard after the ship. Mac Soon appeared
on the after deck and waved his hand
kerchief to us in farewell We gave him
three cheers, and excited and happy.
with our long anxiety over, we returned
to the shore.
With Mac sailing northward, no with
Wilson's passport and ticket in his
pocket and all our money save go 900
in his trunk our buccaneering expedition
on the Spanish main was over and all
but failure when comparing the el0,-
900 we had captured with our mag
niicept expectations.
So, destroying all documents save oul
passports, we paid a visit to Buenos
Ayres, and then embarked on French
steamer for Marseilles, arriving there
without any particular adventure, and
the next day had happy meeting with
Mac in Paris.
We resolved to see somethi ing of Eu-
rope before returning TO America, SO the
next few weeks we spent in pleasure
jaunt.
In the course of it we visited Vienna.
remaining there some time and bringing
away many and Pleasant memories q
that music loving old city on the Dan
ube We finally all returned to Wies-
baden together and visited the casino,
watching the play and players with an
interest that never tagged. Here we
saw such vast sums of money ever chang
ing hands that we almost insenslbly be-
gan to think the thousands we had were
as nothing, and when divided up the
sum coming to each seemed almost beg
carly.
Gradually we began to speculate as to
the desirability of doubling our capital
once or twice at least before we threw
up our hands and gave up the game.
need hardly tell the reader that what at
first was philosophical speculation, an
airy theory Of happy possibility, rap
idly crystalliZed into steadfast purpose
and determinate resolve, and soon our
brains were working and readily brought
forth il new scheme. For was not there
the Bank of Eng land, with uncounted
millions in her vaults, and was not !,
as Frederick Albert Warren, customer
of the bank and as such were not the
vaults of the bank at our disposition?
Finally we resolved to go on with our
postponed assault upon the money bags
of the Bank Of England, at the same
time evolving a plan that seemed to
promise unbounded wealth and complete
immunity for us all.
So we packed our baggage, bade fare
well to Wiesbadep, ard one early June
morning in 1879 saw us all once more
in smoky London, resolved to rouse that
old lady called the Bank Of England
from her century long slumber spent in
dreaming Of her impregDability.