The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-22


 forest, making 1t cool and pleasant to travel, l bade the doctor and Pickwicl5 adieu; but before they left l intrusted Pickwick with two thousand dollars in bills to take to La Chola and exchange for silver to send me by messenger. The raya, or payroll, of the men fell due next day, and bills were entirely beyond the comprehension or use of a people to whom dollar was small sized fortune.
 The doctor looked very glum and un- easy, and it seemed to me that he was watching something about his. hand. Was it possible that he believed in that old Peruvian superstition, and that the signs were inauspicious? As l bade them goodbye his face frightened, and he said, in as cherry a voice as he could command: Well, old man, goodbye, and l hope your revenge will not be put off too long," then, waving graceful adios, the two rode away.
 That evening Pickwicks messenger arrived in camp, but instead of the money he was to bring, he brought only one thousand dollars and the following note: Dear Herbert-I have been able to exchange no more than one-half the amount of your bills, and now mes senger comes from the mines asking me to start for them immediately. The large Cornish pump is broken. The lower level is flooded and l must go immediately to see if I can remedy matters. I cleaned out the town of ready cash and have intrusted the bal ance of the bills to Moses, who will go over to Anaya's ranch this evening (Anaya was something of banker)- exchange the money, and send it to you by noon tomorrow In haste. PICKWICK.
 The turn affairs had taken did not please me. I was not willing to trust the doctor; but there was no alterna- tive.
 The morning dawned and the sun reached the zenith, but the messenger with the money did not arrive. The l day ran on, noon passed; the sun shone in the surfmen's eyes as they worked | in the frothing breakers; but the froth of the breakers did not portend money, as does the froth on cup of tea, for none came.
 As sat at the table we had used the night before, making up the log list l from the measurers' tags, my hand happened to stray underneath, and I | felt something smooth. Investigation | proved 1t to be cards-three kings and an ace, held there by little watch | spring arrangement screwed to the soft | redwood. They were underneath that part of the table occupied the night be- fore by the doctor
 | I was dazed. So this was the reason he won; and had been fool enough to believe that he played straight" game Calling Theodore, showed him the "hold-out." He was greatly sur. l prised and very angry, and suggested l that we pursue the doctor and recover our money. This I decided to do, and telling the men that pay day would be put off until Monday, Theodore and set off in a hurry for La Chola. We ar rived in that pretentious village about five o'clock in the afternoon, and inn l mediately repaired to the Meson de 1 Guadalupe, the only hostelry in the place to leave our horses Hardly had we passed through the grand portal of | the meson, when Dona Carolina Men doza, the proprietress, came toward me | with such troubled look that I asked her in alarm what ailed her.
 "Ah valgame Dios! why did I trust him, the sinverguenza," she walled.
 What is the matter Dona 2Caroli- na?" I again asked.
 "Oh, that picaro Jew has gone away with all his rent and board bih unpaid more than twenty-four dollars; and | that is not all, he took my mare, the best horse in the whole distrito." With this the poor woman broke down com pletely.
 This was interesting but not surpris- ing news to me, and I eagerly asked her when he left.
 1T don't know the hour" she sobbed: T learned that he had gone only a half-hour ago, when went up to put some clean clothes in his room"
 Thereupon I hastened to the office Of the Jefe Poltico, a police officer with combinied state and municipal func- | tions.
 I found him idly swinging in a ham, mock. On my approach he got up and offered me a chair Disregarding the custom of the country of going around Robin Hoods barn before telling a thing, immediately proceeded to bus mess, told him all that I have told you, and asksd him what course had better be pursued.
 ''It Is as I expected" he replied; Tread this" He handed me an official looking document, which proved to be an official letter from the governor of l Vera Cruz in regard to a certain Max Bergstein, who was wanted for two crimes-the abduction of a girl and em- bezzlement The description fitted Moses exactly; it was he, without a doubt
 Why did you not arrest him at once? This. description is perfect" l l asked.
 With a shrug of his shoulders: Well, I thought manana would do as well as to-day, and I still think so. He is gone now and off my hands. Que le vaya bien!'
 But are you not going to try to catch him?" I asked.
 "Senor Herbert he answered. with a languid smile, you are not acquainted with the customs of this country. We Mexicans never fly in the face of Prov idence as you Americans do. When fortune so favors us as to kill for us a great quantity of trouble, we never try to resuscitate that trouble. Besides, in this case it would be foolish to exert