The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-01-09

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 you 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. put on my coat and
followed the procession, and at II 80
they went up on the after deck, evident
~ satisfied that their man was not on
the ship, and contented themselves with
watching new arrivals. I 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 the bot
tie of iced claret
Ten minutes before 10 the bell was
rung and all people for shore were warn
ed 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 last,
after giving good look up and down
the bay, Braga and the police entered
the boats, and casting off soon were left
behind. Once more and for the last time
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 a 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, he: with
Wilson's passport and ticket in his
pocket and all our money save e2, 900
in his trunk our buccaneering expedition
on the Spanish main was over and all
but failure when comparing the &c.
600 we had captured with our mag
nificent expectations.
So, destroying all documents save our
passports, we paid visit to Buenos
Ayres, and then embarked on French
steamer for Marseilles, arriving there
without any particular adventure, and
the next day had a happy meeting with
Mac in Paris.
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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 of
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 insensibly be-
gan to think the thousands we had were
as nothing, and when divided up the
sum coming to each seemed almost beg
carly.
O10uuhAAy WO OCSdA w opcCu1dOo DIS W
the desirability of doubling our capital
once or twice at least before we threw
up our hands and gave up the game. I
need hardly tell the reader that what at
first was a philosophical speculation, all
airy theory Of happy possibility, rap
idly crystallized into steadfast purpose
and determinate resolve, and soon our
brains were working and readily brought
forth a new scheme. For was not there
the Bank of England, with uncounted
millions in her vaults, and was not I,
as Frederick Albert Warren, a customer
of the bank and as such were not the
vaults Of the bank at our disposition?
Finally we resolved to 60 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, babe fare
well to Wiesbaden, and one early June
morning in 1872 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 impregnability.
CHAPTER vi.
Although I had the very respectable
balance Of $65, 900 at the bank, had