Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-26


il engaged 20 Hamilton Fairfax.
U--Shelf proposes piratical scheme
10 Patrick Cambel, Shelf being under
the malign influence OF Mrs. Shell.
III, ". Y and vI-The scheme is to
chip gold 20 New Orleans. overinsur-
ing it end wTecking it. Shelf and
Gamble, employ Captain Owen Kettle
20 command TIE steamer, the Port
Edes, and 10 carry out the plan.
Cambel sails in the steamer.
CHAPTER ".
Bf1rETALLrsM.
10 v.7 i .- lB tho evening when Patrick
CBmtrl Gn8il found himself en- tete- n tete
with BIS hest. There had been people
i1 Q. tluec AZ the house in Park lane,
tu5 t.ys, lad gene. and Mrs. shelf and
A-.y River. iall1wcd them to parties else
whore Mrs shelf had wished to carry
C1nbll also ia ler train, bot that person
s1lt ueIi1t by "a request which he could
Zoo very well rs;lac. You viii favor mo
vctv mach b. remaining hero FOR the rest
~ .I0 evening, MF. Cambcl," shelf had
srIt iTNis pompOus way. l Eayo matters
a. tte 6 latest moment 1 wish to discuss
with yaa."
81 hardly knew how 90 begin" Shelf
conf seed Urcls.'s whoa they were alone.
'I.fu Jet IIc make z suggestion" said
Cgua-'. with q laugh. Come To tho
point g. o-rc. I.z.'a have the plo: without
any is,rodu- tagy chapters. You 20 told
me 80. 20 cot - s-henj, on hand for turn
Ing ny discovery into Ct .Tency, and you 20
Iathcr tintod it'sa dirty scheme. The only
question Is how dirty. Thanks to pressure
az circumstance, I'm nos an oycrparticu-
lar person. Bat On points I'm very
s1rllIL. 80. or. ia other words, draw the
l.1n somewhere. Unless I'm very vastly
mistaken. ygGr plan viii involve one in
toU might Lnase-y, which is u thing all
seCs.bl, rirn uvoid II possible. Now, in
NY igEo-arcc 1 iancicf the find might no
tutlcd 30 recount without climbing down
TO that
oh" said Shelf eagerly, "thcn you
had scheme IN your head before you came
60 tus.'
The other shrugged his shoulders and
lit \ cI-gr.
'Ju-. u dim outlinc-nothing more
You &c tLc interior Of tho Everglades is
M. oiutcly untouched hy tho white man.
weapons. IL was vaguely supposed to be
one vast lake, with Gases of slime and
mangfoyos. The lako was reported as too
shallow for boats and Astounding with
fcvcrs. agucs and mosquitoes. Consequent
y 10 remained unexplCrCd, and on the end
of the Florida peninsula today no white
man, barring myself and ono or two 9th
ers, has ever got farther than five or eight
miles IN from the coast.
Now, as Two told you, I was lucky
enough ~ HE upon "a fine deep ship chan
nvl going ia as far as the center line. and
don know how FAR behind inside. There
is good, fertile country, healthy climate
and tho best game preserve on this earth.
For the FIRST comcrs that interior will be
Just q spo.e5IIn's paradise.
lily idea il twewisc. First sell the
cream OF the spost. Some men will give
anything fuc shooting, and in this case
there wall also be the glamour of beng
pioneers. Each one will start determined
20 vri.o book Of his opinions and doings
VIXEN ne Ggts back. By chartcringa steam.
e. and treating tb.m well on board they
would Lave porting de luxe. Ono ought
to ccJ quite i've and twenty cEsps ut Boo
guiEcas apiece
THAT gives the first crop. For the sec.
ond buy Up an crOrmous tract Of the
land, which can be got for half nothing
cay, fp &C. ID cgrts an acrc--boom IL and
resell b in luts TO JuEginscs. They ], fan "
they p crow oranges, Ss all Englishmcn
do VINO try tluridiS. Porhaps they may
Grow en-, who knows, II they keep of
whisky urd pas in work. But that won,
he tho Promoters concern. They dom,
advUrll-s that tho land will produce
orange. They only guarantee that 1,
Nouli ID 10 was given q chance, and that.
all c1rlact
Perhaps this l. rough on the jug.
einsss. DaJ % tIoy crowd tho British Is
lands ia druvCs. and arc always on I'll,
lookout FOR some one to shear them,
don SEQ why an Everglades company
shogidn'. have their q ,ccus rs well rs any.
hoGy else. They re mostly MASTERS and
wouldn & do any good anywhere, and it..
n p4tri0,lc deed to cart them over oul
boundary ditch away from local mischief
Bes ies. even u the worst comes to the
worst and che orange industry Of Florida
ssiu refuses to make Roadway, the would
b. growers aesdn't stnrvc. Nor need they
even dn what they u probably hato more
and that's worb. There's always sweet
ro.ltoss aUd mullst and tobacco To DO got
and. 81 thas dies docsnt cloy. man cur
have Sc JEere Tor mighty little cxertion.
Come, now. That : the pcnnfican 81
tie plan. What do yoa think of it,"
"Nlca ccpissi would 10 needed
Can bel shrugged his shoulders. Some
naturally, - / shoulGn' have como TO you
II Ia seem cuy way 10 pouching all th,
rlundc- single handed, you may bet youi
httlo LIE. Mr. Theodore shelf, shouldn't
have invited you into partnership"
"ictJtns. too. would b very slow"
"Ncs necessarily. Flea: tho company
md thcn turn IL over to another company
fer cash down"
Moreover. when thc--er-the youne
men you spoke about found that the or
angn groves did net produce at once In
paying quantities, they would write home
and thcir parents would denounco me In
the papers as a swindler."
NO not you, the other company-thc
one you sold it 20. But then apologists
would arise TO show that the Juysirses-
dent shy az the word. sir-wore lazy and
ignorant. and also that they absorbed the
corn whisky Of the country in excessive
Quantities. And then that company could
smile smugly and pose as misunderstood
oenoiacto-. So its profits wouldn't b
smirched In the least. Grasp that,'
YES. yes, dare say you have worked
~ all out TO yourself and thought out thu
desai'S SO many times that the Who'll,
scheme seems entirely plausible. But
looking n. AZ frnr,. tba